2008 Yunnan Tourism (Travel Notes, Part 9) Green Peacock Feathers - Olive Dam (Part 1)

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Yunnan Tourism in 2008 (Travel Notes, Part 9)

Feathers of the green peacock - Olive Dam (Part 1)

Accompanied by the beautiful and melodious "Phoenix Bamboo in the Moonlight", the bus crosses the Xishuangbanna Bridge and goes down the Lancang River. It takes an hour to reach the beautiful Menghan (Olive Dam) Dai Nationality Garden, where you have to experience it for yourself The customs of the Dai family.

Menghan (Olive Dam) is located in the valley basin of Xishuangbanna Autonomous Prefecture, south of Jinghong City, the capital of Banna. Starting from Jinghong City, you can reach it by going down the Lancang River for 40 kilometers. The tour guide said: Olive Dam has many beauties. It is a place where beauties are produced. It is known as the beauties of the southern country. I will use the camera to record more pictures of beauties.

In the Dai language, "Meng" means a place, and it is also an administrative unit under the chieftain system in the past; "Han" means to roll up. Menghan is the rolled up dam. It is said that when the Buddha Sakyamuni came here to preach, the local people and believers spread the homemade cloth woven by themselves on the ground to welcome him, and let his Buddha walk on the white cloth. Due to the limited length of the cloth and the long path, people had to roll it in front and roll it in the back, roll it up, roll it up, and welcome the Buddha into Manchunman all the time. Shakyamuni was so moved that he named the place after the cloth-rolling act of the masses, and called this flat land Menghan. Now there are still records of this legendary story in the murals of Manchunman Buddhist Temple.

Some people say that the dam in Menghan is shaped like an olive, so it is called Olive Dam. It is said that in the past there were many olive trees here, so it was named Olive Dam. It is also said that Zhubazi was originally a land of miasma, but it got better after people's hard work in development and construction. Life is like olives, which are bitter before sweet. In order not to forget this difficult journey, people also recognized it. There is another saying: It was during the Anti-Japanese War that Menghan Bazi got the alias of Olive Dam again. This alias is said to have come from the phrase "Olive dam buried" in Dai language to describe the crowds flocking into the forest to escape when Japanese aircraft dropped bombs. But this is just a rumor, there is no record. Now, regardless of whether it is east, west, north, south, anyone who mentions Xishuangbanna will naturally think of the beautiful Olive Dam.

The Lancang River passes through the dam, with an area of ​​about 50 to 60 square kilometers. Its area is second only to Mengzhe and Jinghong, and it is the third largest dam. Because Bazi is located on the banks of the Lancang River, with an altitude of only 530 meters, it is also the place with the lowest altitude in Xishuangbanna, but it is also a place with a relatively hot climate, with an average annual temperature of about 21 degrees. However, this hot climate also brought rich products to Olive Dam.

Due to the natural environment advantages of facing the big river, abundant rainfall, and flat and fertile land, it is not only suitable for growing rice, but also suitable for the growth of tropical fruit trees and economic trees. There are more than 30,000 mu of paddy fields in the dam, which is the main production area of ​​rice, fruit and rubber. The main fruits are coconut, betel nut, banana, mango, lychee, carambola, jackfruit, passion fruit, etc. In addition to fresh fruit, Olive Dam also produces a large amount of preserved fruit. There are more than 80 villages distributed in the dam. Every household farms fields and every family grows fruits. Every village has rubber gardens and villages have forests. Near each village, there is a grove of iron-sword trees with shackles, and each Dai family courtyard is self-contained, or coconut trees, or mangoes, or green bamboos, or betel nuts. Many bamboo buildings are shaded by tall jackfruit trees and covered by flowers and fruits. The coconut trees beside the roadside are covered with fruits, showing the charm of "beauty in the south"; the betel nut trees stand tall and graceful, showing their slender figure. Neat bamboo fences, verdant fruit trees, blooming bougainvilleas and exquisite bamboo buildings are intertwined to form courtyard landscapes everywhere. Those ancient Buddhist temples, pagodas and ancient wells decorated with pavilions and houses in the village form an attractive landscape with their ancient and special shapes...

