Showing love with the flower ball: There are many ways for the Dai youths to show love. Among which playing flower ball is the most common one. When the New Year of the Dai Lunar Calendar (the Water-Splashing Festival) is on the horizon, all the unmarried youths nearby get together and play the flower ball. Boys and girls stand in lines separately and then throw the flower ball to the beloved one standing on the opposite side. The rule is if the girl doesn't catch the flower ball, he will give the girl a gift, while the girl will pick a flower for the boy who throws the flower ball to her but she fails to catch. Actually, during the game, girls always try to trick boys for more gifts. Flower ball as the woman matcher, some young girls and young boys would know each other and be friend and then find some other ideal places for a further step.

　　Twining thread on wedding: The wedding in Dai minority, also called "Jin Qian" which means entertaining the guests would be hold at fixed time, that is from December 15th(the Opening-Door Festival) to September 15th of the next year (the Closing-Door Festival). The main content of the wedding is to pray for the bride and bridegroom and twine the thread for them.

　　On the wedding ceremony, the host would first pray for the bride and bridegroom and then take a long white thread to twine the hands of the new couple from left to right which means a happy and healthy life forever. Other relatives and friends will also twine the hands of the bridegroom and the bride respectively to show their congratulations.Twining thread is also called "Shu Huan" in the Dai language which means "twining the souls".The custom is from an ancient story. Long long ago, there was a little princess of Dai minority. One day, the princess asked one of the young servants "Do you known whom I am going to marry?" the young servant answered‘just me!' without any hesitation. Hearing this, the princess burst into anger and threw a knife to scar his forehead. The servant was certainly chased out of the country. After a hard experience, the servant became the king of another country and allied with the former country by marriage. On the wedding day, the princess recognized that the king was just the former servant by the scar on his forehead. The bride was so regretful that she twined their hands with a white thread immediately to show faithfulness to her husband forever. There spreads the twining custom.