The annual Water-Splashing Festival is most important holiday of the Dai people. Held during the sixth month of the Dai calendar, usually falling in the middle of April, it is also known as the Festival for Bathing the Buddha.

About the origin of the festival, the long-ago days when there was a devil in the village where the Dai people lived, doing all manner of evil. All the people hated him but his magic was too powerful for them to overcome.

One day in the sixth month, his seventh wife, who had been kidnapped from the village, tricked him into revealing his weaknesses. As he slept, his wives used his hair to cut off his head. But the head began to burn when it touched the ground, and the fire would die only if one of the women held the head tightly in her arms.

So the seven wives took turns holding the head, each for a period of one year. Every year when they changed, people would splash water on the woman who had been holding the head for the past year to wash away the blood and a year of fatigue.

As time went by, the ritual became a happy -- even raucous -- way to send off the old year and greet the new.

The days of the Water-Splashing Festival are filled with various activities: song and dance, dragon-boat races, the launching of rockets and the flying of Kongming lanterns, parades and fairs.

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PRIVATE TOUR INCLUDES:

1. Entrance fee as it listed.
2. Scheduled sightseeing by private air-conditioned deluxe coach with English-speaking guide service
3. Accommodations in 4/5-star deluxe hotel based on twin sharing, with daily breakfast included.
4. Domestic flight ( Kunming - Dali & Lijiang - Kunming)
5. Transfer service RT Airport or Railway station-Hotel .
6. Meals

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