Dietary customs of the Dai people:

Most Dai people have the habit of eclipsing two meals, with rice and glutinous rice as their staple food. Usually, I eat it immediately, rarely eat overnight rice, and I am used to pinching rice with my hands. ? Raw, fresh, sour, spicy and wild are the characteristics of Dai cuisine.

1. The diet of Dai people is acidophilic

All dishes and snacks are mainly sour, such as sour bamboo shoots, sour pea powder, sour meat and wild sour fruit; I like to eat dried sauerkraut, and its preparation method is to dry the vegetables, then add papaya juice with water to make the taste sour, and then dry and store them. When eating, put a little cooking or put it in soup.

Dai people in some places eat this kind of sauerkraut almost every day. It is said that the reason why Dai people often eat sour dishes is because they often eat sticky rice food that is not easy to digest, and sour food helps digestion. ?

2. The Dai people like to "eat wild food"

The so-called "eat wild food" means that the Dai people like to eat some wild animals and plants, such as "Wendun" (a kind of insect living on the Nujiang beach) and cicadas. There are also plants, such as wild bracken, spiny bracts, fishy vegetables, citronella, and "swinging a stick" (a long green plant that eats its tender buds and is named after the Dai people's favorite food).

These wild plants have the functions of clearing away lung-heat, improving eyesight, strengthening brain and resisting aging. The characteristics of "eating wild" in the diet culture of the Dai people prove that the Dai people know and admire nature, which reflects a kind of indifferent, leisurely and casual psychological characteristics of the Dai people.

Moss is a unique flavor dish of Dai people. The moss eaten by the Dai people is the moss on the rocks in the river in spring, preferably dark green. After fishing, it is torn into thin slices, dried in the sun and put on with bamboo sticks for later use.

3. The Dai people like to "eat flowers"

The flowers of Panzhihua, Baihua, Banana and other plants, and the Dai people make them into delicious dishes with seasonings.

In the flower-eating custom of Dai people's diet, the most amazing thing is to pick and wash a flower called Dyed Rice Flower, boil the Dyed Rice Flower in water, discard the flower and leave the water, soak the glutinous rice in yellow Dyed Rice Flower Water for about 4 hours to make the color enter the rice heart, then take out the colored glutinous rice, put it in a steamer and steam it until it is cooked, then pour it into a basin and stir it repeatedly.

The rice is yellow as a flower, and it is soft, delicious and slightly fragrant. This meal is usually cooked in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and it is used as a "meal" to worship ancestors after it is done; Or it can be matched with other dishes at the festival banquet, because it is full of color, flavor and flavor, thus increasing the festive atmosphere of the festival.

4. Wine is loved by the Dai people, and it is generally brewed at home, with low degree and sweet taste. Tea is a local specialty, but Dai people only drink big leaf tea without spices. When drinking, stir-fry it slightly on the fire until it is burnt, and drink it slightly after brewing. The habit of chewing betel nut is also very common. Chewing betel nut should be mixed with tobacco and lime all day long. :

Characteristics of Dai costumes

Dai costumes are elegant and beautiful, which not only pay attention to practicality, but also have a strong decorative meaning, which can quite reflect the national personality of loving life and advocating the beauty of neutrality.

1. There is little difference in men's clothing from different places. Generally, they often wear collarless double-breasted or big-breasted small sleeve blouses, long-sleeved trousers and white cloth, pink cloth or blue cloth.

2. The costumes of Dai women vary from region to region.

(1) Dai women in Xishuangbanna wear tight underwear of various colors, tight-fitting collarless short sleeves, full-length colored skirts, and elegant silver belts;

(2) Some Dai women in Dehong area also wear long skirts and blouses with bright colors, while others (such as Luxi and Yingjiang) wear white or other light-colored big-breasted blouses with trousers and embroidered waists, and then change to double-breasted blouses and long skirts after marriage;

(3) The "Huayao Dai" in Xinping and Yuanjiang areas wore cardigans and black skirts, and the skirts were decorated with colorful strips of cloth and silver bubbles, making up various patterns, which were dazzling. All kinds of Dai women's clothing can show the graceful posture of women.

(4) Dai women all like to wear long hair and tie it on their heads. Some of them are decorated with combs or flowers, some wear headscarves, some wear tall cylindrical hats, and some wear a top hat, each showing its own beauty and being quite unique.

Yunnan provincial people's government network-Yunnan minority: Dai.