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.

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Dai men wear collarless double-breasted or large-breasted small sleeve jackets, long-sleeved trousers, blankets when it is cold, and white or green cloth on their heads.

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Customs and habits of the Dai people:

1, Dai customs-eating habits

The Dai people take rice as their staple food, and the most distinctive one is bamboo tube rice. The production method is to put rice in a fresh bamboo tube, add water, and barbecue on the fire, which is fragrant and delicious.

Dai people also have many special barbecues. Dai cold dishes are also delicious, such as dried pork and steamed fish, which are all Dai delicacies.

Pu 'er tea, a specialty of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, was exported to all parts of China in the Tang Dynasty and Southeast Asia and South Asia in the Qing Dynasty. Now it has entered the markets of Japan, Western Europe and other countries and regions and become a famous tea at home and abroad.

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.

There are also many Dai snacks. If there is a kind of Ciba, it is a round cake made of glutinous rice and sugar stuffing, and it is wrapped with banana leaves coated with wax oil. It can be baked with fire or fried with honey.

2. Dai customs-Dai costumes

Dai men wear collarless double-breasted or large-breasted small sleeve jackets, long-sleeved trousers, blankets when it is cold, and white or green cloth on their heads.

Tattooing is a common custom of Dai people. When the boy was eleven or twelve years old, he was asked to tattoo various animals, flowers, geometric patterns or Dai characters 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.

3. Dai customs-Dai folk houses

The houses of Dai people are usually bamboo buildings. The bamboo building where Dai people live is a dry-column building.

The bamboo building is approximately square, supported by dozens of large bamboos, and the floor is suspended; The roof is covered with thatched rows, and the bamboo wall has a large gap, which is both ventilated and light-permeable. The slope on both sides of the roof is very large, showing an "A" shape.

The bamboo building is divided into two floors, where people live upstairs, livestock are raised downstairs and sundries are piled up. It's also a place for rice and weaving.

Most villages are built by the water, surrounded by bamboo and streams.

In most parts of Dehong, Dai people live in thatched bungalows and quadrangles.

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