First, the diet of the Dai people

Most Dai people have the habit of eclipsing two meals, taking rice and glutinous rice as their staple food. Usually, it is eaten immediately. People believe that japonica rice and glutinous rice will not lose their original color and fragrance until they are eaten immediately, so they do not eat overnight rice or rarely eat it, and they are used to pinching rice with their hands.

migrant workers often have meals in the open air, and they can eat with banana leaves or rice, along with salt, chili pepper, sour meat, roast chicken, Nanmi (which means sauce in Dai language) and moss pine. All dishes and snacks are mainly sour, such as sour bamboo shoots, sour pea powder, sour meat and wild sour fruit.

The daily meat is pigs, cows, chickens and ducks, and they don't eat or eat less mutton. The Dai people living in the mainland like dog meat, and they are good at cooking roast chicken, shrimp, crab, snails, moss and other aquatic products.

The Dai area is humid and hot, and there are many kinds of insects. It is an important part of Dai food to make all kinds of flavor dishes and snacks with insects as raw materials. Insects that are often eaten are cicadas, bamboo worms, Okumo, terrapin, ant eggs and so on.

Dai people are addicted to alcohol, but the degree of alcohol is not high. It is brewed by themselves and tastes sweet. Tea is a local specialty, but Dai people only drink big leaf tea without spices.

second, Dai clothing

Dai clothing, men wear a collarless double-breasted or big-breasted small sleeve blouse, long-sleeved trousers, blankets in cold weather, and mostly white or green cloth. The custom of tattooing is very common. When a boy is eleven or two years old, he is asked to tattoo various animals, flowers, geometric patterns or Dai patterns on his chest, back, abdomen, waist and limbs as decoration.

women traditionally wear short sleeves and skirts. Dai women in Xishuangbanna, wearing white or scarlet underwear, have a small waist, a wide hem and various tubular skirts. Women in mangshi and other places wore light-colored big-breasted blouses, trousers and small waists before marriage, but changed into double-breasted blouses and black skirts after marriage.

The clothes of Dai women in the mainland are basically the same as those in the border areas, but they have regional characteristics, so they are often called "Huayao Dai" and "Sleeve Dai" by other ethnic groups.

Third, Dai people wear

Dai people, whether men or women, always like to carry a shoulder bag (tube handkerchief) made of woven cotton on their shoulders when they go out. The satchel has bright colors, simple style and strong life color and national characteristics. They often weave peacock and elephant patterns on skirts, bags, quilts, mats, curtains, towels and other daily necessities, and each pattern color is given to the specific content.

For example, red and green are in memory of ancestors; Peacock pattern indicates good luck; The elephant pattern symbolizes a bumper harvest and a beautiful life; It fully shows the Dai people's yearning and pursuit of a better life.

Dai women like to wear bracelets, rings, earrings, necklaces, etc. These objects can be decorated with gold, silver and jade, and imitations are also acceptable. A few days after the baby girl was born, parents pricked her ears with sterilized needles to prepare for wearing earrings. For women, the silver belt is even more indispensable. The belt is decorated with various patterns such as peacocks and lotus flowers. Women think that the wider the silver belt, the more beautiful it is.

Old women wrap their heads with white towels. Middle-aged women have long hair, which is coiled at the top and covered with various kinds of scarves, and young girls also wrap their heads with scarves. Girls and young women wear braids, and their hair styles are the same as those in the mainland.

Only on festivals do girls tie their hair slightly to the left and decorate it with pins, flowers and so on. When a young woman curls her hair, it is not long enough, so she puts a sock on it to increase the length of the hair and curls it into a bun.

Extended information:

The Dai people in China are mainly distributed in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, dehong autonomous prefecture and Gengma Dai and Wa Autonomous County, and Menglian Dai and Lahu Wa Autonomous County. The rest are scattered in more than 3 counties of Xinping, Yuanjiang and Jinpingping in Yunnan Province. Living in the mountainous plain area, it has a subtropical climate.

Dai people call themselves "Dai Nuo", "Dai Ya", "Dai Na" and "Dai Zhan". In the Han and Jin Dynasties, it was called "Dian Yue", "Shan", "Good at", "Liao" or "Kuliao". In Tang and Song Dynasties, they were called "Golden Teeth", "Hei Chi", "Mangman" and "White Dress". In the Yuan Dynasty, "Bai Yi" also wrote "Bai Yi", "Bai Yi" and "Bo Yi". After the Qing Dynasty, it was called "dumping foreigners".

after liberation, according to the wishes of the national people, it was renamed Dai.

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