The customs of the March 3 of the Zhuang people are:Songs to talk about love, embroidered balls to pass on love, packages of five-color glutinous rice, grab the firecrackers, playing the flat, playing the bronze drums, touching the colorful eggs.
1, the song of love
March 3 song dike is a good time for young men and women to socialize. Whenever the song pike, the male and female youth within a radius of dozens of miles gathered in the song pike point. The young men sing songs with their favorite girls under the guidance of the song masters.
Usually, young men first take the initiative to sing the "tour song" to observe and identify rivals, and when they meet a suitable object, they sing a song of meeting and invitation. If the woman is interested, she agrees. The young men then sing a song of inquiry, and when they have a love affair with each other, they sing a song of love and affection. The lyrics are all improvised and spoken off the cuff. If the girl feels that the young man in front of the talent, song talent are satisfied, will take advantage of the bystanders do not pay attention to, quietly will be in the arms of the embroidered ball given to the person of interest, "he" will be reported to the handkerchiefs, towels and other items, and then the song is even sweeter, and then booked the good of Qin Jin.
Song before, Liu Sanjie's idol by the crowd carried a parade for a week, people prayed that she gave song talent, blessing the March 3 song Wei everyone on the song as expected. After people honored the song fairy Liu Sanjie, scrambling to open the singing voice, each other singing, singing one after another. Men, women, young and old in this song in the dike to spend a sleepless night.
2, the embroidered ball love
Song Wei embroidered ball is the girls in the festival before the craft, the production process is very sophisticated, each are silk crafts: twelve petals linked into a sphere, each petal represents a month of the year, embroidered with the flowers of the month. Some embroidered balls are made into squares, polygonal shapes, and so on. The ball is filled with corn or cotton seeds. A silk ribbon is attached to the ball, with silk spangles and decorated beads falling down, symbolizing pure love.
Legend has it that in the old town of Laozhou in Jingxi County, the son of a poor family, Ah Di, fell in love with a 'girl, Ah Xiu, from a neighboring village. When Ah Xiu was on a pike, he was spotted by a villainous young man in the town, who wanted to take Ah Xiu as his wife, and Ah Xiu swore not to comply with the threat of death. The villain bribed the government and sentenced Ah-Di to death and put her in the dungeon, waiting to be executed in the fall. After Ah Xiu cries her eyes out, she begins to sew an embroidered ball for Ah Di. The needle pierced her hand and blood flowed on the embroidered ball. After ninety-one days, the embroidered ball was ready.
Ah Xiu used the money from selling her jewelry and her family's savings to bribe the jailer to see Ah Di, who had been tortured to the point of being as thin as a bone, and Ah Xiu took out the embroidered ball from her body and put it on Ah Di's neck. At that moment, a miracle occurred. With a flash of light, Ah Xiu, Ah Di and their family members disappeared, and when they woke up, they were lying at the foot of a beautiful and rich mountain far away from the devil. Later, Ah Xiu and Ah Di got married, had a son and a daughter, and lived a happy life with their own hard-working hands. This is the origin of the embroidered ball.
3. Wrapping Five-color Glutinous Rice
Before the festival, families prepare five-color glutinous rice and colored eggs. People pick red orchid grass, yellow rice flowers, maple leaves, purple vine, with the juice of these plants soaked glutinous rice, made of red, yellow, black, purple, white five-color glutinous rice. According to legend, this kind of food is y appreciated by the fairies and then passed down; some people say that it is a sacrifice to the singing fairy Liu Sanjie. Eat this kind of rice, people are prosperous, healthy body. Colored eggs are used by young men and women to socialize in the song Wei convey emotional items.
The Zhuang family loves the five-color rice as a symbol of happiness and good fortune. In addition to the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, social day, the Day of the Middle Ages, and even New Year's Day, some people do five-color glutinous rice to eat. In the child's full moon, the new home inauguration and other happy days, but also to steam the five-color rice sent to the neighbors. Strong people also love maple leaves, that maple leaves can "get rid of evil spirits", bring good luck and peace.
So, on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, when the five-color rice is made, a branch of carefully selected maple leaves is inserted at the door of every house. Even the dye residue from making five-color rice is sprinkled at the foot of the wall on the periphery of the house to ward off evil spirits and keep peace.
4, snatch the firecrackers
In the lunar calendar, the third of March and after the autumn harvest, some ethnic minority areas in Guangxi folk will be spontaneously organized to snatch the firecracker movement. Men and women of all ages will put on holiday dress, just before dawn to scramble to the activities of the place, snatch the firecracker is considered the most fortunate in the coming year, but also the most favored by the girl.
Each team has eight players, and the players score points by breaking through, blocking, changing direction and sprinting into the other team's turrets to put in the firecrackers. The rules of the game are similar to those of Western rugby, so it is called "Oriental Rugby". The traditional "Flower Cannon" is an iron ring, about 5 centimeters in diameter, wrapped in red cloth or red silk. The competition site is usually located on the riverbank or hillside, no limit to the number of people, nor the number of teams, each cannon must grab, three cannons end.
5, playing the flat-bellied
Playing the flat-bellied is a traditional self-entertainment activities, each of the Zhuang family members are playing with the Hall of Actors, women's movements light and graceful, men's movements strong and powerful, self-entertainment of "playing with the Hall," hosting the Zhuang people praying for the wish of a good harvest. The festival is a great opportunity for the Zhuang people to pray for a good harvest.
The dance form of playing the flat dancer has various sets such as double dance, four people wearing flowers, and many people wearing flowers. The dancers are mostly in even numbers. The dancers hold the flat stretcher in their hands and gather around the bench or rice-pounding trough, rhythmically beating the bench and hitting the flat stretcher against each other. The stretcher is used freely in the hands, or front, or back, or side, and the sound is either brittle, or dull, and the sound is different, forming a rhythm with a bright rhythm and undulating rhythm.
With the stretcher constantly hitting each other, the performers keep wearing flowers and rotating, which makes people's eyes dazzle even more. The skillful movements are easily accomplished with the sound of the stretcher hitting the ground.
6, playing copper drums
Some ethnic minorities in Guangxi have always had the habit of beating copper drums in festivals or rituals, and this custom has been inherited to the present day, and now Donglan, Tian'e and other Zhuang people every year on the third of March and the Spring Festival, Du'an, Bama, Dahua and other places in the Yao people over the Zhu with the festival, the Nandan Yao people held a funeral sacrifice, the Nandan Yao people in the Spring Festival, and the Nandan Yao people in the Spring Festival. Nandan Zhongbao Miao people in the Spring Festival or meet the joyous occasion to hit the copper drum to express the celebration or mourning.
Bronze drums are the most representative cultural relics of the Zhuang people, not only as a symbol of power and status, but also used to transmit war signals, accompanied by burials and ancestor worship to ward off evil spirits. Whenever the Zhuang people have weddings, funerals, housewarming and grand festivals, they have the habit of playing copper drums and singing songs, and the culture of copper drums has become an important part of the Zhuang people's life.
7, touch colorful eggs
Colorful eggs are cooked eggs dyed in color to convey love. The young man in the song in the dike holding colored eggs to touch the girl in the hands of the colored eggs; the girl if you do not want to hold the eggs do not let touch, if you intend to let the young man touch. Eggs touch cracked after two people **** eat colored eggs, which sowed the seeds of love. Nowadays, touch the colored eggs have "touch touch, touch out of good luck" intention.