Achang Songkran Story, when is the Achang Songkran Festival

The Songkran legends of Xishuangbanna and Dehong Dai are all stories of "Seven Princesses Killing Fire Demons", but the Songkran legends of Huaping Dai are unique.

Legend has it that a long time ago, a Dai village living in the depths of the dense forest by the Jinsha River, because of the woods, the villagers were in danger of being engulfed in fire, a Dai man named Li Liang, in order to protect the village, not afraid of danger, rushed out of the fire net, picked up buckets of river water from the Jinsha River, and splashed the mountain fire.

After a day and a night of exertion, the fire was finally extinguished, and the villagers were saved. The villagers brought water to quench Li Liang's thirst, but he couldn't quench his thirst even after drinking ninety-nine waters. Later, Li Liang simply threw himself into the river, turned into a giant dragon, and went down the river.

Some say that he became a big tree.

In order to commemorate Li Liang, the people of the Dai nationality every year on the third day of the third lunar month, each house is cleaned up, sprinkled with green pine leaves, and in the selected riverside or well, with green trees to build a long half-mile-long green shed, sprinkled with thick pine needles under the shed, put a sink full of water on both sides, when the sun is at the top at noon, everyone walks through the shed, sprinkles each other with green pine dipping water, and splashes the auspicious and happy water on each other, expressing the nostalgia for Li Liang and the blessing of the New Year.

This activity has continued to this day and has become an auspicious festival for the Dai people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new year - Songkran Festival.

Every year, the seventh day after the Qingming Festival is the beginning of the Songkran Festival of the Achang people. On this morning, men, women, and children dressed up in festive costumes and gathered flowers, with the women on their heads and the men pinned to their chests. Everyone held flowers in their hands and danced happily on the mountain.

Everyone had danced enough, and then beat the elephant's foot drum back to the village. The women of the village had already prepared the Suzi Baba. When they heard the news from the flower-picking team firing bronze cannons and guns, they immediately selected a dozen girls to greet them outside the village with Su Ziba.

The man who picks the flowers presents flowers to the girls, who invite them to eat baba and then return to the village with songs and dances. Back in the village, they tied the flowers they picked into a flower tower and a sedan chair, and sang and danced around the flower tower and the sedan chair until late at night.

Clause. The second and third days are watering the flowers. Men beat elephant foot drums, reed gongs, cymbals, and carry colorful flags to open the way in front, and the girls line up in the back to carry water into the river to water the flower tower and sedan chair. And spray the "Buddha" in the sedan chair with clean water.

On the fourth day, young men and women beat elephant foot drums to the well and poured water on each other to bless each other. Splashing water is very civilized and polite, after the joint consultation, the man first pours a little water on the woman's shoulder or back collar, and the woman still pours a little bit of salute. Never reluctantly, let alone chasing each other, splashing as you like.

Songkran is a social event for young men and women. After splashing water on each other, they invited them to sing in duet on the hillside. The lyrics are rich in content, heaven and earth, flowers, birds, insects and fish, everything.

On the evening of the fourth day, the young men met to go to the village.

Songkran seems to be from the Dai people.

Achang defeated the Hong clanThe Songkran Festival is the same as the Songkran Festival of the Dai people, but the way of passing is different, and the Achang people have their own unique way of celebrating this traditional festival.

Q: When is the Songkran Festival of the Achang Ethnic Clan?

Answer: The seventh day after the Qingming Festival.

The joyful atmosphere of the Songkran Festival of the Achang people:

On the seventh day after the Qingming Festival, the Achang people put on the festive costumes, picked a few flowers, the women were inserted on their heads, and the men were pinned to their chests, and the flowers and branches were displayed for the festival. The young men of the whole village gathered in front of the Buddhist temple, the front two dragon and phoenix flags opened the way, and a few people jumped on the elephant's feet to inspire, leading the people to the mountain, and set off gunpowder guns as they walked. After going up the mountain, you will sound firecrackers and bow down in front of the cone chestnut tree, and then pick the cone chestnut tree flowers and azaleas at the same time.

After picking the flowers, everyone is elated, waving flower branches, cheering and shaking the earth, and indulging in singing and dancing on the hillside.

Songkran Festival is the same as the local Dai people, the Achang people also celebrate the Songkran Festival, during the Songkran Festival is a good opportunity for young people to choose a mate, when the girl's family often prepares eight bowls of dishes to entertain the young men who come to visit the family. Only when the number of people attending the dinner is the same as that can everyone be seated. The young man should steal the girl's chicken head without others noticing, and if the chicken head is found out by the girl, the person who stole the chicken head must be punished, otherwise the girl will be punished for drinking.

If someone who steals a macro is caught red-handed, not only will he be punished, but he will also be teased by the girl. The drunken young man had to give the money to the girl without the girl noticing, according to the price of the dish. The Songkran Festival of the Achang people has the same date as the Songkran Festival of the Dai people, and it also starts on the seventh day after the Qingming Festival, but the way of passing it is different.

The man sounded the foot drum and cymbal, carried the four-colored flag in front of the road, and the girl lined up in a long line in the back, and went to the river to pick up clear water to splash the flower tower and the sedan chair; And pour the water into the bamboo dragon jet sedan chair to offer the Buddha. On the fourth day, young men and women beat elephant foot drums to the well and poured water on each other to bless each other.

Before splashing water, the male sang: Water the flowers today. The woman agrees and sings:

Pour the point. Male singer: Your clothes are as colorful as flowers, and you are afraid that they will be dirty.

The woman replied: As soon as you pour it, my rotten clothes become good clothes. The men took the initiative to pour it on their shoulders or on the collar at the back of their necks; Then the women poured the same with the men.

The scene is enthusiastic, but it never chases people.