Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - Please introduce the traditional festivals of several ethnic groups, such as the Dai Water-splashing Festival.

Please introduce the traditional festivals of several ethnic groups, such as the Dai Water-splashing Festival.

Lamu Drum Festival is a traditional festival of Wa nationality. Lamu drum is an important religious ceremony of Wa nationality, and it is also an important content of Wa nationality's spiritual life. Its cultural tradition of rallying people's hearts, pursuing happiness, perseverance and expressing enthusiasm can be carried forward. It can be said that Lamu Drum Festival is the carnival of Wa people.

Duanjie is the biggest traditional festival of Shui people, which is equivalent to the Spring Festival of Han people. Water language is called "borrowing end" and "transmitting end". According to the provisions of Shui Shu and Shui Calendar, the festival is held at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, which is the end of the year and the beginning of the year in a country with a big harvest and a small quarterly report. Therefore, Duanjie is a grand festival to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, celebrate the bumper harvest, offer sacrifices to ancestors and wish happiness in the coming year. The holiday period corresponds to the lunar calendar from August to October.

Water-splashing Festival, also known as "Buddha Washing Festival" and "Cold River Fever Festival", is a traditional festival of Dai, Achang, Bulang, Wa, De 'ang, Thai and Southeast Asia. On that day, people in Xishuangbanna, China, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Kowloon City, Zhonghe District, New Taipei City, Taiwan Province Province and other overseas Thai settlements got up early in the morning. 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.

The Dai Water Splashing Festival, also known as the "Buddha Bathing Festival", is called "Bimai" (meaning New Year) in Dai language, and is usually held around mid-April of the Gregorian calendar. Dai people in Xishuangbanna and Dehong also call this festival "Shang Han" and "Shang Jian". Both names are derived from Sanskrit, meaning turnover, change and transfer, which means that the sun runs around the zodiac and begins to transition to the New Year. The celebration lasts for three to seven days. The first day is called "Netmold" (meaning death). People think this day is unlucky, so they don't wash their hair, cut their hair or work. Let's catch the pendulum, race the dragon boat and raise the height. The next day it was called "net brain" (smelly meaning), which was considered unclean. You should take a bath, wash your hair, get a haircut, change clothes, wash Buddha statues and pagodas, hold performances at night, set off fireworks and lanterns, and send away all diseases, disasters, filth and cleanliness in one year to enter the new year. In the Dai calendar, these two days are considered as "empty days", not counting the old year or the new year. The third day is the first day of New Year's Day, which is called "overlord horse" (meaning God, also meaning the beginning of a year).