Brief introduction of Dai customs and habits

Dai people are distributed in China, Indian, Vietnamese, Cambodian and other countries.

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.

1, Dai Opera

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.

2. Brocade

Dai brocade is mostly monochrome, with weft, and the pattern organization is very strict. When knitting, Dai women first tie the pattern structure to the "diamond plate" (flower book) with a thin string, and then start to connect the warp with their hands, so that a very beautiful Dai brocade can be woven.

3. Musical instruments

Dai folk musical instruments include Galassa, Guiyu, Guiyu, Duoluo, Elephant Foot Drum, Sui, Paisui and Dai cymbals.

Hulusi, a characteristic musical instrument of Dai nationality, is a reed instrument, which can continuously emit five-degree intervals, with beautiful, soft, mellow and euphemistic tone. In the bamboo forest or Dai bamboo house on a moonlit night, it can give people a subtle and hazy aesthetic feeling, and the vibrato blown out is as elegant and gentle as trembling silk. Shi Guangnan, a famous composer, created the music "Bambusa in the Moonlight", which made Hulusi music popular all over the country.

4. Flower Street 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.

Step 5 get married

The prominent feature of Dai family and marriage in history is hierarchical marriage. There is a strict hierarchical marriage between chiefs, and polygamy is prevalent. Tusi also abused farmers' wives and daughters by virtue of their power. Most farmers have a patriarchal monogamous family, and parents and unmarried children are family members. There are differences in social development in different places, so there are also differences in family and marriage patterns.

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