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The Water-Splashing Festival The Water-Splashing Festival is on April 13-15, when the Dai people celebrate their New Year’s Day. The celebrations change on each day. The first day is for cleaning up the houses and neighbourhood. The next day everyone goes out to the streets and splashes water to each other with their pans, pails and buckets. The clean water is believed to be the best blessing. And on the third day people have fun by taking dragon boats and setting off firecrackers.
As to where the Water-Splashing Festival comes from, there is a folk legend. A long time ago, a demon king impressed by the fertility of the Jinghong area in Yunnan, appropriated it and forced seven beautiful Dai maidens to be his wives. The people hated the demon, and the ladies tried to find out ways to get rid of him.
One day, one of them hit upon an idea. She plied him with alcohol and showered him with flattery. At last she got to know a secret: the only thing that could kill him was to tie a piece of hair from his own head around his neck.
Soon he was snoring in drunken slumber. The lady did as she had found out about, and the demon’s head dropped to the floor, rolling. As he was a “fire demon”, whatever the rolling head touched burst into flame. The seven wives and all the people splashed water over the fire and managed to extinguish it. Since then, the Dai people have been celebrating the “Water-Splashing Festival”.
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