The Dai people live in a place with a low altitude and a wide area (commonly known as "bazi"). Due to the influence of natural factors such as climate and temperature, the most striking feature of the Dai people living on the dam is that they like to eat sour food, so they are called "acid". In the famous dishes of the Dai nationality, almost all famous dishes are inseparable from acid. As a condiment, "acid" is both botanical, such as bamboo shoots and limes; There are animals, such as acid ants; There are also chemical reactions, such as vinegar (homemade). On the one hand, the Dai people are acidophilic, which is related to their living areas. Dai people live in hot and dry places. Acidic food can not only help digestion, but also stimulate appetite and prevent heatstroke. The Dai people's love for acid is gradually formed and preserved in the process of fighting against nature and overcoming natural factors such as high temperature. It is the simplest, most direct and most effective custom formed in the process of labor, and it is also the most eye-catching highlight in Dai food culture, which can best reflect the national characteristics. Another feature of Dai food culture is "eating game". The so-called "eating wild" means that Dai people like to eat some wild animals and plants. In the "Eat Wild Food" menu of Dai food culture, there are both animals, such as "Wendun" (an insect living on the bank of Nujiang River) and cicadas. There are also plants, such as wild bracken, thorn buds, fish plates, citronella, and "swinging sticks" (a long green plant that eats its tender buds and is named after the Dai people love to eat it). These wild plants have the functions of clearing away lung heat, improving eyesight, strengthening brain and resisting aging. The characteristics of "eating wild" in Dai diet culture prove that Dai people know and admire nature, which reflects a kind of indifferent, leisurely and casual psychological characteristics of Dai people. Another notable feature of Dai diet culture is "eating flowers". The flowers of Panzhihua, Baihua, Banana and other plants are made into delicious dishes by Dai people with spices. In the flower-eating custom of Dai people's diet, the most surprising thing is to pick a kind of flower called dyed rice flower and wash it. Put the dyed rice flower in water and boil it, leave the flower out of the water, soak the glutinous rice in the yellow dyed rice flower water for about 4 hours to make the color enter the rice heart, then take out the colored glutinous rice, steam it in a steamer until it is cooked, and then pour it into a basin and stir it repeatedly. Rice presents the yellow color of flowers, soft and delicious, and slightly fragrant. This meal is usually cooked in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and it is used as a "meal" for ancestor worship after it is done; It can also be matched with other dishes at the festival banquet, because it is full of color, flavor and flavor, thus increasing the festive atmosphere of the festival. The unique diet structure of the Dai people conforms to the green food advocated today. Dai cuisine has the characteristics of high protein, high vitamins, high carbohydrate and low fat, which is one of the reasons why Dai people, especially Dai women, are not easy to get fat. From the point of view of nutritious diet, Dai cuisine is worth popularizing. Dai people who report their living habits are distributed in Huili, Yanbian County and the suburbs of Panzhihua, and live together with Han, Yi and Lisu nationalities. There are about 5500 people in Sichuan. In the Han dynasty, their ancestors were called "mountains"; In the Tang dynasty, they were called "gold teeth" and "silver teeth"; During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was called "spinning foreigners" or "cutting foreigners". During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the Dai chieftain in Jingdong, Yunnan Province was transferred to Jianchang (now Xichang) to help quell the rebellion of Lu Yue timur, a general of the Yuan Dynasty. Things settled, the soldiers changed to the people, married and repaired, and became a long lawsuit. Hijikata Chizuru households, Yanbian, Miyi and Huili local households. Some people will emigrate for different reasons in the future. 1935, with the support of Dai boats, the Red Army crossed Jiaopingdu in Jinsha River. Before the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), China had entered the feudal landlord society, but there were still remnants of the landlord system. Dai language belongs to the Dai branch of Zhuang-Dai language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. There is a custom of uxorilocal. When men and women get married, they splash water on each other to show their blessings. Dance "Foot" Men and women wear double-breasted or diagonal-breasted long-sleeved jackets, trousers and wrapped heads. Give priority to developing agriculture. Dietary culture The diet and diet structure of the Dai people are determined by their living environment. Because of the heat, it tastes sour, spicy and bitter (cold), which is helpful to stimulate appetite, relieve summer heat, detoxify and sterilize. There are many kinds of food. Except the products grown in the garden and raised at home, it seems that all the products produced by rivers in Shan Ye can be eaten. "Everything green is vegetables, and everything moving is meat", which is a joke. Some exotic things, such as ant eggs, cicada pupae, flower spiders, bamboo maggots, sand maggots and mosses, have become the favorite foods of the Dai people, which surprises foreigners. The cooking methods of food mainly include roasting, steaming, frying, boiling, pickling, chopping and frying, with special emphasis on the preparation of condiments.