What do Dai people like to do the most?

1.Residence.

The bamboo building inhabited by the Dai people is a kind of dry column building. The bamboo building is approximately square, supported by dozens of large bamboos, and the floor slabs are suspended in the air; The roof is covered with thatched rows, the bamboo wall has a large gap, which is both ventilated and transparent, and the slope on both sides of the roof is very large, in an A-shape. The bamboo building is divided into two floors, the upper floor lives people, the downstairs raises livestock, piles up sundries, and is also a place for rice and weaving.

2.Trappings.

Dai men generally wear collarless shirts with long trousers and white or blue cloth to cover their heads. The costumes of Dai women vary greatly from place to place, but they are basically characterized by hair bundles, tube skirts and short shirts. The tube skirt was long to the feet, the shirt was tight and short, the hem reached only the waist, and the sleeves were long and narrow.

3.Diet.

The Dai people eat rice as the staple food, and the most distinctive feature is bamboo rice. The method of making rice is to put rice in a fresh bamboo tube, add water, and put it on the fire to grill, which tastes fragrant and delicious.

Pu'er tea is a special product of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, which was exported to all parts of China in the Tang Dynasty and exported to Southeast Asia and South Asia in the Qing Dynasty, and has now entered the markets of Japan and Western Europe and other countries and regions, becoming a well-known tea at home and abroad.

The Dai people's favorite thing to do is the Songkran Festival, to splash water, to splash water on others, this is their favorite thing to do, is to represent a feeling of happiness.

It has nothing to do with the nation, after all, people are separate subjects, and the things they like are different.

The Dai people love to dance and sing the most, and Songkran is their favorite!

1. Clothing culture: Dai costumes are elegant and beautiful, not only pay attention to practicality, but also have a strong decorative meaning, which can quite reflect the national personality of loving life and advocating the beauty of neutrality. There is little difference in the clothing of men in different places, and they generally wear collarless plackets or short shirts with large plackets and small sleeves, long trousers, and white cloth, red cloth or blue cloth to cover their heads.

The clothing of Dai women varies from region to region. The "Flower Waist Dai" in Xinping and Yuanjiang is wearing a cardigan and a black skirt, and the skirt is decorated with colorful cloth strips and silver bubbles, embellished with various patterns, and the brilliance is dazzling. All kinds of Dai women's costumes can show the beauty and slenderness of women.

Dai women all love to keep long hair, tied on the top of the head, some with combs or flowers as decoration, some wrap headscarves, some wear high barrel hats, some wear a top top hat hat, each presents its show, each shows its beauty, quite chic.

2. Calendar: The Dai people have more than 1,000 years of old Dai literature and ancient Bayeux scriptures. The Dai people have their own unique calendar.

The difference between the Dai calendar and the Gregorian calendar era is 638 years, that is, the 639th year of the Gregorian calendar is the first year of the Dai calendar. The year of the Dai calendar is a solar year, but the month is a lunar month. The Dai calendar is divided into three seasons, the cold season from January to April, the hot season from May to August, and the rainy season from September to December.

Every three years, September is a leap month, and this calendar is still commonly used in Thailand and Myanmar.

3. Medicine: Dai medicine (Dai nationality), Mongolian medicine (Mongolian), Korean medicine (Korean), Uyghur medicine (Uygur), Tibetan medicine (Tibetan), Zhuang medicine (Zhuang nationality), are the six most famous ethnic medicine systems in China.

4. Literature: The Dai people are very fond of poetry, especially long narrative poems. Narrative poems such as "Zhaoshutun and Nanmanuna" and "E and Sangluo" are the precious cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.

6. Traditional festivals: Songkran Festival is a major traditional festival of the Dai nationality, the time is about ten days after the Qingming Festival of the lunar calendar, which is the first religious festival of the year of Buddhism, and is the New Year of the Dai calendar.

In Dai language, it is called "Shanghan", "Jingbimai" (New Year), and there are also names for "Hounan" (Songkran Festival), Buddha's Birthday, Buddha Bathing Festival or Flower Festival. In the festival, the Dai people should hold entertainment activities such as splashing water, dragon boat racing, and lifting high, hoping to drive away the disasters and diseases of the past, and pray for good weather in the new year, abundant grains, and prosperity of people and animals. Flower Street Festival:

It is also called the "Hot Water Pond Flower Street Festival".

7. The taste is mainly sour and spicy, and I like to eat pickled food.

Addicted to spicy nature, known as "no sour is not a dish", "do not eat sour feet to float" saying, many dishes love to put millet spicy to increase the umami of food, but also like to eat pickled food.

8. Eating and drinking are mainly steamed and fried.

The production of most glutinous foods requires a steaming process, and it is not only steamed once, such as the production of zongba. In the process of wrapping zongba, first of all, soak the glutinous rice in cold water to soften, about 10h, then steam the soaked glutinous rice, pour the glutinous rice into the container after steaming, put in various ingredients, and pick zongzi leaves or plantain to wrap.

After wrapping, it needs to be steamed again to allow the ingredients to absorb the flavor before eating. The common fried delicacies of the Dai nationality include fried meat, puff skin, dried yellow eel, fried glutinous rice and so on.

