There are many kinds of dances of the Dai people, and their movements and contents mainly simulate the activities of common animals in the region, and on the basis of which they are personified. The Peacock Dance comes from the imitation of the graceful movements of the peacock as well as from the beautiful and touching legends of the Dai people. The famous dancer Knife Meilan is famous for performing the Peacock Dance.
Festivals and celebrated dancers--Knife Meilan (Dai)
The Songkran Festival (Dai New Year) is the most ethnic festival of the Dai people. The festival is held in the sixth month of the Dai calendar, which is equivalent to the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar. On the day of Songkran, people worship Buddha, and the girls wash the dust of Buddha with fresh water with flowers floating in it, and then splash each other with water to play and wish each other good luck. At first with hands and bowls of water, and later with pots and buckets, while splashing and singing, the more intense the splash, drums, gongs, splashing, cheering into one. During the Water Festival, there will be dragon boat races, put high, put flying lights and other traditional entertainment activities and a variety of songs and dances.
Habitat
The bamboo building where Dai people live is a kind of dry-fence building. The bamboo building is nearly square, supported by dozens of large bamboo, suspended floor boards; the roof is covered with thatched rows, the bamboo wall gap is very large, both ventilated and light, the roof of the two sides of the slope is very large, was A-shaped. The bamboo building is divided into two floors, upstairs to live, downstairs to raise livestock, pile up sundries, but also pounding rice, weaving place.
Dai men generally wear collarless shirts with lapel sleeves and long pants, and wrap their heads in white or blue cloth. Dai women's dress varies greatly from place to place, but basically they all wear hair bundles, tube skirts and short shirts as **** the same characteristics. The tube skirt is as long as the top of the foot, and the shirt is tight and short, with the hemline only reaching the waist, but the sleeves are long and narrow.
Diet
The Dai take rice as the main food, the most characteristic is bamboo tube rice. The production method is to put the rice into a fresh bamboo tube and then add water, put it on the fire barbecue, and it tastes fragrant and delicious.
Pu-erh tea is a specialty of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, the Tang Dynasty, exported to all parts of China, the Qing Dynasty, exported to Southeast Asia and South Asia, and has now entered the Japanese and Western Europe and other countries and regions of the market, and has become a famous Chinese and foreign famous tea.
Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture is very rich in specialties, only fruit has more than 110 kinds of, where there are many varieties of plants and animals, is the famous "plant kingdom" and "animal kingdom". 1991, Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve officially opened to the outside world. In 1991, Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve was officially opened to the outside world, so that people can personally travel to the treasure house of nature and experience the rich subtropical flavor.
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Peacock Dance
Peacock Dance in Dai language is called "Jialuochong", "Bother Luochong" or "Jarnanluo". This is the most popular dance of the Dai people, circulating in the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture and Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan. The Dai women are generally slim, pure and beautiful, look elegant and graceful, so they are known as the "Golden Peacock".
The rich and beautiful Dai Township, known as the "Peacock Township", in the past, whenever the morning sunlight or sunset oblique light, common posture charming peacock dancing, so the peacock in the hearts of the Dai people is good luck, happiness, beauty, goodness of the symbol. During festivals, the Dai people gather together to watch peacock dances and dances showing the peacock's habits performed by folk artists based on folk stories, myths and legends, and Buddhist scriptures. For example, the Peacock Dance based on the mythological story "The Devil and the Peacock" is still widely spread in the folklore. The dance shows that the devil wants to take over the peacock as his wife, and the peacock with a human face and a bird's body struggles to shake his beautiful feathers, and the brilliant, brilliant light makes the devil's brother blind, and the peacock achieves victory.
Origin?
There are many touching legends about the origin of the Peacock Dance among the Dai people. Legend has it that a long time ago, the leader of the Dai people led four thousand people to find happiness, and when they arrived at "Lai Shao Meng", they heard the sound of fruits dropping into the water and the sound of fish eating water, and saw peacocks dancing beautifully along with the beautiful sound, so they came back to imitate these sounds and the movements of the peacocks. Accompanied by drums and cymbals, they danced the peacock dance. In some ancient murals and carvings of the Maung Maung temple, you can see a lot of lifelike images of peacocks with human faces and bird bodies, which are very similar to the peacock dance with spire helmets and masks on the head and peacock suits. Ming Dynasty "Nanzhao wild history" also has a record of the peacock dance: "marriage to take the eldest and youngest jumping, blowing the reed-sheng for the peacock dance ...... ", visible peacock dance history has a long history.
