Secondly, the Dai people take peacocks and elephants as mascots, and the folk stories are rich and colorful. Dai people like to live by the water, love cleanliness, often take a bath, and women like to wash their hair, so they have the reputation of "water nation". In the past, Dai people generally believed in Buddhism, and primitive religion spread to the south.
Third, the Dai nationality is the main ethnic group in Thailand and Laos, accounting for 40% of the total population in Thailand. Dai is also the second largest ethnic group in Myanmar and a minority in China, India, Viet Nam and Cambodia. According to the data of the sixth census in 20 10, there are more than 260,000 Dai people in China.
Four, the language is divided into three dialects, namely Xishuangbanna Dai, Dehong Dai and Menglian Dai. Dai people also have their own characters, which can be divided into four types according to the different use areas: Dai Shu, Dai Na, Dai Qiang and Dai Duan. For a long time, the Dai people have recorded the long history of the Dai people with these words, and a large number of cultural classics and folk manuscripts have been handed down to this day. Dai folk art is also rich and colorful, especially music and dance.
Fifth, Dai men and women have different clothing characteristics.
Men's wear: Dai men generally don't wear ornaments, and occasionally find a shiny silver bracelet on their wrists. Gold teeth and silver teeth are their hobbies. There is little difference in the costumes of Dai people all over the country. Generally speaking, they are simple and generous. It is a collarless double-breasted or large-breasted small sleeve coat with a wide waist and trousers without pockets. Most of them wear white and blue cloth heads, some wear wool hats, like to cover blankets in cold weather, and often go barefoot all year round.
Women's clothing: Dai women pay attention to clothing and pursue light, beautiful and elegant clothing, which is extremely excellent in color coordination.
It is a remarkable feature of Dai costumes that young women wear long hair on their heads. Dai women wear all kinds of tight underwear, light-colored shirts with big breasts or narrow sleeves, and colorful tubular skirts with various patterns. Dai women like to tie their long hair in a bun and decorate it diagonally with combs, hairpins or flowers.
Dai women like to wear jewelry. Jewelry is generally made of gold and silver, mostly hollow, engraved with exquisite patterns and patterns. Dai women are generally slim, pure and beautiful, and graceful, so they are called "golden peacocks".
Most fabrics are made of thin and soft georgette, polyester or brocade. Clothing style is developing towards elegance, softness, brightness and elegance on the basis of absorbing the "essence" of traditional clothing. It further shows the colorful characteristics of peacock feathers in the hometown of peacocks.
6. Food culture: Most Dai people have the habit of eating two meals at a time, feeding on rice and glutinous rice.
1, Dehong Dai's staple food is japonica rice, and Xishuangbanna Dai's staple food is glutinous rice. Workers often eat outdoors. They can eat banana leaves or rice, as well as salt, pepper, sour meat, roast chicken, Mi Nan (which means sauce in Dai language) and pine. Bitter gourd is a daily vegetable with the highest yield and consumption. In addition to bitter gourd, Xishuangbanna also has a kind of bitter bamboo shoots, so there is also a bitter taste in Dai flavor. The representative bitter vegetable is a mixture of cowhide and cold dishes cooked with ingredients such as ox gall.
2. Religious Eating Habits Dai people generally believe in Southern Buddhism, and many festivals are related to Buddhist activities. During the Water-Splashing Festival, there are many Dai snacks besides wine and vegetables. There is also a crispy rice made of fried glutinous rice paste.
3. Every household should help build a house for the Dai people's festivals and eating customs in Xishuangbanna. Congratulations on the completion of the new house. The young man went upstairs first, carrying a bull's head and singing blessing song. Mature men carry boxes, married women carry bedding, and girls carry food in turn. Then they set up a tripod on the fireplace, put it on the table, set wine and prepare dishes, and sang congratulations on the new house. The villagers also send some auspicious gifts to their owners.
The traditional sauerkraut of Dai people is pickled with beef and then fried. It is characterized by a strong sour taste and can help digestion. The method is to clean fresh beef with rice washing water, cut it into large pieces, put it in a pot, add fresh pepper leaves, salt and rice, mix well, put it in a crock, pour white wine for compaction, cover it, seal the jar mouth with plant ash and mud, and marinate for one month. Shred the marinated beef and fry it with the green garlic sprouts.
5. Boiled fish is a traditional home-cooked dish of Dai people, which is soft, sweet and original.
6. The traditional home cooking of the Dai nationality in Niutou is pickled.
7. sour angle: the sky is high and the clouds are light in winter and spring, and the wind is refreshing. Walking into the Dai village in Xishuangbanna, it is easy to see a kind of fruit tree that local people especially like-Zizyphus jujuba. Its tree is tall, its trunk is rough, its branches are sparse, and a string of brown hooked pods are hung on the branches.
8. Insect food: The Dai area is humid and hot, and there are many kinds of insects. It is an important part of Dai food to make various flavor dishes and snacks with insects as raw materials. Insects that are often eaten are cicadas, bamboo worms, Okubo, soft-shelled turtles and ant eggs.
7. Dai people mainly live in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture, Gengma Dai and Wa Autonomous County, Menglian Dai, Lahu and Wa Autonomous County and Lincang area, with a few scattered in other nearby counties. Dai people usually like to live in big river basins, dam areas and tropical areas.
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