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On the Zhuang "March 3" song Wei (or called song, song festival) of the origin, there are several legends: First, the ancient legend of singing can be happy God, can eliminate disasters and difficulties, and strive for good weather, and later developed into a regular March 3 song Wei. Two said, a long time ago, there is a pair of young men and women, love each other from childhood, they are very good at singing songs, talk about love are expressed in songs, but because of family opposition, they can not be married, they both died. Young people in order to commemorate the couple of steadfastness, every year in their martyrdom day, gathered to sing songs, and gradually formed the March 3 song Wei. Three said, the Tang Dynasty out of the song fairy Liu Sanjie, to sing songs of praise for labor and love, and expose the sins of the wealthy, so the wealthy hate, while she went up the mountain to cut firewood, sent people to cut off the mountain vines, so that Sanjie fell down the mountain and died, the later generations in order to commemorate the song fairy, will be in the lunar calendar every year in March 3 - three days and three nights of Sanjie died, singing songs, song Wei. Song Wei was thus formed. In ancient times, a family had three very beautiful daughters, and they were inundated with marriage proposals, but their parents couldn't accept them. Then the father came up with an idea - let the suitors sing on the spot, and whoever sang the best, the beautiful daughter would marry him. As a result, all three daughters found the man of their dreams through singing. Since then, singing has become a form of male courtship and has developed into a singing festival. These several legends, though not recorded in official history, are in line with the historical materialist point of view.
The traditional March 3 song festival, ancient and modern places are held in different forms of song. Some of the song in the mine field slope held song Wei. Some in the village head song shed to pick up singers. Some along the side of the highway, the walled village held song pike. In the song dike around the field, vendors gathered, folk trade is active. Larger song dike, dozens of miles around thousands of men, women and children have come to participate in the sea of people, singing, lively. According to the preliminary statistics, among the 642 song pueblos in the whole region, there are 96 pueblos with March 3 as the song pueblo day, accounting for 14%. They are distributed in 22 places in Donglan, 20 places in Wuming County, 19 places in Du'an, 7 places in Xincheng, 6 places each in Masan and Longzhou, and 5 places in Bama. There are fewer in Guixi, with only 2 in Jingxi County. The traditional famous March 3 song pike has Wuming County, Na Yang, Ningwu, Xiaolu, Donglan Sanka Au, Ma Shan Yongzhou, Bama's Panyang Riverside, Jingxi Huadong, Du'an's Cotton Hill, Jifa, Rongshui Sanshan March 3, Xincheng Sanfeng, Yishan's Xiajian, Liuzhou's Yufeng Mountain and other places. Traditional song polder on the race song, song appreciation; there are also young men and women singing love, song, touch the egg, talk about love, give each other tokens, to the object of love. In addition, there are throwing embroidered balls, touching the colorful eggs, acting Zhuang opera and other entertainment activities, men, women and children in the lively and extraordinary atmosphere of the festival.
Contemporary March 3 Song Wei, some by the official regularly organized year after year. Such as the Nanning International Folk Song Festival, Wuming, Bama, Longan, Huanjiang, Liujiang and other counties every year "March 3" are held in the song festival or Zhuang March 3 Tourism Festival. Such as Wuming County since 1985, held every year, "March 3" Zhuang Song Festival, activities include thousands of people bamboo pole array performance and competition, the third Guangxi King of Song Competition, national sports and athletic performances, square cultural performances, tourism and food festivals and so on. Another example is Shanglin County, which has successfully organized six March 3 "Shimen Dragon Mother Festival" since 2006. In addition to the government-run, more folk spontaneous organization of the March 3rd Mountain Song Festival. Such as Liucheng County Yashan Scenic Area, Lipu County Wudeng Village, Fengshan County, Gaili Township Poxin Village, Changzhou Township Bailuo Village, Bailong Tun, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, Beijing Township square village, Luzhai County, Pingshan Township, Shidou Tun, and so on. The March 3rd Song Festival is not only held in Guangxi, but also in foreign countries. Such as Beijing, Shanghai ...... >>
What are the origins and customs of March 3? March 3 is the traditional festival of several ethnic minorities in China, when the third day of the third lunar month. Anciently known as on the Si (sì) Festival, is a festival in honor of the Yellow Emperor. According to legend, the third of March is the birth of the Yellow Emperor, China since ancient times, "February 2, the dragon carries the head; March 3, the birth of Xuanyuan" said. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, on the Si Festival was changed to March 3, followed by future generations, and then became the Han Chinese waterfront banquets, countryside tour of the spring festival. Lunar March 3, is also the birthday of the Taoist deity Zhenwu Da Di. Zhenwu Da Di full name "North Zhentian Zhenwu Xuan Tian Da Di", also known as Xuan Tian God, Xuan Wu, Zhenwu Zhen Jun. Born in the ancient world of Xuanyuan, Chinese calendar March 3rd. Many experts advocate the birth of Emperor Xuanyuan three days in March, on the Si Festival set up a "Chinese Christmas", in order to enhance national cohesion. [1]
March 3 is also the traditional festival of the Zhuang people, the Zhuang people called "Vuobu Po" or "Vuobo", the original meaning of the outside of the Pangdong, the field to sing, so also known as "Song Wei Festival!
