The custom of Dai water-splashing festival

1, Songkran Festival is the biggest festival of Dai people, with the largest number of participants. The first day, cultural performances; Splash water the next day; On the third day, young men and women lost their bags together.

2. The polite Dai girl said the words of blessing while dipping the water in the basin with bamboo leaves and branches and sprinkling it on the other side. The splash is flying, Dai Jia is crazy, and the sincere blessing is expressed by splashing water.

3. The Water-splashing Festival is an annual traditional festival of the Dai people (April 13 to 15 in the solar calendar). The Dai language is called cold combined with cold, which means June New Year or Dai New Year.

Extended data:

1, Water-Splashing Festival dance, elephant foot dance, peacock dance, Dai people can sing and dance, Water-Splashing Festival is indispensable. Large-scale dances are mainly arranged on the third day of the Songkran Festival, such as Elephant Foot Dance and peacock dance. From the dolls of seven or eight years old to the elderly of seventy or eighty years old, they all put on holiday costumes and gathered in the village square to participate in group dances.

2. The Songkran Festival is another reserved program, namely, Songkran Festival, Kongming Lantern Festival and Songkran Festival. Goldman Sachs is a kind of fireworks made by Dai people. The bottom of the bamboo pole is filled with gunpowder and other ingredients, which are placed on a high shelf made of bamboo and connected by a wire. When raised, it is often set off at night. Igniting the fuse to make the powder burn will produce a powerful thrust and push bamboo into the sky like a rocket.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Dai Water-splashing Festival