Which national festival is the Songkran Festival?

Songkran Festival is a festival for Dai people.

Songkran Festival is the biggest festival of Dai people, and it is also the most influential festival with the largest number of participants in ethnic festivals. The Dai people's water-splashing festival lasts for three or four days. The first day is "Mairi", which is similar to Chinese New Year's Eve. Dai language calls it "ten thousand business letters", which means to send the old. At this time, people have to tidy up their houses, clean up, and prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner and various activities during the festival.

The next day is called "boredom day", and "boredom" means "emptiness" According to custom, this day is neither the year before nor the year after, so it is called "empty day"; The third day is New Year's Day, which is called "Maipaya Wanma". People are used to seeing this day as "the arrival of the king of heaven". The fourth day is the New Year, called "Overlord Horse", which is the beginning of a year. People think this day is the most beautiful and auspicious day.

What are the traditional activities of Yunnan Songkran Festival?

1, singing and dancing activities

Old people from 70 to 80 years old to 78-year-old dolls put on festive costumes and gathered in the village square. Men, women and children formed a circle and danced with gongs and drums. Some jump "peacock dance"; Some jump "jade wax"; Some improvise, sing and dance, and some men drink while dancing. During the Songkran Festival, Dai people like to queue up, beat gongs and drums, collectively jump on the "Yila River" and pay New Year greetings from door to door, wishing a happy New Year and all the best.

2. Bathing Buddha

On "Mairi" (the first day of junior high school), early in the morning, people will take flowers and green leaves to the Buddhist temple to offer sacrifices, and bring clean water to "bathe the Buddha"-welcome the dust for the Buddha statue. It is also a prayer for the gods to bless people's health in the new year. After the "Bathing Buddha" ended, they began to collectively splash water on each other. Groups of young men and women used various containers to hold water, pouring out of the streets, chasing and playing, splashing everyone out of the water.