Dai people love poetry very much, especially long narrative poems. Narrative poems such as Zhao Shuli, Nan Manna, He E and luo sang are valuable cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.
Dai clothing, men wear collarless double-breasted or large-breasted small sleeve coat, long-sleeved trousers, blankets when it is cold, and white or green cloth to cover their heads. The custom of tattooing is very common. When the boy was eleven or twelve years old, he was asked to tattoo various animals, flowers, geometric patterns or Dai patterns on his chest, back, abdomen, waist and limbs as decorations. Women traditionally wear short sleeves and skirts. Dai women in Xishuangbanna wear white or scarlet underwear with small waist, wide hem and various tube skirts. Women in mangshi and other places wear light-colored double-breasted blouses, trousers and small waists before marriage, and change them into double-breasted blouses and black skirts after marriage. The women's clothing of the Dai people in the mainland is basically the same as that of the frontier, but it has regional characteristics, so it is often called "Huayao Dai" and "Dai Xiu Dai" by other ethnic groups.
Songkran Festival is the most national festival of Dai people. Songkran Festival is the New Year of Dai calendar, which lasts from June 6th to July 6th, equivalent to April in Gregorian calendar. At the Water-Splashing Festival, people will worship Buddha. The girls will wash the dust for the Buddha with fresh water floating with flowers, then splash water on each other and bless each other. At first, water was splashed with hands and bowls, and then songs were splashed with pots and barrels. The more intense the splashing, the drums, gongs, water splashing and cheers became one. During the Songkran Festival, traditional entertainment activities such as dragon boat racing, flying high and flying lanterns and various song and dance parties will be held.
The bamboo building where Dai people live is a dry-column building. The bamboo building is approximately square, supported by dozens of large bamboos, and the floor is suspended; The roof is covered with thatched rows, and the bamboo wall has a large gap, which is both ventilated and light-permeable. The slope on both sides of the roof is very large, showing an "A" shape. The bamboo building is divided into two floors, where people live upstairs, livestock are raised downstairs and sundries are piled up. It's also a place for rice and weaving. Dai men usually wear collarless double-breasted shirts and long-sleeved trousers wrapped in white or blue cloth. Dai women's costumes vary greatly from place to place, but they are basically characterized by bunches of hair, skirts and shirts. The skirt is ankle-deep, the clothes are tight and short, the hem only reaches the waist, but the sleeves are long and narrow.
Dai people are the first people to grow rice. Xishuangbanna has the reputation of "granary in southern Yunnan". "mangshi millet mixed rice" is also praised by Yunnan people. In the superior natural environment, the Dai people have formed a unique Dai flavor with unique raw materials. Its cooking techniques are deeply influenced by Buddhist and Chinese cuisine, and its cooking methods tend to be mature. The staple food is rice, and I like to eat sour, spicy, hemp and baked food, and drink and chew betel nut.
Because they often go to work in the wild far from the village, it is inconvenient to come back to eat, and they often eat in the wild. In addition, they are not good at eating with chopsticks and are used to holding rice with their hands. So glutinous rice just suits their requirements. Dishes accompanied by outdoor dining, such as sour meat, roast chicken, glutinous rice, moss pine, dried eel, bamboo rice and so on. You can cook it at home or without a pot of wildfire, which is very convenient to accompany meals. Because they often eat sticky food, it is not easy to digest, and eating acidic food helps digestion. No wonder other ethnic groups call them "acid Dai". Because it is related to the living environment, the Dai people eat ants, bee pupae, sour bamboo shoots, fire finches and fishy foods (such as fish, eel, snails, moss and beef), which shows their intelligence in adapting to the environment and using local materials.
There are roasting, frying, frying, frying, boiling, cooling and steaming; Chicken, duck, fish and meat; Grass, fruit and vegetables can be described as including all cooking methods, including delicacies.
Roasted vegetables include chicken, beef balls, beef floss, pork, carp and eel. All wrapped in a pleasant fragrant mountain grass, baked with various spices and vegetables. It tastes delicious, the meat is tender and chewy, and the nutrients are basically preserved. In particular, the eel is sliced into thin slices, and the beef balls are inserted with tough grass roots, which makes people forget the blood and taste it happily.
The strangest and strangest stir-fried dishes are moss slices, bitter cold dishes, sour banana slices and cowhide rubber strips. This is a Manchu-Chinese banquet. This is the characteristic of Sichuan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Fujian and Li Lai. Moss slices are fried in cold oil, with green color and cool taste. Sour bananas can't be eaten raw, they are astringent and hard. After frying, it is soft and sweet. Niu Pijiao is made of cowhide. Before frying, the color is translucent glass. After frying, it is white, shiny and crisp. A tomato and green pepper coriander sauce named "Mi Nan" is dipped in it and sent to the mouth. It is really fragrant but not dry. There is a soft feeling in the crisp, sweet and sour.
Stir-fried is also strange: green peppers are wrapped in meat. Hiding greasy food in the belly of fat and lush peppers makes people know its taste but not its quality. It is probably to decorate the content with formal literature and create an intuitive aesthetic feeling, which has won people's favor at once. What is fried is smelly steamed eggs, which are smelly and fragrant, with a bitter chill in the fragrance, which makes people think again and again.
Boiled chicken is sour bamboo shoots. There are bamboos everywhere in Banna, and the Dai people cook chicken with tender bamboo shoots, which has a unique flavor of "having a real meaning in it, but forgetting what to say". Moreover, most of Banna's chickens are black-bone chickens, which are slender and rarely obese. The meat is mellow, and it is really delicious to cook with sour bamboo shoots. It is simple, light and delicious.
And boiled chicken. Of course, it is different from Sichuan boiled chicken, Mr. Guo Moruo's favorite. There is no strong salty, hemp and spicy taste, and some are light and delicious. This is probably because Dai's family is not confined to tradition, learn from each other's strengths and achieve mastery through a comprehensive study. Dragon, a masterpiece of innovation. Indeed, Dai compatriots live in middle-aged and elderly people. Myanmar border, adjacent to Thailand and India. Southeast Asia's cultural history, customs and even religious habits have a great influence on it. Dai people are very open and free, and they are good at learning from others, so they learn from others and achieve mastery.