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Water Splashing Festival of Dai Minority

Year£º2006
Sort£ºFolk Custom
Area£ºYunnan Province
Serial No.£º¢ú-8
Declarer£ºXishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province

The Water Splashing Festival is a traditional festival for the Dai people in the Dehong area of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province in the southwest of China. It is the New Year for the Dai, a festival to send off the old and greet the new. It lasts three or four days.

Held during the sixth month of the Dai calendar, usually falling in mid-April of the Gregorian calendar, the Water Splashing Festival is also known as the Festival for Bathing the Buddha.
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