Dai people's clothing and customs

Dai clothing, men wear collarless double-breasted or large-breasted small sleeve coat, long-sleeved trousers, blankets when it is cold, and white or green cloth to cover their heads. Women traditionally wear short sleeves and skirts. Dai women in Xishuangbanna wear white or scarlet underwear with small waist, wide hem and various tube skirts.

Women in Dehong, mangshi and other places wear light-colored big-breasted jackets, trousers and small waists before marriage, and change them into double-breasted jackets and black skirts after marriage. The women's clothing of the Dai people in the mainland is basically the same as that of the frontier, but it has regional characteristics, so it is often called "Huayao Dai" and "Dai Xiu Dai" by other ethnic groups.

Second, the custom:

1. In terms of religion, the Dai people in the frontier generally believe in Southern Buddhism, which belongs to Hinayana Buddhism, while retaining the remnants of primitive worship of ghosts and gods. Dai people in mainland China worship "Dragon God" and "Dragon Tree", and religious professionals "Bo Meng" and "Shi Niang" perform divination and cure diseases on behalf of others. In Jinggu and other areas, there are also people who believe in Buddhism in the upper class.

2. The prominent feature of Dai family and marriage in history is class infidelity. There is a strict hierarchical marriage between chiefs, and polygamy is prevalent. Tusi also abused farmers' wives and daughters by virtue of their power. Most farmers have a patriarchal monogamous family, and parents and unmarried children are family members.

3. Dai people are all buried in the soil, but there are obvious class differences. The burial places of the nobles and the poor are strictly separated. After the monks and buddhas died, they were cremated first, and then their ashes were buried in a crock behind the temple.

Extended data

Literary and artistic activities of the Dai people;

1, Dai people have traditional Dai dramas. There used to be a form of musical words in Xishuangbanna, which is the embryonic form of Dai opera. Its plot is relatively simple, mainly showing the disguised struggle between knife hunters and dragons, phoenixes, turtles and cranes. The development and perfection of Dai opera is mainly in Dehong area. Therefore, Dai drama is also called "Dai drama in western Yunnan".

2. There are many kinds of Dai dances. Dai people in Xishuangbanna call dance "fan". Folk dances include: Fan Nuo, Fan Guanghan, Fan Guang, Ha Fan and Zheng Fan. Fanwannuo mainly imitates the movements of birds, including peacock dance, crane dance and turtledove dance.

3. Dai folk musical instruments include Galassa, Gui, Gui, Duoluo, Elephant Foot Drum, Yi, Paiyi and Dai cymbals. Hulusi, a characteristic musical instrument of Dai nationality, is a reed instrument, which can continuously emit five-degree intervals, with beautiful, soft, mellow and euphemistic tone.

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