The customs and people's feelings of Dai nationality

Dai people taboo outsiders to ride horses, drive cattle, carry loads and enter the stockade unkempt; When entering the Dai bamboo house, you should take off your shoes outside the door and walk gently inside. You can't sit above or across the fireplace, enter the owner's inner room, or sit on the threshold; The tripod on the fireplace can't move, and the fire can't be pushed; Don't whistle and cut your nails at home.

The wedding of the Dai people is called "golden debt" by the people, which means wedding banquet. The wedding date can only be set from the "opening day" to the "closing day" every year (after the Dai calendar1February 15 and before the following September 15).

In the meantime, the wedding will be held at the bride's house. At that time, pigs and chickens will be killed (some people even kill cows), and rich banquets will be held to entertain relatives and friends and villagers in this village.

2. Local customs

Dai people regard peacocks and elephants as mascots. People like to live by the water, love to be clean, take a bath frequently, and women like to wash their hair, so they have the reputation of "water nation".

Dai people have distinctive characteristics and love singing and dancing. Dai dance is vivid, exquisite and beautiful, and peacock dance is the most popular one. Graceful dancing and devotion vividly show the graceful posture of the peacock, imitating it vividly, as if bringing people into the realm of poetry.

Dai people can not only sing and dance well, but also create a splendid cultural life. Dai people are mainly named after Dai calendar, Dai medicine and Book of Songs.

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Dai language and calendar

Dai people also have their own language and writing. There are three dialects and several sub-dialects, such as Thai, Lanna and Siam. The pronunciation gap between adjacent dialects is very small, and this gap increases with the expansion of spatial distance, but dialects can be easily communicated anywhere.

There are seven kinds of conjoined characters, Lancang characters, Lanna characters, terminal characters, tense characters, Nage characters and scarlet letters, all of which are written from left to right, with line breaks from top to bottom, but there are differences in form and structure.

Now, due to the formation of a modern national concept, Soho (Thai) is used throughout Thailand, Lancang (Lao) is used throughout Laos, and Dai people in other areas use their own languages. Only a few people still use their own language.

There are two kinds of Dai calendars, namely, the big Dai calendar and the small Dai calendar. Da Dai Calendar is the earliest calendar used by Dai people, which was created by Dai ancestors on the basis of the Han lunar calendar. Today, only the Dai (Thai) people with strong national consciousness still insist on using this calendar.

Therefore, it is called "Da Dai Li". The Xiao Dai calendar is actually a Burmese calendar, which was introduced into the Dai area from Myanmar. Xiao Dai (Tai) people are the first Dai people to accept this calendar, so it is called "Xiao Dai calendar".

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