200-word essay: describe a customary scene, the use of prose out of metaphor

When the Water Splashing Festival comes, the Dai people will be busy killing pigs, chickens, brewing wine, and making a lot of "huonosuo" (rice cakes) and many kinds of poi made of glutinous rice to be eaten during the festival.

The festival lasts three days. On the first day, dragon boats are rowed, high rises are released, and cultural performances are held; on the second day, water is splashed; and on the third day, young men and women engage in bag-throwing and exchanges of materials.

The festival is generally held on the banks of the Lancang River in the beautiful scenery. When the morning sun reflects the red "City of Dawn", people of all ethnic groups will be dressed in costumes, from all directions converge here. A call, a branch of high rise into the air, straight through the clouds, a dragon boat arrow, straight to the other side. At this time, ten million golden bamboo "(on the bamboo under the must)" together blowing, point of light gongs, elephant foot drums ringing, both sides of the Lancang River suddenly turned into a sea of joy.

When the water splashing just started, the polite Dai girls while saying words of blessing, while using bamboo leaves, branches dipped in the pot of water to the other side of the sprinkler. "Water flowers put, Dai crazy", to the climax, people with copper bowl, basin, and even buckets of water, in the streets and alleys, playful chase, only feel, face to face with the water, behind the water, splashed to the fullest, one from head to toe soaked, but people are happy, full of laughter everywhere. After a period of water baptism, people form a circle and dance to the accompaniment of gongs and drums, regardless of ethnicity, age or occupation. When people are excited, they burst into cheers of "Shui, Shui, Shui". Some men danced and drank, drunk, all night long.

"Throwing bags" is the most romantic, often unmarried Dai young people's exclusive game. "Packet" is a token of love, by the Dai girls with flower cloth carefully made, loaded with cotton seeds, packet corners are decorated with colorful flower spikes. When the bag is thrown, men and women stand in a row on the grassy lawn, and the Dai girl throws the bag to the young man, and the young man then throws it to the girl and uses it to pass on his feelings. In this way, the flower bag flying around, and finally the exchange of feelings to a certain extent, the two sides quietly withdrew from the bag throwing field, looking for a quiet place to shoulder whispering to go.

On the Water Splashing Festival, youths splashed water, as if silver flowers blossomed.

Unforgettable Water Festival

Zhou Enlai: April 13 - 15, 1961, the beloved Premier Zhou Enlai came to the beautiful peacock countryside - Xishuangbanna Jinghong, and the people of all ethnic groups on the border *** with the celebration of the annual Dai New Year! Dai New Year Water Festival. When Jinghong transportation closed. Premier Zhou arrived at Simao by plane and took a car instead. The Lancang River Bridge was under construction and the only way to cross the river was by ferry. People *** and the arrival of the Premier of the country, the town boiled over, people running around, helping the old and the young, embracing flowers crowded to the streets, crowded to the pier, with the highest national etiquette to meet the people's Premier.

April in Xishuangbanna is the season of the phoenix flower. Under the red phoenix flower tree, Premier Zhou excitedly put on the Dai costume, holding a silver basin and the people of all ethnic groups to splash each other with water blessings. Since then, Jinghong, Xishuangbanna has become famous throughout the country and even in the world, and has now become a famous tourist destination in China and abroad.

Premier Zhou, during his stay in Jinghong, inspected a rubber plantation planted by the Tropical Crops Research Institute and encouraged builders from all corners of the motherland to work hard to build Xishuangbanna into the motherland's second largest rubber base.

Beijing Ethnic Park hosts Dai Water Festival

Water Festival

The traditional festival of the Dai, Achang, De'ang, Brown and Wa ethnic groups. In Dai language, the New Year is called "Jingbimai" and the Water Splashing Festival is called "Hounan". Therefore, the Water Splashing Festival is a symbol of the transition between the old and the new in the Dai calendar year.

The origin of the Water Festival, the legend varies, Xishuangbanna Dai legend: ancient times, there is a demon king evil, people hate him, want to think of a lot of ways to kill him. Later, the devil king snatched seven girls to be his wife. The clever seven girls inquired from the Devil King about his fatal weakness, that is, strangling the Devil King's neck with his hair, in order to put him to death. When the devil king was asleep, the seventh girl pulled off his hair and strangled his neck, and the devil king's head rolled down. But as soon as the head fell to the ground, a great fire started on the ground, and as soon as the girl picked up the head, the fire was extinguished. In order to prevent the fire from burning, she and her six sisters took turns holding the Demon King's head, changing it every year. Every year when the replacement, people are to hold the head of the girl splash water, wash away the blood on her body, wash away her fatigue of the year, for the new year can eliminate disasters and prayers. From then on, the water festival was formed to send the old and welcome the new.

The Water Splashing Festival is usually held in mid-April of the Gregorian calendar, June of the Dai calendar, and lasts for three to five days. The first day is called "Waduosangli", meaning New Year's Eve, and the last day is called "Waba Wamma", meaning "the arrival of the King of the Day", for the New Year's Day. In the middle of the day, it is called "Cu Brain", which means "empty day". Every festival, are to splash water, throwing bags, rowing dragon boats, put high up, worship Buddha, catch swing and other activities.

