1. The Dai people’s festivals mainly include Door Festival, Open Door Festival and Water Splashing Festival.

2. Close-Door Festival and Open-Door Festival: Close-Door Festival falls on September 15th in the Dai calendar, which is mid-July in the Gregorian calendar. Open-Door Festival falls on December 15 in the Dai calendar, which is mid-October in the Gregorian calendar.

Men, women, and children from all villages go to Buddhist temples to hold grand Buddha worship activities. They offer delicacies, flowers and coins to the Buddha statue, chant sutras and drip water in front of the Buddha statue, in order to pray for the blessings of the Buddha on people.

3. The three months from the Close-Door Festival to the Open-Door Festival is the "closed" time, which is the most frequent period of religious activities in the year.

Pay homage to the Buddha, listen to the Buddha's sermons, and earn a small fortune every 7 days.

In the evening, fireworks, firecrackers, and high-rise lanterns (Kongming lanterns) are set off to hold a "rushing display".

During the closing period, young men and women can fall in love, but they cannot get married or go out; they can only get married and go out after the "opening".

4. Water Splashing Festival: It takes place in late June or early July in the Dai calendar, which is mid-April in the Gregorian calendar.

The festival usually lasts for 3 days.

The first two days are for seeing off the old, and the last day is for welcoming the new.

In the early morning of the festival, men, women, and children from Dai villages dress up and go to Buddhist temples to worship Buddha. They pile sand and build 4 or 5 pagodas in the temple. Everyone sits around the pagodas and listens to the Buddha chanting sutras.

Afterwards, the women each carried a load of water to "wash away the dust" of the Buddha statue.

After the ceremony in the Buddhist temple, the young men and women exited and poured water on each other to bless each other.

Then groups of people parade around, splashing water on passers-by as a blessing.