What is a day in the life of the Dai people? The living habits of the Dai people

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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 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.

When eating, pound the bamboo tube to make it soft, the bamboo film on the inner wall of the bamboo tube is attached to the rice, cut it in half with a knife, the fragrant bamboo rice will come out of the bamboo, the aroma is strong, the rice is soft and delicate. There is also a unique pineapple purple rice, which has a sweet and delicious taste, and has the effect of nourishing blood and moisturizing the lungs.

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 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. The Dai people in most areas of Dehong live in bungalows, cut bamboo or adobe walls, covered with thatch, and mostly courtyard houses.

Related Notes:

The Dai people have their own national language, which is called Dai, Thai, Lao, etc. due to their distribution, and belongs to the Taiwanese branch of the Dongtai language group (Zhuang-Dong language family) of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

The Dai language is spoken by about 66 million people worldwide. In terms of type, it is the same as Chinese, and it is a monosyllabic tonal language. Due to the long differentiation and cross-border distribution, although there are still a considerable number of cognates within the Dai language, there are great differences in phonetics, vocabulary, grammar and so on, for example, the white Dai language has 22 consonants, while the Thai language has only 21 consonants, and it is difficult to talk to each other.

The living habits of the Dai people are that outsiders ride horses, drive cattle, carry burdens and unkempt hair into the village; When entering the Dai bamboo building, you should take off your shoes outside the door, and walk lightly in the house; You cannot sit above or over the fire, enter the master's inner chamber, or sit on the threshold; You can't move the tripod on the fire, and you can't step on the fire with your feet; taboo whistle and nail clipping at home; It is forbidden to use clothes as pillows or sit on pillows; When drying clothes, the top should be dried at a high place, and the pants and skirts should be dried at a low place; When entering the Buddhist temple, you must take off your shoes, and it is taboo to touch the head of the little monk, the Buddha statue, the spear, the flag and a series of Buddhist holy objects.

The Dai people are a people with a long history, as far back as the first century AD, there are records about the Dai people in Chinese historical books. In the Han Dynasty, it was called "Yunnan Yue" and "Shan", in the Tang and Song dynasties, it was called "Golden Tooth", "Black Tooth" and "White Clothes", and in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, it was called "Baiyi", "Swing Yi" and "Baiyi". After 1949, according to the wishes of the Dai people, it was named "Dai people".

The Dai people have branches such as "Dai Ling", "Dai Ya", "Dai Na", and "Dai Band".

The Dai people have their own written language. The language belongs to the Zhuang Dai branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The two Dai scripts, Xishuangbanna and Dehong, which are now in circulation, are pinyin scripts and evolved from the Pali script in southern India.

The Dai people are not only good at singing and dancing, but also have created a splendid culture, among which the Dai calendar, Dai medicine and narrative poems are the most famous. The Dai calendar year is a solar year, and the month is a lunar month, a year is divided into cold, hot, rainy seasons, every three years of September for the leap month, this calendar is still commonly used in Thailand and Myanmar and other places. Dai medicine, together with Mongolian, Tibetan and Uyghur, has become the most famous of the four major ethnic medicine systems in China.

There are many long narrative poems circulating in the Dai area, such as "Zhaoshutun and Nanmu Nona", "Lan Jia Xihe", "The Story of Aluan" and so on. Dai opera has a history of more than 100 years. Most of the Dai people believe in Theravada Buddhism.

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 transmitted, and the slope on both sides of the roof is very large, showing 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.

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.

1. Diet: The staple food of the Dai people is mainly rice. Raw, fresh, sour, spicy, and wild are the characteristics of Dai family cuisine, which is brewed at home, and only large-leaf tea without spices is drunk.

When drinking, it is slightly fried on the fire until it is burnt, and the brewing and drinking has a slightly mushy taste. To chew betel nut is to be mixed with tobacco and lime, all day long.

2. Architecture: The dry-column building is the characteristic of the Dai people's residence. The building is nearly square, two floors up and down, the upper floor lives people, about 7 feet from the ground, the lower floor has no wall, it is used to raise livestock and pile up things, the top is a double inclined plane, it is covered with the "grass row" that is braided, climb the stairs, there is a corridor, a drying platform, you can dry things, enjoy the coolness.

3. Faith: The Dai people in the frontier generally believe in Theravada.

Buddhism, which belongs to Theravada Buddhism, retains 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 people who believe in Theravada Buddhism.

4. Clothing: women wear short-sleeved shorts and tube skirts; Men wear collarless plackets or small sleeved shirts, long trousers, and felt in cold weather, and mostly wrap their heads with white cloth or green cloth. The custom of tattooing men is very common, not only to show bravery, but also to ward off evil spirits and decorate the body.

5. Festivals: The festivals of the Dai people are mostly related to religious activities, Lord.

To be related to the festival of the door, the door opening festival, the Songkran festival, etc. Among them, the Songkran Festival is a traditional festival of the Dai people.