The customs, settlements and customs of the Dai people.

1. Marriage: The prominent feature of Dai family and marriage in history is hierarchical marriage. There is a strict hierarchical marriage between chiefs, and polygamy is prevalent. Tusi also abused farmers' wives and daughters at will by virtue of his power. Most farmers have a patriarchal monogamous family, and parents and unmarried children are family members.

2. Funeral: Burial is very common, but there are obvious class differences. The burial places of the nobles and the poor are strictly separated. After the monks and buddhas died, they were cremated first, and then their ashes were buried in a crock behind the temple.

Second, inhabited areas:

Dai people mainly live in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture and Gengma and Menglian Autonomous County. The rest are distributed in more than 30 counties including Jingdong, Jinggu, Pu 'er, Lancang, Xinping, Yuanjiang and Jinping. The border Dai area borders Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.

Third, local conditions and customs:

Dai people have the custom of eating flowers. There are more than 30 kinds of wild flowers commonly eaten, such as Panzhihua, Li Tang, Rhododendron, Huangfanhua, Beet Flower, Banana Flower, Bitter Cauliflower Flower, Erythrina Flower, Plantago Flower, Solanum, Bitter Thorn Flower, Pentium Flower and a kind of flower called "Mo Xie" in Dai language.

Dai's bamboo building divides the house in half with a fence. The back room is small, it is a bedroom, and outsiders are not allowed to enter. The outer room is spacious, the inner room is a hall, where guests are received, and the outer room is equipped with a fireplace, which is a place for heating and cooking.

Extended data

The development status of Dai nationality;

In the early days of the founding of New China, the Dai people generally carried out democratic political construction, eliminated bandits, stabilized social order, resumed and developed production, dredged ethnic relations, and initially changed the face of the Dai people. In order to abolish the feudal system of Dai society, the Party and the government led the Dai people to carry out democratic reform movement according to the specific conditions of Dai areas, and at the same time implemented regional ethnic autonomy in Dai areas.

Since the founding of New China, cultural undertakings have been constantly innovating. The large-scale Dai drama "Langa Xihe River" arranged by the Dai Troupe in Dehong Prefecture has performed more than 50 times in recent years, with an audience of nearly 200,000, and it is also very popular in ASEAN countries such as Myanmar.

In 2004, Nanxila, a large-scale Dai drama created and adapted by Dehong Dai Troupe, won the comprehensive gold medal and other 10 awards in the 2004 Yunnan New Drama Festival to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Tom and Jerry, a foreign animated blockbuster, was introduced for the first time and translated and dubbed into the national language; Xishuangbanna's first cucurbit music album "Beautiful Dai Township" and many other series of audio-visual works.

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