Closing day, opening day
The closing day, called "Howasa" in Dai language, is fixed on September 15 in Dai calendar (mid-July in Gregorian calendar). Kaimen Festival, called "Onvasa" in Dai language, is fixed on the day of 65438+February 65438+May (Gregorian calendar 65438+1mid-October).
In these two festivals, men, women and children from all villages will hold a grand Buddha worship activity in the Buddhist temple, offering food, flowers and coins to the Buddha, chanting scriptures and dripping water in front of the Buddha, and praying for the Buddha's blessing. The three months from the closing day to the opening day is the time of "closing the door" and the most frequent period of religious activities in a year.
Worship Buddha and listen to Buddha for 7 days. In the evening, there will be fireworks, firecrackers, Gao Sheng (Kongming Lantern) and "catching up". During the closed period, young men and women can fall in love, but they can't get married and go out; You can get married and go out after opening the door.
Huajie Festival
The biggest festival of Huayao Dai is the "Flower Street Festival" on the 13th day of the first lunar month. On this day, thousands of young men and women gathered in Flower Street from the surrounding villages. The flower street of the festival is very lively, and little girls (girls) dressed in ancient costumes line up and walk slowly through the flower street, competing for each other and having unlimited amorous feelings; Boys are looking for the right person, keep your eyes open.
It hit it off, and the two met in the lychee bushes under the phoenix bamboo. The girl untied the rice from her waist and turned over the green banana leaves. I saw that the fragrant glutinous rice was dyed half golden and half bright red by the flower juice, and the banana leaves were filled with rare delicacies such as pork loin, fried eel dried fish and salted duck eggs layer by layer. Two people eat together and talk about sweet words. After dinner, the big proposal is settled.
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Dai people regard peacocks and elephants as mascots, and folk stories are rich and colorful. Dai people like to live by the water, love cleanliness, often take a bath, and women like to wash their hair, so they have the reputation of "water nation". In the past, Dai people generally believed in Buddhism, and primitive religion spread to the south.
Dai is the main ethnic group in Thailand and Laos, accounting for 40% of the total population in Thailand. Dai is the second largest ethnic group in Myanmar and a minority in China, India, Viet Nam and Cambodia. According to the data of the sixth census in 20 10, there are more than 260,000 Dai people in China.
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". Produced in Zhanxi and Ganya of Yingjiang River in Dehong at the beginning of19th century.
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.
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Baidu encyclopedia-Dai nationality