About Dai
Dai has a population of 1,620,000 people, of which 1,014,000 are in Yunnan Province, mainly live in the states and the District of Dehong Prefecture of Xishuangbanna. Pro-hing of Gengma, Bangladesh, the Simao Menglian, Yuxi new equal more than 30 counties have also distributed. Dai for the ancestors of an ancient Baiyue, the Han Dynasty "Yunnan and Vietnam," "Shan." Wei and Jin Dynasties, "Gold Tooth" and "white" and "razed before" and so on, he said, but claimed to be a "Dai", which means love freedom and peace. Dai Dai water, and dry Huayao Dai Dai division.
Dai has a long history, rich culture, has its own calendar, language, and a wealth of folk literature and art, said the world. Music, dance, folk songs, folk stories, and so full of national characteristics, and have widespread implications. Dai live mainly in tropical and subtropical regions of Pingba, many villages Linjiang River lakes, each home is usually a Zhulou, Zhu Li surrounded by fruit trees, shade Bamboo, the environment is very beautiful. Surrounded by fertile land, rich products. Dai people of modest character, favorite song and dance.
It is said that Dai women's dress, is the world's most beautiful, like a peacock open its screen, colorful, beautiful, eye-openers. As long as people understand the situation and feel that this is not an exaggeration. Dai women generally grow tall and slender, simple face Jiao Mei, looks Tingtingyuli, Yitaiwanfang, it has long been known as the "Golden Peacock" reputation. They not only much longer the United States, but also good at dress, with its own unique fashion dress was a Ruhuasiyu. Dai Zhaixiu women generally prefer to wear short skirts and the EC, their slim slender body fully displayed. Above wore a Bose Feise or underwear, is outside the tight jacket, round neck Zhaixiu, Tai Jin, also Duijin, polygoni orientalis, light yellow, light green, white, sky blue and other colors. Now with more than Georgette, silk, really cool, and other sewing materials. Zhaixiu shirt with his arms tightly set, a few branches that do not gap. Many people also like to use color on the sewing materials, if carefully read, but also do not see sleeves, Yi Jin is just around the waist, tightly muffle body, and then a silver belt with the Department of Manpower and dress shirt I, under a long skirt to the instep of the EC, small and slim waist, generous lap. Dai women's clothing that fully demonstrated the women's chest, waist, hip, "measurements" of the United States, together with the use of soft fabric, bright crisp, whether to walk or do something, give a Enaduozi, the elegant chic.
Dai men generally wear no collar or Duijin Dajin small-sleeved shirt, long pants under the dress, with white, green or purple silk cloth fabric Baotou, some of them wearing a hat brush ceremony, chic looks generous. Dai both men and women, out of the total Stock your shoulders like a tapestry made with the satchel (Pago tube). Satchel bright colors, simple styles, with strong color of life and ethnic characteristics. There are rare birds and animals patterns, geometric shapes or flowers of trees, lifelike images, lifelike. Each pattern contains specific content, such as: red, green will be a tribute to their ancestors; peacock design that Jixiangruyi; elephant symbolizes Wugufengdeng design, a beautiful life, full performance of the Dai people's yearning for a better life and the pursuit.
Dai festival has opened the door of the main section, closed section, send Dragon Festival, which is the most solemn Songkran. Songkran is the Dai people off the old and traditional New Year holiday, people believe that sprinkling of water each other misfortunes can be difficult to indemnify each other blessings. In addition to the young men and women are blessed with each other, but also play each other for water. Festival held in sand, packet loss and let rise, the dragon-boat race, and other activities. By then the world's five guests gathered in the West Banna and Dehong, unusually lively.
Dai customs
Dai Simao in the region were distributed to Jinggu, Menglian, Lancang, Jiangcheng, tea, Sumie, most of Simao. Jinggu, Menglian Dai for the support that system, Lancang Mountain View, Mountain that the branches stretch to Dai, the Neckar River land for the Dai cents agency branches. Dai Jinggu more cottage living, civil engineering structures to tile or grass coverage, the Office for the door, cooking set, Peng Cha, used for heating Huotang, vials of iron tripod, make the bed room for guests, about the Office of HS Small rooms were the main bedroom. Housing structure of the floor-and-dry fields are dry palm-floor bar, live upstairs, downstairs customs livestock, firewood stacked and production tools. Dry-field housing Dongnuanxialiang to wood for building materials in order to Zamu-based, multi-use Red tree, chestnut tree, Acacia tree when the column to bamboo or wood chips do rafter. Gallant roof row Ban Wa or the range of housing points up and down two floors, the upper fence with wooden or bamboo walls, floor, after taking a flat roof, Menglian, Lancang, the whole Jiangcheng Dong Dai and other places of residence stem-house bar. Neckar River soil branch cents Department of Social Dai people living floor-cover chicken cage room.
