The Flower Street Festival is the only festival with the word "flower" in China's Dai ethnic group. The so-called "flower" refers to the beautiful young girls like flowers, and these festivals are of course grand gatherings for young men and women to talk about love. Known as the "Oriental Valentine's Day", the biannual Flower Street Festival of the Huayuodai people is an event where the girls of Buzhao race for beauty, and the young men of Buzhao choose beauty, select their lovers, and settle down for a private life. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a demon dragon living in the Red River in this area, and on the 13th day of the first month and the 6th day of the fifth month of every year, it forced the Huaywa Dai people to put pigs, cows, goats, and the beauty of the Huaywa Dai maidens like flowers into the river as a sacrifice to it, otherwise it would be the drop of plague to the villages of Huaywa Dai. Angry Hua Wa Dai people year after year have to tearfully endure the pain of sacrifice. There was a young man named Yanlong who was brave and resourceful, and he was determined to kill the demon dragon to get rid of the harm for the people. The village elders also for the rocky dragon advice, said the demon dragon in the water can raise demons and monsters, leaving the water it has no ability, to draw it out of the shore to subdue it. On the thirteenth day of the first month of this year, Rock Dragon persuaded the townspeople to stop sacrificing pigs, cows, sheep and beautiful women to the demon dragon. He went to the river alone and stirred up the water with a long bamboo pole dyed with dog's blood, and the angry demon dragon lunged at him. He used the long bamboo pole to block and retreat at the same time, leading the demon dragon to the foot of the mountain far away from the river. Rock Dragon more and more brave, away from the water of the demon dragon can no longer make waves, physical strength gradually exhausted. Rock Dragon took the opportunity to pull out the sharp Dai knife and stabbed the demon dragon. The joyful news that Yanlong stabbed and killed the demon dragon spread all over the dam of Huayuandai people like the chirping of cuckoo bird. When the rock dragon back to the powder cattle village, will be rescued from the ravages of the demon dragon in the flower waist Dai girls, dressed in colorful dress carrying rice paddies, the group surrounded him, let him choose to look at the girl to eat rice paddies, the rock dragon finally picked up the sweetheart as desired. Other to congratulate the flower waist Dai lads, also each selected to the sweetheart, in pairs drilled into the bamboo forest outside the village to eat rice seedlings rice, and this day is called the big flower street. Ecstatic girls and boys are not happy, the fifth day of the sixth month of the old calendar, in order to celebrate the rock dragon Zai demon dragon, and about lovers to the big bath Mu betel nut forest to eat rice bowl rice to settle down, and this day is called the small flower street. From then on, the custom of looking for a lover on the flower street spread in the Huayuandai people's dam. Nowadays, in the big betel nut garden dragon forest square every day in "catch flower street", tourists here every day can see the flower street song and dance of the flower waist whistle, every day can eat on the overflowing with the flower waist whistle full of love of the "rice planting rice".
Hua Wa Dai girl's rice is a token of faithful love to the lovers, old times not easy to give people to eat. Legend has it that in ancient times there was a Daiya woman Ayu, hard-working, kind and beautiful. After marriage, husband and wife loved each other and respected each other as guests. She had to make glutinous rice, pickled duck eggs and dry eels every day, loaded in rice baskets to the fields to her hard-working husband to eat. One day when Ayu sent rice to the fields, a dragon face demon stopped her halfway to grab rice to eat, waist blackmail Ayu to marry him. Ayu refused to protect the rice and fight with the monster, and called out to the townspeople to fight the monster. When the townspeople arrived, Ayu had already fallen into a pool of blood. Before she died, she held on to the rice plant and said, "Give my rice plant rice to my lover who is plowing and harrowing in the field to eat. Later, in order to honor the love of this faithful and steadfast flower waist Dai women, flower waist Dai girls before marriage to the flower street and lovers to eat rice planting rice, mutual love tokens, in order to trust for life. Kiss and feed each other rice, rice, said love forever, never separate.