Characteristics of the Dai people

1. Religious beliefs: Belief in Theravada Buddhism and primitive religions.

2. Costumes: Women traditionally wear short-sleeved shirts and tube skirts, while men wear collarless plackets or short-sleeved shirts with large plackets and small sleeves, long trousers, and felt.

3. Building: dry column building, bamboo building nearly square, two floors above and below, and people live on the upper floor. The house is divided into two halves with a fence, and the inner room is smaller, which is the bedroom, and outsiders are not allowed to enter; The outer room is spacious, and the inner part is a hall for receiving guests.

4. Language: Dai language belongs to the East Asian language family, and Dai language originated from the Brahmi script of ancient India.

Basic Information

Dai (Roman alphabet: dai), also known as Tai (Thai: Roman alphabet: thai), Shan (Roman alphabet: shan), etc., the national language is Dai (Thai), belonging to the Zhuang Dai branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family Zhuang Dong language family.

Dai people regard peacocks, elephants as mascots, folk tales are rich and colorful, Dai people like to live by the water, love clean, often bathe, women love to shampoo, so there is a "water nation" reputation, in the past Dai people generally believed in Theravada Buddhism and primitive religion.

The Dai people are found in China, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and other countries. In 2000, there were 10,000 Dai people in China. They mainly live in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture and Gengma and Menglian Autonomous Counties in Yunnan Province.

The rest are scattered in more than 30 counties of Jingdong, Jinggu, Pu'er, Lancang, Xinping, Yuanjiang and Jinping. The border Dai region borders Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam.

Most of the Dai people have the habit of eating two meals a day, with rice and glutinous rice as the staple food. The staple food of the Dai people in Dehong is japonica rice, and the staple food of the Dai people in Xishuangbanna is glutinous rice. It is usually now 舂 [chōng] to eat, and the folk believe that:

Japonica rice and glutinous rice can only be eaten freshly without losing their original color and fragrance, so they do not eat or rarely eat overnight rice, and are accustomed to eating rice by hand.

Laborers often eat in the wilderness, using banana leaves or rice to serve a ball of glutinous rice, with salt, spicy seeds, sour meat, roast chicken, rumi (Dai language, meaning sauce), moss pine can be eaten. All the accompanying dishes and snacks are mainly sour, such as sour bamboo shoots, sour pea flour, sour meat and wild sour fruits; I like to eat dried sauerkraut, and its preparation method is to dry the greens, then boil them in water, add papaya juice to make the taste sour, and then dry them for storage. Eat with a little boiled vegetables or in soup.

This sauerkraut has a place where the Dai people eat it almost every day. It is said that the reason why the Dai people often eat sour dishes is because they often eat glutinous rice foods that are not easy to digest, and sour foods help digestion.

Daily meat has pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks, do not eat or eat less mutton, the Dai people living in the mainland like to eat dog meat, good at roast chicken, roast chicken, fish, shrimp, crab, snails, moss and other aquatic products.

The use of moss in the dish is a unique flavor dish of the Dai people. The moss eaten by the Dai people is the moss on the rocks in the river water in spring, which is preferably dark green, and is torn into thin slices after being fished out, dried in the sun, and worn with bamboo strips for later use. When cooking, the thick ones are fried in oil, the thin ones are roasted over fire, and after being crispy, they are kneaded into a bowl, and then the boiling oil is poured on them, and then they are stirred with salt, and they are dipped in glutinous rice balls or bacon, which is extremely delicious.

Cooking fish, mostly made into sour fish or grilled into lemongrass carp, in addition to making fish minced grits (that is, with fish roasted and pounded into puree, and coriander and other seasonings), fish jelly, roasted fish, white sauce yellow eel, etc.

When eating crabs, the crabs are generally chopped into crab paste with meat in the shell and eaten in rice, and the Dai people call this crab sauce "crab mantibu".

Bitter gourd is the most abundant and most eaten daily vegetable. In addition to bitter gourd, Xishuangbanna also has a kind of bitter bamboo shoots, so there is also a bitter flavor in the Dai flavor, and the more representative bitter dish is the platter of beef skin cold vegetables cooked with ingredients such as beef bile.

As a person who grew up in Dai Wa Autonomous County, I can tell you that the Dai people love to eat, drink and have fun, especially love to eat barbecue, love to drink, and then love to talk dirty and fight.

The Dai people love to dance and sing the most, and Songkran is their favorite!

I believe in Buddhism and like to worship Buddha.

The Dai people like Songkran and dance.

Dai characteristics:

1. The Dai nationality is widely distributed, and there are about 66 million Dai people in the world. It is mainly distributed in southwest China, northeast India, northwest Vietnam, northwest Cambodia, central and northern Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and other regions and countries.

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

3. Unique Dai costumes. The dress of the Dai women is colorful and beautiful. Dai men generally wear collarless plackets or large plackets and small sleeves, long trousers, white cloth, green cloth or crimson cloth to wrap their heads, and some wear top hats, which looks chic and generous.