Dai Jinggu costumes, men Touchan white scarf, hat love during the festival, wearing a white Duijin clothing, crotch-wide. Integration of women wearing skirts, T-shirt for Kuanxiu open collar, white collar on the lining. Most people like white, blue, black and tri-color, wearing a dark-colored and more old age, the girls wear light-colored hi. Hi young and old are wearing silver earrings, jade bracelets man with tattoos customs, from the extremities to the chest, back pattern can be, more tattoo, a form of animals, flowers design, more is more barbed wish of blessing Dai Wen category, or some of the influential Buddhist saying. Dai people stretched clothing, women love tight jacket, a long dark skirt and Manpower, a silver belt clasps, earring small silver earrings, white like the Baotou, with most of the self-woven textiles from the red stripes banner Baotou. The founding of New China in the early, but also as a pattern for the skirt of the cloth, so his family had been referred to as "Huayao Dai." Dai stretched Chinese men tend to dress. Great place to wear the elderly Tubu crotch trousers, Duijintubu T-shirt, wearing a white hat or a packet header. Women's long hair, braids for not only end in the draft on the back of the head hair-pin plug, and then covered with flowers Baotou, the Dai people in general like black stretch clothing. Dai agency cent of men do not tattoo, do not set teeth have been popular fashion, on women wearing skin-tight white dress, hand-made two-off, there are 12 pairs of silver nail two-button, under the EC was wearing a blue skirt, earrings fall, head scarves package.
Dai young love as "another Lass", which means string girl. There are carried out with the invitation, alone, to love each other after the messenger, such as lace ribbon, earrings, jewelry, and so on. The two sides do not get married without parental consent, it is required to complete the customs of the bride price, Xu Fang married, marriage in general after the age of 20. More wedding dowry, the Dai People Jinggu Jiang Xiapin marriage, the woman's parents to be Nanjia 2 pot liquor, meat jin 5, 4 noodles, brown sugar jin 20, 1500 diesel-jin, 100 yuan infants money. In addition to the matchmaker to a pig head, a pillow, a pair of shoes, but also to a number of chiefs jin rice and meat. Married women to give back to the gate house 4 cents to 2 yuan, Yi Zhang cloth. Dai's marriage stretched more freedom, as long as both parties love to tell parents to please pro-media, and use the money to do bride price, based on the number of their financial resources. Because of the mating conditions, Dai were stretched for consanguineous marriage in general, did not name the marriage is not limited to, simple wedding, prepared to do some of the poor banana, sugar cane, and other fruits, alcoholic drinks and tobacco, relatives and friends held a ceremony to congratulate you, kill-off home Pig dinners, no scaffolding Taijiao not, nor Chuiladanchang, to be held by the elderly when the wedding tying soul line, in order to teach the truth in life, blessing Hershey, the husband from the wife of the more common home, mostly from the teenager, from both sides To discuss the decision.
Dai Jinggu line burial and cremation, burial death row. Unnatural deaths to be cremated. To please the dead after the Buddha sell their souls spirits, do dishes prepared by the host to the Hall of Buddha Monk, pigs and cattle well kill entertain friends and relatives and had a hand in it. Dead spirits after the burial of the bodies carried Lin Li, head east and west legs, with white cloth after Guoshi with wooden or bamboo fence funeral and burial after grave base, is not built, people are not grave. Dan Buddhist temple festivals in the Buddha, water, read by the Buddha "by the water," dedicated to future generations of sacrifice dedicated to the souls of the deceased. Well known and high-level monks after the death of the Buddha monks to erect the monument, such as the pagoda-shaped, "Saadi" level, the higher the status of the monument tower level more monument engraved with flower patterns, not words. Dai stretch after death, the Buddha invited the monk to sell their spirits, the family of the deceased to make merit, and then with wooden coffins to bury do. The normal death row burial, cremation line of unnatural deaths. Dai agency cents burial after death row; funeral with the coffin, the base for the grave-chi, but no inscriptions, just a round stone Wai. Adults died, to kill a buffalo, a cattle for sacrifice, to please the Hani funeral, "Bailey ugly woman" to choose projections.