文档介绍：Traditional Festivals of Ethnic Minorities
In addition to the same traditional festivals as we have, ethnic minorities there are a number of traditional festivals with national characteristic. A total of 55 ethnic minorities in China,every ethnic minorities also have many different styles of traditional festivals. Many festivals are derived from the beautiful legend. Such as: The Dai Water Splashing Festival,The torch festival of the Yi people,Mongolia Nadamu,The Muslim Eid al Fitr and Eid al Adha,The Tibetan Shoton Festival,and so on.
Different styles of traditional festivals
Dai Water Splashing Festival
Dai Water Splashing Festival is the traditional is The equivalent of the Gregorian calendar in mid April and generally lasts from 3 to 7 days. During this time, people splash each other, say the blessing.
The origin of the water splashing Festival
There is a legend that the devil mit all sorts of beautiful Xishuangbanna. He grabed seven beautiful girls to be his wives. The girls with hatred, figured out how to kill the devil. One night, the youngest girl with the best wine made the pletely made him reveal his fatal weakness. The devil of fairing nothing, his was faired that hair was reined in his neck. The alert little girl gingerly pulled out a red haired of devil and around his , devil's head fell off into a ball of fire. Where was the fire, the fire spread to where. The bamboo house was burned and the crop was charred. In order to put out the fire, the little girl grabbed the devil's head. The other six girls took turns to kept to the above water. Finally in June of the evil Dai Li put out the fire. The villagers began to live and work in peace life. Since then, every year there Songkran customs.
Now the water splashing festival custom has e a form of mutual blessing. In the eyes of the Dai people, water is a symbol of holiness, beauty, and light. There is water in the world, so all things can is the so