Dai Customs and Traditional Culture

Dai customs and traditional culture include clothing, food, festivals and so on.

1, clothing

Dai nationality is a unique minority in Yunnan province. Most Dai people live in tropical and subtropical areas. Therefore, clothing fully embodies the characteristics of warm climate, dense forests and rich products. It not only pays attention to practicality, but also has strong decorative significance. It can reflect the national character and folk customs that love life and advocate the beauty of neutralization.

Step 2 prescribe diet

Accustomed to eating in the morning and evening. Its staple food, non-staple food and dishes are rich and colorful, with many varieties, sour and spicy and delicious characteristics. Japonica rice and glutinous rice produced by Dai people are not only bulky, but also oily and sticky. Daily meat includes pigs, cows, chickens and ducks, and don't eat or eat less mutton. Dai people living in Chinese mainland like to eat dog meat and are good at roast chicken and roast chicken. They like fish, shrimp, crabs, snails and other aquatic products very much.

3. festivals

The famous Songkran Festival is a traditional festival of Dai people. The first day and the second day mean to send away the old things, and the last day is the embodiment of welcoming a new life. It is usually held on the tenth day after Tomb-Sweeping Day. Men and women splash water and bless each other. It symbolizes "the best day". During the spread of the Water-splashing Festival, the Dai people gradually combined it with their own myths and legends, giving the Water-splashing Festival more magical significance and national color.

Historical background of Dai nationality:

The aborigines said. This view holds that the Dai people have lived in the arc zone from the west of the Red River to the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River and Manipo, India since ancient times, and its formation is the natural result of economic and cultural development, not the result of migration. However, there are different opinions about what kind of aborigines Dai people evolved from. For example, Huang Huikun thinks that the ancestors of the Dai nationality are Guyue people, and Chen thinks that the Dai nationality evolved from mountain people.

Among them, the Guyue people have the greatest influence. According to this view, China's historical records of "Yunnan, Vietnam", "Guo Shan", "Shang Yue" and "Guo Peng" are countries founded by Dai ancestors. Many scholars believe that some ethnic groups in Nanzhao and Dali in the Song Dynasty mentioned in China's ancient books are the ancestors of the Dai people in China.