Characteristics of Dai Song and Dance Costumes

The Dai song and dance costume is characterized by a navel-gazing undershirt in the upper part of the body and a narrow skirt in the lower part.

The Dai (Roman: Dai), also known as the Thai (Thai:, Roman: Thai), Shan (Roman: Shan), etc., the national language for the Dai (Thai), belongs to the Han-Tibetan language Zhuang Dong language Zhuang Dai branch.

The Dai people regard peacocks and elephants as mascots, and their folk tales are colorful and colorful. The Dai people like to live by the water, love cleanliness, often bathe, and women love to shampoo their hair, so they are known as "the people of the water", and they used to believe in the Southern Theravada Buddhism and primitive religion.

The Dai people are distributed in China, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and other countries. 2000, the Dai people in China **** there are 1.159 million people. They mainly live in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, and Gengma and Menglian Autonomous Counties in Yunnan Province.

The rest are scattered in more than 30 counties, including Jingdong, Jinggu, Ning'er, Lancang, Xinping, Yuanjiang and Jinping. The border Dai region shares borders with Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. According to the China Statistical Yearbook-2021, the population of the Dai in China is 132,985.

The Dai people in China have the self-proclaimed names of Dai Dance, Dai Na, Dai Ya, Dai Nang, and Dai Duan according to their distribution areas. Xishuangbanna and other places called themselves "Dancing", Dehong and other places called themselves "Dai Na", the upper reaches of the Red River, Xinping, Yuanjiang and other places Dai called themselves "Dai Ya", Ruili, Longchuan, Gengma borderline Ruili, Longchuan, Gengma border line of the Dai called themselves "Dai bandage", Lancang Mangjing, Mangna for the Dai bandage branch. The Han Chinese call Dai dancing for water Dai, Dai Na for dry Dai, Daiya for flower waist Dai.