What are the characteristics of the Dai people's dress and customs?

Dressing customs:

1. The distinctive feature of the Dai family and marriage in history is endogamy. The strict hierarchical endogamy was practiced among the Tois, and polygamy was prevalent. The Tois also abused the wives and daughters of peasants at will by virtue of their power. The majority of peasants practiced patriarchal monogamous small families, with parents and unmarried children as members of the family.

2. Young men and women are quite free to socialize before marriage and are free to fall in love. Unmarried young people in the festivals or festive occasions "string a lot" is very popular. The popularity of the custom of inviting a family member to the door. Dai held a wedding, there should be a grand "tethering" ceremony, by the old man with a white cotton thread tethered to the bride and groom's wrists, symbolizing the two souls tethered together, and bless the newlyweds respect each other as guests, and grow old together.

3, the prevailing burial, but with a clear class distinction, the burial place of the nobles and the poor is strictly separate. Monk, Buddha died, cremated first, and then use tile pots to contain the ashes buried in the temple.

4, Dai clothing, men with collarless lapel or lapel small-sleeved shirts, under the long tube pants, cold weather cloak felt, more white cloth or green cloth head. The custom of tattooing men is very common, which not only indicates bravery, but also protects the body from evil and decorates the body. Boys to the age of 11 or so, that is, please tattoo, tattoo graphics are mostly tiger, leopard, lion, dragon, snake, eagle-based. Most of the parts of the text are limbs, chest, abdomen, back, generally a leg of the text needs two days, the text of the whole body needs seven to eight days.

5. Women traditionally wear narrow-sleeved short clothes and tube skirts. Dai women in Xishuangbanna, white or scarlet underwear, small waist, wide hemline, under the tube skirt of various colors. Dehong Mangshi and other places women, before marriage with light-colored lapel short shirt, pants, girded with a small waist, after marriage to the lapel short shirt, black skirt.

Expanded Information:

< p>Taboos of the Dai people:

1. It is taboo for outsiders to ride horses, drive oxen, carry burdens and enter the cottage with disheveled hair; to enter the Dai bamboo house, take off your shoes outside the door and walk softly inside the house; you can't sit on top of the fire pit or cross the fire pit, you can't go into the owner's inner room, you can't sit on the threshold of the door; you can't move the tripod on the fire pit, nor can you step on the fire with your feet.

2, it is taboo to whistle and cut nails in the house; not allowed to use clothes as pillows or sit on pillows; sunbathing clothes, tops should be sunbathing in the high place, pants and skirts should be sunbathing in the low place; into the Buddhist temple to take off their shoes, it is taboo to touch the head of the young monks, statues of the Buddha, goshawks, flags and streamers and a series of Buddhist holy objects.

3, the bedroom is not allowed outsiders to peep, the past custom stipulates that if the master found outsiders peeping into the master's bedroom, the man will have to do the master's door son-in-law, or to the master's home to do three years of hard labor, even if it is a female guest will have to go to the master's home to serve for three years. Therefore, no matter whether tourists visit the Daijia or guests, do not peep at the master's bedroom because of the mystery, although now breaking the past rules, but peep at the Daijia bedroom is always unwelcome.

Reference:

Chinese government website - Dai ethnic group