"March 3" is one of the major festivals of the Zhuang people, is the main manifestation of the traditional Luo Yue culture, collectively known as the "March 3" Song Wei. Currently, six "March 3" Song Wei and Wuming Luo Yue Cultural Tourism Festival have been held in Wuming County, Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Township. Next to the song dike, vendors gathered, active civil trade, the nearby masses to catch the song dike people to provide housing and food, whether they know each other or not, are warmly received. A larger song dike, dozens of miles around the young men and women come to participate in the sea of people, singing one after another, very lively. Tianyang County's Qiaoye are traditionally larger song dike. People to the song dike on the race song, enjoy the song; male and female youth through the song, if the two sides of the love for each other, will give each other tokens, thought the love. In addition, there are interesting activities such as throwing embroidered balls and touching colored eggs.
The Zhuang people living in the western part of Gui, every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, every family with tender green maple leaves, red orchid grass, etc. cooked red, yellow, blue, purple, white five-color rice, people in the lintel and around the house inserted a branch of maple leaves in the village village tail set up a cloth shed, under the cloth shed on the five-color rice and other offerings, men, women, young and old people singing around the cloth shed to catch up with the song Wei, the elderly also put the Dyeing of cooked eggs in a small net pocket, hanging in the chest of the child, male and female youth in the song when the pedantry, but also "touch the egg".
There are several historical stories about the origin of the third day of the third month of the Zhuang people:
Myths of the Zhuang people - Special Digging Tomb Sweeping (Daming Mountain Original Dragon Mother Culture)
According to the legend of the ancient times, there was an old crone, there is no heir, and then saved a wounded snake. When the snake was healed and refused to leave, the crone said to the snake, "There is a difference between humans and animals, and we humans don't have tails, so if you want to be with me, you have to give up your tail. Later, the old woman chopped off a small section of the small snake's tail, the small snake's tail became shorter, so people called the small snake "Te Dig", "Te" in the Zhuang language means male, "Dig" in the Zhuang language means short tail. Zhuang is the meaning of the short tail, people called the old woman "乜掘", "乜" is the meaning of the Zhuang language mother. From then on, sox-dig raised Te-dig like a son. Now the Zhuang people still have a related custom, that is, the newly purchased chickens and ducks on the tail of a few hairs plucked off, meaning that the crone, like the wild animals, to become a member of the human family. In fact, this custom and legend reflects the ancient human domestication of animals, from wild to domesticated ancient memory. The absence of a tail also reflects the evolution of mankind from from primitive man to civilized man.
Later, the crone died of old age, the neighbors put the crone into the coffin, they said to the snake: special dig ah, special dig! She usually regarded you as her own, she is gone, see how you give her filial piety. Snake seems to understand the human language, blinking, suddenly the wind and rain, a gust of wind will be the crone's coffin and the snake together to the highest peak of Daming Mountain above. At that time it was around the third of March, and then every time around the third of March, the Daming Mountain area appeared extreme weather, storms or hail, the local people thought it was special digging back to sweep the tomb to pay homage to his mother.
