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Dai's "Love Medicine"

The twigs of the Dai family are simple and kind, the twig whistle of the Dai family is gentle and beautiful, and the poetic hometown of the Dai family is unforgettable. Dai's twig whistle has deep feelings. Many members of the Dai family are convinced of their love for medicine. They believe that their harmonious and happy marriage is brought about by the magical effect of love medicine.

Is there really a love medicine? Does love medicine really have such magical charm? This is what many people want to know. Indeed, the Dai people have a good medicine for love. In the Dai village of Mengla Township, Jinping County, most Dai people know how to make love medicine.

The method of making love medicine is very simple. In the Dai area, there is a bitter fruit called "Muheigan" in Dai language. Its branches have thorns, and the bitter fruit tastes bitter and sweet, so it is a very effective cold medicine. Bitter fruit is about half a centimeter in diameter. It is green when it is immature and turns yellow when it is mature. It is this immature green "sweet clover" that has become a precious raw material for Dai people to make love medicine. After taking a fancy to their sweetheart, the Dai people who made love medicine held their breath and picked a green bitter fruit. After picking the bitter fruit, hold your breath, put your mouth to the bitter fruit, and silently or silently recite a fixed spell for three times, all of which are composed of Dai language, "Moo, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Spells can only be learned during the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Spring Festival, but not on other days. Spells can't be said at any time, and people can't hear them. If the taboo is violated, the love medicine will fail.

Drug addiction and incantation are unique phenomena in Dai areas. Although their ideological basis is only the praise of faithful love and the yearning and pursuit of happy marriage, and loving medicine can't really make people live in harmony and make their marriage happy, as the spiritual track of the Dai family's pursuit of a better life and love, it exudes unique charm, cultivates the national character of the Dai family and casts a simple and peaceful folk custom of the Dai family. It is in this atmosphere of mutual respect and love and a happy marriage.