The main festivals of Dai people are "Harvest Festival", "Opening Festival" and Water-splashing Festival.
The "Zen Festival" is in the middle of July, which is a busy farming season. Most Buddhist festivals are concentrated in this period, so as to concentrate on production. At the same time, a grand "Buddha worship" activity will be held to offer food, flowers, silver coins and paper money to the Buddha. The "liquidation date" will last for about three months until the "opening date" in the middle of 10.
The biggest festival of the Dai people is the Water-splashing Festival. The time is April every year. According to the time series, April in the solar calendar is equivalent to the first month in the Dai calendar. Songkran Festival is also the New Year of Dai people. According to the traditional custom, early in the morning, people will bring flowers and green leaves to the Buddhist temple for sacrifice and clear water to welcome the Buddha. After all this, large-scale splashing water on each other began. I saw groups of young men and women, filled with water in copper bowls and washbasins, pouring out of the street, playing and chasing, splashing on everyone and getting soaked from head to toe. This is auspicious water, blessed water, and people can pour it as they like. No matter who splashes, they are very happy and laugh loudly ... During the Songkran Festival, there will be a dragon boat race on the broad Lancang River, and the water boats will be decorated with colorful flowers and dressed as Jackie Chan, Peacock and Big Fish. Dozens of young men and women struggled to paddle forward, and the audience on both sides of the strait was like clouds, gongs and drums were loud, and cheers thundered. At night, there will be fireworks in the village, which are made by the Dai people themselves. Use a bamboo dozens of feet long, fill the root with gunpowder and other ingredients, and put it on the elevated bamboo. When the fuse is lit and the gunpowder burns, bamboo flies into the sky like a rocket, emitting gorgeous fireworks in the air, just like flowers, the stars are shining and dazzling, making the night sky of the festival particularly beautiful. Songkran Festival is a popular festival, and a happy festival usually takes three to five days.