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What's the difference between Thai and Dai?

There is no difference between Thai and Dai, they are just one nation.

Dai, also known as Thai (Thai:? , Roman alphabet: Thai), etc. The national language is Dai (Thai), which belongs to Zhuang-Dai branch of Zhuang-Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family.

Dai people regard peacocks and elephants as mascots. Folk stories are rich and colorful. Dai people like to live by water. I like to be clean and often take a bath and wash my hair. Therefore, it has the reputation of "water town". In the past, Dai people generally believed in Buddhism, and primitive religion spread to the south.

Dai people are distributed in China, Indian, Vietnamese, Cambodian and other countries. Mainly living in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture and Gengma and Menglian Autonomous County. The rest are distributed in more than 30 counties including JD.COM, Jinggu, Pu 'er, Lancang, Xinping, Yuanjiang and Jinping. The border areas of the Dai people are bordered by Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.

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The "nativism" of the origin of the Dai nationality;

This view holds that the Dai people have lived in the arc zone from the west of the Red River to the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River and Manipo, India since ancient times, and its formation is the natural result of economic and cultural development, not the result of immigration. However, people have different views on how the Dai people developed into aborigines. For example, Huang Huikun thinks that the ancestors of the Dai nationality are Guyue people, and Chen thinks that the Dai nationality evolved from mountain people.

Among them, the Guyue people have the greatest influence. According to this view, China's historical records such as "Dian Yue", "Guo Shan", "Shang Yue" and "Guo Peng" were created by Dai ancestors.

However, some scholars have questioned this view. How to think that "Dianyue", "Guo Shan", "Shang Yue" and "Guo Peng" have nothing to do with Dai ancestors; Zheng Xiaoyun believes that Baiyue is not a nation, so naturally there is no national inheritance.

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