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What traditional festivals do Dai people have?
The traditional festivals of the Dai people include the Doorman Festival, the Opening Day, the Water Splashing Festival, the Flower Street Festival and the Duige Festival.

1, closing date

The closing ceremony is a religious festival for Dai, Bulang, De 'ang and Wa people who believe in Buddhism and spread to the south. Every year, the Dai calendar begins on September 15 (mid-July of the lunar calendar) and lasts for 3 months.

2. Opening Day

Kaimen Festival, also called "Chuva" and "Haowasa" in Dai language, is a traditional festival of Dai, Bulang, De 'ang and some Wa people who believe in Buddhism. Popular in Yunnan, it originated from the habit of living in the rainy season in ancient Buddhism. The time is December 15th of the Dai calendar (around mid-September of the lunar calendar).

3. Water-splashing Festival

Water-splashing Festival, also known as "Buddha Washing Festival" and "Cold River Fever Festival", is a traditional festival of Dai, Achang, Bulang, Wa, De 'ang, Thai and Southeast Asia. On that day, people in Xishuangbanna, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and other places in China, as well as overseas Thai settlements, got up early in the morning to bathe in Buddhism, and then started several times in succession.

4. Flower Street Festival

Huajie Festival, a grand exchange activity of people visiting the park, is mainly distributed among Huayao Dai and Wenshan Zhuang in Yunnan. One is the flower market in Yiliang, Yunnan, which has different time and form, but has its unique charm. Huajie Festival is a unique festival of Huayao Dai, because Huajie Festival is an important form for young men and women to exchange and choose their spouses. It is called "Flower Street" locally and "Valentine's Day" in the East.

5. Duige Festival

On the Duanyang Festival in May every year, young Dai men and women on both sides of the Red River gather in Nabing Dalongtan in Wuwan Village, Majie Township to participate in the Duge Festival. On the day of duet, young men and women from all villages dressed up and held duet competitions between men and women and between villages from sunrise to sunset. Old people and children came to listen to singing with dry food. For young men and women, Duige Festival is an excellent opportunity to make friends and find partners.