The Customs and Implication of Dai People's Water-splashing Festival

The customs and significance of the Dai water-splashing festival are as follows:

Songkran Festival means bathing Buddha, celebrating the New Year, praying for rain, welcoming spring ploughing, and wishing people and animals prosperity and harvest. Specific festival activities include bathing Buddha, chanting, splashing water, losing packets, dragon boat race, peacock dance, white elephant dance performance and so on.

1, splashing water, splashing water is mainly divided into two types, wenpo and wupo. Wenpo means to sprinkle water on each other gently, while Wupo means to splash water on each other as much as possible to express blessing.

2, song and dance activities, the village men and women, old and young, dressed up to attend, get together to dance peacock dance, door-to-door New Year greetings, congratulations on a happy New Year and all the best.

3, packet loss, "bag" is the token of love, in the form of packet loss in exchange for the token of love, in order to find love.

4, dragon boat race, dragon boat race is one of the wonderful projects of the Songkran Festival, usually held on the third day, very lively.

Meet at the border, buy and sell local specialties with neighboring villages, and increase mutual friendship. Songkran Festival means to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

The Water Splashing Festival, also known as the Bath Buddha Festival and the Cold River Typhoid Festival, is a traditional festival of Dai, Achang, Bulang, Wa, De 'ang, Thai and Southeast Asia. Songkran Festival is the New Year of the Dai people, which is equivalent to the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar and generally lasts for 3 to 7 days. Water-splashing Festival has a long history, and it is a comprehensive stage to show the Dai people's water culture, music and dance culture and food culture.