New Year's Eve is one of the most emphasized festivals in China, and each ethnic group has its own customs, so what? Below, I'll introduce it to you, welcome to read.
Dai's Spring Festival New Year's Day customs are introduced:
The Dai people's New Year, according to the Dai calendar is about the seventh day of the lunar calendar after the Qingming Festival. During the festival, the Dai compatriots held a lively and extraordinary water splashing, dragon boat races, put the high rise activities. The water-splashing activity is the most *** of the Dai people's New Year's Eve, and it is also the most wonderful scene in the Dai calendar year, so it is usually referred to as the "Water Splashing Festival" in the calendar year festival.
The Dai young men and women love to throw chaff packet game, during the Spring Festival, young men and girls throw each other chaff packet, to see who threw accurate, to see who caught. Play to a certain time, the girls will quietly snatch the young man on the belt knife, head cloth or tethered horse, ran home. If the young man is in love, he will follow. When the parents see their daughters return with their head cloths and horses, they hold a banquet.
The major festivals of the Dai people are the Dai New Year - the Water Festival, the Sample Festival and the Open Door Festival. The "Water Festival" is a traditional festival for the Dai people to get rid of the old and bring in the new, which takes place in the middle of the fourth month of the lunar calendar. The main activities during the festival are worshiping ancestors, piling up sand, splashing water, throwing bags, racing dragon boats, setting off fireworks and songs and dances to indulge in happiness and so on.
On this day, people splash water on each other, using water to express sincere friendship, pure love and blessings in their hearts. Water splashing is divided into cultural water splashing and martial arts water splashing. Wen splash water is to the elders, scoop up a spoonful of clean water, said the words of blessing, pull open each other's collars, so that the water along the spine flow down. The person who is splashed receives the blessing happily and is not allowed to run away. There is no fixed form of martial arts water-throwing, and it is possible to use ladles, pots, and buckets to chase each other and throw water on each other's heads and faces. The more water being poured, the more blessings being received, the more happy the person being poured.
The Dai Spring Festival customs: throw chaffing bag
The Dai young men and women love to throw chaffing bag game, during the Spring Festival, the young man and the girls throw chaffing bag each other to see who throws accurate, to see who caught. Play to a certain time, the girls will quietly snatch the young man on the belt knife, head cloth or tethered horse, ran home. If the young man is in love, he will follow. When the parents see their daughters return with their head cloths and horses, they hold a banquet.
Customs of the Spring Festival of the Dai People
Bathing Buddha
On the first day of Mai Day, early in the morning, people will pick flowers and leaves to the Buddhist temple offerings, and bring fresh water to the Buddha "bath". --to wash the dust off the statue of Buddha. 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, out of the streets and alleys, chasing and playing, everyone will splash. "The Dai family is crazy when the water is released" and "splashing wet water all over the body makes you happy for life"! Symbolizing good luck, happiness, health, a flower in the air bloomed, people splashed to their heart's content, laughing loudly, wet all over the body, the excitement is very high ......
Throwing the bag
The Water Festival is also a wonderful time for unmarried young men and women to find love and cultivate happiness. During the festival, the Dai unmarried young men and women like to do "throwing bags" game. The flower bag crafted with flower cloth in the girl's hand is a token of love. Throwing package day, the girls dress up as much as they can, and then hit the flower umbrella, carrying a small flower package to the "package field", and the lads are divided into two sides, 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 young man's chest ...... so gradually selected each other, a period of romantic love story has begun.
Kongming lanterns
Playing Kongming lanterns is also a unique activity in the Dai ethnic area. At night, people in the square on the open space, will light candles, put into the homemade large "balloon", the use of air buoyancy, a hole in the sky to release the lanterns. A bright Kongming lantern in the darkness of the night higher and higher, more and more far away. People use this to honor the ancient sage Kong Ming.
Dragon Boat Racing
Dragon Boat Racing is one of the highlights of the festival, and is often held on the third day of the festival, Mai Paya Vima. On that day, people dressed in festive costumes gather on the banks of the Lancang River, Ruili River, to watch the dragon boat race. River moored in green colorful dragon boat, the boat sits dozens of strong sailors, the number of orders, ready to start the dragon boat like an arrow flying forward, suddenly the whole river, drums, gongs, horns, applause, one after another, sound corresponding to the festive atmosphere here reached *** ...... put the high up to put the high up to put the high up to put the high up to put the high up to put the high up to put the high up to put the high up to put the high up to put the high up to put the high up to put the high up is the water festival and a reserved program. It is another reserved program of the Water Splashing Festival. Gao Sheng is a kind of fireworks made by Dai people, the bottom of the bamboo poles filled with gunpowder and other ingredients, placed on the bamboo built into the Gao Sheng frame, connected to the fuse, often burned at night.
Put on the high rise, ignite the fuse so that the gunpowder combustion will produce a strong thrust, the bamboo as a rocket into the air. Bamboo spit with white smoke, issued a whoosh whistling sound, while in the air released brilliant fireworks, as if the flowers, colorful, very wonderful. The ground is cheering, applauding one after another, talking, praising the sound of endless, very lively. Gao Sheng flying higher and farther away from the cottage, people also feel more colorful, more auspicious.