Dai Calendar 1387 New Year Festival Parade
JingHong, XiShuangBanNa, YunNan, China
2025 April
4K UHD 60FPS

The Water Splashing Festival, also known as the Buddha Bathing Festival, is called "Sangkan Bimai" in Dai language, which means the New Year of the Dai calendar. The festival celebrations are mainly concentrated in the Dai settlements in various cities and counties in Yunnan Province, and have a history of more than 1,000 years. The Water Splashing Festival is a comprehensive stage that showcases the Dai people's water culture, music and dance culture, food culture, clothing culture, and traditional culture such as advocating nature. It is the Dai people's grandest festival of the year and carries a profound historical and cultural heritage.

The Water Splashing Festival is usually held from April 13th to 16th, corresponding to the sixth month of the Dai calendar, during the farming intermission period, the climate is hot, and water splashing has both cooling and blessing. In Dai folk tales, it is said that in ancient times, demons were rampant, and the people used water to extinguish their evil fire and eventually defeated the demons. Therefore, water splashing symbolizes exorcising evil and welcoming auspiciousness.

Main customs and activities
1. Water splashing carnival: People splash each other with clean water, and the water represents blessings and cleanliness. Young people often play with water guns and buckets, while they sprinkle water on the elders with flower branches to show respect.
2. Bathing the Buddha: Believers bathe the Buddha statues in the temple and pray for peace.
3. Building sand towers: Building towers with sand by the river, inserting colorful flags and offerings to express awe of nature.
4. Dragon Boat Race: Fierce dragon boat races are held on the Lancang River.
5. Setting off high-rise fireworks: Homemade bamboo fireworks "high-rise" are shot into the sky, implying a good harvest.
6. Market fair: The market gathers all kinds of Dai specialties, snacks and various commodities.
7. Setting off Kongming lanterns and water lanterns: praying for blessings and eliminating disasters and conveying thoughts.

Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture (abbreviated as "Xishuangbanna") is a tropical area at the southernmost tip of Yunnan Province, China, bordering Laos and Myanmar. It is famous for its unique tropical rainforest scenery and colorful ethnic minority culture. Xishuangbanna is mainly populated by the Dai people, and there are 13 other ethnic groups including the Han, Hani, Jinuo, Lahu, and Bulang. All Dai people believe in Southern Buddhism, and there are Buddhist temples in every village. Festivals are closely linked to Buddhist culture (such as the Water Splashing Festival, the Closing Festival, and the Opening Festival).

The Xishuangbanna Dai New Year Festival National Folk Culture Parade is held during the Water Splashing Festival in April every year. It is one of the most representative mass cultural activities of the Xishuangbanna Water Splashing Festival. The 2025 parade consists of 8 square formations and 53 performance teams. Nearly 3,500 people dressed in ethnic costumes gathered on the streets of Jinghong City to show the unique ethnic folk culture of Xishuangbanna through singing and dancing, intangible cultural heritage, floats, and creative performances.

01:22 Nationalities performance teams by Manting Park
04:04 Jinuo drum performance team
05:01 Dai traditional peacock performance team
08:46 Zongfo Temple performance team
10:20 Mengbala Naxi performance team
12:14 Jinglan Cultural Tourism Float Team
13:23 Dai performance team
20:42 Hani performance team
22:55 Lahu performance team
22:27 Jinuo performance team
23:58 Huayao Dai performance team
24:35 Lahu performance team
26:01 Yao performance team
27:00 Yinhu Grand Theater performance team
28:42 Mengle Cultural Tourism Area performance team
30:10 Bulang performance team
33:48 Dai intangible cultural heritage square
45:15 Peacock Princess Live Performance Team
47:17 Twelve themed floats parade

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2024(Dai Calendar 1386): https://youtu.be/YgyVRw3RndE
2023(Dai Calendar 1385): https://youtu.be/Urx623F4b9E

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This traditional piece, 綠野仙蹤, is inspired by a tragic romantic fable in Chinese culture - the story of Lian Hua. (See below to read full story)

Xiao solo with piano, composed by 赵聪, arranged by 陈悦.

