The story of the Water Festival legends have what_you specifically heard a few?

The Water Festival can be regarded as the carnival of the ethnic minorities, in this day there will be a lot of people especially lively celebration, the Water Festival this holiday. So about the story of the Water Festival legend you know how much, what are you have not heard of it?

Legend 1: Xishuangbanna Dai legend: in ancient times, there is a demon king evil, people hate him, want to think of a lot of ways to kill him. Later, the Demon 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.

Legend 3: In ancient times, a demon god named Choumadarajah, disobeyed the will of the gods, do whatever they want, the earth to rain and drought disorders, hot and cold, seedlings withered, people and animals suffered. How to punish this magic demon? Wisdom of the sky god Indati thought of a plan, that is, dressed up as a handsome young man, to approach the seven daughters of the cupping of Ma point Darazha, and will tell them the truth. These seven girls are good natured, already have resentment against the sins of their father, at this time, they are determined to kill their father, to rid the earth of harm. One day, they finally found out the secret of their father's life and death, and took the opportunity to make him drunk, quietly plucked off a piece of his hair and made it into a bow sai zai (i.e., a bow made of heart strings), breaking the devil's head. But the head rolled down to the ground turned into a new disaster, pouring evil fire, bamboo buildings were burned, crops were scorched, the seven girls rotated the devil's head in their arms until it rotted. Every time they rotate, they will call the water to splash each other to remove the filth. The seven sisters' courageous actions and achievements were warmly praised by the people of the world. Deep remembrance has become permanent respect. Also in order to commemorate the Maha cupping to repair the wind and rain cold and hot law in the world, people will be the demon king cupping horse point Dala Chad's head rotting day, set as the day of the splash of water. On this day, after the Buddha bath, people will use the water to splash each other, and bless each other, in order to seek good luck and prosperity, happiness and longevity.

Summary: The story of the Water Splashing Festival can be divided into several types of legends, some of which are about the ancient times of the devil king of the evil story legend, there is another Dai Han to protect the village story. There is also the story of the devil god, these three stories who splash water festival story legend of the most widely circulated.