What are the characteristics of the Dai people

Characteristics of the Dai:

1. Distributed in a relatively wide area, the population is mainly distributed in a number of developing countries:

There is a global population of the Dai of about 66 million.

Mainly distributed in southwestern China, northeastern India, northwestern Vietnam, northwestern Cambodia, north-central Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and other regions and countries.

In addition, there are Dai communities in Europe and America.

2. Dietary habits: Most of the Dai have the habit of eating two meals a day, with rice and glutinous rice as the main food.

3, there are ethnic unique Dai dress: Dai women's dress, colorful and beautiful; generally like to wear narrow-sleeved short clothes and tube skirts, to their long and slim body fully displayed.

The Dai men generally wear collarless lapel or lapel small-sleeved shirts, wearing long pants, with white, green or scarlet cloth head, some wear bowler hats, appearing dashing and generous.

4, have their own language and writing: language sub-Siam, Lanna, Tai three dialects and a number of sub-dialects, the dialects have **** the same grammatical structure, the proximity of the dialect of the pronunciation of the gap between the very small, with the spatial distance between the widening, but no matter where the dialect are able to carry out simple communication.

The script has seven types of fonts: Siamese, Lancang, Lanna, Tuan, Tuan, Na, and Ahong, all of which evolved from the Indian Brahmi alphabet and are written from left to right, with top-to-bottom line breaks, and differing only in form and structure.

5, the Dai architecture by the social environment and ideological practices of the influence of different regions, the main building is also different:

The Dai architecture by the climate, altitude, topography, building materials, such as the natural environment and demographic, economic, religious, political, scientific and technological, ideological, and other social environments, the main Xishuangbanna Dai homes as the representative of the beautiful and dexterous dry bar type of construction, Yuanjiang, Honghe line of the Dai people, the Dai people, the Dai people, the Dai people, the Dai people, the Dai people.

6The Dai folk houses in Xishuangbanna, Yuanjiang and Honghe are mainly represented by the graceful and dexterous dry-structure, the heavy and sturdy flat-roofed earth palm houses, and the elegant and rich Buddhist temple architecture.

6, unique folklore, have their own traditional festivals:

Bathing Buddha Festival (Dai "bolan"), also known as the "Water Splashing Festival", originated from an ancient Indian Brahmanism a ritual, and later absorbed by the Buddhist, about the end of the 12th century AD to the early 13th century with the introduction of Buddhism. The festival was introduced to the Dai ethnic area with Buddhism in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.

With the deepening of the influence of Buddhism in the Dai region, the Buddha Bathing Festival has become a custom of the Dai people, which has been passed down for hundreds of years.