Folk customs and traditions of the essay about 300 words

The family and marriage of the Dai people used to have obvious feudal colors, characterized by rank endogamy. Strict hierarchical endogamy was practiced among the Tusi, and polygamy was prevalent. The majority of peasants practiced patriarchal monogamous small families, with parents and unmarried children as family members. Young men and women are quite free to socialize before marriage and are free to fall in love. Unmarried young people "stringing cloth less" (looking for unmarried women to talk about love) is very popular at festivals or events. The custom of calling a family member to the door was popular. Burial was common, and the burial places of the nobles and the poor were strictly separated. After the death of monks and Buddhist monks, they are cremated first, and then the ashes are buried in a pot behind the temple.

The Dai costume, men with collarless lapel or lapel small-sleeved short shirt, under the long tube pants, cold weather cloak felt, more white cloth or green cloth head. The custom of tattooing is very common, the boy to eleven, two years old, that is, people in the chest, back, abdomen, waist and limbs tattooed with a variety of animals, flowers, geometric patterns or the Dai language and other patterns to decorate. Women traditionally wear narrow-sleeved short clothes and tube skirts. Dai women in Xishuangbanna wear white or scarlet undergarments with small waists and wide hemlines, and tube skirts of various colors. Women in Mangshi and other places wear light-colored short shirts with large lapels, long pants, and a small girdle before marriage, and change to short shirts with opposite lapels and black tube skirts after marriage. Mainland Dai women's clothing and the border is largely the same, but there are regional characteristics, often called by other ethnic groups as "flower waist Dai", "big-sleeved Dai" and so on.

The diet of the Dai people is based on rice, and Dehong area eats round-grained rice, Xishuangbanna and other places love to eat glutinous rice. Like to drink and eat spicy and sour, good to eat fish and shrimp and other aquatic products. Commonly have the habit of chewing betel nut. Most of the villages are built on flat dams near the water, covered by bamboo and surrounded by streams. Dry-structure building is the characteristic of Dai housing, divided into upper and lower two floors. In most areas of Dehong, the Dai live in bungalows with earth walls and thatched roofs.