Besides the Dai people in Yunnan, which other ethnic groups in China celebrated the Songkran Festival?

The Water Splashing Festival, also known as the Bathing Buddha Festival, is a traditional festival of Dai, Achang, Bulang, Wa and De 'ang. In Yunnan, Thailand, Laos and other places in China, the Songkran Festival will be celebrated with great fanfare. On the day of Songkran Festival, people get up early to bathe and change clothes, and then the celebration will last for several days. The Water-Splashing Festival is a time when people throw water at each other to wash away their dust and pray for the disaster and misfortune of the past year. The Songkran Festival is equivalent to the Dai New Year, which is held in the middle of April of the Gregorian calendar every year.

The Songkran Festival originated in Persia and is called? Spoil and fool around? After India, it was introduced to Myanmar, Thailand and southwest China. The founding of the Songkran Festival is generally related to religion, and it also reflects people's pursuit and yearning for overcoming nature.

The representative nationalities of the Songkran Festival are not only the Dai people we know, but also the De 'ang people. The water-splashing festival of De 'ang nationality is held around Tomb-Sweeping Day, and De 'ang nationality also has the national custom of washing hands and feet for parents and other elders. As the De 'ang people approach, local people will make new clothes and buckets for themselves. Old believers will gather in the Buddhist temple and set up hoses to splash water. The hoses will be filled with auspicious water to welcome the Buddha.

Besides Dai and De 'ang, Songkran Festival is also very popular in Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos. Every year in mid-April, people in Thailand will start to hold the Songkran Festival. In Thailand, the Songkran Festival is also called? Songkran Festival? This means the beginning of a new solar year. On that day, every household should clean the door, burn old clothes and get rid of bad luck. People will build sand towers, plant colorful flags in temples, and pray for a bumper harvest. In the evening, the elders will sprinkle a kind of water soaked with petals to express their blessings, and then the elders will sprinkle water back to the younger generation to express their blessings. In Myanmar, Cambodia and other regions, there are also some local customs, but most of them are the same.