In the dense virgin forest, there are also extremely rich plant resources, and many rare birds and animals such as wild elephants, peacocks, and hornbills are bred. It is known as the hometown of peacocks, the kingdom of animals, and the kingdom of plants.

People compare Xishuangbanna to a beautiful peacock with its tail open, and the peacock's tail is in Olive Dam, which is gorgeous and colorful. Beautiful and rich Dai villages are dotted throughout Olive Dam. These village scenes and courtyard gardens are in various poses and with different expressions, just like the most beautiful feathers adorning the peacock's tail feathers.

Dai Nationality Garden is a village with typical Dai ethnic characteristics, mainly composed of five villages. Today we are going to enter the Dai family, visit the Dai family, visit the life of the Dai family, visit the Buddhist temple of the Dai people, enjoy the singing and dancing performances of the Dai people and the water splashing performance, etc., and most importantly, look at the beauties of the Dai family!

The first stockade to enter the Dai Nationality Garden is called Manjiang (Tengmiezhai). "Man" means stockade or village; . Legend has it that when the Buddha came to Manhedui, he saw a beautiful big stone by the village, and it seemed to have some spiritual energy. He immediately asked people to move the stones to the hills on the bank of the river for the world to admire. How to remove this "Buddha Point Stone"? People came up with the method of "holding" the stone and carrying it through the shoulders, and finally lifted the "Buddha Point Stone" to the destination. In order to commend the historical contribution of the villagers, the Buddha simply changed Manhedui into Manjiang.

Manchunman means Huayuanzhai. It is the location of the central Buddhist temple. It is a village full of Buddha's light and beautiful scenery. Manchunman is a Dai language, "Man" means a village, "Chunman" means a garden, and "Manchunman" means a garden village. In the past, the chieftain once designated Manchunman as a flower planting village, so it was named Manchunman. Today, tropical fruit trees, plants, and flowers such as coconut trees, betel nut trees, mango trees, tripe fruit, and hydrangea are still flourishing, and the courtyards of every bamboo building are full of flowers and fruits.

And Mancha is a chef's village, why is it called that? Because this village used to train people who cook for the chieftain's yamen and was famous, the chieftain took the name of the chef as the name of the village. There are many similar villages, such as firewood-cutting villages, sedan chair-carrying villages, tomb-guarding villages, servant villages, etc., all of which are deeply imprinted with the feudal lord system. Or, it can let future generations understand and understand the bitterness and suffering of these histories.

Manga, that is, the stockade of Ganjie (Ganji, a place for market trade). It is said that the person who built the village was a Han man named Li Daorong. He came here to find a daughter-in-law of the Dai nationality and settle down. Later, some Han people from Guangdong, Guangxi and other places came to gather for the village, specializing in the business of slaughtering cattle and pigs. You come and go, and slowly it becomes a lively market. So far, some 60- and 70-year-olds still retain the obvious appearance of Han people. Bo Yulei, who speaks pure Dai language, is a descendant of Han people in Henan. Make living history.

Manting (Huaguo Village), means "Palace Garden Village". There are several theories about the origin of "Man Ting", one of which is: "Ting" means to stay. In the early days, past guests often stayed here to watch the specially raised peacock flocks, and because there were so many peacocks, some people gave it another name, Peacock Village. One theory is that an old Geng (friend) in Jingdong went on a pilgrimage to Nepal and planned to get a Buddha hair back to meet friends in this village. The White Pagoda is being built in the village of Yuben. The two old Gengs are Buddhists, so they Together they dedicated the priceless treasure - the Buddha's hair to the White Pagoda, and the two carefully put the Buddha's hair into the heart of the pagoda together. Jing Dong and Lao Geng repeatedly told them to keep their eyes open. "Listen" means optimistic and keeping an eye on in Dai language. Later, when the White Pagoda was built, people took "Ting" as the name of the village and called it Manting. The characteristics of this village are that the distance between the bamboo buildings is relatively large and the courtyard is wide. The villagers pay great attention to the greening of the environment. The fruit tightly surrounds the bamboo building. There are many landscapes here that cannot be compared with other villages, such as the ruins of the peacock dance hall, the peacock grave, the princess well, the pagoda tree, the murals of Buddhist temples, etc., all of which have left many moving legends and stories in the long years, and have nurtured many mining culture.

