Water-splashing Festival

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Dai Water Splashing Festival

Applicant: Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

Project No.: 456

Project No.: X - 8

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Yunnan Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

Protection unit: Dehong Cultural Center

Brief introduction of Dai Water Splashing Festival

Applicant: Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province

Dehong Water Splashing Festival is a grand traditional festival of Dai, De'ang and Achang people living in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in western Yunnan Province. The festival lasts from the seventh day to the tenth day after Qingming Festival.

Water splashing Festival has a history of nearly a thousand years. It is formed on the basis of Dai rice culture and the integration of Theravada Buddhism from the 11th to 13th century. It is the product of the combination of the religious ceremony of the Southern Buddhism and the traditional etiquette of the Dai people in Dehong. It presents the remarkable characteristics of the traditional Dai culture. The activities of the water splashing Festival are colorful, with rich humanistic connotation and broad mass base. The main activities include people's flower picking, believers' Buddha worship, Dragon Pavilion worship, Buddha Bathing ceremony, watering blessing, song and dance activities, martial arts performance, men's and women's bag throwing (throwing Hydrangea ball) and setting off Kongming lamp, floating water lamp, high rising and so on.

The water splashing Festival fully embodies the essence of Dai rice culture and water culture, and has a wide range of cultural and social functions. It is an important carrier for the inheritance and continuation of Dai's material and spiritual civilization, and has a high reference value in the study of history, culture, ethnology, folklore, religion and ethics.

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