Composition on the customs of the Dai people (1)
The Dai people have many customs, let me introduce a few.
Most Dai people have the habit of eating two meals a day, with rice and glutinous rice as their staple food. Migrant workers often have fish meals in the wild, using banana leaves or rice mixed with a ball of glutinous rice, along with salt, spicy pepper, sour meat, roast chicken, sauce, and pineapple. Their daily meat diet includes pigs, beef, chickens and ducks, and they eat little or no mutton. They are good at cooking roasted chicken, roasted chicken, shrimp, crab, snails, and other aquatic products. Using moss as a dish is a unique flavor of the Dai people. When cooking fish, it is usually made into sour fish or grilled into lemongrass grass carp. When eating crabs, the crabs with shells and meat are usually chopped into crab sauce and eaten with rice. The Dai people call this crab sauce "crab Nanmibu". Bitter melon is the most produced and consumed daily vegetable. In addition to bitter melon, Xishuangbanna also has a kind of bitter bamboo shoots, so there is also a bitter flavor in the Dai flavor.
The Dai area is humid and hot, and there are many kinds of insects. Using insects as raw materials to make various flavored dishes and snacks is an important part of the Dai food. Commonly eaten insects include cicadas, bamboo insects, giant spiders, field turtles, ant eggs, etc. Catching cicadas is done every evening in the summer. When the cicadas swarm in the grass, their wings are soaked in dew and cannot fly. The women quickly pick the cicadas into bamboo baskets and put them in a pot to dry and make sauce. Dai people also like ant eggs. They often eat yellow ants that nest in trees. When collecting ant eggs, they first drive away the ants and then collect the eggs.
Among the Dai people, when a family builds a house, the whole village will come to help. When the new house is completed, it is necessary to congratulate the new house. The first to go upstairs is the young man, carrying the cow's head, singing blessing songs, and the strong man carrying the box. The women hugged the quilts, and the girls came up one by one with the meals. Then they set up tripods on the fire pit, set the tables, prepared wine and vegetables, and sang songs to celebrate the new house.
The Dai people have many customs and habits, not only these, the Dai people have the famous Water Splashing Festival. Everyone has a chance to check it out!
Composition on the Customs of the Dai People (2)
Fifty-six constellations, fifty-six flowers, fifty-six brothers and sisters are one family, and fifty-six languages ??are combined into one sentence . (m.taiks.com) Fifty-six flowers bloomed together. Each flower has a different folk custom. What attracts me the most is the Dai people.
For an amateur "foodie" like me, the first thing to do is to taste the unique snack of the Dai people - bamboo tube rice. Cut off the fresh bamboo joints, put the glutinous rice in the bamboo joints, soak them in water for several hours, plug the mouth of the tube with banana leaves or clean sugar cane leaves, bake them on the fire, and then place the bamboo tube on a flat wooden board. , tap lightly to peel off the thin skin of the bamboo tube, and you will get a cylindrical piece of rice. The delicious bamboo tube rice recipe of the Dai people puts glutinous rice into a bamboo tube and roasts it, blending the aroma of glutinous rice and green bamboo into one. It is a delicious food with excellent color, fragrance and the most ethnic characteristics.
The Dai people are a nation rich in bamboo, so in addition to bamboo tube rice, even the houses they live in are bamboo buildings. Bamboo is used because it protects against extreme heat and moisture.
If you come to visit the Dai people from April 13th to April 15th in the Gregorian calendar, then you have to be careful, because this is the Dai people’s New Year - Water Splashing Festival, so if you don’t pay attention, you will Will become a "soaked rat"! During the Water Splashing Festival, Dai men, women and children dressed in festive costumes, carried water, first came to the Buddhist temple to bathe the Buddha, and then began to splash water on each other. Good luck, happiness and health. Everyone splashed and splashed on each other, there was water baptism, water blessing, water singing everywhere, and the water flowers were laughing, the Water Splashing Festival became a sea of ??joy! The Dai people are good at singing and dancing, so dancing is naturally indispensable during the Water Splashing Festival. The peacock dance is beautiful, elegant and lyrical. The peacock dance is the soul of the Dai dance. The dance is based on the various postures of the peacock. In the re-creation of beauty and beauty, It condenses the aesthetic taste of Dai people. There are also many dancers who show off their improvisations to the fullest. Some dance and sing at the same time, and some even drink while dancing. They are so intoxicated and eclectic that they don't seem to get tired even if they dance for several days in a row. .
“The customs are different in a hundred miles and different customs in a thousand miles.” Although the Dai people are a minority, their enthusiasm and simplicity left a deep impression on me.
The exquisite costumes decorate this land and the happy life of the Dai people.