The famous dancer knife Meilan performance of the peacock dance action?
Peacock dance is usually performed by one, two or three people. Whenever the dancers dance to the happy, the crowd cheers "my - my", "water - water", the atmosphere is very The atmosphere is very warm. Peacock dance has a more fixed performance program, mostly imitating the peacock flying out of the nest, sensitive vision exploration, peacefully walking, looking for water, drinking water, water, bathing, shaking wings, sun wings, wings and all things beautiful, free and happy flight ...... and so on.
Peacock dance movement is exceptionally rich, the most common hand style palm, peacock hand style "(thumb slightly inward buckle, index finger flexion back, the remaining three fingers such as fan-shaped warping)," eye style "(index finger and thumb slightly close, the remaining three fingers such as fan-shaped warping) and so on. The steps are tiptoe, "undulating step" (the power leg is driven by the heel and kicked up to the buttocks and then landed on the palm of the foot, with the main leg then flexed and extended) and so on.
Style
From the dance style can be summarized in the following three categories: the first is the male peacock dance. Folk dance. Knee undulation rigid. Dance posture has obvious "three curves" characteristics. The second is the female peacock dance. It is mostly performed by men in folklore. The knees undulate softly and slowly, the dance posture is beautiful and delicate, and there are often arches of the chest and shoulder rotation, reflecting its subtle and charming form, and the drum beats are light and slow. The third is the Little Peacock Dance. Often use rapid small trembling and maintain a semi-squatting state of the short step, the lower legs are flexible and light, commonly used in continuous small shrugs, the drum beat is fast and light.
Drums
The drums of the Dai people can be roughly divided into two kinds: one is a single drum, which is known as the "light la leng" in Dai. The other is a double-sided drum, which is called "light double la" in Dai. Because the single-sided drum is shaped like an elephant's leg, it is called the "Elephant's Foot Drum".
Elephant's Foot Drum Dance
In Dai language, it is called "Jar Guang" or "Bother Guang" (in Dai language, the drum is called "Guang" and the dance is called "Jar"). (the Dai language calls the drum "light" and the dance "jia"). "Jaguang" is the most popular men's dance in the Dai area. Whenever rice-planting and harvest time comes, the elephant foot drum dance is performed to celebrate. The elephant-foot drum is not only a prop for folk dance, but also the main instrument to accompany other dances. When the Dai people are entertained, there must be drums and drums, and only with the accompaniment of the elephant foot drums can the dance be performed with sound and color and sound and enjoyment.
Elephant's foot drum dance origin
About the elephant's foot drum and its dance folklore, according to legend: in ancient times, there is a couple, after laboring in the water pool side of the nap, suddenly the wind blew ripe mango from the tree down in the water, issued a "Boom - Boom! "The sound brought them joy. When they returned home, they hollowed out the tree according to the elephant's feet and made a drum out of cowhide. In the swing, they carried the drum to dance, and soon the elephant foot drum dance spread. It is also said that: a long time ago, there are two young men who tamed elephants according to the elephant's feet made the elephant foot drum. In the "Ming Shi - Baiyi biography" also has: "size of the long skin drums to hand pat the" record.
Action
During the performance, the dancer carries the elephant foot drum on his left shoulder, with the drum face in front and the drum tail downward, and strikes the drum with his right hand mainly, and his left hand cooperates. Generally, the dancers use their fists, palms and fingers to beat the drum, and sometimes they also use their elbows, knees, heels and toes to beat the drum. The Elephant Foot Drum Dance is robust and rough. The rise and fall of the knees and the drumming action are closely coordinated, and the knees are bent when the hands are used to beat the drum. When you raise your hands, your knees are straight. The dance steps are very rich, there are "front point step half squat", "back point step half squat", "step full squat", "eight steps half squat
Classification
The elephant foot drum has three drum shapes: long, medium and small, and according to the shape of the drum, there are three different ways to jump.
