What is the knowledge of the water-splashing festival?

Songkran Festival is a New Year's Festival for Dai people, and it is also the biggest traditional festival in a year. The day when Grain Rain started was designated as the "Water-splashing Festival". During the three or four-day festival, people throw water at each other to show that they have washed away the old soil and wish happiness and peace in the new year.

What are the customs of the Songkran Festival?

1, Song and Dance Activities: From 70-and 80-year-old people to 78-year-old dolls, they put on festive costumes and gathered in the village square, where men, women and children formed a circle and danced with gongs and drums.

2. Bathing Buddha: On the first day, early in the morning, people will pick flowers and green leaves to worship in the Buddhist temple and bring clean water to bathe the Buddha: welcome the dust for the Buddha. It is also a prayer for the gods to bless people's health in the new year. After washing the Buddha, we began to splash water on each other collectively.

3, packet loss: Songkran Festival is also a beautiful time for unmarried young men and women to find love and cultivate happiness. During the Songkran Festival, unmarried young men and women of Dai people like to play the game of losing packets. The flower bag carefully made by the girl is a token of love.

4. Dragon boat race: Dragon boat race is one of the wonderful activities of the Songkran Festival, usually held on the third day of the Songkran Festival.

Border Trade Fair: For small businessmen in Thailand, it is of great significance to buy and sell local specialties and snacks and increase the friendship between the two countries. Border fairs generally last for three days, the first three days of the Water-splashing Festival, and then the investigation of folk customs is added.