Most Dai people have the habit of eating two meals at a time, with rice and glutinous rice as their staple food. Usually eaten immediately. People think that japonica rice and glutinous rice will lose their original color and fragrance only if they are eaten immediately, so they don't eat overnight meals or seldom eat them, and they are used to kneading rice with their hands.

Migrant workers often eat outdoors. They can eat with banana leaves or rice, plus salt, pepper, sour meat, roast chicken, Mi Nan (which means sauce in Dai language) and pine. All dishes and snacks are mainly sour, such as sour bamboo shoots, sour pea powder, sour meat, wild sour fruit and so on.

The daily meat is pigs, cows, chickens and ducks, and don't eat or eat less mutton. Dai people who live in the mainland like to eat dog meat, are good at roast chicken and roast chicken, and are very fond of aquatic products such as fish, shrimp, crab, snails and moss.

There are many kinds of insects in the hot and humid areas of Dai nationality. It is an important part of Dai food to make various flavor dishes and snacks with insects as raw materials. Insects that are often eaten are cicadas, bamboo worms, Okubo, soft-shelled turtles and ant eggs.

Dai people are addicted to alcohol, but their alcohol content is not high. They brewed it themselves, and it tastes very sweet. Tea is a local specialty, but Dai people only drink big leaf tea without spices.

Second, Dai costumes

Dai clothing, men wear collarless double-breasted or large-breasted small sleeve coat, long-sleeved trousers, blankets when it is cold, and white or green cloth to cover their heads. The custom of tattooing is very common. When the boy was eleven or twelve years old, he was asked to tattoo various animals, flowers, geometric patterns or Dai patterns on his chest, back, abdomen, waist and limbs as decorations.

Women traditionally wear short sleeves and skirts. Dai women in Xishuangbanna wear white or scarlet underwear with small waist, wide hem and various tube skirts. Women in mangshi and other places wear light-colored double-breasted blouses, trousers and small waists before marriage, and change them into double-breasted blouses and black skirts after marriage.

The women's clothing of the Dai people in the mainland is basically the same as that of the frontier, but it has regional characteristics, so it is often called "Huayao Dai" and "Dai Xiu Dai" by other ethnic groups.

Third, the Dai people's clothes.

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

For example, red and green are to commemorate ancestors; Peacock pattern indicates good luck; Elephant patterns symbolize harvest and a better life; It fully shows the Dai people's yearning and pursuit of a better life.

Dai women like to wear bracelets, rings, earrings and necklaces. These objects can be decorated with gold, silver and jade, and imitations can also be used. A few days after the baby girl was born, her parents pricked her ears with sterilized needles and prepared to wear earrings. For women, a 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 wrapped their heads in white towels. Middle-aged women have long hair and put it on their heads, surrounded by various scarves, and young girls also wrap their heads with scarves. Girls and young women wear braids and have the same hairstyles as those in the mainland.

Only on festivals do girls tie their hair slightly to the left and decorate it with hairpins and flowers. When young women curl their hair, it is not long enough, so they put a sock on it to increase the length of the hair and roll it into a bun.

Extended data:

Dai people in China are mainly distributed in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture, Gengma Dai and Wa Autonomous County and Menglian Dai and Lahu Wa Autonomous County. The rest are scattered in more than 30 counties in Xinping, Yuanjiang and Jinping, Yunnan Province. Living in mountainous and plain areas, it has a subtropical climate.

Dai people call themselves "Dai Nuo", "Dai Ya", "Dai Na" and "Dai War". In the Han and Jin Dynasties, it was called "Dian Yue", "Shan", "Good at", "Liao" or "Kuliao". In the Tang and Song Dynasties, they were called "Golden Teeth", "Hei Chi", "Rude Man" 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, it was renamed Dai according to the wishes of the people of the whole country.

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