Manchunman and Manting are two relatively large villages belonging to Menghan Town (Olive Dam) among the five Dai villages in the Dai Nationality Garden Scenic Area. Except for the above five villages, the other villages along the Lancang River are very beautiful. But it is not so concentrated. The big beach by the river is very beautiful. No matter which village you walk into, you will see typical Burmese temple pagodas and traditional Dai bamboo houses. The Dai bamboo house is the most typical stilt-style building in my country, with an elegant and unique shape, and it is cool and comfortable to live in. The bamboo building is approximately square, supported by dozens of large bamboos, and the floor is suspended in the air; the roof is covered with thatched rows, and the gaps in the bamboo walls are large, which is both ventilated and light-transmitting. The bamboo building is divided into two floors, the upper floor is where people live, and the lower floor is where livestock are raised and sundries are piled up, where rice is pounded and cloth is weaved. There is only one staircase.

Outside each bamboo building, bamboo pieces are used as fences to form a large yard for growing vegetables and fruit trees. The Dai people pay great attention to the protection of the natural environment. On both sides of the road and around the village, there are iron sword trees, also known as the sword tree. They planted this kind of iron knife tree around the stockade as firewood to protect the local forest resources. This kind of tree grows again and again, and the more it is cut, the more it is cut, it is very good firewood.

Here, the bodhi tree is a sacred tree, and where there are people living, there must be such a tree. Moreover, the roots of the trees are protected with large flower beds. Under a lush bodhi tree, I saw a bamboo building without a door (because there are no thieves here, none of the bamboo buildings in Dai have built a door; the first generation is a bamboo building, the second generation is a wooden building, and the third generation is a wooden building. No matter how many generations it is, it has the same style, like an ancient hat. It is said that when Zhuge Liang went south, he saw that the Dai people had no houses and lived in the open air, so he suggested that they build a shelter from the wind. A house that shelters from the rain, but where has the Dai family seen any house? Zhuge Liang threw down a hat and said, just put it on like this, so the Dai people have kept this style of hat for generations.

Entering the village, we were surrounded by a group of "Sao Duoli" as soon as we got out of the car, and we were first invited to visit the Dai family's home. We were greeted by a Dai "Sao Duoli" (men and women are usually referred to as Maodoli and Saodoli, Duoli means handsome and beautiful, and Mao and Sao refer to men and women respectively). From Sao Duoli's wearing belt, it can be seen that her family is quite rich.

Bamboo buildings are generally pole-and-rail buildings with beautiful shapes, and the shape really looks like a big hat on a tall pillar. In the past, the Dai bamboo houses were all built with bamboo, but now most of them are made of wood, and some of them are also made of reinforced concrete. The bamboo house we visited was built with a mixture of bamboo and wood. The wood is threaded together and intertwined, which is extremely strong. The wall is decorated with bamboo, which is quite beautiful. There is no wall on the lower floor of the building, which is used to store sundries and raise animals. There is also a small car parked downstairs. The bamboo building is moisture-proof, waterproof and shock-proof. When entering a house of the Dai people, there is a saying "Take off, touch, and don't steal". One off means that you have to take off your shoes before going up the stairs and entering the living room; The "God Pillar" in the center will bring you good luck; the three don't steal means that you are not allowed to peek at the bedroom where the Dai people live. The door of the bedroom where the Dai people live is blocked with tall cabinets, and outsiders are not allowed to look at it. If a cat, Duoli, peeps at the bedroom of the owner’s house, it means that he is interested in this family’s Sao Duoli. He was forced to stay and work as a coolie for three years, and then he married this Sao Duoli. If the Mao Duoli was married, he would be kicked out of the village when the period expired. If the person peeping is a cat Doli wearing glasses, you can only work as a coolie for half a year, because the Dai people admire learned people very much. During the years when the educated youths went to the mountains and went to the countryside, intellectuals wearing glasses in Shanghai helped the Dai people develop Grow bananas, get rich, and get a special treat for it. After finishing the coolie, Mao Duoli can sleep in the red tent of Datong shop in a dignified way. From then on, he also went from "slave to general" in one fell swoop, watching the children, playing cards, smoking, drinking and drinking outside. All the work and earning money are completely undertaken by Sao Duoli. The building is mainly surrounded by wooden boards, and the room is separated by wooden boards. The left side is the kitchen, the middle is the living room, and the right side is the bedroom. The building is about two meters above the ground, so that the moisture is not easy to rise into the room, and even if the water rises, it will not flood the building. Around the bamboo building, there are fruits such as phoenix bamboo, papaya, banana, etc., which make the whole courtyard full of poetic and picturesque.

