Which ethnic group's festival is the Water Splashing Festival?

Dai; Achang; Brown; Wa; Deang; Thai-speaking peoples

The Water Splashing Festival is also known as ? The Water Festival is also known as the Buddha Bathing Festival.

Songkran Festival, also known as Songkran Festival, April 13?April 16, has a history of 700 years, is the Dai and De'ang ethnic groups the grandest traditional festival. On that day, people in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and other countries as well as Yunnan Province in China get up early in the morning and bathe to honor the Buddha, after which they start celebrating for several days. During this time, people splash each other with pure water, praying to wash away the past year's misfortunes and start the new year with good wishes. The Water Splashing Festival is the grandest festival of the Dai people, and it is also the festival with the greatest influence and the largest number of participants among the festivals of the ethnic minorities in Yunnan. The Water Splashing Festival is the New Year of the Dai people and usually lasts for three to seven days. The first day of the festival is called "Mai Day" in Dai language. The first day of the festival is called "Mai Day" in Dai language. which is similar to the New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar; the second day is called Mai Day in Dai language. The second day is called "Worry Day" in Dai language. (empty day); the third day is the New Year, called? The third day is New Year's Day, which is called Ba Nang Ma?

Another striking activity of the Songkran Festival is rowing dragon boats, jumping elephant foot drum dance and peacock dance. It is the third day of the Dai New Year, which is called? The festival reaches its climax on the third day of the Dai New Year, which is known in Dai as Maipaya Evening Ma? The atmosphere of the festival reaches a climax. The people dressed in festive costumes gathered on the banks of the Lancang River, Ruili River, to watch the dragon boat race.

The Water Festival is rich in activities, other than the release of Gao Sheng, cockfighting, jumping peacock dance, etc., people dressed in full costume, joyful , the scene is extremely lively.

"Sangkan Bimai", is the Dai language, meaning the Dai New Year. As the Dai people in the celebration of the New Year Festival, to hold a unique water activities, mutual water blessing, so other ethnic groups will be called this festival for the Water Festival. There is a sad folk story about the origin of the Dai New Year (Water Splashing Festival). According to the legend, the weather on earth was originally controlled by a god named Huanma Zha. He divided the year into dry season, rainy season and cold season, and set the agricultural time for the earth, and let a god named Huanmadalachar be in charge of the implementation. A young man named Paya Wan used four wooden boards as wings and flew up to the heavenly court to find the god of heaven, Indra Tila, to tell him about the disaster on earth. Paya Wan wanted to go to the highest level of heaven to worship the heavenly pagoda, Tathagata Sands. When he was on his way to the highest level of heaven to pay homage to Tathagata Sands, he accidentally crashed into a gate of heaven, which collapsed and crushed him to death at the entrance of the heavenly court. After Paya's death, the king of the heavens, Indatila, began to use a scheme to punish the magical Huma dot Dharaksha. He turned into a handsome young man and went to the seven daughters of Hema Dharamchak in disguise to talk about love. The seven beautiful girls fell in love with him at the same time. The girls learned from the young man's mouth about their father's plague on earth, both regret and hate. Seven kind girls for the earth to avoid disaster, determined to righteousness. They try to find out the secret of their father's life and death. In the cupping of the horse point Dalachar when drunk, cut off a bunch of his hair, make a ? Bow Sai Zai? (heart-string bow), resolutely cut off the head of the wrongdoing bouma point Dalachar holding in his arms, from time to time to rotate, and each other with water sprinkled to rinse off the filth, wash away the stench. It is said that this is the people during the New Year, mutual splashing blessing of the origin.

Dai New Year Festival, most of the Dai calendar in late June, a few years in early July, the traditional festival time, usually 3 days (sometimes 4 days). The first day is called "Mai? The first day is called "Mai". equivalent to New Year's Eve on the lunar calendar, households should clean up, prepare food supplies for New Year's Eve, and eat New Year's dinner. The second day is known as Mai (New Year's Eve). Mai? The second day is called "Brain", which is an extra day, not counted in the old year or the new year, and is called "Empty Day". Legend has it that this is the day when the head of Huma Dara Chad rotted. This day is usually held to splash water activities, in honor of the people to eliminate the evil of the heavenly maiden, to the holy water to eliminate disasters, wishing each other peace and happiness. The third day called? Mai Paya Evening Ma? , is said to be the spirit of Paya night with a new calendar to return to earth day, people used to call this day the day of the King of the coming. According to ancient custom, this day to? Catch the pendulum? , put Gao Sheng, singing and dancing, rowing dragon boat to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.

