1. The Water Splashing Festival, also called the Buddha Bathing Festival, is usually held in the sixth month of the Dai calendar, which is equivalent to the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar. Bathing Buddha Festival on this day to use water for the Buddha to wash the dust, and then splashing each other to play, wish each other, and then gradually developed to use pots and buckets, while splashing and singing, the more intense the more intense, drums, gongs, splashing, cheering into a piece of sound. In Xishuangbanna, the Buddha Bathing Festival is publicized by the government as the "Water Splashing Festival", and traditional entertainment activities such as dragon boat races, releasing of high altitude, releasing of flying lanterns and other songs and dances are held every year, attracting tourists from China and other parts of the world.
2. The Summer Festival, also known as the "Closed Door Festival", originated in the rainy season of the ancient Indian Buddhists, and was introduced into the Dai area along with the Southern Buddhism. Believe in the southern part of Buddhism Dai generally in the Dai calendar September 15 (lunar calendar in mid-June) held a summer ceremony, the summer ceremony this day is the "Summer Festival", the Dai villages of the Buddhist temple to beat the drum for the horn, tell people the festival has come, the Buddhist masters concentrated in the Buddhist temple chanting sutras, believers to prepare food, flowers, banknotes and other temples! "Fine Buddha". After that, it will enter the three-month "Jiexia". During the summer, monks are prohibited from going out to preach, believers are prohibited from traveling far away from home, men and women are prohibited from marrying, large-scale celebrations are prohibited, and monks must recite sutras at ease, and the public must concentrate on production.
3, out of the summer festival is also known as the "Open Door Festival", and "summer festival" corresponds to. Out of the summer festival" is generally held in the Dai December 15 (mid-September lunar calendar), symbolizing the three-month "knot summer" period ends, can lift the "summer festival" since all the taboos, monks can go out of the temple missionary fund-raising, men and women can also talk about love and marriage. The monks can go out of the temple to preach and raise money, and men and women can get married. Out of the summer festival this day, the Dai people will be dressed in full costume, with food, flowers, wax, coins and so on the Buddhist temple to worship Buddha to listen to the scriptures, and hold a grand celebration, dancing with a variety of birds, beasts, fish, insects and other shapes of lanterns around the village, fireworks, pointing the lanterns, jumping drums and other recreational activities.
The Dai are one of China's ethnic minorities, related to the Baipu and the Dianyue of the Hundred Vietnams, and have historical and cultural origins with the Shan of Burma, the Lao of Laos, and the Thai of Thailand, as well as the Assamese Ahoms of India, and their language and customs are close to those of the above ethnic groups. In Thailand and Laos, they are called the Dai. The Dai are a cross-border ethnic group, and are related to the Shan (Dai) of Burma, the Lao of Laos, the Thai of Thailand, and the Ahom Dai of Assam in India. The total global Dai (Thai and Shan) population is more than 60 million.