The inhabited areas, customs, folk customs and traditional festivals of the Dai nationality

Dai people mainly live in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture and Gengma and Menglian Autonomous County. The rest are distributed in more than 30 counties including Jingdong, Jinggu, Pu 'er, Lancang, Xinping, Yuanjiang and Jinping. The border Dai area borders Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.

Most Dai villages are located in Pingba area of valley surrounded by mountains. The larger dams are Jinghong, Menglong, Mengzhe, Han Meng, Menghai, mangshi, Longchuan, Ganya, Mengmao and Shefang, with an average elevation of 500- 1300m and low terrain.

Second, local conditions and customs:

Young Dai men and women are quite free in social activities before marriage and can fall in love freely. Unmarried young people are very popular in festivals or major occasions (looking for unmarried women to fall in love). It is a popular custom to invite unwelcome children home.

When the Dai people hold a wedding, there must be a grand ceremony of "tying the thread". The old man tied the white cotton thread on the wrist of the bride and groom, symbolizing that their souls are tied together, wishing the newlyweds respect each other and grow old together.

Third, folk customs:

1, clothing:

Dai clothing, men wear collarless double-breasted or large-breasted small sleeve coat, long-sleeved trousers, blankets when it is cold, and white or green cloth to cover their heads. Women traditionally wear short sleeves and skirts.

The custom of male tattoos is very common, which not only shows courage, but also can ward off evil spirits, protect the body and decorate the body. Boys will be asked to get tattoos when they are about 1 1 years old. Tattoos are mostly tigers, leopards, lions, dragons, snakes and eagles. Most parts are limbs, chest, abdomen and back. It takes two days to get a tattoo on one leg and seven to eight days to get a tattoo on the whole body.

2. Diet:

The Dai people's staple food is rice. Dehong area eats japonica rice, Xishuangbanna and other places like to eat glutinous rice, which is usually eaten immediately.

Dai people also eat insects. There are many kinds of insects in the hot and humid areas of Dai nationality. Insects that are often eaten are cicadas, bamboo worms, Okubo, soft-shelled turtles and ant eggs. Catching cicadas is in the evening of summer. The cicada community is in the grass, and the cicada wings are soaked by dew and can't fly. So the women quickly collect cicadas in bamboo rafts and bake them in a pot to make sauce.

Wine is loved by the Dai people, generally brewed by itself, with low degree and sweet taste. Tea is a local specialty, but Dai people only drink big leaf tea without spices. When drinking, stir-fry slightly on the fire until burnt, and drink slightly after brewing. The habit of chewing betel nut is also very common. Chewing betel nut should be mixed with tobacco and lime all day.

Fourth, traditional festivals:

1, the festival of closing doors, called "Mwasa" in Dai language, was fixed in September of the Dai calendar 15 (mid-July of Gregorian calendar).

2. The opening day, called "Onvasa" in Dai language, is fixed at 65438+February 65438+May (Gregorian calendar 65438+1mid-October).

3. The Water Splashing Festival, called "Sangganbimai" or "Lenghe Sanggan Festival" in Dai language, means June New Year. The time is in late June or early July of Dai calendar (mid-April of Gregorian calendar). It was held on 10 day after Tomb-Sweeping Day, symbolizing "the best day".

Extended data

The development status of Dai nationality;

In the early days of the founding of New China, the Dai people generally carried out democratic political construction, eliminated bandits, stabilized social order, resumed and developed production, dredged ethnic relations, and initially changed the face of the Dai people. In order to abolish the feudal system of Dai society, the Party and the government led the Dai people to carry out democratic reform movement according to the specific conditions of Dai areas, and at the same time implemented regional ethnic autonomy in Dai areas.

Before the founding of New China, the business in Dai areas was very depressed, with few commodities and high prices, from which profiteers made huge profits. The broad masses of Dai people are exploited.

After the founding of New China, various counties in Dai have successively set up department stores, ethnic trade, foreign trade, farm tools, food, medicine, catering services and other companies. The mode of trade has changed from barter trade and small-scale trade in the past to diversified and high-level forms such as general trade, entrepot trade, processing trade, capital cooperation and technical cooperation, international exchanges and regional exhibitions.

After the founding of New China, under the leadership of the Party, the Dai people vigorously carried out farmland capital construction centered on water conservancy, reclaimed wasteland, expanded cultivated land area, popularized advanced production technology, practiced scientific farming, actively promoted agricultural mechanization, and promoted the great development of agricultural production.

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