1961In mid-April, Zhou Enlai visited Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, and celebrated the Dai New Year-Water-splashing Festival with the Dai and Buyi people in Jinghong. Put on Dai costumes and walk into the happy crowd. At first, the crowd dipped cypress branches in clear water with silver bowls and politely sprinkled them on the Prime Minister. Zhou Enlai saw some people splashing water in cauldrons, so he did as the Romans do. He happily picked up a big pot and spilled it all over the floor.
Seeing that Zhou Enlai was so amiable, the masses immediately broke free and threw large pots of water at their prime minister. According to the custom of the Dai people, the more water is splashed during the Water-Splashing Festival, the closer and more respectful they are. The guards used umbrellas to cover the spilled water for fear that the Prime Minister would catch cold. Zhou Enlai discouraged: "Never mind, go to the masses, just like everyone else."
Zhou Enlai is in perfect harmony with the masses. He said to the local cadres, "Every drop of Dai water is warm, and I don't feel cold at all." "Only by respecting national customs and habits can we be connected with the people of all ethnic groups!"
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Premier Zhou and the background of Dai Water-splashing Festival;
Mid-April of 196 1 coincides with the New Year of Dai calendar 1323, which is a traditional water-splashing festival. In this festive and peaceful festival, Premier Zhou Enlai and Myanmar Prime Minister Wu Nu met with people of all ethnic groups in Xishuangbanna in Jinghong and got together with them.
However, Chiang Kai-shek, who is entrenched in the Golden Triangle and the Thai-Myanmar border area, still has strong remnants, and it is very likely that he will attack and harass our border during the Songkran Festival and send enemy agents to sabotage the assassination. Therefore, the security work during the Songkran Festival is very complicated and arduous. /kloc-In the afternoon of April in 0/3, the sunset painted the waves of Lancang River with a golden red light.
After the Chinese and Burmese prime ministers crossed the river by ferry and boarded the dock, the Dai people presented flowers to Xiao Bu Shao. Galeries Lafayette tied a red line on his wrist according to the Dai religious custom. At this time, a loud noise of 12 set off on the riverside beach, symbolizing Xishuangbanna's lofty and warm welcome to the Prime Ministers of the two countries for their visit to Jinghong.
After accepting the ceremony of girls sprinkling holy water, the people waiting in line gave out waves of "water! Water! Cheers of water " ...
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