The Songkran Festival of Dai folk customs and folk customs, help, hurry

1. The Dai Songkran Festival is a traditional festival popular in the Dai people's settlement in Yunnan Province and one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

2. Songkran Festival is also known as "Buddha Bathing Festival", Dai language is called "Sang Kanbi Mai" (meaning New Year), Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Region and Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Region Dai people also call this festival "Shanghan" and "Shangjian", both names are derived from Sanskrit, meaning turnover, change and transfer, referring to the sun has been in the zodiac for a week to begin the transition to the new year. The Achang, De'ang, Brown, Wa and other ethnic groups celebrate this festival. Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and other countries also celebrate Songkran.

The Songkran Festival is generally held in the middle of June of the Dai calendar (that is, about ten days before and after the Qingming Festival of the lunar calendar), and is one of the grand traditional festivals in Xishuangbanna. Its content includes folk activities, art performances, economic and trade exchanges and other categories, and specific festival activities include splashing water, catching up with the pendulum, dragon boat racing, bathing Buddha, chanting, Zhangha singing, peacock dance, white elephant dance performance, etc.

1. The Songkran Festival is the most quiet and grand festival of the Dai nationality, and it is also the festival with the largest influence and the largest number of participants among the ethnic minority festivals in Yunnan. The Dai Songkran Festival lasts for three to four days. The first day is Mai Day, similar to Chinese New Year's Eve, and the Dai language is called Wanduo Shanghan, which means to send the old.

At this time, people have to tidy up their houses, clean up, and prepare for the New Year's meal and various activities during the festival. The next day is called the day of annoyance, which means empty, and according to custom, this day does not belong to the previous year or the next year, so it is an empty day; The third day is New Year's Day, called "Maipaya Evening Ma", and people are accustomed to regard this day as "the coming of the king of days"; The fourth day of regret is the New Year, called "Horn Net Ma", which is the first day of the year, and people regard this day as the most beautiful and auspicious day.

2. In the early morning of the festival, the men, women and children of the Dai nationality put on festive costumes, carried clear water, first went to the Buddhist temple to bathe the Buddha, and then began to splash water on each other, wishing each other auspiciousness, happiness and health. People danced and shouted "Water!" Water!

Water! The sound of drums and gongs resounded in the sky, and the splashes of blessing splashed everywhere, and the scene was really spectacular. Every Songkran Festival, the Dai people go to the nearby mountains to collect some flowers and leaves, on the day of the festival, the Dai men, women and children put on the festival costumes, carry the clear water, first go to the Buddhist temple to bathe the Buddha, and then take the collected flowers and leaves to dip in water, begin to splash water on each other, you splash me, I splash you, a water splash blooms in the air, it symbolizes auspiciousness, happiness, health, bright and crystal water droplets in the hands of young people, but also symbolizes sweet love.

Everyone splashed and splashed each other, and everywhere was the baptism of water, the blessing of water, and the song of water. Strings of water splashes and laughter, Songkran has become a sea of joy. The content of the Songkran Festival, in addition to splashing water, also has the customs of rushing to swing, dragon boat racing, bathing Buddha, chanting, dancing peacock dance, losing bags, putting high lifting, and putting Kong Ming lanterns.