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The Dai people like to live by the water, love to clean, often bathe, women love to wash their hair, so it has the reputation of "water nation".
They worshipped peacocks and elephants as mascots and generally believed in Theravada Buddhism and primitive religions.
The Dai are distributed in China, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and other countries.
In China, it is mainly concentrated in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture and Two Autonomous Counties of Gengma and Menglian in Yunnan Province.
The rest are scattered in more than 30 counties of Jingdong, Jinggu, Puer, Lancang, Xinping, Yuanjiang and Jinping.
Ethnic costumes
Dai costumes are elegant and beautiful, not only pay attention to practicality, but also have a strong decorative meaning, which can reflect the national personality of loving life and advocating the beauty of neutrality.
Men's clothing varies little from place to place, and they often wear collarless plackets or large-sleeved short shirts, under which long tube pants are wrapped in white, red or blue cloth.
Dai women traditionally wear short, narrow-sleeved coats and tube skirts. Pay attention to clothing, the pursuit of light, beautiful, elegant clothing, coordinated clothing colors, excellent.
Specialty diets
Dai people's staple food is mainly rice, Dehong area eat japonica rice, Xishuangbanna and other places love to eat glutinous rice, meat has pigs, cattle, chicken, duck, do not eat or eat less lamb, good at roast chicken, roast chicken, like to eat fish, shrimp, crab, snails, moss and other aquatic products.
Commonly eaten vegetables include cabbage, radishes, bamboo shoots and beans.
The famous fragrant bamboo rice of the Dai people, also known as bamboo rice, is made by placing glutinous rice in a fragrant bamboo tube, soaking it in water for 15 minutes, and baking it over a fire.
When eating, beat the bamboo tube to make it soft, the bamboo film on the inner wall of the bamboo tube is attached to the rice, cut in half with a knife, and the fragrant bamboo rice will come out of the bamboo, the aroma is strong, and the rice is soft and delicate.
Religious holidays
Songkran Festival, also known as the Bath Buddha Festival, as the most important and grand festival of the Dai people, is not only the carnival of people's excitement,
It is also full of ritual, bathing buddhas, throwing bags, swinging, putting on high lifts, putting up holes and lanterns, praying for blessings, and a series of ritualistic activities bloom in the splash of water.
The more water is splashed on Songkran, symbolizing who is happiest and expressing the meaning that the Dai people want each other to be safe and happy.
Dai pagoda
Dai architecture has the highest achievements in Buddhist temples and pagodas. Theravada Buddhist temples are called Burmese temples, and almost every Dai village has at least one.
Unlike residential buildings, Dai Buddhist temple buildings have a large number of decorations in roofs, walls, beams, columns and other places, and the decorative materials are extremely diverse, with tile decoration, iron decoration, and glass decoration.
There are also decorations with various paints. Decoration methods include component decoration and painted decoration.
Dai bamboo building
The Dai family bamboo building is a balustrade-style building with a beautiful shape, resembling a large tent on a high pillar. Bamboo buildings are made of various bamboo (or wood) through the bucket, pulling each other together, extremely strong.
The building is surrounded by wooden planks or bamboo hedges, and the hall is divided into two halves with wooden planks, with the bedroom on the inside and the living room on the outside.
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