What festivals do Dai people have?

Dai festivals are related to the Gate Festival, the Opening Day, the Water Splashing Festival, the Flower Street Festival, and the Field Patrol Festival.

1, closing date

The time is on September 15 of the Dai calendar, and after the start of the closed-door festival, it also enters the busy farming season. In order to concentrate on productive labor, people have formulated many rules and regulations. For example, young men and women are forbidden to fall in love and get married; Monks are not allowed to go out casually; People who worship Buddha in the mausoleum can't leave home or spend the night in other homes. No one is allowed to enter the Buddhist house, go to the Buddhist platform, take Buddhist objects, etc. It was not until three months later, that is, the opening day, that people resumed all normal activities before closing the museum.

2. Opening Day

The time is December 15th in the Dai calendar, corresponding to the Closing of the Door Festival (Summer Festival), which originated from the habit of living in rainy season in ancient Indian Buddhism. On this day, young men and women dressed in costumes went to the Buddhist temple to worship Buddha, offering food, flowers, wax strips and coins. After the sacrifice, a grand cultural rally was held to celebrate the end of fasting since the closing day. The main contents include setting off sparks and rising, lighting lanterns, singing and dancing.

3. Water-splashing Festival

The time is in late June or early July of Dai calendar (mid-April of Gregorian calendar). Festivals usually last for three days. Two days ago, it was to send the old and welcome the new. In the early morning of the festival, men, women and children in Dai villages bathed in costumes, went to the Buddhist temple to worship Buddha, and built 4 or 5 towers in the temple. Everyone sat around the tower and listened to the Buddha chanting. After that, the women each picked a handful of water to "welcome the dust" for the Buddha statue. After the ceremony in the Buddhist temple, the young men and women quit and poured water on each other to bless them.

4. Flower Street Festival

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, young men and women gathered in Huajie from surrounding villages, dressed in costumes, and slowly walked through Huajie, competing for each other and having unlimited amorous feelings; Boys are looking for the right person, keep your eyes open. It hit it off, and the two met in the lychee bushes under the phoenix bamboo. The girl untied the rice from her waist and turned over the green banana leaves. I saw that the fragrant glutinous rice was dyed half golden and half bright red by the flower juice, and the banana leaves were filled with rare delicacies such as pork loin, fried eel dried fish and salted duck eggs layer by layer.

5. Field Patrol Dam Festival

On the thirteenth day of the first month, Dai men and women dressed in festive costumes gathered under the big green tree in the village to beat gongs and drums. The singer carries rice wine and sings Spring Festival songs and Four Seasons songs. People dance to the drums. When the golden sun rose in Ran Ran, an elder loudly announced the start of "dam patrol", and people intoxicated with singing and dancing automatically formed a team, led by eight young people with colorful flags. Blowing horns, banging gongs and drums, ringing firecrackers and firing muskets all the way, they marched towards the dam in a mighty way.

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