What are the characteristics of Dai people?

woman

Women traditionally wear short sleeves and skirts. Dai women in Xishuangbanna wear white or scarlet underwear with small waist, wide hem and various tube skirts. Women in Dehong, mangshi and other places wear light-colored big-breasted jackets, trousers and small waists before marriage, and change them into double-breasted jackets and black skirts after marriage.

The women's clothing of the Dai people in the mainland is basically the same as that of the frontier, but it has regional characteristics, so it is often called "Huayao Dai" and "Dai Xiu Dai" by other ethnic groups. For example, Dai women in Xinping, Yuxi City wear tubular skirts and have a special flower belt more than a foot long, hence the name "Huayao Dai".

Their clothes are mainly in black and red tones. Tight short dresses extend to the upper waist. The neckline is made of fine silver bubbles, showing a diamond pattern that is staggered up and down. There are five or six meters of embroidered belts at the waist, and the peaked "Jifir" hat with upturned brim.

male

Dai men wear collarless double-breasted or large-breasted small sleeve jackets, long-sleeved trousers, blankets when it is cold, and white or green cloth on their heads. 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.

Step 2 prescribe 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's famous fragrant bamboo tube rice, also called bamboo tube rice, is made by putting glutinous rice in a fragrant bamboo tube, soaking it in water for 15 minutes and baking it with fire. Beat the bamboo tube to soften it when eating, and the bamboo film on the inner wall of the bamboo tube will stick to the rice. Cut it in half with a knife, and the fragrant bamboo rice will come out, with rich aroma and soft and delicate rice.

3. Architecture

Gan Lan architecture is the characteristic of Dai folk houses. Dai bamboo houses in Xishuangbanna and Dehong Ruili have unique styles. The building is nearly square, with two floors. People live on the upper floor, about 7 feet from the ground, and there is no wall on the lower floor, which is used for raising livestock and stacking things. The top is double oblique and covered with woven "grass rafts".

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Lang.

Dai language

Dai nationality has its own national language, which is called Dai language, Thai language, Lao language, etc. Because of its distribution, it belongs to the Taiwanese branch of the Dong-Tai language family of Sino-Tibetan language family (Zhuang-Dong language family).

Dai language

The written language used by Dai people is Dai language, which is a kind of phonography, and its written language is Dai language. There are many dialects of Dai language, four of which are spoken by Dai people in China, namely Dai language (Xishuangbanna Dai language), Jinping Dai language, Dai language (Dehong Dai language) and Dai language, and there are also Thai and Lao languages outside China. After improvement in 1950s, Xishuangbanna and Dehong Dai languages are widely used in China.

It is generally believed that the Dai language originated from the ancient Indian writing system, and its formation is directly related to the spread of Buddhism to the east and the Dai people's belief in Hinayana Buddhism. However, there are disputes about which writing system it originated from, mainly Pali and Grandi, which can be traced back to Brahmi, which was introduced into ancient India in the eighth century BC.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Dai nationality