The Dehong Water Splashing Festival is a grand traditional festival of the Dai, Deang and Achang peoples who have lived in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in western Yunnan Province. The festival is held from the seventh to the tenth day after the Qingming Festival. The Water Splashing Festival has a history of nearly a thousand years. It was gradually formed on the basis of the Dai rice-growing civilization and the integration of Theravada Buddhism from the 11th to the 13th century. It is the product of the combination of Southern Buddhism religious rituals and Dehong Dai traditional etiquette, showing the remarkable characteristics of the traditional culture of the Dai people. The activities of the Water Splashing Festival are colorful, with rich humanistic connotations and a broad mass base. The main activities include people picking flowers, believers offering sacrifices to Buddha, worshiping the Dragon Pavilion, bathing Buddha ceremony, sprinkling water blessings, singing and dancing activities, martial arts performances, men and women throwing bags (throwing embroidered balls), and setting off Kongming lanterns, floating water lanterns, and flying high-rises. The Water Splashing Festival more completely embodies the essence of the Dai rice-growing civilization and water culture, and has a wide range of cultural and social functions. It is an important carrier of the inheritance and continuation of the Dai people's material and spiritual civilization, and has a high reference value in the research of history, culture, ethnology, folklore, religion and ethics. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)