The first is the long elephant foot drum dance. It is mainly popular in Ruili County of Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Mengding of Gengma, some areas of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and Menglian area. The drum is about two meters long, and because it is heavy, it is mostly used for dance accompaniment. When dancing, the pace is slow and steady, and the knees undulate powerfully. The drums are the most abundant, and have formed a certain drum language, which can express the joy, anger, sadness and happiness of the Dai people.
The second one is the elephant foot drum dance. Mainly popular in Luxi County, Yingjiang County, Gengma County, Jinggu County, Meng understand and some areas of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture. The drum is about 1.5 meters long and lightweight. Its main feature is that the drum tail is swung up and flung up during the dance. As there is a tuft of peacock feathers on the tail of the drum, it looks very good when it is swung. Swinging the drum is to let the drum tail sway left and right, and flinging the drum is to press the drum head downward so that the drum tail is flung upward. The Chinese Elephant Foot Drum Dance is not only performed at festivals, but there are also special days each year for the Drum Race, where the length of the drum sound, the sound quality and the size of the drum tail swing are the winning criteria.
The third, small elephant foot drum dance. Only popular in Xishuangbanna area. The drum body is less than a meter long, rich in action, often used as a peacock dance. The movements are large, with the steps of sucking leg jumping, bouncing leg jumping, and lifting the leg.
Jar with the light dance
"Jar with the light" is the meaning of the drum around the circle dance, it is the Dai people in the most popular and most prevalent collective dance, it is not limited to the location of the time, dozens of hundreds of people can be surrounded by a circle according to the clockwise direction of the dance, festivals throughout the night and dance endlessly.
The dance is simple and enthusiastic, with outstanding features, women's knee trembling more evenly, and more hands and feet dance. Generally, the "erratic step", "undulating step", "point step", "bow and arrow step" and other steps are the main. The hand movements are relatively simple, generally in the natural hand style in front of the chest alternately down around the wrist or from the armpit up to pull out the hand.
Sister-in-laws and the elderly in the circle dance, the old man's movement is slow, the knee undulation obvious, often with a large amount of forward and backward to express their excitement, their movements arbitrary free play, and outside the circle of young people, it is required to move uniformly and neatly. The drumming of the Jar Companion Light is very rich.
Double-sided drum dance
The Dai language is called "Guangbang", "Guang two", "Guang Shuangla", "Guang Hong", "Guanghong", "Guanghong", "Guanghong", "Guanghong", "Guanghong", "Guanghong", "Guanghong", "Guanghong" and "Guanghong". "Guangbang", "Guangtwo", "Guangshuangla", "Guanghong", "Guangmengyang" and so on. It has been passed down in Yingjiang County, Ruili County of Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, some areas of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, and Menghuang area of Gengma County and Cangyuan County. It is the oldest kind of drum dance of the Dai people. This kind of drum is big at one end and small at the other, and both sides are covered with skins. Small double-sided drum length of about one and a half feet, can be hung horizontally on the body, dance with the right hand with the palm of the drum, the left hand with a piece of bamboo to hit the drum, the action of the ups and downs, commonly used in deep squatting and other dance, three bends modeling is more prominent. The large double-sided drum has a diameter of 67 centimeters and a body basket of one meter. Need two people with bamboo poles to carry up, dancers swinging mallets with both hands, do cloud hand turn, suction legs, kneeling and squatting and other actions to play the drum. Some drums are placed on the ground to play, drums sound powerful. Crowds of people in a circle, holding flowers or handkerchiefs singing and dancing, with the Cannes Companion Light Dance similar to the form of performance.
The Fish Dance
The Dai language is called "Jaba". It is mainly spread in Ruili County of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, and gradually spread to other areas after liberation.
It is said that when the Dai discovered the fish and learned to fish, they danced to imitate the fish. There are only one or two performers in the fish dance, and the dancers dance with fish-shaped props on their bodies. Fish Dance is softer and more delicate than other Dai folk dances, and it is dexterous and lively. Mainly in the undulation, soft knee bends and half-palm steps, small jumps agile and lively, the performance of the fish in the calm water roaming, often using the whole foot or half-palm knee bends and breaks the walk, there is no undulation, hands and upper body only to the left and right swing. In the performance of the fish play in the water or fight with the rapids, often using a small jump, a small jump, a small flip and other jumping movements, the image is vivid and realistic.
