Chapter 71 The Dai New Year is unique, splashing water on the Songkran Festival

No matter how tortuous the episode is, it doesn't affect my sleep when I'm alone, and when I wake up, it's just three poles in the morning.

Songkran is coming, I felt out the sandals I had prepared early, put on loose shorts and a T-shirt, and shouted ready to check, at this moment, everything is ready, all I need to splash water is.

Gege's equipment is completely prepared for splashing water, it should be the kind of material that doesn't hurt when splashing, and we each carried a small basin.

It's still early, the splashing square is not far away, we walked all the way, the lights have been put up along the way, many people are ready, ready to go.

It was said that it started at ten o'clock, but in fact, the enthusiastic masses had a very poor view of time, and as soon as they walked near the splashing square, they ushered in waves of clear water splashed from all directions.

At first, I dodged left and right a few times, but isn't Songkran just about splashing and being splashed?

The Songkran Festival is also known as the Buddha Bathing Festival, at this time, everyone will splash water on each other, praying to wash away the filth and bad luck on the body, and welcome the arrival of the New Year in a clean state, splashing water is a traditional way of blessing.

So there is no need to avoid being splashed at all, the more you are splashed, the more blessings you receive, if everyone is wet, but you are not dripping water, it doesn't mean that I am a disgusting person. So I completely gave up on dodging, and where there was more water, I became an embarrassed chicken in an instant.

Many people say that Xishuangbanna is a place that people will never forget once they visit.

People who have experienced Songkran will also say that Songkran is a festival that must be attended by a girlfriend who has never been faceless, no matter how much money you spend on cosmetics, no matter how delicate makeup you wear, as long as you walk on the street, the blessings of Songkran will definitely make you unified. And no matter how gentle and elegant the lady is, she will become a "shrew" at the Songkran Festival, completely ignoring the image and splashing with everyone.

Three treasures on the Songkran Festival, a basin, a water gun, and a mobile phone bag. Everyone comes prepared, and everyone who comes here will not miss this indulgent activity.

Everyone in the arena is eager to try and fight, and if you look for a passerby, you can start a battle.

The basin can be described as a weapon that can be attacked, retreated, and defended, which can not only be splashed with water, but also block the face from being splashed, as long as the face is not bigger than the basin.

The water gun is a standing long-range offensive weapon, but the water storage and spray water are limited, it is difficult to produce the splashing effect of splitting the head and covering the face, and there is often no water at the critical moment, of course, the pressure water gun is forbidden to use.

Water cannons and washbasins can only be counted as small arms at Songkran, and pickup trucks filled with water are heavy weapons.

From time to time on this section of the street, you will encounter a pickup truck loaded with water and equipped with several warriors splashing water. The car moved slowly, and the warriors on the car used the car as a position, using basins and water guns to send blessings to the surrounding crowd. Their ammunition is very abundant and their endurance is extremely strong, which can form a huge impact on passers-by along the way.

Of course, the people around are not to be outdone, and they will always attack the passing pickup trucks one after another, often because the people in the car can't run at will, and are besieged by the people around them to the point of embarrassment.

If you think that the pickup truck is already very powerful, then there is an even more eye-opening equipment, which is the sprinkler truck, which can be described as a nuclear weapon at the Songkran Festival.

On the sprinkler truck, only one person needs to stand next to the water cannon, and the whole street cannot escape its attack. Although there will be people fighting back with water guns, it is just a mantis arm blocking the car and not measuring their own strength.

As soon as the sprinkler truck came on the stage, everyone felt that it was too much, which completely lost the traditional interest, in fact, everyone still liked to celebrate the Songkran Festival in the most primitive way.

The madness of Songkran is unimaginable to anyone who has not participated in the festival, and it is common to see a group of people besieging several people. The more people you have with you, the stronger your team is, and the stronger the team is to splash wherever they want.

Often beautiful, good figure girls will bear the brunt of the splashed object, many beautiful girls are splashed soaked, clothes close to the skin, beautiful figures, beautiful outlines are perfectly outlined, forming a beautiful landscape.

For beautiful women, it doesn't matter if you splash, watch, or want to get into it, don't have excessive, indecent behavior, which will attract public outrage and will be sanctioned by the security administrators, but don't think about fishing in troubled waters.

Gege, a beautiful woman with a good figure and good appearance, has naturally become the focus of care, and our team is just me and her, very lonely, basically only holding the head of the mouse.

In order to protect Gege, I watched six ways, listened to all directions, jumped up and down, and was particularly agile, helping her block countless basins of oncoming blessings, and the oncoming water was constantly splashing, and I almost lost the gap for ventilation, almost drowning, which is really exaggerated.

