What special programs or performances are there in Xishuangbanna?

1. The Great Drum Dance of the Jinuo People

The "Great Drum Dance of the Jinuo People" is called "Era Song" in Jino language. "Lapao" is the wizard, and "Situ" is the name of the village. The creation epic says that the earliest female ancestor of Situ Village was named Mili Jide. She was a Bailupao with great magical powers and the creator of the Great Drum. The Great Drum began It's a solo dance. The "Era song" danced now is developed on the basis of "Situ song".

2. Dai Elephant Foot Drum

The origin of Dai Elephant Foot Drum has a legendary story. It is said that in ancient times, the Mengzhe area was a beautiful lake with rippling blue waves. But there are python demons and turtle demons entrenched by the lake. They go around doing evil and devouring humans and animals. Later, a Dai warrior led a group of hunters to the lake, killed the pythons that devoured humans and animals, took the skins and beat them on hollow trees and bamboo tubes for fun, thus forming a drum.

A few years later, two elephant trainers changed the drum into the shape of an elephant's legs. Since then, the Dai people have had elephant foot drums. Among the numerous Dai folk dances, "Elephant Foot Dance" can be said to be relatively representative.

3. Water Splashing Festival of Dai Nationality

Water Splashing Festival of Dai Nationality is also known as "Buddha Bathing Festival" and "Sangkanbimai" (meaning New Year) in Dai language. It is celebrated in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Region and The Dai people in the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Region also call this festival "Shanghan" and "Shangjian". Both names are derived from Sanskrit, meaning turnover, change and transfer, and refer to the beginning of the sun's rotation in the zodiac. Transitioning into the new year.

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Scenic spots

1. Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction , located in Huludao, Menglun Town, Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. It is the largest botanical garden in China with the richest collection of species and the most specialized plant parks. It is also a comprehensive research institution integrating scientific research, species preservation and popular science education. and scenic spots.

2. Xishuangbanna South Medicine Garden

Xishuangbanna South Medicine Garden is a national AA-level tourist attraction located in the center of Jinghong, the capital of Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Xishuangbanna Southern Medicine Garden was founded in 1959. Its predecessor was the Yunnan Branch of the Institute of Medicinal Botany, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. It is located in the center of Jinghong, Yunnan Province, covering an area of ??more than 320 acres. It is mainly engaged in research on the cultivation and promotion of southern medicine, and tropical medicine. The protection of plant resources and the discovery, arrangement and utilization of ethnic folk medicine are important bases for the research on biological resources of southern medicine in my country.

3. Xishuangbanna Wangtianshu Scenic Area

Xishuangbanna Tropical Rainforest National Park·Wangtianshu Scenic Area is located in the National Nature Reserve of Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province. It is 21 degrees north latitude on the earth. The only oasis and the only tropical rainforest in China recognized by the world. ?

In the dense virgin tropical rainforest here, there are densely populated tree species that represent the tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia - the sky tree. On their towering trunks of 70 to 100 meters, there is a 36 The meter-high canopy corridor winds hundreds of meters in the air, passing countless scientists and people from all walks of life around the world who dare to challenge it. This well-protected tropical rainforest was once discovered by the botanist Mr. Cai Xitao and the witness of Britain's Prince Philip. , shocked the world.