The Fish Dance is mostly performed in the form of a fish-shaped hand (one hand with the palm of the hand over the back of the hand of the other hand, with the thumb stretched out), or with both hands outward in a circle and the arms swinging back as a typical action. The drum beat of the Fish Dance is relatively slow and light, and the rich drum language is no less than that of the Peacock Dance.
The Roc Bird Dance
It is called "Jarlun" in Dai language. It is an ancient folk dance performed by the Dai people during grand festivals. It is mainly popular in Ruili County, Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture.
Legend has it that a long time ago, the rain god ran away, the Dai area does not rain, the earth is a scorched, the roc bird to hold the eggs of his wife in spite of, and the rain god launched a fight to the death. A few days later, the roc defeated the rain god and made it rain, but the roc's wife and children had already starved to death. The Dai people, in order to express their respect for the roc, produced the Roc Bird Dance, which has been handed down to this day.
The Roc Bird Dance is athletic and rugged, with big and powerful movements. The dance mainly shows the action of the roc bird fighting with the rain god and the temperament of defying violence. Action changes quickly and powerfully, modeling time is longer "three curves" dance posture angle is prominent. For example, the appearance of the action is generally a big jump after a big dance modeling, showing the roc bird from the air swiftly and quickly down the spirit. More claw hand (fingers open into a fan) and palm hand type, these hand styles to strengthen the strength of the action. There are only one or two performers in the Roc Bird Dance. In the past, the dance was performed with props and masks of the roc bird type, which have been abandoned, so that the dance movements have been fully developed. The drums are unusually rich and the sound of the drums is deep and powerful.
Heron Dance
The Dai language is called "Jar Yang" and "Jar Luo Yang". It is a collective dance for young people during festivals. It is mainly popular in Ruili and Luxi County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture.
In the past, the dancers should dance in snow-white clothes with two bright red ribbons on their shoulders, which is not common now. The snow-white heron bird is commonly seen in the bamboo forests or paddy fields near the Dai villages. About the origin of the heron dance folklore varies, there is a kind of story: in ancient times there was a very poor young man, more than daily labor. The heron loved him very much and danced elegantly for him, and later the young man danced affectionately with the heron. Later, people choreographed this dance into a pair dance for young people. It is also said that an ethnic group called "central" once came to the area of Dehong, and this kind of dance is to show the process of their labor in the field.
The heron dance is generally based on the dance, the action is relative, the formation is more than two horizontal rows of left and right out of the encounter into two vertical rows, four rows, two circles, etc. Often commanded by a person to change the various movements and the dance. It is often directed by one person to change various movements and figures. The movements of the Heron Dance are simple and elegant. The rhythmic treatment of the dance steps is different from other Dai folk dances. When the weak beat is performed, the knees are bent quickly and the power leg is lifted up nimbly; when the heavy beat is performed, the knees are straightened with tenacity and the power leg is landed on the palm of the foot lightly at the same time, which imitates the action of the heron's walking figuratively. There are special movements such as clapping the hands in front of the chest and arching the chest. The drum beat is light and simple.
Flower Wreath Dance
In Dai language, it is called "Jardong" and it is a collective dance of young people. It is mainly popular in some areas of the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture and Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture. Nowadays, it is only danced during grand festivals, and has become a kind of organized dance performance.
From the very early times, whenever the Water Festival and other religious festivals came, the boys and girls went to the deep forests and riverside in groups to collect the most colorful and beautiful flowers, and then beat the elephant foot drums and danced and sang to send the flowers to the Maung Maung Temple to make a pavilion of flowers, and this ancient custom has been passed down in the Dai villages till now.
There is a legend about the origin of the garland dance: once upon a time, there was a poor young man, went to the dam to catch the pendulum, felt his clothes tattered and tattered, then picked a lot of flowers tied into a garland set on the body, and then went down the mountain with the joyful sound of the drums of the elephant's foot and danced, and a girl fell in love with him, and sang along with his dance, and the garland dance arose from this.
