Thousands of people splashed water in Xishuangbanna to celebrate the Dai New Year.

Thousands of people splashed water in Xishuangbanna to celebrate the Dai New Year.

The annual Dai water splashing festival is coming soon. Today, the Songkran Festival is a carnival of the Dai people in Yunnan, similar to the Spring Festival of the Han people. On April 15 and April15, Xishuangbanna Dai Water-splashing Festival is also one of the series activities of Dai calendar 1377 New Year Festival. In Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, tens of thousands of local people put on holiday costumes and splashed water with foreign tourists in Jinghong Square. Songkran Festival is a traditional festival for Dai people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, which has a history of thousands of years. Let me introduce the date and origin of the Dai Water-splashing Festival, as well as the specific content of the Water-splashing Festival.

The Songkran Festival in Xishuangbanna is the biggest festival of Dai people, and it is also the festival with the greatest influence and the largest number of participants among all ethnic groups in Yunnan. Songkran Festival is the New Year of the Dai people, which is equivalent to the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar and generally lasts for 3 to 7 days. What's the name of Dai language on the first day? Mairi？ , similar to Lunar New Year's Eve; What's the name of Dai language the next day? An angry day? (empty day); The third day is the new year, called. Overlord horse? People think this day is the most beautiful and auspicious day.

Songkran Festival, also known as Songkran Festival, falls on April 13 in Gregorian calendar. April 16, with a history of 700 years, is the biggest traditional festival of Dai and De 'ang. On that day, people in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, China and Yunnan got up early in the morning to bathe in Buddhism, and then began to celebrate for several days. During the period, everyone sprinkled purified water on each other, praying to wash away the frustrations of the past year and start a new year. Songkran Festival is the biggest festival of Dai people, and it is also the most influential festival with the largest number of participants in ethnic festivals. Water-splashing Festival is a Dai New Year, which usually lasts for 3 to 7 days. What's the name of Dai language on the first day? Mairi？ , similar to Lunar New Year's Eve; What's the name of Dai language the next day? An angry day? (empty day); The third day is the new year, called. Overlord horse? People think this day is the most beautiful and auspicious day.

Another eye-catching activity of the Songkran Festival is dragon boat rowing, elephant foot drums and peacock dance. At that time, it was the third day of the Dai people's New Year's Day. What was the Dai language called? Maipaya wanma? The atmosphere of the festival reached a climax. People dressed in festive costumes gathered on the banks of Lancang River and Ruili River to watch the dragon boat race.

The activities of the Songkran Festival are rich in content, and others include soaring, cockfighting and peacock dance. People dressed in costumes, beaming, the scene is very lively.

"Sankanbimai" is a A Dai language, which means Dai New Year. Because the Dai people celebrate the New Year, they will hold a unique water splashing activity to bless each other, so other ethnic groups call this festival the Water Splashing Festival. There is a sad folk story about the origin of the Dai New Year (Songkran Festival). It is said that the human climate was originally controlled by a god named Peng Mazha. He divided the year into dry season, rainy season and cold season, and set the farming season for the world, and let a god named Pengmadian Dalaza take charge. Pengmadian Dalaza thought he was miraculous, ignored heaven, did whatever he wanted, walked around in the wind and rain, and the cold and heat were misplaced, which led to the imbalance of rain and drought in the world, regardless of cold and heat, and the seedlings died and people and animals suffered. A young man named Payayu, using four boards as wings, flew to the sky and found Tian Ying Da complaining about human disasters. Paya wants to go to the top floor to worship the tower at night? When he was climbing the Jinsha River, he accidentally bumped into Tianmen, and a Tianmen collapsed, crushing him to death. After Paya's death, Yingda Tira, the king of heaven, began to use a tactic to punish Madian Daraza, who was good at magic. He turned into a handsome young man, pretending to talk to his seven daughters who praised Madian Dalaza. Seven beautiful young girls fell in love with him at the same time. When the girls learned of their father's disaster on earth from the young man's mouth, they both regretted and hated it. In order to save the world from disaster, seven kind girls are determined to put righteousness above family interests. They tried their best to find out the secret of their father's life and death. Cut off a bunch of his hair and take a picture while holding Madian Dara as drunk as a fiddler? Bow racer? (Heartstring Bow), resolutely cut off Madian Dalaza's head, held it in his arms, and took turns from time to time, splashing water on each other to wash away the filth and smell. It is said that this is the origin of people splashing water on each other during the Chinese New Year.