Saodoli led more than 50 of us up to her typical Dai bamboo house. After going up to the bamboo building, there is a large corridor outside the living room. You have to take off your shoes to enter the living room. Entering the spacious, airy living room of more than 100 square meters, the large color TV is placed directly opposite the door of the large living room, and the floor in the corner of the large color TV is full of bedding. It is said that it is prepared for overnight guests. The host sat down in front of the big color TV, and everyone sat in a circle, listening to the hostess telling stories about the culture and customs of the Dai village and her family in her not-so-fluent Mandarin.

Sao Duoli first told everyone: "Guests are not allowed to see the bedroom of the Dai family, because the guardian god is enshrined in it, and it will not be effective if the guest sees it." Tourists must pay attention not to take pictures in the bamboo building, because the Dai people say that this will cause " Dementia".

As for his (her) bedroom, the tour guide has introduced it to everyone in the car. It is her (their) custom that several generations live together in one room, regardless of their age. If you do that, the tribe will joke that there is a gap between the hearts of this family, and they are not of one mind. The difference is only through the curtains (mosquito nets). The shades of the curtains are regulated. The elderly use black curtains, the married use red curtains, and the unmarried use white curtains. place.

In the real Dai family, the bedroom is absolutely invisible. They cleverly hide the bedroom door in the middle of a row of large cabinets, and you still don’t know which door is the cabinet door and which is the bedroom door. The Dai people believe that the bedroom is the place where the souls of the family are gathered. If outsiders look at it, they will lose their souls and the family will have no peace. It is said that their bedroom has two doors, and the elderly and children each have their own entrance, which reflects the dignity of family members and also reflects the good habit of the Dai family to respect the elderly. Also, a certain pillar between the two gates is also untouchable, it is what the old people of their family must lean on when they return to the west. It is said that they can keep their souls at home and bless generations to come. If an outsider touched that pillar, the family members would not be able to live in peace. It is estimated that the pillar was also hidden in the middle of the big cabinet.

According to the hostess, the Dai people have a name but no surname. The noble men and women are divided into Dao and Zhao. The general family is called Yan and Yu. Dai women are as beautiful as magnolia flowers.

The hostess is a teacher, she said: She is considered a literate person in the local area. This is because her predecessors were not so conservative in their thinking at that time, and they also sent her to the school run by the educated youth at that time, and started her study in elementary school. However, when asked about her education, she actually didn't finish elementary school, which was all because of the swarm of educated youths returning to the city. I think the hostess may also be the product of the educated youths staying here at that time! Isn't there a song in a TV series that goes like this: "Beautiful Xishuangbanna, I can't keep my parents. Shanghai is so big. Is there a home for me..."

I can't help but think of the tragic scene in the 1960s, when hundreds of thousands of passionate intellectuals responded to the call of the motherland and went to the border of Yunnan. Under the collective madness of the whole country, it became the youth cemetery of intellectual youths. When I entered the stockade just now, looking at the smoke from the chimneys in the village not far away, I seemed to see countless faces distorted by despair. I can understand this kind of despair. In the era when there was no Bailuma Road, here meant another world—the grave. We have gradually forgotten about that period of history, but in that dark era, the youth and lives of countless intellectual youths were buried here in such a muddled way. Ten years in a dream, the turbulent tide of returning to the city swept them back to the city again. In the frontier, what they left behind was not only the red land, the rubber forest... but also their youthful feelings and love crystallization-children. Since these educated youths had no teachers to teach after they left, the schools could not hold classes, so they had to graduate wherever they learned, and teach what they learned. The hostess also only read a little more than the third grade, so she is considered to have graduated! Now she has been working hard at her job for decades, and now the school is full, even undergraduates cannot be assigned, which is also reasonable. With her little culture, the hostess also served as a female cadre of the production team.