The garland is made of brightly colored flowers tied to a bamboo grate about two meters long, and when dancing, hold the ends of the garland with both hands, and focus on the changes in the garland while moving the pace. The dance is performed with both hands holding the ends of the garlands while moving the steps, focusing on the changes of the garlands and forming patterns with national characteristics. Garland dance to the extreme music, by a person command, dancers together from the slow plate into the fast plate, there are tiptoe, "Dun wrong step small jump" and other actions.
Bothering the whole
The Dai language calls the knife dance and the stick, fist and rod dances "bothering the whole", "Jar the whole" and "make the whole". It is a male dance. Circulated in the vast Dai area, similar to the Han Chinese martial arts.
The beautiful scenery of the Dai countryside, Dai men are wearing a refined knife, marking their bravery and might, while the knife is also a favorable tool for production and labor. Knife dance in Dai language is called "Jarla" or "annoying pull". The movement is powerful and robust, and it mostly adopts the steps of "Big Eight Stomp", "Bouncing Legs", "Kicking Legs and Dabbing Jump" and "Squatting and Sliding", etc. These movements are very powerful and powerful. "These movements rarely appear in the Dai folk dance.
Knife dance has single knife, double knife, short knife and long knife (similar to the sword) and other types and local, mainland, Myanmar and other different schools, various schools have their own strict performance program and action. They can be performed by one person to a dozen people, and the dance is unaccompanied or accompanied by elephant foot drums. The dance is performed without accompaniment or with the accompaniment of elephant-foot drums. The stick, baton and boxing skills are basically similar to the knife dance.
Jardo
It is also called "Boredom Duo", which is a kind of prop dance. This dance used to be in the grand religious festivals only jump, so far only popular in Gengma County Mengding and Menglian County area.
"Duo" is a deified animal, said to have a lion's head, dog's mouth, antlers, long neck, fine hair. In Chinese, this dance is called the "Horse and Deer Dance". Jarto still with props to jump, props body length of one zhang, neck length of eight feet, with a bamboo grate braided into a forty-five-centimeter circle, the outside with a cloth wrapped up, cut up white paper glued to the top as feathers. Generally, two people cooperate to play a deer, the front dancers decorate the deer head and the front half of the body, with a stick to support the neck to do scratching movements, the back dancers grasp the tail, to both sides of the agile small jumps and falls, pouncing, prancing around and other actions. The dance steps and drum beats are similar to those of the Peacock Dance.
Irahe Dance
It is also called "Irahe". It is popular in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture.
In the Dai New Year "Water Festival" and "Open Door Festival" or happy days, the Dai people have to dance this dance, because each section of the lyrics are followed by "Yilaga" as a liner notes. The dance is named after "Yilaga" which is used as a refrain after each verse. The characteristics of the Yilaga dance are similar to those of the Jarring Light dance.
The Water Splashing Festival
The Water Splashing Festival is a traditional festival for the Dai people to celebrate the old and welcome the new, which takes place in the middle of April in 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 reveling in the festival.
Gate Festival
"Gate Festival" in Dai language is called "Entering the Pits", which means that the Buddha enters the temple. It is a traditional religious festival of the Dai people in Yunnan, which is held on September 15 of the Dai calendar (mid-July of the lunar calendar) every year and lasts for three months.
According to legend, every year in September of the Dai calendar, the Buddha went to the Western Heaven to preach with his mother, 3 months to return to earth. Once, just as the Buddha to the West during the preaching period, thousands of Buddhists to the countryside to preach, step on the people's crops, delaying their production, the people complained a lot of grievances, very dissatisfied with the Buddhists. When the Buddha learned of this, he felt uneasy in his heart. Since then, every time the Buddha to the West when the Sutra, they will be the Buddhists are gathered together, the provisions of the three months are not allowed to go anywhere, but only repentance, in order to atone for the sins of the past. Therefore, it is called the "Shut the Door Festival".
The "Open Door Festival", also known as the "Puddle", Dai language for the "Hauwasa", China's adherence to Hinayana Buddhism Dai, Brown, De'ang and part of the Wa's traditional festivals. It is popular in Yunnan, originating from the ancient Buddhist habit of settling down during the rainy season, and is similar to the Buddhist festival of the Central Plains. It takes place on the 15th day of the 12th month of the Dai calendar (around the middle of the 9th month of the lunar calendar).
