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What is the New Year festival of the Dai people?

The Dai New Year is the Water Splashing Festival

The Water Splashing Festival is a traditional festival of the Dai ethnic group as well as Thai-speaking peoples and Southeast Asia. On that day, people in Thailand, Laos, Burma, Cambodia and other countries, as well as overseas Thai settlements such as Hong Kong's Kowloon City and Taiwan's New Taipei City's Zhonghe District, etc., wake up early in the morning and bathe to pay homage to the Buddha, and after that, they start celebrating the festival for several days in a row, during which everyone uses pure water to splash each other to pray for washing away the bad things of the past year. During the festival, people splash each other with pure water, praying to wash away the bad luck of the past year. The Water Splashing Festival is the New Year of the Dai people, which is equivalent to the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar, and usually lasts for three to seven days.