Water-Sprinkling Festival

Water-Sprinkling Festival
Also called	Dai New Year
Observed by	Dai people
Significance	Marks the Dai New Year
Begins	13 April
Ends	15 April
Date	13 April
2016 date	13 April, Monkey
2017 date	13 April, Rooster
2018 date	13 April, Dog
2019 date	13 April, Elephant
Frequency	annual
Related to	Burmese New Year, Cambodian New Year, Lao New Year, Sri Lankan New Year, Tai Khamti New Year, Thai New Year

The Water-sprinkling festival (simplified Chinese 泼水节 ; traditional Chinese 潑水節; Pinyin: Pōshuǐ jié), is a traditional festival of the Dai nationality marking the Lunar New Year. The Dai are an ethnic minority of China who primarily live in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in southern Yunnan. The predominant religion of the Dai is Theravada Buddhism and religious activities are frequent. The Water-sprinkling festival is one of the most solemn traditional festivals of this nationality. Usually, the festival takes place ten days around the Tomb-sweeping day and lasts for three or four days, it generally occurs according to the Gregorian calendar from April 13 to 15.

On the first day, people row, put to rise(放高升, cultural and artistic performance; on the second day, people sprinkle water crazily; on the third day, the young men and women get together to lost package(丢包） and exchange of goods(物资交流).

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