Open Door Festival, symbolizing the rainy season for three months has ended, said the lifting of the "closed door festival" since the men and women to ask the marriage taboo, that is, from now on, young men and women can begin to fall in love freely or hold a wedding. On the day of the festival, young men and women dressed in full costume go to a Buddhist temple to pay homage to the Buddha, and offer food, flowers, sticks of wax, and coins. After the festival is over, a grand cultural and entertainment gathering is held to celebrate the end of the Anju fasting period since the Kannon Festival. The main events include the lighting of sparks and gaoseng, the lighting of lanterns, and singing and dancing. Young people also dance around the village with lanterns in the shape of birds, animals, fish and insects. At this time, it coincides with the completion of the rice harvest, so it is also a festival to celebrate the harvest.
It is taboo for outsiders to ride horses, drive cows, carry burdens and enter the village with disheveled hair; to enter the Daijia bamboo building, take off your shoes outside the door and walk lightly inside the house; not to sit above or across the fire, not to enter the master's inner room, not to sit on the threshold; not to move the tripod on the fire and not to tread on the fire with your feet; it is taboo to whistle and cut nails in the house; and it is not permitted to use the clothes as a pillow or to sit on the pillows; When sunbathing clothes, tops should be sunbathed in a high place and pants and skirts in a low place; shoes should be taken off when entering a Buddhist temple, and it is taboo to touch the head of a young monk, a statue of the Buddha, a goshawk, a flag and a series of other holy objects of the Buddhist family. Can't just make loud noises.
The Dai mostly have the habit of eating two meals a day, with rice and glutinous rice as the main food. The Dai in Dehong eat mainly round-grained rice, while the Dai in Xishuangbanna eat mainly glutinous rice. Usually is now pounded now eat, folk believe that: japonica rice and glutinous rice only now eat now pounded, not to lose its original color and flavor, and therefore do not eat or rarely eat overnight rice, used to eat with a hand pinch rice. Outdoor laborers often eat in the field, with banana leaves or a mass of rice together with a ball of glutinous rice, with salt, chili, sour pork, roast chicken, mumble (Dai, meaning sauce), moss pine can be eaten. All the accompanying dishes and snacks are mainly sour, such as sour bamboo shoots, sour pea flour, sour meat and wild sour fruit; like to eat dry sauerkraut, the method is to dry the green vegetables, and then boiled in water, adding papaya turbid, so that the taste becomes sour, and then dried and stored. When eating put a little boiled vegetables or put in the soup. This kind of sauerkraut has a place in the Dai people eat almost every day. It is said that the reason why the Dai people often eat sour dishes, is because often eat indigestible glutinous rice food, and sour food Lu help digestion.
Daily meat with pigs, cows, chickens and ducks, do not eat or eat less mutton, living in the interior of the Dai people like to eat dog meat, good roast chicken, roast chicken, extremely happy fish, shrimp, crabs, snails, moss and other aquatic products.
The moss into the dish, is the unique flavor of the Dai dishes. Dai people eat moss is to choose the spring river water on the rock moss, to dark green for the best, fishing after tearing into thin slices, sun-dried, with bamboo gimlets to wear up to be used. When cooking, thick fried in oil, thin roasted with fire, crispy rubbed into the bowl, and then pour boiling oil, then add salt and stir, with glutinous rice balls or bacon dipping, the flavor is incomparable.
Cooking fish, more into sour fish or roasted into lemongrass fish, but also made into fish chopped grits (i.e., roasted fish whacked into the mud, and large coriander and other seasonings centralized), fish jelly, roasted fish, eel in white sauce, and so on.
When eating crabs, generally will be crab shell with meat chopped into crab sauce to eat with rice, the Dai people call this crab sauce for "crab Mangmibu".
Bitter melon is the most productive and most consumed daily vegetable. In addition to bitter melon, Xishuangbanna also has a kind of bitter bamboo shoots, so the Dai flavor there is a bitter flavor, more representative of the bitter dishes are cooked with cow bile juice and other ingredients of the cow Sa Pi gazpacho platter.