The Dai people call the little girl "Xiao Bu Shao" and the little boy "Xiao Bu Mao".

The most solemn festival of Huayao Dai is the "Huajie Festival" on the 13th day of the first lunar month.

On this day, thousands of young men and women from surrounding villages gathered in Flower Street.

The festival's Flower Street is very lively. There are long queues of young Bu Shao (girls) dressed in costumes, walking through the flower street, competing for beauty, and infinite style; Xiao Bu Mao (young men) keep their eyes wide open to look for the one they like.

If they are in love with each other, they will meet in the lychee bush under the phoenix tail bamboo. The girl takes off the rice rice from her waist and opens the green banana leaves. She sees the fragrant glutinous rice dyed half golden and half bright red with flower juice.

The leaves are layered layer by layer filled with delicacies such as pork loin, fried dried eel, and pickled duck eggs.

The two ate together and talked about love.

After eating rice, the matter of proposing and getting married was decided.

Extended information: 1. Dai women traditionally wear narrow-sleeved shorts and tube skirts.

Dai women in Xishuangbanna wear white or crimson underwear with a small waist, wide hem and various colored skirts.

Women in Dehong, Mangshi and other places wear light-colored blouses, trousers, and small aprons before marriage, and change to blouses and black skirts after marriage.

The clothing of Dai women in the mainland is generally the same as that in the frontier areas, but it has regional characteristics. For this reason, it is often called "Huayao Dai", "Big Sleeve Dai", etc. by other ethnic groups.

For example, the Dai women in Xinping, Yuxi City tie their skirts with special flower belts that are more than ten feet long, hence the name "Huayao Dai".

Their clothing is mainly black and red, with close-fitting short coats that reach their upper waists. The necklines are made of fine silver bubbles to form a staggered diamond pattern. Their waists are decorated with embroidered belts that are five or six meters long. They wear pointed "tops" on their heads.

"Ji Cong" bamboo hat with an upturned brim.

The unique headdresses and costumes of the "Huayao Dai" are very similar to the figures on the Dian bronzes unearthed from Shizhai Mountain in Jinning and Lijiashan in Jiangchuan. They have the same characteristics such as vertebrae buns, short skirts, and tube skirts.

Proving the continuity between the two.

2. Dai men Dai men wear collarless short-sleeved shirts with double lapels or large lapels, long trousers, and blankets in cold weather. They usually wrap their heads with white or green cloth.

The custom of men getting tattoos is very common. It not only expresses bravery, but also can ward off evil spirits, protect the body and decorate the body.

When a boy reaches around 11 years old, he will get tattoos. Most of the tattoos are tiger, leopard, lion, dragon, snake and eagle.

Most of the parts to be tattooed are the limbs, chest, abdomen, and back. Generally, it takes two days to tattoo a leg and seven to eight days to tattoo the whole body.