Which province is the Dai mainly distributed in?

The Dai people in China mainly live in Yunnan Province.

Dai people in China are mainly distributed in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture, Gengma and Menglian Autonomous County. In addition, there are Dai people scattered in more than 30 counties of Jingdong, Jinggu, Pu 'er, Lancang, Xinping, Yuanjiang and Jingping.

According to the distribution area, the Dai people in China call themselves Dai Ling, Dai Na, Dai Ya, Dai Zhan and Dai Duan, among which the Dai people in Xishuangbanna and Dehong call themselves Dai Ling, and the Dai people in Xinping and Yuanjiang in the middle and upper reaches of the Red River call themselves Dai Ya.

Dai traditional culture

1, language and culture

Dai people have their own language, which belongs to Zhuang-Dai branch of Sino-Tibetan language family. Nowadays, the popular Xishuangbanna and Dehong Dai languages are all pinyin characters, which evolved from Pali language in southern India. Dai people can not only sing and dance well, but also create splendid culture, among which Dai calendar, Dai medicine and long narrative poems are the most famous.

2. Festival culture

The main festivals of the Dai people are the Songkran Festival and the closing and opening festivals of the Dai New Year. The "Water-splashing Festival" is a traditional festival for the Dai people to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, which falls in the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar. The main activities during the festival include ancestor worship, building sand, splashing water, losing packets, dragon boat racing, lighting, singing and dancing, etc.

3. Food culture

Most Dai people have the habit of eating three meals a day, and the staple food is rice and glutinous rice. Japonica rice is the staple food of Dai people in Germany, and glutinous rice is the staple food of Dai people in Xishuangbanna. Usually eat it right away. The villagers think that japonica rice and rice need rice and can only be eaten immediately before losing their original color and flavor, so they don't eat overnight meals or rarely eat them, and they are used to eating rice by hand.