The beauty of the instrument:
The instrument I played this piece on is called the Xiao (箫), which is one of my favorite traditional Chinese instruments. With over 8,000 years of history, the Xiao's beauty and simplicity has stayed much the same since ancient times. Made from bamboo, it possesses a unique mellow tone that can carry incredibly deep emotions. I hope this music touches you as deeply as it does me, and hope that you enjoy my performance!


The tragic story of Lian Hua:
The story behind the song is that from ancient China and of a beautiful Chinese girl, Lian Hua, or Lotus Blossom, who at 12 summers, was kidnapped by another clan. It was the Chinese ambassador's son, Chin Win, who was much older and had first lay eyes on her while she traveled with her family to his lands in the east to trade. Lian’s father, Cho, a musician and instrument maker, had traveled there to sell the flutes and ruans he crafted, in the Great Emperors court.

Upon her return home, Chin ordered a faction of the Great Emperors army to escort Lian Hua and her family back to their lands in the west. As honored as Lian's family was for the kind gesture, little did they know Chin's real motive. By sunrise Lian had vanished and was nowhere in sight. Under the cover of night a few of Chin’s men gagged and tied her and rode away eastward.

For days her family searched and mourned for Lian Hua with the help of Chin's men, who only pretended to help, as they knew all too well of her disappearance. Not fully knowing what happened to Lian Hua, they feared she was dead – and with that, many years passed. In those years, Lian Hua had grown more beautiful than when she first arrived to the house of Chin.

Chin tried for many years to win the love of Lian Hua, but knowing of her abduction, she rejected him and thought only of her family and the lands to the west she so desperately missed. Chin grew frustrated with Lian Hua and imprisoned her as punishment. Chin so loved Lian Hua but her affection he could not have. As such, he became embittered and drank heavily and with Lian Hua being held captive, he visited her one night, drunk and furious.

"I bring you to this land in the hopes of making a better life for you and making you my wife and yet – you are ungrateful!" Chin said furiously while reaching for his knife as if to strike her. Lian Hua, chained to the ground below slowly looked up at Chin. Her beautiful face radiated with the light of the fool moon shining through the window.

“Wait!” Lian cried. "Know now that I came here captured by your will. My home, my family is beyond the mountains to the west, not here with you! Yet you imprison me like a caged bird so that I may someday love you.”

Chin raised his head higher still holding his knife as Lian Hua went on:
“It is you, Chin, who is a prisoner among yourself. For as long as I am held here, I will never love you… never.” Tears swelled her eyes. It was these very words that Lian Hua spoke that further enraged Chin.

“Then if you can never love me, no one ever will!” With that, Chin took his knife and cut the right side of Lian’s beautiful face. A struggle ensued as Chin tried to have his way with Lian Hua. She tried desperately to fight him off – only to feel the blade of his knife strike her in the chest. In her struggle, Lian Hua let out a gasp and slowly fell to the ground.

That same night Lian Hua’s mother Mei awoke from a dream she had. In her dream, she heard Lian Hua call to her and felt she was near. Mei rose and went outside and looked around calling to her daughter.
“Lian Hua, Lian Hua, where are you?” She cried running, looking. “I am here my beautiful daughter, I am here.” The old woman cried. Now exhausted she fell to her knees weeping.

Then, realizing it was just a dream, she looked up to the heavens and prayed to the spirits for acting foolish. To her amazement, Mei noticed a shooting star flying westward leaving a slight glimmering trail that slowly dissipated in the sky above her. In old China, this is known as “A Trail of Angels.” Somehow, Lian Hua’s mother knew that her daughter had returned to her that night but was now in the spirit world. Revealing this dream to Cho the next day, Cho picked up a flute and played this very song to the memory of Lian Hua – a lotus that forever blossoms.

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