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Good words and sentences describing national customs and habits of good paragraph

1. Speaking of folk customs and traditions: (the dumplings of the first day of the month, the second day of the month, the third day of the month)

(Born in Suzhou, dressed in Hangzhou, eaten in Guangzhou, and died in Liuzhou.)

1. Speaking of folklore: (the first dumplings, the second noodles, the third of the Hopper full of family turn)

(Born in Suzhou, dressed in Hangzhou, eating in Guangzhou, died in Liuzhou.)

2. Speaking of local specialties: (the Northeast has three treasures: ginseng, mink, wulagao)

(Pingyao's beef, Taigu's cake, Qingxu's grapes, sweet Yin Yin)

(Ningxia red, black and white "three treasures" black (hairy vegetables), red (goji berries), white (dermoids))

3. Natural scenery: (Heaven above, Suzhou and Hangzhou below)

(Jiuzhaigou's water, Zhangjiajie's mountains)

(Ten miles of the Wintang River, the nine curves and eighteen bends)

(The Great Wall is not a good man)

(Five mountains do not look at the return of the mountain, the return of the Huangshan Mountains do not look at the Yue.)

(The landscape of Li River is the best in the world. The landscape of Guilin is the best in the world. The landscape of Yangshuo is the best in Guilin.)

================================================ Water Splashing Festival is the grandest festival of the Dai ethnic group and the most influential and attended festival among the ethnic minority festivals in Yunnan. The Water Splashing Festival is the new year of the Dai calendar, equivalent to the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar, and the festival usually lasts three to seven days. The first day is called "Mai Day" in Dai language, which is similar to the New Year's Eve in the lunar calendar; the second day is called "Worry Day" in Dai language (Empty Day); and the third day is the New Year, which is called "Aba Net Ma", and is actually the first day of the year, which is considered as the best and the most auspicious day. The third day is the New Year, called "BaNaMa", which is the first day of the year, and people regard this day as the most beautiful and auspicious. Early in the morning of the festival, the Dai men, women and children dressed in festive costumes, picking water, first to the Buddhist temple to bathe in Buddha, and then began to splash each other, wishing each other good luck, happiness and health. People dance while calling out "Water! Water! Water!" The sound of drums and gongs resonates through the sky, and the blessed water splashes everywhere, the scene is really very spectacular.

During the Water Splashing Festival, the Dai youth like to go to the forest clearing to do the game of throwing bags. Flower bag made of beautiful flower cloth, filled with cotton paper, cotton seeds, etc., four corners and the center of the five flower spikes, is a token of love, young men and women through the bag, catch the bag, get acquainted with each other. And so the girl consciously let the young man can not catch lost, the young man will be ready to give the girl gifts, both left the crowd to the secluded place to talk about love to go.

During the Water Festival, there is also a dragon boat race. The competition is held on the Lancang River. A group of groups of red and green dragon boat in the "Hall Hall" in the sound of the gong and "Hi Hi Hi" shouts and whistles, chopping waves, bravely forward, thousands of Chinese and foreign tourists attracted to the Lancang River side, for the festival has added a lot of tension and joyful atmosphere.

The Water Splashing Festival originated in India, which used to be a religious ceremony of Indian Brahminism, and then absorbed by Buddhism and introduced to Yunnan Dai ethnic area through Myanmar, at about the end of the 13th century to the beginning of the 14th century, with a history of 700 years. With the increasing influence of Southern Theravada Buddhism in the Dai ethnic area, the Water Splashing Festival has become more and more widespread. The Water Splashing Festival is the celebration of the Dai New Year, generally between April 13 and April 15 of the solar calendar. At that time, people first go to the Buddhist temple to bathe Buddha, and then splash water on each other, expressing sincere blessings with splashing water. The festival is full of laughter and festive atmosphere.

Another notable activity of the Water Splashing Festival is rowing dragon boats, dancing elephant foot drums and peacock dance. On the third day of the Dai New Year, which is called "Maipaya Evening Ma" in Dai language, the festival atmosphere reaches a climax. People dressed in festive costumes gathered on the banks of the Lancang River and the Ruili River to watch the dragon boat race. The Water Splashing Festival is rich in activities, other than the release of Gao Sheng, cockfighting, dancing peacock dance, etc., people dressed in full costume, joyful, extremely warm scene!

The Water Festival is coming, the Dai people will be busy killing pigs, chickens, brewing, but also to do a lot of "millinoso" (rice cake) and made of glutinous rice with a variety of poop, eaten during the festival.