Bai Yi also wrote "Bai Yi", "Bai Yi" and "Bo Yi", and some of them were mistaken for "Bo Yi" and confused with Bai people. Since the Qing Dynasty, it has been called "dumping foreigners". In addition, Vietnamese historical records call the Dai people "in prison"; Burmese historical records call the Dai nationality "Shan nationality"; Indian historical records call the Dai people "imams".
After World War II, governments of various countries named the Dai people in their respective territories. Thailand, Viet Nam and Cambodia called Thailand, Laos called Laos, Myanmar called Shan State, China called Dai people, and India called Ahong, but they all called themselves Thais.
According to their distribution areas, the Dai people in China call themselves Dai Lu, Dai Na, Dai Ya, Dai Zhan and Dai Duan. Xishuangbanna and other places call themselves "Dai Lu", Dehong and other places call themselves "Dai Na", Xinping and Yuanjiang in the middle and upper reaches of the Red River call themselves "Dai Ya", Ruili, Longchuan and Gengma border areas call themselves "Dai tension", and Mangjing and Mangna in Lancang are branches of Dai tension. Han people call Dai Lu Shui Dai, Dai Na Handai and Dai Ya Huayaodai.
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Calligraphy:
Dai calligraphy is a line modeling art with Dai fonts as its apparent content and the initial charcoal pen, white clay pen and later "Liezhan" (iron cone pen), fern pen, pen and brush pen as its performance tools.
Traditional Dai calligraphy has six styles, such as "warm and beautiful", "diligent and elegant", "elegant and elegant", "Duoluo Valley", "hemp ring with multiple folds" and "south curtain with multiple folds", which means "six methods" or "six styles".
After the founding of New China, many excellent Dai languages with different schools and styles have appeared in China, such as Zigzag, Cat's Eye Closed, Fang, Overlap, Chicken's Feet, Golden Tengrao and Jinhua Textile.
Paper cutting:
Paper-cutting in Dai areas of Yunnan is usually used to embroider samples and decorate lintels, lanterns, banners and offerings. Themes are mostly geometric patterns and flowers, birds and animals.
Patterns are mostly characterized by shading to show the main flower in the center. The knife method is strong, the composition is full and complete, and the local characteristics are distinct.
Most of Dai women's paper-cuts are about animals and plants. His works are mostly White Elephant, Proud, Roaring in the Woods, Golden Rooster Breaking Dawn, White Crane with Bright Wings, etc. And paper-cutting with lotus, camellia, chrysanthemum and other flowers as the theme.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Dai nationality