The same passionate young people, their lives could have been as brilliant as the flowers here, but because of political factors, they became sacrificial objects of that era.

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In fact, what the guests are most interested in is the marriage of the Dai family. The hostess also introduced the question raised by the guests: Dai people value girls over boys. If a family gives birth to a daughter, it will be happy, but if it is a boy, it will be dejected, saying that it is a loss-making product.

The Dai people still continue to follow the ancient system of "marriage of women and marriage of men", that is, the marriage custom of men coming to the house of their wives, and boys marrying to girls' homes, and they have to live in the woman's home for three years. Home to live, set up a family to be considered settled. The two elder brothers of the hostess have married to other villages, and they will come back only once a month or two. The husband of the hostess also took the children out to play. In the words of the locals, it is "it is not worth the money to have a boy, and you have to do coolie for a woman." This is truly a feminist place. The man not only cooks and collects firewood in the woman's house, but also washes the sand in the Jinsha River in the third year to refine alluvial gold and make jewelry for the hostess. The more gold and silver jewelry on a woman, the more capable a man is. However, within three years, if the woman is dissatisfied with the man, she can "fire" him at any time and choose someone else.

What's more, you have to live together before you get married. Whether you get married depends on whether the woman is pregnant or not. A woman who can't conceive can justifiably abandon it. That's why there is a saying of "falling in love with children behind your back", one of the Eighteen Monsters in Yunnan.

Love process: If a guy (Mao Duoli) takes a fancy to a certain girl (Sao Duoli) from a certain house and wants to date the girl, he will come to the bamboo building of the girl's house at night and use a bamboo pole (wooden stick) ) lightly poked up the wooden board a few times where Sao Duoli was sleeping, to let Sao Duoli know that if the girl wanted to, she would sneak out to have a tryst with him. Using bamboo (sticks) at night is called "poking bamboo buildings" here. But don't stab the place where the "Old Mitao" (grandmother) is sleeping, then "Old Botao" (old man) will chase you with a machete on his back, he thinks you have taken a fancy to his old Mitao. You have to go to the girl's house as a coolie for three years before you can get married. After marriage, you can enjoy the blessings. The main task is to learn Dai language, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and chat with tea. The Dai people also value knowledge very much. Boys who have read books and wear glasses can do half of the coolies!

When young men and women of the Dai nationality get married, they practice the custom of living in the wife's home, that is, the man marries to the woman's home, so the wedding is mainly held at the woman's home. Before the wedding begins, the bride and groom first go to the Buddhist temple to worship the Buddha, praying for good luck and happiness, and grow old together.

On the day of the wedding, many relatives and friends sent by the man's family came to the woman's house to attend the wedding. Accompanying the groom, they beat elephant drums and mango gongs all the way to the woman's house happily. They also set off firecrackers and bird guns along the way to increase the festive atmosphere and drive away evil spirits. A tapestry, on which a small altar is placed, with flowers and fruit wine placed on the table. The bride and groom wear beautiful national costumes, sit side by side in front of the tapestry, and ask the monks to chant sutras. After reading, the monk tied colored silk threads on the wrists of the bride and groom respectively to express his blessing. Then, the man wants to enter the woman's house, which needs to go through several checkpoints: first, when he reaches the door, the bamboo door is already closed, and the man needs to set off firecrackers and pay the gift money before the door is opened for the man to pass; Sometimes, the man is blocked by the woman's people, and the man needs to pay gift money to go upstairs; the third is after entering the house, the bride is hidden and cannot see the bride. The man needs to pay the gift money and toast, after several pleadings and twists and turns, the bride is sent out. This series of process contains the meaning of testing the groom, full of joy and festive atmosphere.

