The first day of the festival is to send the old. Early in the morning, pious Buddhists bathe and change clothes, in the Buddhist temple courtyard with the beach into a pagoda, sitting around the pagoda to listen to the monks chanting sermons, praying for a good year, and then the whole village cottage of the masses each pick a quart of water, splashed on the Buddha statue, for the Buddha to wash the dust. After bathing Buddha, people from all sides of the gong, playing the elephant foot drum to the street, overflowing with festive laughter. Accompanied by "water, water, water" (Dai good meaning) cheers, the pot of holy water to each other, in order to express good wishes, can eliminate disasters and diseases, until everyone is wet. During the Water Festival, but also race dragon boats, jumping peacock dance, young men and women to take advantage of the festival "throw package" love. At night, the square set off colorful fireworks, everyone around a roaring bonfire, singing and dancing, and lively all night. Now, there is also an increase in cultural performances, market trade and other new content.
Customs of the Dai Water Festival Water Festival
"Water Festival" is a traditional festival of the Dai people to send the old to welcome the new, time in the middle of the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar. The main activities during the festival are worshiping ancestors, piling up sand, splashing water, throwing sandbags, racing dragon boats, setting off fireworks and singing, dancing and revelry and other programs. The Water Splashing Festival held in the sixth month of the Dai calendar every year is the grandest festival, which is called "Sangkan Bimai" in Dai language. The festival is called "Sangkan Bimai" in Dai language. At that time, the Buddha should be fine, and a feast is held to invite monks and friends and relatives to congratulate each other by splashing water. Now, because the water splashing activity is the main content of the Dai New Year festivities, this activity is loved by the people of all ethnic groups.
The Dai people all believe in Buddhism, but the original religious activities are also more common, such as sacrifices to the gods of the village, the village ghosts, agricultural rituals, hunting rituals, spirit worship, etc.
The Dai people also believe in Buddhism, but the original religious activities are also more common.
The origin of the Songkran Festival
The Songkran Festival is the Dai's New Year's festival, but also the most important festival of the Dai people, held in the fourth month of the lunar calendar every year (equivalent to the Dai calendar in May), generally for a period of three to four days. The first day is "Mai Day", which is similar to the New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar, and is called "Wan Duoshanghan" in Dai language, meaning sending the old. At this time, people want to tidy up the house, clean up, prepare the annual meal and various activities during the festival. The next day is called "annoyed day", "annoyed" means "empty", according to the custom of this day is neither the previous year, also does not belong to the year after the year, so it is "empty day "; the third day called" MaiPaYa late horse ", it is said that this is the Paya late spirit with the new calendar to return to earth day, people used to regard this day as the day of the king comes, is the new year's day of the Dai calendar. Water Festival
The Water Festival originated in India, is an ancient Brahmin ritual, later absorbed by Buddhism, about the end of the twelfth century to the beginning of the thirteenth century in the twelfth century A.D. through the Myanmar with Buddhism into the Dai region of Yunnan Province, China. With the deepening influence of Buddhism in the Dai area, the Water Splashing Festival has become a national custom that has been passed down for hundreds of years. In the process of passing down the festival, the Dai people gradually combined it with their own national myths and legends, which gave the festival a more magical meaning and national color.
To this day, there is a very interesting myth circulating among the Dai people: in ancient times, there was a devil in the Dai area who did a lot of evil and gave out *** indiscriminately, which made the crops not harvested, and made the people feel uneasy, and the people did not have enough to live on. People hated him, but they could not deal with him even though they had thought of many ways to deal with him. Later, the devil took seven women as his wives. Seeing the miserable lives of their fellow countrymen, the girls were determined to find a way to destroy the demon. The seven clever girls discovered the devil's Achilles' heel in his words, that is, only the devil's own hair can kill him. One night, when the demon was drunk and fell into a deep sleep, the girls bravely pulled a hair from his head and tied it tightly around his neck. Sure enough, the demon's head immediately fell off. But as soon as the head hit the ground, the ground burst into flames. Seeing that it would become a disaster, the girls immediately picked up the head, and the fire was extinguished, and the demon disappeared with it. In order to prevent the fire from rekindling and plaguing the people, the sisters decided to take turns holding the demon's head, changing it every year. At the time of the annual change, people gave the girl who held the head a rinse in order to wash away the blood stains and the exhaustion of adulthood. Later, the Dai people to commemorate the seven resourceful and brave women, on this day every year to splash each other with water, since the formation of the Dai people's grand festival of the old and welcome the new - Water Festival.
