Traditional festivals of the Dai people What are the festivals of the Dai people?

1. The traditional festivals of the Dai people are: the Water Festival, the Open Door Festival, and the Closed Door Festival.

2, Water Festival: Dai New Year. When in the Dai calendar June 24 to 26 (summer calendar in mid-April festival period of three or five days. Early in the morning of the festival, men, women and children bathed and dressed, to the Buddhist temple fine Buddha, that is, to the Buddha sprinkled with water to wash the dust, and then splash each other, in addition to the disease elimination. Later evolved into a festival to splash water as a play. According to legend, there was a fire demon who snatched seven girls. The youngest girl, Nongxiang, learned the secret of killing the fire demon: pulling off its hair and strangling it to death. The devil's head became a ball of fire, and wherever it fell, fire broke out. The girls then threw water on it to extinguish the fire. This legend has become a custom, and gradually become the Water Festival. It is said that this custom originated in India, Brahmins every year at this time to the river bath, wash away the sins; elderly people can not go down to the river, their children will be splashing water to wash away their sins. After the introduction of China's Dai region.

3. Open Door Festival: The Dai language called "out of the puddle", meaning that the Lord Buddha out of the temple. Yunnan Dai traditional religious festival. Held on December 15 of the Dai calendar every year. Its activities are the same as the Door Festival. December 15 of the Dai calendar, will be placed in the puddle of things behind the Buddha's seat to take out and burn, said Buddha has been out of the puddle, sixteen monks out of the puddle, the whole family of men, women and children to the Zang room to pay homage to the Buddha. The 17th held a grand "catch more" activities, because this day the Buddha to the West after three months of preaching to return to earth, so the villages and cottages are to sound the gongs and drums, held a grand event to meet the Buddha, but also in the Zang room to the Buddha's penance for the sins of the year; monks take advantage of this time to the young men and women to publicize the teachings. Open the door to the festival, the farm has been over, the weather is getting cold, Buddhist activities are not too much, young people can talk about love or marriage, adults are going out to do business or visit friends and relatives. This is the time when the Dai people have the most cultural and recreational activities. People put fireworks, light fire lamps, put high, traveling around the villages, very lively.

4, closed the door festival: the Dai language called "into the puddle", meaning that the Lord Buddha into the temple. Yunnan Dai traditional religious festival, held annually on the 15th day of the ninth year of the Dai calendar (mid-July of the lunar calendar), lasting three months. According to legend, on the ninth day of the Dai calendar every year, Buddha went to the Western Heaven to preach with his mother and returned to the earth in March. Once, just as the Buddha to the West preaching period, thousands of Buddhists to the countryside to preach, step on the people's crops, delaying their production, the people's grievances, very dissatisfied with the Buddhists. When the Buddha learned of this, he felt uneasy in his heart. From then on, every time the Buddha to the West when the Sutra, will be the Buddha disciples are gathered together, the provisions of the three months are not allowed to go anywhere, but only repentance, in order to redeem the previous sins. Therefore, people second for the "closed door festival".