The Dai New Year (Water Festival) is the grandest festival of the Dai people. Before the festival, every family has to sew new clothes, buy new umbrellas, and prepare festival costumes. Every village has to make high rise, ceremonial flowers, decorate dragon boats, carry out rowing training, young people also have to rehearse the program, make songs and dances. When the festival comes, we have to kill pigs and cows to make New Year's cake and prepare a sumptuous New Year's dinner for our friends and relatives.

The Dai New Year, also known as the Water Festival, celebrated up to three to seven days. The first day is called ? The first day of the festival is called "net mold". (the meaning of death). People believe that this day is unlucky, so they do not wash their hair, do not get a haircut, do not work. People go to catch swing, dragon boat race, put high rise.

The next day is called? The next day is called "net brain". (the meaning of stink) this day is considered unclean, to bathe, shampoo, haircut, change clothes, wash the statue of Buddha and the pagoda, the evening held to catch the pendulum, fireworks, release of lanterns, the year's diseases, disasters and dirty things are sent off, clean into the new year. In the Dai calendar, these two days are regarded as "empty days". Empty days? Not called in the old year, not counted into the New Year. The third day is New Year's Day, called? Aba net Ma? (meaning gods and spirits and the first day of the year). The Dai people regard this day as the best and most auspicious day. It is the climax of the Water Splashing Festival. To pile up sand, fine Buddha, splash water, put high up, throw bags, jump? Yiraga? dance, pay homage to the New Year and other activities.

Dai people in the Water Splashing Festival, like to form a queue, knocking the mango gong, beat up the elephant foot drum, collective dance? The Dai people like to form a procession on the Water Festival, beat the gong, beat the elephant-foot drum, and dance collectively. dance, go from house to house to pay homage to the New Year, congratulate the New Year happy, all the best. The Yilaha dance is the most popular form of New Year's greeting. Yilaha is a kind of dance and song. is a kind of singing while dancing. It has a strong flavor of life and rich emotions of the Dai people. New Year Worship The song is sung by the Dai people while dancing. Water Splashing and? Dragon Boat Race and? Gao Sheng? It's very interesting to sing when you are singing. For example: "New Year's greetings" ("拜年"). New Year's greetings Lyrics:? Panzhihua, red, Sangkai Dai (New Year's greetings), has come. Pasa Dai (Dai), all open face, glutinous rice wine, honey-like sweetness, **** raise a cup, congratulate the New Year, Yilaga, Yilaga, water water water! Water Splashing Lancang River, dawn city, people of all ethnic groups, like shuttle. Deeply in love, out of the heart, like a clean spring, such as manna. Silver water flowers, in the dance, one by one, wet. Through the heart, is the blessing, smiling disk, is the flower. Yiraga, Yiraga, water water water! Dragon Boat Race The brass gongs are ringing, the oars are raised, unity is tight, there is strength. Like the dragon, like the waves, raise your heads and row vigorously, Pasadai, Dragon Boat Race, according to tradition, strive for the top. Yilaga, Yilaga, water, water, water! The word for "release high rise" is: "Do high rise, release high rise". Do Gao Sheng, release Gao Sheng. Learn science and practice your skills. A little fire, black smoke, like a sharp arrow, rushing in. I wish you a good year ahead, and I hope the grains are plentiful. I'd like to wish you all the best for the coming year, and I wish you all the best for the coming year.

Water Festival in the Dai calendar in June and July, the day early in the morning, men, women and children dressed in festive attire, picking the water, first to the Buddhist temple fine Buddha, bath Buddha, and then began to splash each other, wishing each other good luck, happiness, health. People dance while shouting, the sound of drums and gongs ringing through the sky, blessing the water splash everywhere, the scene is really very spectacular.

During the Songkran Festival, Dai youth like to the forest clearing to do throw package game. Flower package made of beautiful flower cloth, loaded with cotton paper, cotton seeds, etc., four corners and the center is decorated with five flower spikes, is a token of love, young men and women through the throw package, receive package, get acquainted with each other. When the girl consciously let the young man can not catch lose, the young man will be ready to give gifts to the girl, both left the crowd to the secluded place to talk about love to go.

During the Songkran Festival, there will be a dragon boat race, which will be held on the Lancang River. A group of groups of red and green dragon boat in? The sound of the gong and the sound of the gong is the same as the sound of the gong and the sound of the gong and the sound of the gong. Hi Hi Hi? In the sound of shouts and whistles, they cut through the waves and move forward bravely, attracting thousands of Chinese and foreign tourists to the Lancang River, adding a lot of tension and joyful atmosphere to the festival.