Characteristics of the Dai people What are the characteristics of the Dai people

1. The Dai people like to live by the water, love to be clean, often bathe, and women love to shampoo, so they have the reputation of "water nation". 2. Dai costumes are elegant and beautiful, men often wear collarless plackets or small sleeved shirts, long trousers, and white cloth, red cloth or blue cloth to cover the head. Dai women usually like to wear short, narrow-sleeved clothes and tube skirts to fully display their slender and slender figures.

3. The Dai people regard peacocks and elephants.

For mascots, folk tales are colorful.

The Dai people are found in China, India, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

Thailand and other countries. In 2000, there were 10,000 Dai people in China. They mainly live in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province.

and the two autonomous counties of Gengma and Menglian. The rest are scattered in more than 30 counties of Jingdong, Jinggu, Pu'er, Lancang, Xinping, Yuanjiang and Jinping. The border Dai region is bordered by Myanmar and Laos.

Vietnam borders. The staple food of the Dai people is mainly rice. Japonica rice is eaten in the Dehong area.

Xishuangbanna and other places love to eat glutinous rice, usually eaten freshly. The Dai people's famous fragrant bamboo rice, also known as bamboo tube rice, is made by putting glutinous rice in a fragrant bamboo tube, soaking it in water for 15 minutes, and then baking it with fire.

There are many types of Dai dances, and the movements and content mainly simulate the activities of common local animals, and are personified on this basis. The peacock dance is not only the imitation of the beautiful movements of the peacock, but also the beautiful and moving legend of the Dai people. The famous dancer Dao Meilan is famous at home and abroad for performing the peacock dance.

In terms of religious beliefs, the Dai people in the frontier generally believe in Theravada Buddhism, while retaining the primitive ghost worship. The Dai people in the interior worship the "dragon god" and "dragon tree", and the Dai people in Jinggu and other areas believe in Theravada Buddhism. In terms of diet, the staple food of the Dai people is mainly rice, but also insects and flowers, and moss is used in the dish.

Dai cuisine is characterized by raw, fresh, sour, spicy, and wild.

In terms of architecture, the dry-column building is a characteristic of the Dai people's residence. The bamboo buildings of the Dai people in Xishuangbanna and Dehong Ruili are nearly square, with two floors, the upper floor is inhabited, and the lower floor has no wall, which is used to raise livestock and pile up things.

In terms of language, the ethnic languages of the Dai people include Dai, Thai, Lao, etc., and belong to the Taiwanese branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Dai is a pinyin script whose characters are Dai characters.

1. Faith. In terms of religion, the Dai people in the frontier generally believe in Theravada Buddhism, which belongs to Theravada Buddhism, while retaining the remnants of primitive ghost worship. The Dai people in the interior worship the "dragon god" and "dragon tree", and there are religious professionals "Bomeng" and "Shi Niang", who divinate and cure diseases on behalf of others.

In Jinggu and other areas, there are also Qingzhen who believe in Theravada Buddhism.

2. Clothing: Women traditionally wear short-sleeved shorts and tube skirts. Dai Ming Yin men wear collarless plackets or large plackets and small sleeves and short shirts, long trousers, and blankets in cold weather, and mostly use white cloth or green cloth to wrap their heads.

The custom of tattooing men is very common, which not only indicates the courage and reputation of Huai Chong, but also can drive away evil spirits and decorate the body.

3. Diet. The staple food of the Dai people is mainly rice. Japonica rice is eaten in Dehong area, and glutinous rice is eaten in Xishuangbanna and other places, usually eaten freshly.

The famous fragrant bamboo rice of the Dai nationality is also known as the bamboo tube rice, the laborers who go out often eat in the field, use the banana leaves to hold a ball of glutinous rice, with salt, spicy seeds, sour meat, roast chicken, ranmi, moss pine can be eaten. Meat has pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks, do not eat or eat less mutton, good at roast chicken, roast chicken, like to eat fish, shrimp, crab, snails, moss and other aquatic products. Commonly eaten vegetables are cabbage, radish, bamboo shoots and beans.

4. Construction. The bar-style building is a characteristic of the Dai people's residence. The bamboo buildings of the Dai people in Xishuangbanna and Dehong Ruili have a unique style.

The building is nearly square, with two floors up and down, the upper floor is inhabited, about 7 feet from the ground, and the lower floor has no wall, which is used to raise livestock and pile up things, and the top is a double slope, and it is mostly covered with a "grass row" made of braiding. Climb the stairs, there are corridors and drying platforms, where you can dry things and enjoy the coolness.

1. It has a wide distribution area, including southwest China, northeast India, northwest Vietnam, northwest Cambodia, central and northern Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and other regions.

2. Dai women usually like to wear narrow sleeved short clothes and tube skirts to fully display their slender and slender figures. Dai men wear collarless plackets or large plackets and small sleeves, long trousers underneath, and wrap their heads with white, green or crimson cloth.

3. Most of the Dai people have the habit of eating two meals a day, and take rice and glutinous rice as the staple food.

4. The language is divided into three major dialects: Siamese, Lanna, and Tai and several Suizhu dialects, all dialects have a common grammatical structure, and the pronunciation gap between neighboring dialects is very small, so that simple communication can be carried out no matter where the dialect is. There are seven fonts, including Siamese script, Lancang script, Lun Hunger Lanna script, Duan font, Bandage font, which font, and Ahong script, all of which are evolved from the Indian Brahmi alphabet, written from left to right, and line breaks from top to bottom, only in the shape and structure of the difference.

5. The architecture of the Dai nationality is affected by the natural environment such as climate, altitude, topography, building materials, and the social environment such as population, economy, religion, politics, science and technology, ideology, etc., and there are beautiful and dexterous Ganlan buildings represented by the Dai dwellings in Xishuangbanna, and the thick and sturdy flat-roofed soil palm houses represented by the Dai dwellings on the first line of the Yuanjiang River and the Red River, as well as the elegant and magnificent Buddhist temple buildings.

6. The Buddha Bathing Festival (Dai Orchid), also known as the Songkran Festival, originated from a ritual of ancient Indian Brahmanism, and was introduced to the Dai area with Buddhism from the end of the 12th century to the beginning of the 13th century AD.