People in order to praise the great quality of sox digging and extol filial piety, they gave the crone sox digging to set up a temple, people in order to express their respect, in the Zhuang language will be called "Dabao Temple", or "Bupa Temple" (Lobo Temple), collectively referred to as the Han Chinese language In Chinese, it is collectively called "Dragon Mother Temple". The local Zhuang people also began to worship snakes, and were respectful of them, avoiding killing and eating them. Along with with the cultural spread and influence of the Zhuang's ancestor, the Luo Yue ethnic group, the form of the snake was later integrated into the form of the Chinese totem dragon, so then the Special Digging became the embodiment of the dragon, and was elevated to become the original dragon, so the Special Digging is also known as Digging the Tail Dragon. Daming Mountain then became a natural giant sacred tomb, became the belief of the Zhuang people's soul in ancient times, that when a person dies, the soul will also fly back to Daming Mountain. Therefore, Daming ...... >>
The source of the Zhuang March 3 and customs March 3 and song Wei
The traditional song festival. Also known as "March 3", "Song Wei Festival", song Wei, the Zhuang language called "Wubu Po" "Double Long Pangxiu". Means to the field or cavern outside the song. Divided into day song dike and night song dike. Day song dike in the field, to rely on the song to choose the match as the main content; night song dike in the village, mainly singing production songs, seasonal songs, disk songs and historical songs. In addition to the first three days of March in the lunar calendar, the Spring Festival, the eighth day of April, the mid-year, the Mid-Autumn Festival, as well as marriage, children's full moon, housewarming and other seasons can be formed song polder. Even on the way to the pueblo, when the song meets the opponent, it can also form a temporary song pueblo. Its origin has a variety of legends, one says that Liu Sanjie invented the mountain song, the crowd competing to sing, gradually derived from the song dike; one said for the entertainment of God, in addition to the disaster to drive away epidemics; one said to commemorate a pair of chaste lovers. Song Wei Festival, people should be ready to five-color rice and colored eggs, the girls also need to catch up with the embroidered ball. Song Wei day, the boys and girls are wearing holiday dress, men with gifts, women carry embroidered balls, groups of people to. Some carry the statue of Liu Sanjie around the song dike for a week before starting to sing. Some by the girls set up colorful embroidered shed, to be the arrival of young men, while singing, while judging each other's character, talent. There are men and women in pairs, the girl threw an embroidered ball to the person of interest, the other side if you like, on the embroidered ball tied to the gift, thrown back to the woman. Some of the song Wei have the custom of touching the egg: young man with colored eggs on the hands of the girl touched in the hands of the colored eggs, the girl, such as willing to do with him as a friend, on the side of the egg to let him touch half, do not want to, on the one to hold. There is also a village to the village sent to the village color ball, agreed to return the ball when the song contest, such as the village lost, the color ball is not allowed to return, the next year to continue to race, until the song won so far. Now, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region *** has designated the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year as the Zhuang Song Festival, which has gradually developed into the "March 3" Culture and Art Festival. 1989 Guangxi's third "March 3" Culture and Art Festival was held in Guilin, combining cultural and economic exchanges with tourism, which has yielded good results. Tourism combined, good results.
The source of March 3 in Guangxi? The origin of Guangxi Zhuang March 3 legend
Speaking of Zhuang March 3 customs, many people only know the song to talk about love, in fact, there are a lot of Zhuang March 3 customs, grab the firecrackers, throw the embroidered ball, eat five-color glutinous rice plate is also an interesting holiday activities. The following is a language fan I for the collection of the Zhuang March 3 customs, welcome to read reference!
The origin of the March 3 of the Zhuang
The third day of the third lunar month, commonly known as "March 3", is the day of the Zhuang people held a song Wei. Therefore, it is also known as the Song and Dance Festival (Song and Dance Festival).
"Song Wei", is a foreigner to the Zhuang set the Chinese name, the Zhuang language called "Huan Long Pangdang", meaning to the field to sing the song; some places called "Huan Wo Dang", means out of the cave to sing the song. Because the Zhuang people in the past rarely built temples, idols are placed in caves. Cave is a sacred place, must remain solemn, only to the cavern outside the free singing.
"Now Guangxi has become a sea of songs, are the three sisters personally passed" this song lyrics circulated in Guangxi, the origin of the Zhuang Song Wei Festival, and the song fairy Liu Sanjie has a close relationship.
It is said that Liu Sanjie is a Tang Dynasty people, born in Guangxi Yishan a fisherman's family. She loved to sing songs since she was a child, and when she became an adult, she was so beautiful that she became a songwriter. Nearby, there is a rich man Mo Huairen wanted to rob Liu Sanjie and his marriage, Liu Sanjie swore to die from, Mo Huairen asked people to throw Liu Sanjie into the river. Liu San Jie drifted downstream to Liuzhou, where she was fortunately rescued and lived under the Yu Feng Mountain. When the townspeople heard the news, they rushed to learn the song. She later married a young hunter and has been passing on her songs here ever since. When Mo Huairen learned of this, he colluded with the government and threw Liu Sanjie and her husband and wife into the Little Dragon Pool at the bottom of Fish Peak Mountain. In the middle of the night, the moon and stars, when the townspeople salvaged the two of them, suddenly a gust of wind, only to see Liu Sanjie and the young hunter riding on the back of a fish, singing while taking off in the air. Since then, people said that Liu Sanjie had become an immortal, and called Liu Sanjie the Singing Immortal. Later generations of people in order to commemorate the song of the fairy, will be in the lunar calendar every year on the third of March, Liu Sanjie "immortal" days, singing songs for three days and three nights, the song of the formation of the dike.
