The characteristics of the Dai people: peacocks and elephants are regarded as mascots, folk stories are colorful and colorful, the Dai people like to live by the water, love cleanliness, often bathe, women love to shampoo, so there is a "water nation", the Dai people in the past generally believe in the Southern Upper Throne Buddhism and the primitive religion.
As early as in the 1st century AD, there were records about the ancestors of the Dai people in Chinese historical books. In the Tang and Song dynasties, they were called "Golden Teeth", "Black Teeth", "Silver Teeth" and "Embroidered Feet", "embroidered face", "Mangban", "white" and so on.
The Yuan and Ming Dynasties are still called "Golden Teeth" and "White Clothes". "Baiyi" and writing "Baiyi", "Baiyi", "Boyi", some mistaken for "Bo Yi Some of them are mistakenly called "Bo Yi", which is confused with the Bai people. Since the Qing Dynasty, it has been called "Pendulum Yi". In addition, the history of Vietnam called the Dai as "Mourning"; the history of Burma called the Dai as "Shan"; the history of India called the Dai as "Ahongmu".
After the Second World War, the governments of various countries named the Dai in their respective territories: Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia were called Thai, Laos was called Lao, Burma was called Shan, China was called Dai, and India was called Ahom, but all of them called themselves Tai.
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The staple food of the Dai is mainly rice. The Dehong region eats round-grained rice, and Xishuangbanna and other places love glutinous rice, which is usually pounded and eaten now. The Dai's famous fragrant bamboo rice, also known as bamboo tube rice, is made by putting glutinous rice in a fragrant bamboo tube, soaking it in water for 15 minutes, and then baking it over a fire.
When you eat, pound the bamboo tube to make it soft, the bamboo film on the inner wall of the bamboo tube will be attached to the rice, a knife cut in half, the fragrant bamboo rice will be out of the bamboo and out of the rich aroma, the rice is soft and delicate.
Meat includes pig, cow, chicken, duck, no or little mutton, good at making roast chicken, roast chicken, like to eat fish, shrimp, crab, snail, moss and other aquatic products. Frequently eaten vegetables are cabbage, radish, bamboo shoots and beans.
The Dai also eat insects. The Dai region is humid and hot, and there are many kinds of insects. The insects that are often eaten include cicadas, bamboo worms, big spiders, field turtles and ant eggs. Cicadas are caught in the summer evening, the cicada group fell in the grass, cicada wings were wet with dew, can not fly up, the women will quickly pick the cicada into the bamboo basket, home into the pot roasted and dried sauce.
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