Cultural Characteristics And Development History Of Dai Traditional Costumes

1. The general situation of Nationalities

It is a unique ethnic group in Yunnan, with a population of 1138 and l00 people. It mainly lives in the tropical, subtropical, fertile and fertile dams - Xishuangbanna, Dehong two states, Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture and Gengma, Meng Lian and other places.

Dai people believe in Buddhism. When they reach the age of seven or eight, boys are sent to Buddhist temples to go to a monk's life. After entering the temple, they are held by Buddha to enter the temple ceremony. They shave their hair and wear a yellow scarf and live in the temple for 35 years.

After getting married, they can get married, have children, join the army, go to school, etc.

The Dai language belongs to the Sino Tibetan language family.

The Dai people have their own characters. The Dai people recorded rich historical legends, religious classics and literary poems.

The Dai people not only sang and sang well, but also created brilliant culture, especially Dai, Dai medicine and narrative poems.

Two, characteristic culture

Rice and glutinous rice are the staple food.

Dehong's Dai nationality staple food japonica rice, Xishuangbanna Dai people staple food glutinous rice.

Usually they are eaten now, and all the dishes and snacks are mainly sour, such as sour bamboo shoots, sour peas flour, sour meat and wild sour fruit. They like to eat dried sauerkraut. It is said that the Dai people often eat sour dishes because they often eat sticky rice food which is not easy to digest, and sour food helps to eliminate them.

Visitors to Dai will be treated by "splashing water" and "tie line".

When the guests arrived, there were Dai Xiao Bu sentries on the door with silver petals and petals of petals, sprinkled gently on the guests with branches and leaves.

When you enter the bamboo house, you will give the guests a thread on your wrist to wish the guests a good luck and happiness.

The furniture in Dai house is very simple, and bamboo is the largest. All tables, chairs, beds, boxes, cages and baskets are all made of bamboo.

There are simple quilts and bills, and occasionally some felt, lead iron and other tools. Farm implements and pot knives are only useful. There are few surplus workers. Pottery is also very common.

The biggest festival of Dai is water splashing Festival.

The time is April each year.

In chronological order, the April of the Gregorian calendar is equivalent to the first month of the Dai calendar.

The water splashing Festival is also the Lunar New Year Festival. According to the traditional custom, people should gather flowers and green leaves to worship the Buddhist temples in the early morning of the day.

Having done this, the mass splashing of water began, and a group of young men and women, who used bronze bowls, washes and water, poured out of the streets and lanes, playing and chasing each other, splashing water on auspicious water, until they were all wet through head to toe.

The Dai nationality has distinctive national characteristics, outstanding people's general interest in singing and dancing, vivid dance, delicate feelings, and movements are mostly imitation and beautification of animal form.

The peacock dance and elephant foot dance, especially the graceful dance and delicate emotion of peacock dance, are very popular. The peacock's beautiful animal is imperfectly simulated and beautified, bringing people into the realm of poetry and making the audience collapse.

Three, Dai Costume

Dai men's clothing is basically the same everywhere. They often use white cloth or green cloth. They wear no collar or big breasted blouse, trousers under the waist, red cloth, white cloth or blue cloth around the waist, and some wear hair.

When the weather is cold, they often wear blankets. They are barefoot all the year round.

Dai men used to have tattoo customs, such as symbols, or symbols such as chest, back, abdomen, limbs, etc., or lion, unicorn, peacock and so on to show courage or praying for auspiciousness.

Dai women's costumes are very distinctive, but they are different from place to place.

Dai women in Xishuangbanna usually wear white, sky blue or scarlet tight underwear, and wear a round or narrow sleeved blouse outside the outer side.

This kind of blouse is unique, its sleeves are thin and long, and its arms are close to each other. The waist of the clothes is thin and short, and a small part of the waist is exposed, and the hem is wider and larger.

Wearing a colorful skirt, long and feet.

In the past, the number of flowers on the skirt was counted, and the number of flowers indicated that the class was very strict and no one could violate it.

In this area, women have the habit of wearing shoes. They often have pointed shoes, shoes and slippers.

They usually hang their hair on top of their heads, insert a crescent comb, and some wear a scarf, which is graceful and beautiful.

Traditional costumes of Dai women

Dai women in Dehong

Somewhat different.

When they are girls, they usually wear white or scarlet big breasted blouses and trousers. They will put their plaits on their heads and put a small waist around their waist. After they get married, they will wear a breasted blouse and a skirt.

Dai women in Dehong also have different hairstyles. Young women wear their hair on top of their heads, while middle-aged and elderly women no longer wear their hair and wear a black high cap.

Dai women love jewelry. Jewelry is usually made of gold and silver, with a large number of hollow objects, with exquisite patterns and patterns on them.

Girls often insert delicate combs on their heads and wear colorful Baotou towels.

Sometimes I pick up a few flowers and put them on my head.

Dai men generally do not wear ornaments and occasionally find a shining silver bracelet on their wrist.

Gold teeth and silver teeth are their favorites.

They usually pull out their front teeth and replace them with gold or silver dentures.

Dai men's traditional costumes

The dress of Dai women is also striking. They have a fine silver belt around their waist. It is said that this silver belt is very precious and is handed down by mother from generation to generation.

In fact, this is a token. If a girl gives a silver belt to a young man, it means she has fallen in love with him.