According to records, the Song Wei Festival has a history of thousands of years. Song people written by the "Taiping Huan Yu Ji", there have been Zhuang "men and women in full dress ...... party for song" records. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the development of Zhuang songs is particularly prominent, the song will be very prevalent. In the Qing Dynasty, the formation of hundreds of people to thousands of people gathered to sing a large-scale "song market".
Every time the song dike period, young men and women will put on the festival dress, gathered in the open field or bamboo forest grass slope improvisation singing, each other dish answer, singing one after another. In the song market, hard-working and intelligent Zhuang people, created a colorful mountain songs, so that this traditional national festival is full of charming sound.
March 3 see the origin of the 30 words of March 3 is known as on the Si (sì) Festival, is a festival in honor of the Yellow Emperor. Legend has it that the third of March is the birth of the Yellow Emperor, China since ancient times, "February 2, the dragon carries the head; March 3, born Xuanyuan". After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, on the Si Festival was changed to March 3, followed by future generations, and then became a waterfront feast, the countryside tour of the spring festival. March 3 of the lunar calendar, is also the birthday of the Taoist deity Zhenwu Da Di. Zhenwu Da Di is known as "North Zhentian Zhenwu Xuan Tian Da Di", also known as Xuan Tian God, Xuan Wu, Zhenwu Zhen Jun. Born in the ancient Regulus era, the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar.
March 3 is the traditional festival of the Zhuang people, is the oldest of the Zhuang Valentine's Day, the ancient Zhuang (including the Zhuang cultural influence of the Zhuang region of the various ethnic groups) teenage girls to catch the song of the slope, throw the embroidered ball, "mountain songs to pass the love, the embroidered ball to pass the love". The Zhuang people also called "Wubu Po" or "Wubo", the original meaning is to the outside of the Pangdong, the field to sing, so also known as the "Song Wei Festival" is also said to commemorate the Liu Sanjie, and therefore also called the "Song Fairy Club". "Songxian will".
March 3 of the customs of the custom of the composition March 3 is the traditional festival of the Zhuang people, the Zhuang people called "Vuobu Po" or "Vuobo", the original meaning to the outside of the Panguang, the field to sing, so also known as "Song Wei Festival! The festival is also known as the "Song Wei Festival". There are also said to be in honor of Liu Sanjie, so it is also called "Songxian will". About its origin, there are many moving folk legends.
One said that in ancient times there was a pair of lovers, often singing songs to express love. However, due to the bondage of feudal rites, the two could not be married, so they were both martyred. In order to commemorate this couple, people sang songs on the third day of the third month to mourn.
The most widespread legend is about Liu Sanjie: the Zhuang song fairy "Liu Sanjie" often use songs to praise labor and love, and expose the evils of the rich. One year, on the third day of March, when Liu Sanjie was chopping wood on the mountain, the rich man sent someone to cut the mountain vine, causing her to fall off the cliff and die. In order to commemorate the song fairy, the descendants will be in this day party singing, a song is three days and three nights, song Wei this formation.
These legends are now difficult to prove, but in the Song Dynasty, there is a record in the Taiping Huan Yu Ji: "Strong people in the ripening of grain, choose the day to sacrifice to the gods, men and women festivals for song." This indicates that the song pike was also very prosperous at that time.
After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the development of Zhuang songs is particularly prominent, the song pike has become a cultural entertainment and men and women talking about love place, and the emergence of the game of throwing the embroidered ball. After the woman threw the ball to her beloved man, both exited the singing field, and gave each other love tokens, and in the Qing Dynasty, it formed a large-scale activity attended by thousands of people. To the 1934 compilation of the "Guangxi County Profile" records, there were twenty-six counties in Guangxi at that time, almost all over Guangxi song Wei activities.
The place where the Zhuang people sing to each other is called Ge Ping, which means "Huan Long Dong" in Zhuang. It means to sing in the field, and it is also called "Huan Wo Dang", that is, to sing outside the cavern. During the period, people with maple leaves, yellow flowers, March flowers cooked and dyed glutinous rice, in order to pay tribute to Liu Sanjie, and their own consumption, it is said that food can be as prosperous as the flowers and trees.
