What is the traditional festival of Dai nationality called?

The traditional festivals of the Dai people include the Door God Festival, the Opening Day, the Water Splashing Festival and the Flower Street Festival.

Among them, the Songkran Festival is one of the most solemn traditional festivals of the Dai people. Dai people mainly live in parts of Yunnan, China. They use peacocks and elephants as mascots, which have very distinctive national characteristics. Moreover, Dai people like to live by water and have the reputation of "water nation".

Songkran Festival, also known as "Buddha Bath Festival", is also known as "Cold River Fever Festival". On that day, people in Xishuangbanna, China, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and other places where overseas Thais live in concentrated communities, such as Kowloon City, and Zhonghe District, New Taipei City, Taiwan Province Province, got up early in the morning and bathed in Buddha's light. After that, they began to celebrate for a few days. During the period, everyone sprinkled purified water on each other and prayed to wash away the troubles of the past year. Songkran Festival is the New Year of the Dai people, which is equivalent to the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar and generally lasts for 3 to 7 days.

Brief introduction of Dai nationality

Dai language (Roman alphabet: Dai language), also known as Thai (Thai: Roman alphabet: Thai) and Shan nationality (Roman alphabet: Shan nationality), etc. The national language is Dai (Thai), which belongs to Zhuang-Dai branch of Zhuang-Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. Dai people regard peacocks and elephants as mascots, and folk stories are rich and colorful. Dai people like to live by the water, love cleanliness, often take a bath, and women like to wash their hair, so they have the reputation of "water nation". In the past, Dai people generally believed in Buddhism, and primitive religion spread to the south.

Dai people are distributed in China, India, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand and other countries. In 2000, there were 1 159000 Dai people in China. Mainly living in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture and Gengma and Menglian Autonomous County. The rest are scattered in more than 30 counties including Jingdong, Jinggu, Ninger, Lancang, Xinping, Yuanjiang and Jinping. The border Dai area borders Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.