1. The main food of the Dai people is rice. Dehong area eats japonica rice, Xishuangbanna and other places like to eat glutinous rice, which is usually eaten immediately. The famous fragrant bamboo rice of Dai people is also called bamboo tube rice, which is made by putting glutinous rice in a fragrant bamboo tube, soaking it in water for 15 minutes and baking it with fire.

2. When eating, beat the bamboo tube to make it soft, and the bamboo film on the inner wall of the bamboo tube will stick to the rice. When you cut it in half with a knife, the fragrant bamboo rice will come out, with rich aroma and soft and delicate rice. There is also a unique pineapple purple rice, which is sweet and delicious, and has the effect of nourishing blood and moistening lung.

3. Migrant workers often eat in the open air. They can eat with a ball of glutinous rice made of banana and Ye Sheng, along with salt, chili pepper, sour meat, roast chicken, glutinous rice and moss pine. Meat includes pigs, cows, chickens and ducks. They don't eat or eat less mutton. They are good at roast chicken and roast chicken, and like to eat fish, shrimp, crab, snails, moss and other aquatic products. Vegetables we often eat are cabbage, radish, bamboo shoots and beans.

4. Dai people also eat insects. The Dai area is humid and hot, and there are many kinds of insects. Insects that are often eaten are cicadas, bamboo worms, Okumo, terrapin, ant eggs and so on. Catching cicadas is in the summer evening, when cicada community is in the grass, cicada wings are soaked by dew and can't fly, so women quickly pick cicadas into bamboo rafts and bake them in a pot to make sauce.

5. Moss is a unique flavor dish of the Dai people. The moss eaten by the Dai people is the moss on the rocks in the spring river, preferably dark green. After fishing, it is torn into thin slices to dry and put on with bamboo sticks for later use. When cooking, the thick ones are fried in oil, and the thin ones are roasted with fire. After being crispy, they are crushed into a bowl, then the boiling oil is poured, and then the salt is added to stir, and the glutinous rice balls or bacon are dipped in food, which is delicious.

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1. Dai folk musical instruments include Garasa, Gui, Bo, Duoluo, Elephant Foot Drum, Tang, Pai Tang and Dai cymbals.

2. The characteristic musical instrument of the Dai nationality, Hulusi, is a reed instrument, which can continuously emit five-degree intervals with a beautiful, soft, mellow and tactful tone. In the bamboo forest or Dai bamboo house on a moonlit night, it can give people a subtle and hazy aesthetic feeling, and the vibrato blown out is as elegant and gentle as shaking silk. Shi Guangnan, a famous composer, created the music "Bambusa in the Moonlight", which made Hulusi music popular all over the country.

3. Elephant-foot drum is named for its foot-like shape. It is often combined with gongs and Dai cymbals, and is widely used to accompany songs and dances and Dai operas. Garasa is a bamboo, drawbridge-shaped percussion instrument.

4. Gui is a plucked string instrument, which is often played by young Dai people when they are in love, and has the reputation of "love instrument".

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