People who have been to Yunnan know the famous Dai Water Festival, but the legend of the origin of the Water Festival has two kinds. Xishuangbanna, Dehong legend is by the "seven princesses to kill the fire demon" story, while the Dai splash water festival in Lijiang Huaping area of the story is unique. The Dai people here are the northernmost Dai tribe in China and even in Asia. Their story is like this: Legend has it that a long time ago, the Jinsha River side of a gathering in the deep forest of the Dai village, because of the forest fire, the villagers in danger of being engulfed in flames, a Dai man named Li Liang, in order to protect the village, not afraid of the dangers of rushing out of the fire net, picking from the Jinsha River buckets of water, sprinkle the fire, after a day and a night of exertion, the fire was finally extinguished by splashing the villagers to be rescued, Li Liang! Because of the exhaustion of sweat flow dry, thirst on the hill. The villagers called fresh water to Li Liang to quench their thirst, but after drinking ninety-nine picks of water could not quench their thirst, and then Li Liang jumped headlong into the river, turned into a giant dragon, and went down the river. Some people said that he turned into a big tree. Dai people in order to commemorate Li Liang, every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, each house cleaned up, sprinkled with pine leaves, and in the selected riverside or wells, with the green tree set up a half-mile-long green shed, under the shed sprinkled with thick pine needles, both sides of the water tank full of water, the sun when the top of the midday sun, the crowd walked under the shed with each other with a pine branch dipped in the water sprinkled body, expressed the nostalgia and the blessing of the New Year to Li Liang. This activity continues to this day, become the Dai people quit ...... >>
What are the customs of the Dai people during the Water Festival? The Water Splashing Festival is a comprehensive stage to show the traditional culture of Dai water culture, music and dance culture, food culture, dress culture and folk veneration, etc. It is an important window to study the history of the Dai people, and has high academic value.
Customs of the Water Festival:
Water Festival "Buddha"
In the "Day of Mai", early in the morning, people have to pick up flowers and leaves to the Buddhist temple offerings, and bring water to the water Festival "Buddha"! "- for the Buddha to wash the dust. It is also to pray to the gods to bless people with good health in the new year. After the "Bathing Buddha", the collective splashing of water on each other begins. A group of young men and women with a variety of containers of water, pouring out of the streets and alleys, chasing and playing, everyone will splash. "Water flowers, Daijia crazy", "splash wet all over, happy life"!
Folding the Water Festival "throw bags"
The Water Festival is also a wonderful time for unmarried young men and women to find love and cultivate happiness. During the festival, Dai unmarried young men and women like to do "throw bag" game. The flower bag crafted with flower cloth in the girl's hand is a token of love. Throw package day, the girls dress up to the best of things, and then hit the flower umbrella, carrying a small flower package to the "package field", and the young men on both sides, thirty to forty paces apart, began to each other to throw the flower package.
折叠泼水节 "赛龙舟 "Sai Dragon Boat is one of the most exciting projects of the Water Festival, often held in the Water Festival Mai Paya evening horse (the third day). On that day, people dressed in festive costumes gather on the banks of the Lancang River and the Ruili River to watch the dragon boat race.
Folding elephant foot dance and peacock dance
Dai people can sing and dance, water festival naturally less dance. Large-scale dance main peacock dance to be arranged on the third day of the Water Splashing Festival, such as elephant foot dance and peacock dance. From seven or eight years old dolls to seventy or eighty years old, all dressed in festive costumes, gathered in the village square, to participate in the collective dance. The Elephant's Foot Dance is enthusiastic, steady and elegant. The dancers form a circle and dance with manganese gongs and elephant foot drums, cheering "my, my" or "water, water" while dancing! Peacock dance is beautiful, elegant, lyrical, is the soul of the Dai dance, dance to the peacock's posture as the basis for the recreation of the interest and beauty, focusing on the cohesion of the Dai sons and daughters of the aesthetic purpose. There are also a lot of dancers to show off their own improvisation, some sing while dancing, some even dance while drinking, such as intoxicated, wildly unrestrained, jumping for several days and nights also do not know how to get tired.
Folding the release of the high rise and lanterns
The release of the high rise is the Water Festival is another reserved program. Gao Sheng is a kind of fireworks made by Dai people, the bottom of the bamboo pole is filled with gunpowder and other ingredients, placed on the bamboo frame, connected to the fuse, often burned at night. Release high rise, ignite the fuse so that the gunpowder combustion will produce a strong thrust, will be pushed into the sky like a rocket bamboo.