Next is the thread-tying ceremony: a small table is set in the main room of the bamboo building, with two conical hats made of banana leaves on it, and a boiled male and female chicken on the bottom. There are also gifts from the man to the woman on the table, such as clothes, tube skirts, silver belts, bracelets and so on. In addition, there are glutinous rice, brown sugar, plantains, salt, white thread, etc. The string-tying ceremony begins, and the bride and groom kneel before the wedding table to accept the blessings of the elderly and congratulations from the guests. Then the congratulatory speech will be delivered by the presiding person. All the people present will put their right hands on the table and bow their heads to listen to the congratulatory speech. After the congratulatory speeches, the bride and groom each tore off a ball of glutinous rice from the table, dipped it in the wine, and then ordered chicken, salt and white thread. Back to the desktop. At this time, the officiant took a long white thread from the table and tied it to the wrists of the bride and groom respectively, wishing the newlyweds happiness and good luck. seedling……

After the thread is tied, one chicken on the table is dedicated to the officiant, and the other chicken is given to the young men to share. I hope they will find the girl they love soon and come to tie the thread happily. By the couple's tent, it took three days to eat.

After the strings were tied, the guests began to be entertained. Most of the dishes on the table have Dai flavor, and one of them is stewed with raw blood, which symbolizes the auspiciousness of marriage. During the banquet, the bride and groom should toast to the guests attentively, and the guests would also ask various questions for the bride and groom to answer, and some asked the bride and groom to perform programs, etc., making everyone laugh from time to time, and the atmosphere was warm and active .

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Before dawn the next day, the groom will return to his parents' house, and he will return to his wife's house at night.

On the third day, the man's mother came to the woman's house to recognize relatives with cold rice noodles and other things, and gave each relative and friend a piece of cold rice noodles.

On the fifth day after marriage, the bride and groom bring cold rice noodles to the man’s house to recognize their relatives. At the same time, they also give a piece of cold rice noodles to relatives and friends, and relatives and friends also give gifts to the bride. At this point, the whole wedding is considered over.

After getting married, the man usually has to live in the woman's house for three years before he can bring his wife back to live in the man's house. It was not until the couple built their own house and became financially independent that they left their parents to start their own small family. With the development of the times, there are many bridegrooms who build their own houses and establish their own small families after they get married.

After the Dai people get married, the husband and wife are loving and harmonious, and there are very few divorces. For example, if a divorce occurs, the party who proposes a divorce will hand the other party a pair of wax sticks, or both parties will pull a piece of white cloth and cut it off. When one party dies, no matter how old they are, a divorce ceremony is also held; the living is tied to the coffin of the deceased with a cotton thread, and an old man cuts the thread with a knife during the funeral, and the relationship between the living and the deceased is severed.

There are many ways for young men and women of the Dai nationality to fall in love, and there is also a popular activity among the Dai people called "Chuan Bu Shao". That is, unmarried young men look for unmarried girls to talk about love on occasions such as festivals or gatherings. This kind of activity is generally carried out during the water-sprinkling festival, dragon boat race, swinging and other seasons. Young men and women sing and dance, starting in the evening and ending in the middle of the night.

There is also a more peculiar form of "selling chicken". When the festival comes, the girls will kill their fat chickens and stew them. If the young man who comes to buy the chicken is not satisfactory to the girl, the girl will ask for more money. . If the girl takes a fancy to the young guy, the girl will bow her head shyly, avoiding the guy's eyes. If the young man is interested, the two will carry the chicken, lift up the stool, walk into the quiet woods, and pour out their love for each other.

In addition, the Dai boys in Dehong, Yunnan also have a peculiar way of courtship. No matter in season, summer, autumn or winter, if a boy wants to find a lover, he will wrap his head and body in a large blanket, with only his eyes exposed. They stood on the side of the road, waiting for the arrival of the girl, which is also a temporary sign for unmarried boys.

The sign of a girl without a partner is to wear a light-colored blouse, trousers, and a small apron. As long as a boy sees a girl dressed in this way passing by, he can come forward to talk and make love. If the girl took a fancy to the young man, he would take off the blanket on his body, take the girl's hand and leave the road to talk in detail.