The Dai New Year Festival is mostly in late June, with a few in early July. The traditional holiday time is usually 3 days (sometimes 4 days). The first day is called. Mai? It is equivalent to the Lunar New Year's Eve. Every household should clean up, prepare new year's goods and eat New Year's Eve. The next day is called. Brain? It is an unnecessary day, not counted in the old year or the new year. It is called an empty day, and it is said that this day is the day when Madian Dalachai's head decays. On this day, people usually hold water splashing activities to commemorate the goddess who saved people, and take refuge with holy water to wish each other peace and happiness. The third day? Maipaya wanma? It is said that it was the day when Paya's dead ghost returned to earth with a new calendar. People used to call this day the arrival of the king of heaven. According to ancient customs, this day should be? Rush? Celebrate the New Year by singing, dancing and rowing dragon boats.

The Dai calendar New Year is the most solemn festival for the Dai people. Before the festival comes, every family should sew new clothes and buy new umbrellas to prepare for the festival. Every village should make Goldman Sachs, set off fireworks, decorate dragon boats, conduct rowing training, and young people should rehearse programs and perform song and dance performances. When the festival comes, we should kill pigs and cows to make rice cakes, prepare a rich New Year's Eve dinner and entertain friends and relatives.

The Dai New Year, also known as the Songkran Festival, is celebrated for three to seven days. First day? Netmold？ (meaning death). People think this day is unlucky, so they don't wash their hair, cut their hair or work. Let's catch the pendulum, race the dragon boat and raise the height.

Call the next day? Netbrain? This day is considered unclean. You should take a bath, wash your hair, get a haircut, change clothes, and wash the Buddha statues and pagodas. In the evening, you will hold a parade, set off fireworks and put out lanterns, send away all the diseases, disasters and dirty things in one year and enter the new year cleanly. What do you think of these two days in the Dai calendar? Empty days? Not in the old year, nor in the new year. The third day is the first day of the New Year's Day. Overlord horse? (meaning god, also meaning the beginning of the year). Dai people regard this day as the most beautiful and auspicious day. This is the climax of the Songkran Festival. Do you want to build sand, Buddha, splash water, fly high, lose packets and jump? Irah? Dance, New Year greetings and other activities.

Dai people like to queue up, knock manggongs, play elephant-foot drums and jump in groups at the Songkran Festival? Irah? Dance, go door to door to pay New Year greetings, and wish you a happy New Year and all the best. ? Irah? , is a kind of singing and dancing. With the rich life breath and rich emotions of the Dai people, in? Happy new year? 、? Splash water? 、? Dragon boat? 、? Put it on? Singing was very interesting at that time. For example:? Happy new year? Word:? Panzhihua, Hongyan and Sangkaidai (Happy New Year) have all arrived. Pasadai (Dai), make a scene, glutinous rice wine, sweet as honey, * * * raise a glass to celebrate the New Year, pull it together, pull it together, water and water! ? Spit words:? Lancang river, dawn city, people of all ethnic groups, like to shuttle. Affectionate people, out of sincerity, are like clear water and dew. Silver foam, flying, one by one, wet. Penetrating into the heart is a blessing, and a smiling face plate is a flower. A river, a river, water, water! ? Sailing dragon boat word:? Copper awn ring, paddle lift together, United and powerful. Like a dragon, like a wave, head held high and rowing hard, Pasadai and dragon boat racing, according to tradition, strive for the upper reaches. A river, a river, water, water! ? Praise:? Be promoted, be promoted. Learn science and practice skills. When the fire was lit, black smoke came out like a sharp arrow and rushed in. I wish you a good time and a good harvest in the coming year. A river, a river, water and water.

Songkran Festival in Xishuangbanna

Songkran Festival is held in June and July of Dai calendar. This morning, men, women and children put on holiday costumes and carried clear water. They first went to the Buddhist temple to worship and bathe Buddha, and then began to splash water on each other, wishing each other good luck, happiness and health. People are singing and dancing, the sound of gongs and drums resounds through the sky, and the splash of blessings is everywhere. The scene is really spectacular.

During the Songkran Festival, Dai youth like to play the game of losing packets in the open space in the forest. The flower bag is made of beautiful flower cloth and contains cotton paper, cottonseed and so on. , and decorated with five spikes at four corners and center. It is the token of love, and young men and women get to know each other through losing and receiving packages. After the girl consciously let the young man lose, the young man gave the girl the prepared gift, and both of them left the crowd and went to a secluded place to fall in love.

There will also be a dragon boat race on the Lancang River during the Songkran Festival. Where are the red and green dragon boats? Tang Tang? Harmony of gongs? Hey hey hey. Hey? With shouts and whistles, they broke through the waves and marched bravely, attracting thousands of Chinese and foreign tourists to the Lancang River, adding a lot of tension and joy to the festival.

During the Songkran Festival, hotels and inns in Xishuangbanna were very nervous and were basically booked up one month in advance. Under normal circumstances, the travel agency controls the room two months in advance and temporarily joins a tour group to Xishuangbanna. Housing is still guaranteed, but the price is much more expensive than usual. 100 yuan for hotel standard rooms will rise to 400-500 yuan during the Songkran Festival.

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