What are the customs and festivals of Dai people?

1. The family and marriage of the Dai people used to have obvious feudal color, which was manifested in class infidelity. There is a strict hierarchical marriage between chiefs, and polygamy is prevalent. Most farmers have a patriarchal monogamous family, and parents and unmarried children are family members.

2. Young men and women are quite free in social activities before marriage and can fall in love freely. It is very popular for unmarried young people to talk less (find unmarried women to fall in love) on festivals or major occasions. Visiting widows is a popular custom. Through burial, the burial places of nobles and poor people 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.

3. The main food of Dai people is rice. Dehong area eats japonica rice, Xishuangbanna and other places like to eat glutinous rice, which is usually eaten immediately. Dai's famous fragrant bamboo tube rice, also called bamboo tube rice, is made by putting glutinous rice in a fragrant bamboo tube, soaking it in water for 15 minutes and baking it with fire.

4. Since ancient times, Dai people have been a people who pay attention to etiquette. When foreigners arrive at the Dai family, the host will take the initiative to greet them, serve tea and water, and entertain them for dinner. No matter men, women and children, they always smile at their guests, speak softly and never shout, swear or swear. When women walk in front of guests, they should fold their skirts and bow their waists. The guest is downstairs, not from the upstairs where the guest is.

5. Dai festivals:

(1) Songkran Festival.

Songkran Festival is one of the most solemn traditional festivals of Dai people, which means June New Year. It is in the end of June or the beginning of July in the Dai calendar and in the middle of April in the solar calendar. During the Songkran Festival, people will bathe in costumes and go to Buddhist temples to worship Buddha. After that, everyone will splash water on each other and parade in groups to splash water, which is very lively.

(2) Closing Festival and Opening Festival.

September 15 of Dai calendar is the closing day of Dai people, and February 15 of Dai calendar is the opening day of Dai people. During these two festivals, people will go to the Buddhist temple to worship the Buddha, offer food, flowers and coins to the Buddha, and ask the Buddha to bless others. Fireworks will be set off at night.

(3) Flower Street Festival.

Huajie Festival is held on the 13th day of the first lunar month. On this day, young men and women from surrounding villages gathered in Flower Street. Girls lined up to walk through the flower street, competing for beauty, and boys found the right person. If the two sides love each other, have a meal under the phoenix bamboo and talk about love.