The festivals of the Dai people include the Door Festival, the Open Door Festival, the Water Splashing Festival, the Flower Street Festival, the Xuntian Dam Festival, etc.

1. The Close-Door Festival falls on the 15th day of the ninth month in the Dai calendar. After the Close-Door Festival begins, it also enters the busy farming season. In order to concentrate on productive labor, people set many rules and regulations.

For example, it is forbidden for young men and women to fall in love and get married; monks are not allowed to go out casually; people who worship Buddha are not allowed to stay away from home or spend the night in other houses; no one is allowed to enter the Buddha's house, go to the Buddha's platform, or take things belonging to the Buddha, etc.

It was not until three months later, during the Opening Festival, that people resumed all normal activities before the Closing Festival.

2. The Open-Door Festival is on the 15th day of December in the Dai calendar, which corresponds to the Close-Door Festival (summer festival). It originates from the ancient Indian Buddhist habit of living in peace during the rainy season.

On the festival day, young men and women dressed in costumes go to Buddhist temples to worship Buddha and offer food, flowers, wax strips and coins.

After the sacrifice is completed, a grand cultural gathering is held to celebrate the end of the fast since the Close-Door Festival.

The main contents include setting off sparks and soaring, lighting Kongming lanterns, singing and dancing.

3. The Water Splashing Festival is held in late June or early July in the Dai calendar (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.

4. During the Flower Street Festival, on the 13th day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, young men and women gather from the surrounding villages to the Flower Street. Young girls (girls) in costumes line up in long queues and walk through the Flower Street, competing in makeup and beauty. The young men are full of charm;

Keep your eyes open to find the one you love.

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.

5. The Xuntianba Festival falls on the 13th day of the first lunar month. Dai men and women, dressed in festive costumes, gather under the big green trees in the village and beat gongs and drums.

Singers carried rice wine and sang songs to welcome the spring and the four seasons.

People danced to the beat of the drums.

When the golden sun rises, an elder loudly announces the start of the "Tour Dam". People intoxicated with singing and dancing automatically form a team, led by eight young people carrying colorful flags. Everyone blows trumpets and

Beating gongs and drums, blasting firecrackers, and setting off muskets, they marched toward Tianba in a mighty manner.