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The main Dai groups in China are Dai Lu, Dai Nua and Dai Mao. According to Travel China Guide, Dai is the name of the nationality, which means “freedom”.7 Tai or Shan is now used as a generic word to cover the whole race spelled by French as Thay.
- Sai Htwe Maung
- Introduction
- The Dai People in Two Cultural Circles
- References
The Dai1 ethnic group in China and the Thai people in Southeast Asia2 can all be broadly divided into two cultural groups: a Buddhist cultural circle and another circle centered around indigenous religion. Within the Buddhist circle, the Dai people practice Theravada Buddhism, celebrating the Songkran3 Festival and using a writing system created by...
As mentioned earlier, a large number of the Dai people—mainly in Xishuangbanna and Dehong Prefectures—lie within a Buddhist cultural circle, having been influenced by Theravada Buddhism from Burma or Laos, and they therefore share similar characteristics such as their celebration of the Songkran Festival and the employment of writing systems to rec...
Ai Die, Chen Guipei, Liu Qi, and Wang Song, eds. Zhao Shutun (The Hero Zhao Shuthun). Kunming: Yunnan Renmin Chubanshe (The People’s Publishing House of Yunnan). In Chinese. Ai Feng, Wang Song, and Dao Baoyao. Daizu Wenxueshi (The History of Dai Literature). Kunming: Yunnan Minzu Chubanshe (The National Publishing House of Yunnan). In Chinese. Ai P...
Similar to the Yao, the Dai is a composite of several related people groups. With a long history and a fun-loving culture, the Dai have come to influence Yunnan culture in a significant way.
Instead of tracing individual ideas in Sun’s ideology of revolution to their original Chinese sources, I shall discuss his thought in relation to Chinese tradition holistically as well as in the context of Chinese intellectual history during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Aug 5, 2016 · An ethnic minority, the Dai people were part of an ancient culture that inhabited what is now China’s Yunnan province until political chaos and wars forced them to disperse south. Now spread...
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The Dai people (Burmese: ရှမ်းလူမျိုး; Tai Lü: ᨴᩱ/ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿ; Lao: ໄຕ; Thai: ไท; Shan: တႆး, [tai˥˩]; Tai Nuea: ᥖᥭᥰ, [tai˥]; Chinese: 傣 族; pinyin: Dǎizú) are several Tai -speaking ethnic groups living in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and the Dehong Dai and Jingpo ...