What festivals and customs do Dai people have?

1, the festival of closing doors, which is called "entering the depression" in Dai language, which means that Buddha enters the temple. Yunnan Dai traditional religious festival, lasting for three months, began in the fifteenth day of the ninth year of the Dai calendar (mid-July of the lunar calendar). According to legend, every year on the ninth day of September in the Dai calendar, the Buddha went to the Western Heaven to give a lecture with his mother, and returned to the world in March.

2. Kaimen Festival, called "Chuva" in Dai language, means that the Buddha left the temple. Traditional religious festivals of Dai people in Yunnan. It is held on1February15th of the Dai calendar every year. Its activities are the same as the closing day. On the day of Dai calendar1February 15, what was put behind the Buddha when entering the cave was taken out and burned, indicating that the Buddha had come out of the cave. /kloc-Monks came out of the cave on 0/6, and 17 held a grand "flower catching" activity.

3. Dragon City, some places are also called "Longchong". "Dragon" in Dai language refers to a tree or a forest, and "Xian" or "Chong" both mean sacrifice, so "Xian" means sacrifice to tree gods. In ancient times, the Dai people planted trees to commemorate the establishment of the village, so the Dai people regarded the trees planted in the village as the protector of the village.

4, called the soul of the valley, also known as the "soul of the valley." Every year in October of the summer calendar, when the grains are put into storage, the Dai people should choose the last dragon day at the end of the month as the soul of the valley. On that day, every family will kill a hen in the field and light a pile of straw or chaff as a sacrifice. After the sacrifice, take a small share of grain home and put it in the warehouse. To show that Gu Soul has gone home, we can open the warehouse later.

5. Duige Festival: On Duanyang Day in May every year, young Dai men and women on both sides of the Red River gather in Nabing Dalongtan, Wuwan Village, Majie Township for Duige Festival. On the day of duet, young men and women from all villages dressed up and held duet competitions between men and women and between villages from sunrise to sunset.

6. The Water-Splashing Festival is the New Year's Festival and the most important festival of the Dai people. It is held in April of the lunar calendar (equivalent to May of the Dai calendar) every year and usually lasts for three to four days. The first day is "Mairi", which is similar to Chinese New Year's Eve. Dai language calls it "ten thousand business letters", which means to send the old.

Extended data:

1, Dai people generally believe in Buddhism in the south, but in some areas Dai people believe in primitive religion and Hinduism. Dai people in Irrawaddy River, Nujiang River-salween River and Lancang River-Mekong River Basin are deeply influenced by Buddhism spread from the south, and generally believe in Buddhism spread from the south, but some relatively closed places still believe in primitive worship religion.

2. The Dai people in the Red River valley and Jinsha River valley are mainly influenced by the Han culture in the Central Plains, but they basically maintain the oldest primitive worship religious beliefs of the Dai people; The Dai people in the Yarlung Zangbo River-Yarlung Zangbo River valley are mainly influenced by Hindu culture, and most of them believe in Hinduism and primitive worship religions.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Dai nationality