When the relationship between the two parties is mature, the man usually asks his uncle or aunt to come forward to the girl's house to propose marriage, and they can get married after the other party agrees.

The men of the Dai nationality "marry" to the woman's house to do coolies for three years, and sugar pressing is one of the coolies, which is called "drinking outside" in Dai language. Now in the Dai Nationality Garden, you can still see the kind of wood-made machines. Although they are primitive and ancient, the nostalgic Dai people still use them to this day. As long as the sugar cane is stretched into this gap, the bamboo pole is pushed and operated, and the machine is rotated, the sugar cane is squeezed out of juice, and then boiled into sugar, which is the brown sugar eaten by the Dai people.

Dai people in Xishuangbanna eat rice noodles as their staple food, which is a must for breakfast and dinner. The wooden machine they use to process rice noodles is called "Gan Hao Nong". Before the 1980s, almost every household of the Dai people in the village had one. The production of traditional handmade rice noodles of the Dai people is exquisite and complicated. First select the best new millet, peel it with a wooden pound and soak it in water for a day, then use a wooden pound to make rice flour, put it in a pot and boil it into a cake, after cooling, rub it with your hands and wrap it in banana leaves It is best to cover it for 2 to 3 days until the rice cakes are sour, and then put them into the "dry and easy" round holes to process them into rice noodles.

Historically, the Dai people were famous for "men are good at building and women are good at farming and weaving". The spinning wheels and looms that can still be seen today are used by the Dai people to weave brocade, and the brocade in the Dai language is called "吃赕hu". The Dai people pluck cotton from the mountains and use this spinning wheel to spin it into thread, weave it into cloth, and then sew it into tube skirts and bedding. For the Dai people, the spinning wheel is also a very special prop. At sunset and dusk, the girl will sit on the bamboo building and shake the spinning wheel to wait for the young man. At that time, the young man will play the piccolo and the sound of the spinning wheel to express his love. A lover's stool was handed out under the tube skirt for him to sit beside her. If the girl doesn't like the young man, the spinning wheel will make irregular noises and will be indifferent to the young man's passion. At this time, the young man will leave with interest and look for another target.

Gold and silver jewelry decoration is indispensable to the life of the Dai people. Gold panning on the Lancang River is a very classical scenery in Xishuangbanna. During the slack season, the Dai family will listen to the river's singing in the long yellow sand, pan out gold with rainy sweat, and prepare dowry for their daughters. The Dai people's technology of processing gold and silver jewelry has also been passed down from generation to generation.

Sao Duoli also answered other interesting questions raised by tourists.

The most embarrassing thing is the problem of going to the toilet after staying in Dai family's house for a long time. I walked around in a hurry, there is no toilet here. The men and women of the Dai family all settled in the open air, looking for an uninhabited woods, Xishuangbanna's woods abound, it is not inconvenient for them. I managed to find a small hut with two square meters on the side of the road. Maybe only tourists would visit it in a hurry. Obviously, people don’t go in often, and the sanitation is worrying. What is even more surprising is that along the way, the tour guide told us that the women of the Dai family used to not wear pants. The posture of urinating is the same as that of a man, and it can be solved by lifting the tube skirt. This really made me admire those slender women wrapped in gorgeous long dresses and with bright flowers on their heads.

As for the bathing of the Dai people, the clear stream water is their natural public bathing place. Men and women gather together to wash naked. The difference is that they take out one hand to protect their lower body. The men go upstream and the women go downstream, so they are separated. A little bit.

The Dai people have many rules, but they eat with their hands. The difference is that the rice is kneaded into balls in advance, wrapped in banana leaves and cooked. And you can only take it with your left hand. I think this may have something to do with the small size of their dining table. A bamboo basket can be turned upside down to form a table, and people can only sit on low stools, which is very convenient.

Afterwards, Saodoli showed everyone all kinds of jewelry made of real gold, sterling silver, sand gold and sand silver in the village, and recommended them for purchase. The words are very sincere, and there is absolutely no meaning of forced buying and selling, and there are many buyers. f r also bought more than 200 yuan of placer gold jewelry, I don't know if it is real or not!