Folk customs and traditions of the essay

Great China, blooming with fifty-six national flowers. Different regions, different ethnic groups have different holiday customs. Let us walk into the Dai, to understand the Dai Water Festival. Early in the morning of the festival, men and women of all ages bathe and change their clothes, the door frames of every house, windows, are pasted with various kinds of paper cuttings, the main street of the town set up a house of cards, the top of which stands a golden peacock symbolizing happiness and good luck. The Dai men, women and children dressed in festive costumes went up the mountain in groups to pick wildflowers to make flower houses. At noon, the women each pick a quart of water and throw it on the statue of Buddha to wash the dust for the Buddha. Then, young men and women carry wooden buckets and splash water all over the place. They want to take advantage of this splashing water to express their sincere blessings, it is said that this can be free from disease, and peace in all seasons, so the more water that is ramped by others, the more blessings he receives, and the happier the person who is splashed is. Such a wonderful Water Splashing Festival also has an interesting legend oh. A long time ago, an unscrupulous devil king took over the beautiful and rich Xishuangbanna, and snatched seven beautiful girls to be his wife. The girls were full of hatred and planned how to kill the devil king. One night, the youngest girl Nongxiang with the best meat and wine, the devil king drunk, so that he revealed his fatal weakness. It turned out that the king was not afraid of the world, not afraid of the devil, is afraid of his hair strangling their necks, vigilant little girl carefully pulled off the king of a red hair, strangling his neck. Sure enough, the Demon King's head fell off and turned into a ball of fire, rolling to wherever the evil fire spread to. The bamboo buildings were burned down and the crops were scorched. In order to extinguish the evil fire, the little girl grabbed the head of the devil king, and the other six girls took turns to keep pouring water on it, and finally extinguished the evil fire in the sixth month of the Dai calendar. The townspeople began to live in peace and happiness. From then on, there was the custom of splashing water in every year. Now, the custom of splashing water has actually become a form of mutual blessing. In the view of the Dai people, water is a symbol of holiness, beauty and light. With water in the world, everything can grow, and water is the god of life. Water Festival in addition to splashing water, there are songs and dances, the Dai people dressed in festive costumes, came to the village square, men, women and children together singing and dancing, some jumping peacock dance; some jumping "five Laho"; some improvisation, while singing and dancing beautiful movement, rhythm, melodious tunes, moving songs ... ... ...Water Festival is really colorful ah!