Water-Sprinkling Festival

The Water-sprinkling festival is a traditional folk activity in Dai nationality. Dai nationality is one of the ethnic minorities of China, most of them live in Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan. The nationality believe in Buddhism and religious activities are frequent. The Water-sprinkling festival is actually the New Year of Dai nationality, and also one of the most solemn traditional festivals of this nationality. Usually, the festival takes place ten days around the Tomb-sweeping day and lasts for three or four days, generally in the Gregorian calendar on April 13 to 15, the three days.^[1]

On the first day, people row, put to rise(放高升, cultural and artistic performance; on the second day, people sprinkle water crazily; on the third day, the young men and women get together to lost package(丢包） and exchange of goods(物资交流).^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

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