The Dai Water Festival Customs About the Dai Water Festival: The Water Festival is also known as the "Dai Calendar" of the New Year, is the most important festival of the Dai people in a year. It is more important than the Open Door Festival and the Closed Door Festival. Once the festival arrives, every family prepares good wine and food (delicious Dai flavor and self-roasted local wine) and grandly invites friends and villagers to spend the festival with them, and half of the meal will be greeted and entertained by splashing water at the same time! (My family every year to prepare a ten table twenty table) (do not worry about the cold, because the climate here is hot, splashing a little water is also very cool) After the meal, men, women and children of the Walled City, are about to go outside to the street, the square splashing, some directly on the family's farm vehicles, trucks, etc. carrying water and people splashing all over the street! Be splashed when a kind of happiness, because he (she) splashed you, said in the blessing you! Should be happy! (You can search on Baidu image (Menglian Water Festival) to know the situation here, we here Water Festival is also connected to the God Fish Festival, catching the God Fish reward - also lively)
What are the customs of the Water Festival Dai Customs - Water Festival
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The Dai people have a long history, and the Dai language belongs to the Dai language branch of the Zhuang Dai language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. All the people believe in Buddhism, but primitive religious activities are also more common, such as sacrifices to the gods of the village, the village ghosts, agricultural sacrifices, hunting sacrifices, spirit worship.
The Dai Water Festival
A The origin of the Water Festival
The Water Festival is the Dai New Year's festival, but also the most important festival of the Dai people, held every year in the fourth month of the lunar calendar (equivalent to the Dai calendar in May), generally for a period of three to four days. The first day is "Mai Day", which is similar to the New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar, and is called "Wan Duoshanghan" in Dai language, meaning to send the old. At this time, people want to tidy up the house, clean up, prepare the annual meal and various activities during the festival. The next day is called "annoyed day", "annoyed" means "empty", according to the custom of this day is neither the previous year, also does not belong to the year after the year, so it is "empty day "; the third day called" MaiPaYa late horse ", it is said that this is the Paya late spirit with the new calendar return to earth day, people used to regard this day as the day of the king comes, is the new year's day of the Dai calendar.
The Water Festival originated in India, is an ancient Brahmin ritual, later absorbed by Buddhism, about the end of the twelfth century to the beginning of the thirteenth century A.D. through Burma with Buddhism into the Dai region of Yunnan Province, China. With the deepening influence of Buddhism in the Dai area, the Water Splashing Festival has become a national custom that has been passed down for hundreds of years. In the process of passing down the festival, the Dai people gradually combined it with their own national myths and legends, which gave the festival a more magical meaning and national color.
To this day, there is a very interesting myth circulating among the Dai people: in ancient times, there was a devil in the Dai area who did a lot of evil and gave out *** indiscriminately, which made the crops not harvested, and made the people feel uneasy, and the people did not have enough to live on. People hated him, but they could not deal with him even though they had thought of many ways to deal with him. Later, the devil took seven women as his wives. Seeing the miserable lives of their fellow countrymen, the girls were determined to find a way to destroy the demon. The seven clever girls discovered the devil's Achilles' heel in his words, that is, only the devil's own hair can kill him. One night, when the demon was drunk and fell into a deep sleep, the girls bravely pulled a hair from his head and tied it tightly around his neck. Sure enough, the demon's head immediately fell off. But as soon as the head hit the ground, the ground burst into flames. Seeing that it would become a disaster, the girls immediately picked up the head, and the fire was extinguished, and the demon disappeared with it. In order to prevent the fire from rekindling and plaguing the people, the sisters decided to take turns holding the demon's head, changing it every year. At the time of the annual change, people gave the girl who held the head a rinse in order to wash away the blood stains and the exhaustion of adulthood. Later, the Dai people to commemorate the seven resourceful and brave women, on this day every year to splash each other with water, since the formation of the Dai people resigned the old and welcome the new grand festival - Water Festival.
B Water Festival Blessing
In the "Mai Day", early in the morning, people have to pick flowers and green leaves to the Buddhist temple offerings, and carry to the water "bath Buddha" - for the statue of Buddha to wash the dust. The Buddha's image is washed with fresh water. After the "bathing of Buddha", the collective splashing of water on each other begins. A group of young men and women with a variety of containers of water, out of the streets and alleys, chasing and playing, everyone will splash. "Water flower release, Daijia crazy", "splash wet all over, happiness for life"! Symbolizing good luck, happiness, health, a flower in the air bloom, people splash as much as they can sprinkle, laughter, happy exceptionally, soaking wet, interest in high ......
