About traditional festivals in other countries

United States-On Thanksgiving Day 1620, the famous may flower arrived in the United States with 102 Puritans who could not bear the persecution of English religion. In the winter at the turn of 1620 and 162 1, they encountered unimaginable difficulties and were hungry and cold. After winter passed, only 50 immigrants survived. At this time, the kind Indians brought necessities to the immigrants, and specially sent people to teach them how to hunt, fish and grow corn and pumpkins. With the help of Indians, the immigrants finally got a bumper harvest. On the day of celebrating the harvest, according to religious traditions and customs, immigrants set a day to thank God and decided to invite them to celebrate the festival together to thank the Indians for their sincere help.

On the first Thanksgiving, Indians and immigrants gathered together. They fired a salute at dawn, marched into a room used as a church, expressed their sincere thanks to God, then lit a bonfire and held a grand banquet. On the second and third days, wrestling, running, singing and dancing were held. The first Thanksgiving was a great success. Many of these celebrations have been circulated for more than 300 years and have been preserved to this day.

At first, there was no fixed date for Thanksgiving, which was decided temporarily by the states. It was not until the United States became independent that Thanksgiving Day became a national holiday. Water-splashing Festival of the Dai nationality is an annual traditional festival of the Dai nationality (April 13 to 15 in the solar calendar). The Dai language is called "cold combined with cold", which means "June New Year" or "Dai calendar New Year". In fact, the Songkran Festival is the New Year of the Dai calendar. Because of the Dai calendar, the New Year begins in June. According to legend, in ancient times, there was a god named Pengmadian Dalaza who was in charge of farming season. Dalaza, who holds pockmarked spots, with its clever magic, magical power and chaotic divine power, does whatever he wants, cools down when he wants to rain, making the world cold and warm, confusing rain and drought. Ying Da Tira, the Emperor of Heaven, decided to punish Dalachai, who brought disaster to the world, but because of his clever magic, the gods and immortals were afraid to touch him. So Ying Da Lati became a handsome young man and went to "string up" Madian Dalachai's seven daughters. He told them how their father did evil. Seven kind and beautiful girls were very dissatisfied with what their father had done. Today, after listening to the words of the "young man", I was even more indignant. They are determined to put righteousness above family interests and eliminate pests for the world. The girls privately discussed that in order to get rid of their heinous father, they must find out the secret of his life and death. Darachai, who was holding hemp, unconsciously revealed his secret of life and death in his laughter: he was afraid of fire, flood, knife cutting, arrow shooting, and making a bow with his hair (meaning "heartstring bow").

One day, the girls drank their father as drunk as a fiddler. While he was sleeping, they quietly pulled out one of his hairs and made it a "bow plug massacre". When they aimed the "bow stopper" at Dalachai with hemp, his neck was broken. As soon as his head landed, it caught fire and the fire spread everywhere. In order to put out the evil fire, seven girls took turns holding Dalachai's pockmarked head until it rotted. In the process of rotation, the girls should call clean water and splash it on themselves to wash away stains and odors.

In order to commemorate these seven girls, Dai people will hold water splashing activities during the Chinese New Year to eliminate disasters and solve problems, and wish the new year a good weather, abundant crops and prosperous people and animals. The "wrist brain" in the Dai calendar New Year is the day when Dalaza's head rots, and water splashing activities are held on this day.