The Dai people are very fond of poetry, especially long narrative poems. Narrative poems such as "Shao Shu Tun and Nan Manona" and "E and Sang Luo" are valuable cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.
Dai clothing, men with collarless lapel or lapel small-sleeved short shirt, under the long tube pants, the cold day cloak felt, more white cloth or green cloth head. The custom of tattooing is very common, and when a boy is eleven or twelve years old, he is invited to tattoo all kinds of animals, flowers, geometric patterns or Dai texts on his chest, back, abdomen, waist and limbs for decoration. Women traditionally wear narrow-sleeved short clothes and tube skirts. Dai women in Xishuangbanna wear white or scarlet undergarments with small waists and wide hemlines, and tube skirts of various colors. Women in Mangshi and other places wear light-colored short shirts with large lapels, long pants, and a small girdle before marriage, and change to short shirts with opposite lapels and black tube skirts after marriage. Mainland Dai women's clothing and border largely the same, but there are regional characteristics, often called by other ethnic groups as "flower waist Dai", "big-sleeved Dai" and so on.
The Water Festival is the most national festival of the Dai people. The Water Festival is the New Year of the Dai calendar, which is held between June 6 and July 6, corresponding to the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar. On the day of the Water Splashing Festival, people worship the Buddha, and the girls wash the Buddha with fresh water with flowers floating in it, and then splash each other with water to play and wish each other good luck. At first with hands and bowls of water, and later with pots and buckets, while splashing and singing, the more intense the splash, drums, gongs, splashing, cheering into one. During the water festival, but also held a dragon boat race, put high, put flying lights and other traditional entertainment activities and a variety of songs and dances.
The Dai people live in a bamboo building is a dry-rail type of building. Bamboo building nearly square, dozens of large bamboo support, suspended pavement floor; roof covered with thatched rows, bamboo wall gap is very large, both ventilated and light, the roof of the two sides of the slope is very large, was "A" shape. The bamboo building is divided into two floors, with people living upstairs and raising livestock and stacking sundries downstairs, which is also a place for pounding rice and weaving cloth. Dai men generally wear collarless shirts with lapel sleeves and long pants, and wrap their heads in white or blue cloth. The costumes of Dai women vary greatly from place to place, but basically they are all characterized by the same features of hair binding, tube skirts and short shirts. The tube skirt is as long as the top of the foot, and the shirt is tight and short, with the hemline only reaching the waist, but the sleeves are long and narrow.
The Dai were the first to cultivate rice and the earliest plowing of the nation, Xishuangbanna has a "barn in the south of Yunnan," known as. Xishuangbanna is known as "the barn of south Yunnan", and "Mangshi Grain Chiafang Rice" is also known to the people of Yunnan. In the superior natural environment, the Dai people have formed a unique Dai flavor with unique raw materials. Their cooking techniques are y influenced by Buddhist temple cuisine and Han cuisine, and their production methods tend to be more mature. The staple food is mainly rice, and they are fond of sour, spicy, hemp and baked food, addicted to wine and betel nut.
Because they often go to the field far away from the village to engage in labor, come back to eat inconvenient, often in the field meals. In addition, they are not good at eating with chopsticks, and are accustomed to eating rice with their hands. Therefore, glutinous rice is suitable for their requirements. The dishes that came into being as a result of eating in the field, such as sour meat, roasted chicken, mumble, moss pine, dried eel, bamboo rice, etc., can be made at home or in the field without a pot over a fire, and it is very convenient to accompany the meal. And because often eat glutinous food, not easy to digest, eat acidic food can help digestion, no wonder other ethnic groups called them "acid Dai". Because of the living environment, the Dai people eat ants, bee pupae, sour bamboo shoots, fire bird and fishy food (such as fish, eel, snails, moss, beef), reflecting their adaptation to the environment of the ingenuity of local materials.
There are baked, fried, pan-fried, stir-fried, boiled, cold, steamed; chicken, duck, fish, meat; grass, fruits, vegetables, can be said to encompass the whole method of cooking, encompassing the mountain treasures and sea food.
Roasted vegetables are chicken, beef meatballs and beef pine, pork, carp and eel, all wrapped in a pleasantly fragrant mountain thatched grass, plus a variety of spices and vegetables baked, fresh flavor, tender meat, easy to chew, nutrients basically retained. Especially eel cut into thin slices, beef meatballs inserted into the tough grass roots, so that people do not know what, forget the blood, pleasant to taste.
The most strange and weird fried dishes should be counted moss pieces, bitter gazpacho, sour plantain pieces, cowhide glue strips, which is a full Manchu banquet; Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian and Laili never something. The moss slices are deep-fried in cold oil, the color is blue and green, and the taste is cold and refreshing. Sour plantain raw can not be imported, astringent and hard, by oil a fried, soft and soft, sweet and sour. Cowhide glue is made of yellow cowhide boiled, fried before the color is translucent glazed, fried after Ying white oil, crispy bubbles crispy, flick a dip in a kind of tomato and green pepper coriander sauce called "Nammi" sent to the mouth, really fragrant and not manipulation, crunchy in the soft feeling, sour, spicy, sweet and salty five flavors are complete.
Pan-fried also strange: green pepper wrapped meat. Greasy package hidden in the fat green pepper belly, so that people eat and know its taste and do not know its quality, which is probably the use of the form of decorative content, resulting in intuitive sense of beauty, at once won people's favor. Fried is a stinky steamed eggs, the name of stink real incense, incense slightly bitter cool gas, people recall again and again.
Boiled is sour bamboo shoots chicken. Banna is full of slope green bamboo, Dai people will be young bamboo shoots composted acid used to cook chicken, there is a "true meaning of this, want to discern has forgotten to say" the flavor. And Banna's chicken is mostly chicken, long and thin body, never fat, meat and fragrant and mellow, with the bamboo shoots a cook, it is really colorful and fragrant, simple, light, fresh.
And white chicken. Of course, Mr. Guo Moruo and the most favorite Sichuan white chicken with different tastes, not salty, numb, spicy strong breath, there is a light and fresh Daijia characteristics, which is probably the Daijia people are not confined to the tradition of taking the best of others, melt their own. This is probably the Dai people are not confined to tradition, take the advantages of others, melt their own. long, innovation and creation of a masterpiece. Indeed, Dai compatriots live in China, Lao. The Dai compatriots live in the border of China, Lao People's Democratic Republic and Myanmar, and adjacent to Thailand and India. Southeast Asia around the cultural history, customs and folklore, and even religious habits of its influence is not small, the Dai and very open and free, good to learn from the long of others, so Bozhezhongjia, integration and integration, a self