What are the characteristics of Dai culture?

1. Dai people are also called Thai and Shan people, and their national language is Dai (Thai), which belongs to Zhuang-Dai branch of Zhuang-Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family.

Secondly, the Dai people regard peacocks and elephants as mascots, and the folk stories are rich and colorful. Dai people like to live by the water, love to clean and bathe frequently, and women like to wash their hair, so they have the reputation of "water nation". In the past, Dai people generally believed in Buddhism, and primitive religion spread to the south.

Third, the Dai nationality is the main ethnic group in Thailand and Laos, accounting for 40% of the total population in Thailand. Dai is also the second largest ethnic group in Myanmar, and is a minority in China, India, Viet Nam and Cambodia. According to the data of the sixth population census in 20 10, the population of Dai people in China exceeds1260,000.

Four, the language is divided into three dialects, namely the Dai language in Xishuangbanna, the Dai language in Dehong and the Dai language in Menglian. Dai people also have their own scripts, which can be divided into four types according to different regions: Dai script, Dai Na, Dai cavity and Dai end. For a long time, the Dai people have recorded the long history of the Dai people with these words, and a large number of cultural classics and folk manuscripts have been handed down to this day. Dai folk art is also rich and colorful, especially music and dance.

Fifth, Dai men and women have different clothing characteristics.

Men's clothing: Dai men generally don't wear ornaments, and occasionally find a shiny silver bracelet on their wrists. Gold teeth and silver teeth are their hobbies. There is little difference in the clothing of Dai men across the country. Generally speaking, they are simple and generous. The coat is a collarless double-breasted or large-breasted small sleeve coat with a wide waist and trousers without pockets. Most of them wear white and cyan cloth heads, some people wear wool hats, they like to wear blankets in cold weather, and they often go barefoot all the year round.

Women's clothing: Dai women pay attention to clothing, pursue light, beautiful and elegant clothing, and coordinate the color of clothing, which is extremely excellent.

It is a remarkable feature of Dai costumes that young women put long hair on their heads. Dai women wear all kinds of tight underwear, light-colored shirts with big breasts or narrow sleeves, and colorful tubular skirts with various patterns. Dai women like to tie their long hair in a bun and decorate it diagonally with combs, hairpins or flowers.

Dai women like to wear jewelry. Jewelry is usually made of gold and silver, mostly hollow and engraved with exquisite patterns and patterns. Dai women are generally slim, pure and beautiful, and graceful, so they are called "golden peacocks".

Most fabrics are made of thin and soft georgette, polyester or brocade. Clothing style is developing towards elegance, softness, brightness and elegance on the basis of absorbing the "essence" of traditional clothing. It further shows the colorful features of peacock feathers in the hometown of peacocks.

6. Food culture: Most Dai people have the habit of skipping two meals and eating rice and glutinous rice.

1, Dehong Dai's staple food is japonica rice, while Xishuangbanna Dai's staple food is glutinous rice. Workers often dine outdoors. They can eat banana leaves or rice, as well as salt, peppers, sour meat, roast chicken, Mi Nan (which means sauce in Dai) and pine. Bitter gourd is a daily vegetable with the highest yield and consumption. In addition to bitter gourd, there is also a bitter bamboo shoot in Xishuangbanna, so there is also a bitter taste in Dai flavor. The representative bitter dish is a mixture of beef skin and cold dishes cooked with ingredients such as ox gall.

2. Religious Eating Habits The Dai people generally believe in Southern Buddhism, and many festivals are related to Buddhist activities. During the Water-splashing Festival, besides wine and vegetables, there are many snacks with Dai flavor. There is also a crispy rice made of fried glutinous rice paste.

3. Every household should help build a house for the festivals and eating customs of Dai people in Xishuangbanna. It is necessary to congratulate the new house when it is completed. The young man went upstairs first, carrying a cow's head and singing a song of blessing. Mature men carry boxes, married women carry bedding, and girls carry food in turn. Then they set up a tripod on the fireplace, put it on the table, set out wine to prepare dishes, and sang congratulations on their new home. The villagers will also send some auspicious gifts to their owners.

4. Dai-style pickled cabbage is fried after pickled with beef. It is characterized by a strong sour taste and can help digestion. The method is to clean fresh beef with rice washing water, cut it into large pieces, put it in a pot, add fresh pepper leaves, salt and rice, mix well, put it in a crock, pour white wine for compaction, cover it, seal the jar mouth with plant ash and mud, and marinate for one month. Shred the marinated beef and stir-fry it with the green garlic sprouts.

5. Boiled fish is a traditional home-cooked dish of Dai people, which is soft, sweet and original.

6. Traditional Dai home-cooked dishes pickled in cow's head.

7. sour angle: the sky is high and the clouds are light in winter and spring, and the wind is refreshing. Walking into the Dai village in Xishuangbanna, it is easy to see a kind of fruit tree that local people especially like-Zizyphus jujuba. Its tree is tall, its trunk is rough, its branches are sparse, and a string of brown hooked pods are hung on the branches.

8. Insect food: The Dai area is humid and hot, and there are many kinds of insects. It is an important part of Dai food to make various flavor dishes and snacks with insects as raw materials. Insects that are often eaten are cicadas, bamboo worms, Okubo, terrapin, ant eggs and so on.

7. Dai people mainly live in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture, Gengma Dai and Wa Autonomous County, Menglian Dai, Lahu and Wa Autonomous County and Lincang area, with a few scattered in other nearby counties. Dai people usually like to live in big river basins, dam areas and tropical areas.

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