What are the customs of the Dai Water-splashing Festival? Are there any other customs besides water fights and river lanterns? Do you need to prepare professional equipment for water fights and river

What are the customs of the Dai Water-splashing Festival? Are there any other customs besides water fights and river lanterns? Do you need to prepare professional equipment for water fights and river lanterns? The Dai people's water-splashing festival lasts for three or four days. The first day is "Mairi", which is similar to Chinese New Year's Eve. Dai language calls it "ten thousand business letters", which means to send the old. At this time, people have to tidy up their houses, clean up, and prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner and various activities during the festival. The next day is called "boredom day", and "boredom" means "emptiness" According to custom, this day is neither the year before nor the year after, so it is called "empty day"; The third day is called "Maipaya Wanma". It is said that the soul of Mapaya Wanma returned to Earth with a new calendar. People are used to seeing this day as "the arrival of the King of Heaven", which is the New Year of the Dai calendar.

Every Songkran Festival, Dai people will collect some flowers and leaves on the nearby mountains. On the day of the festival, Dai men, women and children put on festive costumes, carried clear water, went to the Buddhist temple to bathe the Buddha, and began to splash water on each other with flowers and leaves. You splash me, I splash you, and the water blooms in the air, symbolizing auspiciousness, happiness and health. The bright and glittering water drops in the hands of young people also symbolize sweet love. Everyone threw water at each other, and there were baptisms, blessings and songs everywhere. Water splashing is laughing, and the water splashing festival has become an ocean of joy.

Pay attention to splashing water

Wenpo

The traditional practice is to fill a wooden basin with clear water and pour it on people.

Wupo

Throw dirty water, sewage and water with stones, glass, sediment and itching at people; To the police on duty, staff, photographers, journalists, the elderly, patients, pregnant women, infants and young children; Intercept passing vehicles, besiege and splash water; Spray water with a high-pressure water gun; Use a mobile water splashing vehicle to splash water on the crowd.

other

Besides splashing water, there are also folk activities, such as swinging, dragon boat racing, bathing Buddha, chanting, singing Zhangha, fighting cocks, jumping peacock dance, jumping white elephants, throwing bags and flying lanterns, and other artistic performances and economic and trade exchanges.