C Water Festival Love
Water Festival is also unmarried young men and women looking for love, cultivation of happiness of the beautiful season. During the Songkran Festival, unmarried young men and women of the Dai ethnic group like to do the "bag throwing" game. The flower bag crafted with flower cloth in the girl's hand is a token of love. Throw package day, the girls dress up to the best of things, and then hit the flower umbrella, carrying a small flower package to the "package field", and the young men on both sides of the separation, thirty to forty paces apart, began to each other to throw the flower package. If the young man can not catch the girl threw the flower bag, you have to prepare the flowers in the girl's hair on the fly, the girl if you can not catch the young man threw the bag, you have to insert the flowers to the chest of the young man ...... so gradually selected each other, a romantic love story began ... ...
D The Power of the Water Festival
Dragon boating is one of the most exciting events of the Water Festival, and is often held on the third day of the festival, Mai Paya Evening Ma. On that day, people dressed in festive costumes gather on the banks of the Lancang River, Ruili River, to watch the dragon boat race. The river is moored in green and colorful dragon boat, the boat sits dozens of strong ...... >>
The Dai people Water Festival customs listed three points Water Festival originated in India, is an ancient Brahmanism ritual, later absorbed by Buddhism, about the end of the twelfth century to the beginning of the thirteenth century A.D. through Burma with Buddhism into the Dai region of Yunnan, China. With the deepening of the influence of Buddhism in the Dai region, the Water Festival has become a national custom passed down.
There is a passage in the book "In the Car" that reads: "On the morning of New Year's Day, all the nobles and commoners bathe and change their clothes, and go to the Buddhist temple to celebrate the festival. The women's generation is each carrying a pick of water for the Buddha to wash the dust, from the top to the heel, drenched, mud Buddha a few for the collapse. After bathing the Buddha people will pour water on each other, splashing water play can be able to do". This record is not exhaustive, but has told people, splashing water is the Dai must be held on New Year's Day, an activity. The above mentioned "New Year's Day" is not January 1 of the Gregorian calendar, but the Dai New Year is coming.
The customs of the Dai Water Festival read what First of all, the first from the origin of the Water Festival: Water Festival originated in India, with the deepening of the influence of Buddhism in the Dai area, the Water Festival has become a national custom passed down, and so far there have been hundreds of years of history. At the festival, the Dai men, women and children put on their festive costumes, while the women each pick a quart of water to wash the dust for the Buddha statue, and ask for the blessing of the Buddha's spirit. After bathing the Buddha, people start to splash water on each other to express their blessings, hoping that the holy water will wash away diseases and disasters and bring about a better and happier life. This is how the collective pouring of water on each other began. People with a variety of containers of water, out of the streets and alleys, chasing and playing, splashing everyone. Elegant with a branch dipped in water to splash. Flowers put, Daijia Wang, splashing wet all over the body, happiness for life! Symbol of good luck, happiness, health, a flower in the air bloom, people splash as much as they can sprinkle, laughing loudly, soaked to the skin, the excitement is very high. Into the night, the village drums and music heard, people sing and dance, lively and extraordinary. Throughout the festival, in addition to the dragon boat race, put high, put the lanterns, splashing water, throwing bags and other traditional recreational activities, there are cockfighting, balloon, garden party, material exchanges and other new activities. The Dai and Wa men and women in Yunnan Ethnic Village are also dressed in costumes to celebrate the Water Splashing Festival with tourists.
Then it is its inheritance and value: the Water Splashing Festival is a comprehensive stage to show the traditional culture of Dai water culture, music and dance culture, food culture, dress culture and folk veneration, etc. It is an important window to study the history of Dai, and has a high academic value. The artistic performances such as Zhangha and White Elephant Dance displayed at the Water Splashing Festival can give people artistic enjoyment and help them understand the national characteristics of the Dai people, such as their sense of nature, love of water and respect for Buddha, and gentleness and serenity. At the same time, the Water Splashing Festival is also an important link to strengthen the unity of the people of all ethnic groups in Xishuangbanna, which plays a positive role in promoting the development of socio-economic culture all over the world through friendly cooperation and exchanges between Xishuangbanna and Southeast Asian countries.
The customs of the Dai Water Splashing Festival read a custom, is a manifestation of national cohesion, to bring people closer to each other. Promote communication between people. Joy, the sharing of harvest, a blessing embodied.