The Zhuang song market, is the crystallization of the traditional culture of the Zhuang people, which was formed in the course of a long history. There are many moving legends about its origin. Among them, the story of "choosing a son-in-law by singing" is the most widely spread. Legend has it that a long time ago, a Zhuang singer's daughter, character order, beautiful, and singing voice is clear and clear. The singer wanted to choose a son-in-law for his daughter who had outstanding singing talent and character. News spread, a batch of young men came to a batch of song, the negative natural departure, the best song talent of a young man stayed with the songwriter's daughter into marriage, their union was rumored to be a good story. From then on, young men and women to choose their spouses through the song of love. The formation of the song market.
The origin of March 3 singing songs Said one:
March 3 Song Festival Zhuang traditional festival. Also known as the March Song Wei. Guangxi has been known as the "sea of songs", the Zhuang have several regular
annual folk songs ***, which is grand to the first three days of March in the lunar calendar. On this day, families make five-color glutinous rice, dyeing red eggs, and celebrate
the festival, some of which lasts two or three days. Song Festival has a specific meeting place. The festival is usually held on the slopes of a mine field. Some of the bamboo and cloth
hut, reception of singers from other villages. Participants in the unmarried young men and women as the main, the old man and child also come to play and cheer. In the song
dike around, vendors gathered, folk trade is active. The larger song dike, tens of thousands of men, women and children in a radius of several dozen miles have come
to participate in the sea of people, the sound of singing, lively and extraordinary. Famous song pikes are Bama's Panyang Riverside, Du'an's Cotton Mountain,
Tianyang's Qiaoye, Tandong's Yangyan, Yishan's Xiajian, and Liuzhou's Yufeng Mountain, etc. People go to the song pikes to compete in the race. People to the song dike on the race song, song appreciation;
Male and female youth song to love, the love of the people will give each other tokens, as a love affair. In addition, there are embroidery ball throwing, touching the colorful eggs, acting Zhuang
play and other recreational activities. Song Festival is not only a national cultural event, but also a national economic exchange event.
In order to promote national culture,
1984, the people of the Autonomous Region *** organized the "March 3" Song Festival activities, the entire Guangxi singers gathered in Nanning, the country's brother
brother ethnic groups and compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao, foreign friends also came to sightseeing, the unprecedented. 1985, the people of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region ***
Said two:
The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar for China's traditional festival, and "on the Si Festival", "Qingming Festival", "Treading Green Festival" and so on have a close relationship. In the southwestern minority areas, it is also an important festival. In the southwestern ethnic minority areas, and is an important song and dance festivals, including the Zhuang as the most. Because of the activities of the day to the song-based, so also known as "Song Wei Festival", "song of Granny Festival" and so on, also referred to as "Song Festival". Zhuang about the origin of March 3rd has a variety of legends, there are said to be a pair of young men and women singing love, but due to the bondage of feudal rituals failed to combine, both martyred, later generations of young people in order to commemorate them and the formation of the Song Festival. The most widespread legend is about Liu Sanjie's: Liu Sanjie sang beautifully in the south, was worshiped as the song fairy, the wealthy hated her song to reveal the crime, while she went up to the mountain to cut firewood, sent people to cut off the mountain vines, so that Sanjie fell into the valley and died, and the descendants will be in the first three days of March of her death singing for three days and three nights in honor of the Song Fairy. The custom of the Zhuang people to sing songs has been recorded in the Taiping Huan Yu Ji of the Song Dynasty. The place where the Zhuang people sing to each other is called Geping, which means "Huanlongdong" in Zhuang. It means to sing in the field, also called "Huanwodong", that is, to sing outside the cavern. During the period, people with maple leaves, yellow flowers, March flowers cooked and dyed glutinous rice, in order to pay tribute to Liu Sanjie, and their own consumption, it is said that eating this can be as prosperous as flowers and trees. Songs when men and women were three or five groups of teams, the two sides selected that is the beginning of the song, the lyrics are mostly love songs, but from shallow to deep, involving a wide range of "talk about love" in a question and answer in the singing of real life, history and legends, and so on. In the old days, most of the lyrics were improvised and sung. Nowadays, there are also those who utilize the inherited lyrics. The tunes are single and repetitive, but melodious and melodious. This song often starts in the evening, until dawn, there are also day and night continuous singing. In the song dike, young men and women also touch colored eggs, throwing embroidered balls and other customs. Now, the activities of the March 3 of the Zhuang people are still very prevalent, when there are *** organization, more is the people's spontaneous. Now the scale of the old particularly large, people like the sea, songs like tide, spectacular.
March 3 of the Zhuang March 3 to catch the song dike, set up a song shed, held a song, young men and women sing, touch the egg, throw the embroidered ball, talk about love.
What are the customs of the March 3 of the Zhuang Nationality?