Introduction: The Dai Water Festival, also known as the "Bathing Buddha Festival", is known as "Sangkan Bimai" (meaning New Year) in Dai language, and the Dai people in the Dehong area of Xishuangbanna call this festival "Shanghan" and "Shangji", both names originated from the Sanskrit language. The following is my compilation of the Dai Water Festival related essays, welcome to your reading and reference.
Essay 1: The Dai Water Festival FolkloreWater splashing is not unfamiliar in people's minds, right? At the mention of it, almost everyone will be excited, cradling the basin, filling it with fresh water, gently splashing towards others, bringing not only happiness, but also good luck, health and happiness.
In Yunnan, the Water Splashing Festival is the most important festival of the Dai people, because it is a traditional festival of the Dai people to celebrate the old and welcome the new, just like the Han Chinese people to celebrate the New Year, the Water Splashing Festival is the new year of the Dai Calendar, which is usually in the middle of April to start the party. The Dai people celebrate the Water Festival to worship the spirits of the ancestors, splash water to wish, race the dragon boat and set off fireworks and so on.
During the Water Splashing Festival, the Dai men, women and children are dressed up in festive costumes, colorful costumes like flowers that are competing to open, appearing exceptionally dazzling. People pick the water, hiking to the Buddhist temple temple to the Buddha bathing, in order to seek their own more blessings less disaster, which is the bath Buddha. After leaving the Buddhist temples, the Water Splashing Festival comes to the most important and happiest time? Splashing water. In the square, no matter men and women, young and old, people carry pots, in the pool to scoop a big bowl of water, see who will splash the pot of water, the person who was splashed to the water is not angry, the two people just a laugh. In their view, this is not a war, but just a ceremony to report peace.
I remember the time I traveled to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, and caught the Dai people's Water Festival. People gathered around a circular square, carrying red plastic tubs, ready to have a good time. As the host gave the order, people rushed into the pool, pressed the basin into the water, and then lifted it up, full of a bowl of clear water as a charm to eliminate disasters and good fortune, waving their arms and spreading out the bowl of water, as if driving away all the disasters of the year. Dipping it on other people`s bodies is like dipping all the blessings of the year. On the square, people of different nationalities and different statuses, at this moment, all of them are of the same level, the same nationality, using different dialects to narrate the same blessings.
Look, the Dai that joyful Water Festival! Although it is not the most impressive festival of the whole country, for the Dai people, it is the splendid culture and long history of the Dai family condensed for thousands of years. The Water Festival is a festival that brings endless joy!
Essay 2: I love the Dai Water FestivalThe Dai's festivals are colorful, of which my favorite has to be the Water Festival!
The Water Splashing Festival is also the New Year of the Dai people, in the Dai calendar June 24 to June 26, which is the middle of April in the summer calendar.
Early in the morning, men, women and children bathe and change clothes, go to the Buddhist temple fine Buddha, to the statue of Buddha sprinkling water to wash the dust, but also pick flowers and green leaves to the Buddhist temple offerings. After doing this, the mass mutual splashing began, only to see a young men and women, cymbals, basins holding water, and then pour out of the streets and alleys, everyone will splash. This is the water of good luck and blessing! Whether it is splashing water, or being splashed, are laughing loudly?
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a fire devil who did nothing wrong and snatched seven girls, the youngest girl was called Nongxiang, who later learned from a gray-haired old grandfather that as long as you pull off the fire devil's hair, you can strangle her to death. The girls worked together and killed the fire demon. The demon's head became a ball of fire that caught fire wherever it fell. The girls picked up water and splashed it, finally extinguishing the evil fire. This legend has become a habit, gradually become a water festival.
In addition to splashing water, there are songs and dances, Dai people dressed in festive costumes, came to the village square, men, women and children with songs and dances, some jumping peacock dance; some jumping? Some danced the peacock dance; some danced the "Wulaho" dance. Some of them are improvised; some of them sing and dance with beautiful movements, distinctive rhythms, melodious tunes and melodious voices.
During the Songkran Festival, on the wide Lancang River, the Dragon Boat Race will be held, and the water boats will be dressed up as dragons, peacocks, carp, and other images by dozens of young people paddling, and the audience on both sides of the clouds, the sound of drums and gongs, the sound of applause resonates through the clouds.
The Dai Water Festival is a festival to welcome the new and happy! I love the Dai Water Festival!
Essay 3: Experiencing the Dai? The water splashing festival is a happy festival to welcome the new.Water beads fly in the sky,
Water flowers abound;
People are laughing,
Singing the Dai family song.
That's right, it? is the Dai Water Festival? A grand festival, an essential festival, a festival that I have longed for.
This summer, I had the honor of experiencing the Olive Dam in Mengla, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan? Water Festival? s joy.
? Water Splashing Festival? The event took place in a big round square. We all changed into traditional Dai costumes.
Before the event, a grand ceremony was held first. People played drums and blew horns, and the whole atmosphere immediately became solemn. Then, a middle-aged man wearing a yellow robe, wearing a golden crown, holding a microphone, sitting majestically on a rattan chair, carried by an elephant, solemnly circled the field for three weeks. At the same time, together with all those present, he brightened his voice, let it loose, and shouted to his heart's content to the tune of ? Water! Water!!! Water, Water, Water!!!!! WATER!!! WATER!!! Water, water, water!!!!! Three weeks around the end, from the east emerged a group of Dai girls, about the appearance of the early twenties, very handsome, holding a flower umbrella, wearing a short coat, under the tube skirt, foot a pair of embroidered tiger shoes, jumped up a beautiful, cheerful, smooth dance; and from the west emerged a group of Dai girls and boys, or play peacock, or play a butterfly, or play a frog? Or simply do not play anything, a long veil of plain clothes, dancing, but not much time, and then back down in style. Just when people were attracted by the dance of the girls in the east, suddenly, only to hear the host of the Dai language shouted:? Put? Water?!!!!!!!!!!? In a flash, but feel a light, the fountain spouted water. In a moment, the water overflowed half of the square! Splash water activities officially began at this time.
At first, people? To splash?
At first, the people? If they were splashed, they had to return the favor. People a basin, it seems very disorganized. Then, the dancing girls, have abandoned the flower umbrella, end of the basin, to the crowd formed a? The circle of the crowd? The dance has not used up the strength, all used in the crowd of water; and the crowd, also try to form a circle, to them to splash, but also the same is to make the whole body strength. People splashing, laughing and joking, wandering in the sea of joy.
Under the guidance of the host, each person from the sky to splash seventeen splash, and finally to a ? The last one was a "pair of splash". We also reluctantly put down the basin, the end of this ? The water splashing carnival.
Although, I have long returned to my hometown, although the two places are separated by thousands of mountains, although the time has passed more than a month, but my ears still echo? The sound of splashing water and The sound of the water splashing and the sound of the water clattering.
This event was so much fun! I believe that no matter how many years have passed, it will still be fresh in my mind; those scenes will still be vivid in my mind.