What kind of nation is the Dai nationality?

Dai, also known as "Dai Tai people" or "Dai old people", is one of the ethnic minorities in China and one of the most populous ethnic groups in the world.

Dai people's beliefs:

In terms of religion, the Dai people in the frontier generally believe in Southern Buddhism, belonging to Hinayana Buddhism, while retaining the remnants of primitive worship of ghosts and gods. Dai people in mainland China worship "Dragon God" and "Dragon Tree", and religious professionals "Bo Meng" and "Shi Niang" perform divination and cure diseases on behalf of others. In Jinggu and other areas, there are also people who believe in Buddhism in the upper class.

Dai clothes

woman

Dai women traditionally wear short sleeves and skirts, but every place is slightly different.

Dai women in Xishuangbanna wear white or scarlet underwear with small waist, wide hem and various tube skirts.

Women in Dehong, mangshi and other places wear light-colored big-breasted jackets, trousers and small waists before marriage, and change them into double-breasted jackets and black skirts after marriage.

The women's clothing of the Dai people in the mainland is basically the same as that of the frontier, but it has regional characteristics, so it is often called "Huayao Dai" and "Dai Xiu Dai" by other ethnic groups.

male

Dai men wear collarless double-breasted or large-breasted small sleeve jackets, long-sleeved trousers and blankets in cold weather, and Dai men usually cover their heads with white or green cloth. The custom of male tattoos is very common, which not only shows courage, but also can ward off evil spirits, protect the body and decorate the body.

Boys will be asked to get tattoos when they are about 1 1 years old. Tattoos are mostly tigers, leopards, lions, dragons, snakes and eagles. Most parts are limbs, chest, abdomen and back. Generally, it takes two days to write a leg and seven to eight days to write a whole body.

prescribe a diet

The Dai people's staple food is rice. Dehong area eats japonica rice, Xishuangbanna and other places like to eat glutinous rice, which is usually eaten immediately.

Dai people also eat insects. There are many kinds of insects in the hot and humid areas of Dai nationality. Insects that are often eaten are cicadas, bamboo worms, Okubo, soft-shelled turtles and ant eggs.

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The origin of Dai nationality:

Southward theory

According to this view, the Dai nationality originated in the northern part of China, such as southern Sichuan and Altai Mountain, and continued to move southward under the expulsion of other ethnic groups. During the migration, the Dai people once stayed in Yunnan and established Nanzhao Kingdom. After Kublai Khan made Dali his capital, the Dai people were forced to move southward to southern Yunnan and Southeast Asia. With the deepening of research, this view has been abandoned by more and more scholars.

Native theory

Since ancient times, the Dai people have lived in the arc zone from the west of the Red River to the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River and Manipo, India. Its formation is the natural result of economic and cultural development, not the result of immigration. However, there are different opinions about what kind of aborigines Dai people evolved from. For example, Huang Huikun thinks that the ancestors of the Dai nationality are Guyue people, and Chen thinks that the Dai nationality evolved from mountain people.

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