The first day of the festival early in the morning, people pick flowers and leaves to the Buddhist temple offerings, and in the temple courtyard pile of sand to build four or five towers, secular beings sitting around the tower, listening to the Buddha chanting scripture, and then lifted the Buddha statue to the courtyard, the whole walled village of women to bring the blue clarification of the water for the statue of the Buddha to wash the dust. Buddhist temple ceremony, young men and women quit each other splashing water as a play, so the mass of water activities began. People with copper bowl, basin to bucket water, crowded out of the streets and alleys, concubines chasing, everyone will splash. Folk believe that this is auspicious water, blessed water, can eliminate disasters and diseases, so people splash, pour as much as they like, whether splashing or being splashed, although from head to toe all wet, but still happy exception. Just see a flower in the crowd bloom, under the reflection of the sun to form a rainbow, everywhere full of laughter.

Besides the water splashing, there are also mass singing and dancing activities. From seventy to eighty years old, down to seven or eight-year-old dolls, dressed in festive costumes, to the village square, men, women and children in a circle, dancing with the mangalong elephant foot drums. Some jump "Peacock Dance", some jump "Yu La He", some improvised, singing and dancing, beautiful movement, rhythm, singing. Dance to the high spirits, or outbursts of "water, water, water" cheers, or to "Yulaho, Yulaho," the end of the song. Some men drink while dancing, like drunkenness, all night long, even drunk on the dance floor.

During the festival, a dragon boat race is held on the wide Lancang River. Wooden boats tied to colorful flowers, dressed as dragons, peacocks, big fish and other images, by dozens of young men and women paddling forward, the audience on both sides of the cloud, gongs and drums, cheers resounded through the clouds. At the end of the race, the winners came to the podium to receive their awards and drink celebratory wine.

At night, the villages and cottages set off Gao Sheng. This is the Dai people's homemade fireworks, with a few feet long bamboo, filled with gunpowder and other ingredients in the root, placed on the bamboo to build a high shelf. Ignite the fuse, gunpowder combustion, bamboo that is, like a rocket shot into the sky, in the air released brilliant pyrotechnics, as if the flowers, stars shining, brilliant, the festival of the night sky decorated with particularly beautiful. Gao Sheng put the highest person by people's appreciation, and get rewarded.

During the Water Festival, activities such as bag throwing are also held. Young men and women seek partners and express their love and affection by throwing bags.

The Water Splashing Festival is an annual traditional festival of the Dai ethnic group (April 13 to 15 on the solar calendar). In Dai language, it is called "Lenghe Shanghan", which means "June New Year" or "Dai New Year". In fact, the Water Festival is the New Year's Day of the Dai calendar, because the Dai calendar counts the new year from the beginning of June.

On the origin of the Water Splashing Festival, there is a local legend that a long time ago, a wicked devil king occupied the beautiful and rich Xishuangbanna and snatched seven beautiful girls to be his wife. The girls were full of hatred and planned how to kill the Devil King. One night, the youngest girl, Nongxiang, made the Devil King drunk with the best wine and meat, and made him reveal his fatal weakness. It turned out that the Devil King, who was not afraid of anything, was afraid of being strangled by his hair. The vigilant little girl carefully pulled out one of the red hairs of the Devil King and strangled his neck. Sure enough, the devil's head fell off and turned into a ball of fire, and wherever it rolled, the evil fire spread. The bamboo buildings were burned down and the crops were scorched. In order to extinguish the evil fire, the youngest girl grabbed the head of the Demon King, and the other six girls took turns pouring water on it, and finally extinguished the evil fire in the sixth month of the Dai calendar. The townspeople began to live in peace and contentment. Since then, the custom of splashing water in every year has come into being. Now, the custom of splashing water has actually become a form of mutual blessing. In the view of the Dai people, water is a symbol of holiness, beauty and light. With water in the world, everything can grow, water is the god of life.

When the Water Splashing Festival comes, the Dai people will be busy killing pigs, chickens, brewing wine, and making a lot of "huonosuo" (rice cakes) and many kinds of poi made of glutinous rice to be eaten during the festival.

The Water Splashing Festival lasts three days. On the first day, dragon boats are rowed, high rises are released, and cultural performances are held; on the second day, water is splashed; and on the third day, young men and women throw bags and exchange materials.

The Water Splashing Festival is usually held on the banks of the Lancang River in beautiful scenery. When the morning sun reflects the red "City of Dawn", people of all ethnic groups will be dressed in festive costumes, from all directions to gather here. At a call, a branch of high rise into the air, straight through the clouds, a dragon boat arrow-like straight to the other side. At this time, ten million golden bamboo "(on the bamboo under the must)" together to play, point of light gongs, elephant foot drums, banging together, both sides of the Lancang River suddenly turned into a sea of joy.

When the water-splashing began, the courteous Dai girls said words of blessing while dipping bamboo leaves and twigs into pots of water and sprinkled them over to each other. "Water flowers put, Dai crazy", to the climax, people with a copper bowl, basin, and even buckets of water, in the streets and alleys, playing and chasing, only to feel that the water in front of the face, behind the water, splashing to the fullest, one from head to toe soaked, but people are happy, full of laughter everywhere. After a period of water baptism, people will form a circle and dance to the accompaniment of gongs and drums, regardless of ethnicity, age and occupation. When they are excited, people also break out in cheers of "water, water, water". Some men dance while drinking, like a drunk, all night long.