The Daile Cultural Festival has come to an end. If you love to play, haven’t you played enough or put your heart into it?
It's coming, it's coming! Daile's Songkran Festival is here!
The Dai people live by the water. If you pay attention, there are rivers or lakes around the villages of the Dai people. They like to bathe and clean themselves. They think that they will take away the bad things after washing with water.
The unmarried girls here are called Xiaopushao, who wear bright and tight Dai dresses. In the past, when the farm work was over in the evening, the little Pushaos would come to the river to bathe and wash their hair. It has created a beautiful landscape, and thus produced many excellent photographic works, and photographers never get tired of it.
The Water-Splashing Festival is held in mid-April every year, usually for 3 to 7 days, and it is mainly held in the areas of the Dai minority, which is also the area of Theravada Buddhism, which is also known as Theravada Buddhism, but the people in the Dai area think it is Theravada Buddhism. Buddhism, if you tell them Theravada Buddhism is disrespectful to their beliefs, the De'ang people in Yunnan also have the custom of Songkran. This year, the Songkran Festival in Zhuangxi Shuangjing will be held from April 12th to 16th.
The Water-Splashing Festival is actually the Dai New Year of the Dai people, so this is the most solemn festival of the year for the Dai people. Every household in the village, men, women and children will prepare carefully. On the first day, everyone went to bathe the Buddha and the pagoda, and at night they set off fireworks and Kongming lanterns together; the third day was New Year's Day, which was the day for everyone to splash water and have fun.
Every Water-Splashing Festival, the younger brothers and sisters of the Dai nationality will put on festive costumes, carry clear water, go to the Buddhist temple to bathe the Buddha, and then dip the flowers and leaves picked before and start splashing each other. One by one water flowers bloom in the air, symbolizing auspiciousness, happiness, and health. The bright and crystal water drops in the hands of young people.
Splashing water is generally divided into Wensplash and Wusplash among the people. Wensplash is to fill a basin with clean well water. Flowers are usually placed in the water to make the water fragrant. Elders and respected people to express good wishes.
Wusplash is a water-splashing war, with basins, water guns, balloons, water pipes, kettles, etc. all in battle. I also saw a film filled with clear water in the back of a pickup truck, and then sprinkled all the way along the street, even sprinkler trucks, fire trucks, etc. Will join the ranks of the splashing water army. Everyone splashed water with their blessings, the more they splashed, the happier they were, and the happier they splashed, the more blessings they had.
The biggest difference between the Songkran Festival in Thailand and the Songkran Festival in Yunnan is that there is no dragon boat race, but the burning of old things is added. But the biggest thing everyone has in common is the water splashing carnival, because water symbolizes beauty and happiness. Let's meet and tell Zhuang Xishuangjing, and have a fight in the crazy Songkran Festival!