Activities Dai festivals are mostly related to religious activities.

The main festivals include Door Festival, Open Door Festival, Water Splashing Festival, etc.

Close-Door Festival, Open-Door Festival Close-Door Festival, "Hai Wasa" in Dai language, is fixed on September 15th in the Dai calendar (mid-July in the Gregorian calendar).

The Open-Door Festival, called "Wengwasa" in Dai language, is fixed on December 15 in the Dai calendar (mid-October in the Gregorian calendar).

On these two festival days, men, women, and children from all villages will go to Buddhist temples to hold grand Buddha worship activities. They will present delicacies, flowers and coins to the Buddha statues, chant sutras and drip water in front of the Buddha statues, in order to pray for the blessings of the Buddha on people.

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".

Water Splashing Festival Dai Li Year - Water Splashing Festival is a traditional festival of the Dai people.

In Dai language, it is called "Sangkan Bimai" or "Lenghe Sangkan", which means New Year in June.

The time is in late June or early July in the Dai calendar (mid-April in the Gregorian calendar).

Held approximately ten days after the Qingming Festival in the lunar calendar, it symbolizes the "best days".

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.

Every year during the Water Splashing Festival in Xishuangbanna, the Dai people hold a huge dragon boat race on the Lancang River. After the race, the dragon boats are dismantled and put into the bamboo building of the Buddhist temple for safekeeping. The dismantled dragon boats will be taken away before the Water Splashing Festival comes the next year.

When assembled, the assembled dragon boat is called "dry black".

The most solemn festival in Huayao Dai is the "Flower Street 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. Young girls (girls) in costumes line up in long queues, walking through the flower street, competing for beauty, and full of charm; while the young men open their eyes wide and 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.