Dai belongs to what ethnic groups

I. The Dai people, also known as the Tai people and the Shan people, whose language is Dai (Thai), belongs to the Zhuang-Dong branch of the Zhuang-Dong language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

Second, the Dai people regard the peacock, elephant as a mascot, folk stories are colorful, the Dai people like to live by the water, love to clean, often bath, women love to shampoo, so there is a "water of the nation" of the name of the Dai people in the past generally believe in the Southern Upper Throne Buddhism and primitive religions.

The Dai are the main ethnic group in Thailand and Laos, accounting for 40% of the total population of Thailand, and they are also the second largest ethnic group in Myanmar, and a minority group in China, India, Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries. According to the sixth census data in 2010, the Dai people in China **** more than 1.26 million people.

Four, the language is divided into three dialects, namely, Dai Dance language in Xishuangbanna area, Dai Na language in Dehong area and Dai Liang language in Menglian and other places. The Dai people also have their own script, according to the use of different areas, can be divided into Dai Dance, Dai Na Wen, Dai Tuan Wen and Dai Duan Wen four. For a long time, the Dai people have recorded the long history of the Dai people in these scripts, so that a large number of cultural books and folk manuscripts have been handed down to the present day. The folk art of the Dai people is also rich and colorful, especially music and dance.

Fifth, the Dai people's clothing features different men and women.

Men's clothing: Dai men generally do not wear jewelry, and occasionally found on their wrists with a shiny silver bracelet. Setting gold and silver teeth is their preference. Dai men's clothing varies little from place to place, generally more simple and generous, the upper body for the collarless lapel or lapel small-sleeved shirts, under the wide-waisted pants without pockets, more white, green cloth head, some wear tweed bowler hat, when it's cold, like to drape the blanket, often barefoot in all seasons.

Women's clothing: Dai women pay attention to dress, the pursuit of light, beautiful, elegant attire, coordinated clothing colors, extremely outstanding.

Young women will have their long hair coiled on top of their heads, which is a remarkable feature of Dai dress. Dai women wear tight underwear of various colors on their upper bodies, light-colored coat with large lapels or narrow-sleeved shirts on the lapels, and flower-colored tube skirts on their lower bodies with various patterns woven on the skirts; Dai women like to pull their long hair up in buns, and insert combs, hairpins or flowers as decorations on their buns.

The Dai women like to wear jewelry, jewelry usually made of gold and silver, hollow mostly, above the beautifully engraved patterns and motifs Dai women generally grow up with a slim figure, the face of the pure and delicate, look Pavilion, generous manner, and therefore have been known as the "Golden Peacock" of the name.

Clothing materials are mostly made of thin and soft georgette, indeed or brocade silk sewing. Dress style in the absorption of traditional clothing "essence" on the basis of the beautiful, gentle, bright, elegant direction. Further show the peacock feathers of the peacock township like colorful features.

Sixth, food culture: most of the Dai people have the habit of eating two meals a day, with rice and glutinous rice for food.

1, the Dai of Dehong staple round-grained rice, the Dai of Xishuangbanna staple glutinous rice out of the laborers often eat in the field, with banana leaves or the crowd of rice together with a ball of glutinous rice, accompanied by salt, chili, sour meat, roast chicken, mumble (Dai, meaning sauce), moss can be fed on the pine. Bitter melon is the most abundant and most consumed daily vegetable. In addition to bitter melon, Xishuangbanna also has a kind of bitter bamboo shoots, so there is also a bitter flavor in the Dai flavor, the more representative bitter dishes are cooked with cow bile juice and other ingredients of the cow sprinkled leather gazpacho platter.

2. Religious Food Customs The Dai people generally believe in Theravada Buddhism, and many festivals are related to Buddhist activities. During the Buddha Bathing Festival (Water Splashing Festival), there are a lot of snacks of various Dai flavors in addition to wine and dishes. There is also the sticky rice mud deep-fried into hemp crisp, and so on.

3, festival food customs in Xishuangbanna Dai, a house, the whole village to help, the completion of the new house to congratulate the new house, the first upstairs is a young man, carrying a bull's head, singing the blessing of the song, the strong men to carry the box, the married women to hold the bedding, the girls with the meal in turn, and then set up the tripod on the fire, set up the table, set the wine and food, singing congratulations on the new house song, the folks also want to give the hosts to send some The new house is a great place to live, and the people will also give some gifts to the host to symbolize good luck.

4, sour meat Dai traditional flavor dishes, with beef after marinating, and then fried. Characterized by a strong sour flavor, can help digestion. The method is to wash fresh yellow beef with rice water, cut into large pieces into a pot, add fresh pepper leaves, salt, rice mix well, loaded into a tile jar, poured into the white wine compaction, on the lid, with grass ash and mud mud seal the jar mouth, marinated for a month that is to become. Marinated yellow beef cut into julienne, and green garlic seedlings fried.

5, fire roasted fish Dai traditional home cooking flavor dishes, characterized by soft and sweet, original flavor.

6, pickled beef head Dai traditional home-style flavor dishes.

7, sour horn: winter and spring seasons, the sky is high, the wind is fresh, into the Dai village in Xishuangbanna , it is easy to see a local people especially favorite fruit tree - sour horn, it is tall, rough trunk, branches and leaves, branches hung with a string of a dulcimer brown crook-shaped pods.

8, insect food: the Dai region is humid and hot, there are many kinds of insects, insects as raw materials for a variety of flavorful dishes and snacks, is an important part of the Dai food composition. Frequently eaten insects are cicadas, bamboo worms, big spiders, field turtles, ants eggs and so on.

VII. The Dai people mainly live in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Gengma Dai Wa Autonomous Prefecture, Menglian Dai Lahu Wa Autonomous Prefecture, and Lincang area of Yunnan Province, with a few scattered in the neighboring states and counties. The Dai usually prefer to live in large river basins, dam areas and tropical regions.

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