4. The Dai people have their own language and writing. The language is divided into three major dialects, Siamese, Lanna, and Tai, as well as several sub-dialects, all of which have a common grammatical structure, and the pronunciation gap between neighboring dialects is very small, and with the increase of spatial distance, simple communication can be carried out in any local dialect.

5. Dai architecture is greatly influenced by the social environment and ideological customs, and the main buildings are different in different regions. 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., mainly including the beautiful and dexterous dry column building represented by the Dai people in Xishuangbanna, the thick and solid flat-roofed earthen palm house represented by the Dai people houses on the first line of Yuanjiang and Honghe, and the elegant and magnificent Buddhist temple buildings.

6. The Buddha Bathing Festival (Dai language "Bolt Orchid"), also known as the "Songkran Festival", originated from a ritual of ancient Indian Brahmanism, and was later absorbed by Buddhism, and was introduced to the Dai area with Buddhism from the end of the 12th century to the beginning of the 13th century. With the deepening of the influence of Buddhism in the Dai area, the Buddha bathing festival has become a custom of the Dai people, which has been handed down for hundreds of years.

The Dai people in China call themselves Dai Xi, Dai Na, Dai Ya, Dai Band, Dai Duan, etc. according to their distribution areas. Xishuangbanna and other places call themselves "Dai Xi", Dehong and other places call themselves "Dai Na", the Dai people in Xinping, Yuanjiang and other places in the middle and upper reaches of the Red River call themselves "Dai Ya", Ruili, Longchuan, Gengma border line call themselves "Dai Band", Lancang Mangjing, Mangna is the Dai Bandage branch. The Han nationality calls Dai Xi as the water Dai, Dai as the dry Dai, and Dai Ya as the flower waist Dai.

The Dai people are dispersed from ancient India, and the evidence is the structure of writing, beliefs; According to the data: there are currently more than 60 million Dai people in the world, and it is estimated that there are more than now. The main ethnic group in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, China, etc., all have Dai people.

Because they don't interact with each other, the language is a little different, but most of them are the same, and they can communicate simply. There are many kinds of Dai people, [I am the Dai people of Mengla [Yingjiang]]. The text is also different, so far I only found Thai, Dehong Dai, Xishuangbanna Dai, and Burmese Dai.

The architectural style is roughly the same, with bamboo building style; Golden. The house and the pagoda are and the elephants, peacocks, and fish are the signatures of the Dai people. Its stupa is the most obvious, and when it comes to Southeast Asia, as long as there is a golden or white stupa, it is the territory of the Dai people.

They like to live by the river or in the mountains.

The Dai people are an ethnic minority with a long history, and their ancestors have lived in southwest China since ancient times.

The major festival of the Dai people is the Dai New Year - Songkran Festival, which takes place in the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar.

The most popular dance of the Dai people is the peacock dance.

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".

The festivals of the Dai people are mostly related to religious activities. The main festivals are related to the door festival, the door opening festival, the Songkran festival, etc. Songkran is a traditional festival of the Dai people.

The Dai language is called "Sangkan Bimai" or "Lenghe Sangkan", which means June New Year. The time is in late June or early July of the Dai calendar (mid-April of the Gregorian calendar).

1. Customs and Habits The Dai nationality, also known as the "Dai Tai Nation" or "Thai Lao Nationality", is one of the ethnic minorities in China and one of the most populous ethnic groups in the world. The Dai people have their own language and script. The language is divided into three major dialects such as Siam, Lanna, and Datai and several sub-dialects, and the Dai Tai people originated from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in China, and then gradually.

The Dai nationality in Yunnan generally refers to the Dai ethnic group, Dai Nation (Dai Tai nation), the self-proclaimed pronunciation between "dǎi" and "tài", is one of the ethnic minorities in China and the main ethnic group in Thailand and Laos. The Dai people originated from the middle and upper reaches of the Lancang River and the Nu River, and established political power in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau many times, and then gradually migrated to the Indochina Peninsula and the South Asian subcontinent due to the squeeze of the Central Plains Dynasty and other ethnic groups, distributed in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, India, Vietnam, China, Cambodia and other countries, with a total population of about 68 million, about 47 million in Thailand, about 5 million in Laos, about 8.5 million in Myanmar, about 4.25 million in India, about 1.33 million in Vietnam, and about 1.23 million in China. About 660,000 in Cambodia. In Chinese historical books, the Dai people have been called "Ailao", "Shan", "Wuman", "Baiman", "Baiyi", "Golden Tooth", "Black Tooth", "Baiyi", "Yiyi", "Wuyi", "Wuyi", etc.; Before the Second World War, under the impetus of the Kingdom of Siam, the international community began to refer to the Dai and Tai distributed in various countries as "Thai"; After the Second World War, each country** named the Dai and Tai distributed in their respective territories, which were still called "Thai" in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and other countries, "Lao" in Laos, "Shan" in Myanmar, "Assam" in India, and "Dai" in China.

Basic InformationChinese name.

Dai abbreviation. Tai, Lao, Shan, Assamese.

Population size. 68 million or so.

Official language. Dai - Thai.

Text Dai - Thai.

It is distributed in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, India, Vietnam, China, Cambodia and other countries.