Day, with a population of 1,025,000.

The Dai people mainly live in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and the rest are distributed in cities and counties in Yunnan.

Claims to be "Big Roku Dai, Dai Ya", named after Dai.

Dai language belongs to the traditional phonetic text of the Dai language of the Zhuang-Dong language group in Tibetan.

Dai's faith is Theravada Buddhism.

The Dai Nationality has a long history. China's historical records from the 1st century BC include the Dai people.

In 109 BC, the Han Dynasty established Yizhou County, and the Dai area was under the jurisdiction of Yizhou County.

AD 69, Dai area in Yongchang County.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the hereditary chieftains were abolished in minority areas, the Dai areas gradually normalized temporary officials (liangguan), and the "chief" policy rules changed to the direct rule of the court.

The People's Republic of China was established in the County Education Bureau of the Dai area.

The Dai people live in bamboo buildings, which are ganlan-style buildings.

The bamboo building is approximately square with dozens of bamboo supports, a vacant workshop, a thatched roof, and a large gap between the bamboo walls. It is ventilated and light-transmissive. The two sides of the sloping roof are in the shape of an "A".

The bamboo building is divided into two levels. The upstairs is for living, and the downstairs is where livestock is stored, where sundries are piled, rice is pounded, and cloth is weaved.

Dai men generally wear a long-sleeved shirt with a double-breasted collar, trousers, and a white or green cloth headband.

The clothing of Dai women is about the same, but basically it has the same characteristics as hair buns, tube skirts, and shirts.

Tube skirts are long to the feet, tight-fitting and short at the hem and waist, with long and narrow sleeves.

Dai's staple food is rice, the most unique bamboo tube rice.

The production method is to add water to fresh bamboo rice and grill it over fire. It tastes fragrant and delicious.

Pu'er tea, a specialty of Yunnan Xishuangbanna, was exported to China in all parts. It was exported to Southeast Asia and South Asia during the Tang Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. Now it has entered the markets of Japan and Western Europe and other countries and regions. It is a well-known tea in China and abroad.

Dai has his own calendar.

The difference between the Gregorian calendar year 638 and the Gregorian calendar year 639 is the first year of Dai Li.

The Dai Li year is a year in the Gregorian calendar, and the month is the first month of the lunar calendar.

Dai Li is divided into three seasons, from January to April, the cold season, from May to August, and the hot season, September to December, which is the rainy season.

Dai people are very fond of poetry, especially narrative poetry.

The narrative poems "Zhao Shudun, and Ma Nan Nuona", "Ashima" and "E" and other works are precious cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. There are many types of Dai dance movements, mainly simulating movements of the same local animals.

The peacock dance imitates the beautiful movements of the peacock, and also comes from the beautiful legend of the Dai people. The peacock dance is famous at home and abroad. The Water Splashing Festival is the most characteristic of the Dai people.

During the Li New Year Festival, which is from June 6 to July 6, which is equivalent to April in the Gregorian calendar, people worship Buddha and welcome home girls with flowers floating in the clear water, and then splashing playfully on each other.

Wishing each other. At first, water was splashed with hands and bowls, then with basins and buckets, and the splashing songs became more intense, with drums, gongs, splashes, and cheers integrated into one. During the Water Splashing Festival, a dragon boat race was also held to soar and fly.

Lanterns and other traditional entertainment, song and dance performances and various activities. Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province is very rich in fruits, with more than 110 species of plants and animals here, the famous plant kingdom, and the animal kingdom.

The first-level nature reserve was opened to the outside world in 1991. People can visit the treasure house of nature and appreciate the rich subtropical style. The original religion of Dai Custom Dai still retains the belief in animism and the introduction of Hinayana Buddhism.

The early Dai people believed that things in the world, including humans and animals, plants, and all inanimate objects, have souls. The soul is immortal, and it can bring about death if the sick soul suffers some kind of injury.

The soul leaves the body and never comes back. People are not only afraid of various diseases and disasters, but also have a strong desire to overcome pain and try to harm or free the soul.

Soul-calling, soul-calling can also be done on livestock, poultry and grains, to attract a large number of souls, to call for "Huanhuan" (to summon little souls), to "Huanhuan" (souls), and to help people call "Huannan".

Long" (Recruiting the Soul of a Black Girl) 4.

There are three options for livestock, poultry and crops to be summoned: "awakening to care" (to summon the soul of cattle), "waking to return cover" (to summon the soul of chicken) and "waking up to Huanxian" (to summon the soul of rice). According to the survey, *

**There are 81 ways to summon (called) souls. They believe that people have 32 ghosts and 92 ghosts. As long as the ghost hurts or leaves the human body, a part of the human body will become sick or even die.

There are 81 kinds of soul-calling methods, all called "hun", the most famous one is "awakening the soul of Huan Nanlang", which is the so-called black girl's soul, it has the word "hun".

Soul-calling rituals vary from region to region: in some areas, the village accountant is asked to be responsible for worshiping the soul of Bo Nian; in some areas, elderly parents are invited.