What traditional culture and beliefs do you think the Dai have?

The Dai (Roman: Dai), also known as the Tai, Shan (Roman: Shan), etc., the national language for the Dai (Thai), belongs to the Han-Tibetan language Zhuang Dong language Zhuang Dai language branch.

The Dai people regard peacocks and elephants as mascots, and their folk stories are colorful and colorful. The Dai people like to live by the water, love cleanliness, often bathe, and women love to shampoo their hair, so they are known as "the people of the water", and they used to believe in the Southern Theravada Buddhism and primitive religion.

The Dai are the main ethnic group in Thailand and Laos, accounting for 40% of Thailand's total population, and they are also the second largest ethnic group in Myanmar, and an ethnic minority in China, India, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries. According to the sixth population census in 2010, the Dai ethnic group has more than 1.26 million people in China***.

The Dai people in China have the self-proclaimed names of Dai Dance, Dai Na, Dai Ya, Dai Liang and Dai Duan according to their distribution areas. Xishuangbanna and other places called themselves "Dancing", Dehong and other places called themselves "Dai Na", the upper reaches of the Red River, Xinping, Yuanjiang and other places Dai called themselves "Dai Ya", Ruili, Longchuan, Gengma border line of the Ruili, Longchuan, Gengma border line of the Dai called themselves "Dai bandage", Lancang Mangjing, Mangna for the Dai bandage branch. The Han Chinese call Dai dancing for water Dai, Dai Na for dry Dai, Daiya for flower waist Dai.

As early as in the 1st century AD, Chinese historical records have been about the Dai ancestors. Tang and Song literature called "gold teeth", "black teeth", "silver teeth", "embroidered feet", "embroidered face", "Mangban", "white clothes" and so on. In the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, they were still called "Golden Teeth" and "White Clothes". Baiyi" is also written as "Baiyi", "Baiyi", "Boyi", and some of them are mistakenly called "Boyi". Some of them are mistakenly called "Bo-yi", so they are confused with the Bai ethnic group. Since the Qing Dynasty, it has been called "Pendulum Yi". In addition, the history of Vietnam called the Dai as "Mourning"; the history of Burma called the Dai as "Shan"; the history of India called the Dai as "Ahongmu".

After the Second World War, the governments of various countries named the Dai ethnic groups distributed in their respective territories, with Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia calling them Thai, Laos Lao, Burma Shan, China Dai, and India Ahom, but all called themselves Tai.