Gege tugged at my clothes and stayed behind me, like a chick hiding behind an old hen.

Although it has been subjected to various sieges in a row, it doesn't matter, heroes are born for beautiful women, let the water splash more violently, with me, don't panic, even if you run out of ammunition and are powerless to resist, there are still people to block the endless war for you.

Songkran has been passed down as a national custom for hundreds of years. The Songkran Festival is the most solemn festival of the Dai nationality, and it is also the festival with the largest influence, the largest number of participants, and the most lively and cheerful festival among the ethnic minority festivals in Yunnan.

Splashing water is a celebration and a blessing, everyone seems to be splashed with embarrassment, there is nowhere to hide, but everyone's face is full of joy.

This is the only way to do it in this place, in this festival, with impunity and without scruples. It washes away the dust and dilutes the sorrow in the heart, and it is indeed a good way to decompress.

Later, I heard many people say that the participants in the splashing are basically tourists from other places, and the locals have gradually diluted this custom, and they will only quietly watch a group of outsiders laughing and playing outside.

Indeed, the progress of society has created a lot of dilution of traditional customs, I remember when I was a child, every New Year, a group of friends would go from house to house to pay New Year's greetings, and now, firecrackers have been banned, and the friends are all playing with their mobile phones at home during the New Year, and they are busy grabbing red envelopes. Don't worry about the road ahead, everyone in the world plays with mobile phones. This is the classic technology that changes life.

Regardless of whether or not locals participate in the Songkran carnival, the Songkran Festival is still in full swing every year.

When people's material life is satisfied, the spiritual life also needs to be enriched, and after the pressure of work, you also need to let go of yourself, the tropical rainforest is a good place to get away from the hustle and bustle, and the Songkran Festival is a good activity to let go of yourself.

After the carnival, shake off the water droplets on the body, Gege and I looked at each other and laughed, she was very interesting today, completely without makeup, so there was no embarrassment of makeup spending, this is also a performance of self-confidence, worthy of "clear water out of hibiscus, natural carving".

She usually paints a delicate makeup, not to cover up the flaws under the makeup, but to enjoy life and cherish life. Looking at her skin-hugging clothes again, the outline is clear, and the flesh is hidden, which makes people can't help but feel a little bloody.

A beautiful woman, with a perfect body, standing on the street, inadvertently attracted the attention of many passers-by.

Embarrassed, she had to get as close to me as she could, using my tall figure to hide her seductive posture. The beauty is close at hand, and my heart is a little ready to move.

At this moment, I finally understood why I was often unmoved by beauty, not because it was a matter of whether to take big tonic pills or not, but because there was a goddess in my heart who had nothing to reach, and with a goddess in the way, ordinary women were like vulgar powders who could no longer break into their hearts.

At this time, water was no longer provided on the street, and everyone walking on the road was completely wet, but their faces were full of joy, and the pleasure of splashing water was still unfinished.

After returning to the hotel, I took a shower, changed my clothes, blew the air conditioner, and lay on the bed, feeling really comfortable.

Xishuangbanna is a magical place, its magic is mainly reflected in the climate, the hottest time of the year is not in the middle of summer, but in the two months before and after the Songkran Festival, the rainy season begins to enter the rainy season in late May, and the rainy season has cooled down.

The highest temperature during the Songkran Festival is 33~34 °C on average, which is the highest temperature season of the year, so even if it is splashed into a "soup chicken", it will not get sick from cold.

Each local festival is a combination of the right time and place and invented, such as the Hani people's grasshopper catching festival, every time the grasshopper is raging, the grasshopper catching festival is coming, people flock to the field to catch grasshoppers, and then make delicious snacks to eat.

The Songkran Festival is very grand for the people of the Dai, Achang, Brown, Wa and De'ang peoples, and such a grand festival must have a supporting celebration party.

The open-air national carnival party in the evening vividly showed the customs and folklore of the local ethnic minorities, and each ethnic minority was able to sing and dance, which was full of poetry and picturesqueness.

Their party is not as large as the No. 1 studio hall of the Spring Festival Gala, nor is it so rich in performance forms, basically based on singing and dancing.

Banna is a multi-ethnic area dominated by the Dai people, and such a major Dai festival must also have the participation of other ethnic groups in the region.

In the open-air party, the dance of the Kino nationality uses the drum as the main prop, the dance of the Dai nationality is as gentle as flowing water, and the dance of the Achang nationality is open and close.

The dance display at the party with diverse styles and rich content made us breathtaking. It is really the most people-friendly, the most quaint and the most down-to-earth party.