Water-Sprinkling Festival falls on the sixth month of Dai ethnic group calendar, normally in the middle of April. The celebration is held in Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province and lasts three or five days.
On the first day, people pick fresh flowers to pray in Buddhist temples and clean dust off the Buddha. After the ceremony, youths with pails of water begin splashing water on one another to express their best wishes. Everyone is cheerfully wet from head to toes, for the water symbolizes good luck.
On the square of the village, both the elders and the young are absorbed in the festival atmosphere, singing and dancing in a circle to the drum.
In the dragon boat race, the wooden boat is decorated with colorful flowers and in the shape of dragon, peacock and big fish.
