March 3 Festival
Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the Li people in the county and townships hold the traditional March 3 Festival. If tourists catch this time to visit Dongfang City, will be able to personally experience the Li compatriots this happiness and joy, adding immense fun to the tour. March 3 event, the original Li compatriots unmarried young men and women in pursuit of love and happiness of the traditional folk festival, after marriage is no longer participate. Today, however, the development of the times has made March 3 an event for Li compatriots to carry out mass recreational and sports activities, in which Li men and women, young and old, as well as party and government cadres, and people of other nationalities generally participate. On March 3, Li compatriots buy new clothes, brew sweet wine and prepare glutinous rice for making sweet barley as early as at the beginning of the year. At dawn on the third day of the third month, Li compatriots of all ages and sexes put on their festive costumes. Boys and girls playing a very striking, they are in groups, all the way singing and dancing to the meeting place to go, the assembly of the square is bustling, March 3 activities are always carried out into the night, the square lit a bonfire. The event is brought to a climax.
Guangdong National Song and Dance Troupe of the dance pedal choreographer created Li dance "March 3". It was performed at the World Youth Gala and won the festival award, and since then, the Li March 3 event has become famous all over the world.
The March 3 festival originated from a variety of sayings, one of the important one is that the March 3 festival originated in Dongfang City, Russia Xianling, due to the "Russia Niang and Gui" a poignant love story and named.
"Gorong people" wedding
Dongfang City, "Gorong people" mainly live in the north of Dongfang south bank of the lower reaches of the Changhua River, focusing on the new street, three, four more three towns. The words spoken by the Gorong people in the East of the Gorong language, (also known as "village language", "Muo language"), is a combination of Chinese, Miao, Lai, Vietnamese and other components of the special language, modern academics as one of the more typical of the country's "newly discovered language". It is a special language with components of Chinese, Hmong, Lai and Vietnamese. On the Gelong language once a scholar has specialized in research, this article is no longer to do a detailed expression, only on the Gelong some of the customs of life to do some expression, in order to let more netizens on the Oriental city of the local customs have some understanding.
Generally speaking, the process of contracting a marriage is divided into several fixed procedures, according to its sequence can be divided into: say kissing→reporting the fate of"
Determine the auspicious date of marriage→marriage→send the marriage→return to the mother's home six stages. Below please take a look at how these six procedures. That is, if the man is interested in which the girl, the matchmaker (usually by older women to do) to send wine, meat, rice to the female family for oral marriage. The woman's immediate family received, and then the discussion within the family, and finally through the matchmaker to the man's reply. Report life is also known as the "red paper life", that is, if the woman agrees to the marriage, the woman's birth date into the red paper wrapped by the matchmaker sent to the man's home, and then the elders of the man's home will be the man and the woman's birth date together to the fortune-teller to see if the two can be compatible. If the eight characters of the birthdays are compatible, the marriage will be finalized. The so-called fixed auspicious date, that is, the man and the woman's family after discussion on the marriage approved, then asked the fortune-teller to choose a lucky day to hold the wedding. On the day of the chosen auspicious day, the man's family sends a stone of rice and two jars of wine to the woman's family. After receiving the gifts from the man's family, the woman's family will immediately organize the wedding. The man's family, on the other hand, does not organize the wedding until the next day. The process of crying marriage begins with a worship ceremony. Worship ceremony for: a worship ancestors "God card", two worship grandparents, three worship parents. After three worship, the bride will take the self-woven flower scarf, began to elders in turn to cry marriage, crying marriage said the content of their own fabrication, most of the gratitude to the parents of the grace of parental rearing, the table of filial piety and so on, in order to express their own to the mother's family of the grace of parenting and the feeling of goodbye. Out of the hour, the bride on the car will continue to the back of the car to the House of Qu out of the body to cry marriage, to express the feelings of love home.
Welcoming car carriage carriage out of the mother's door, the bride's elder brother did not let the vehicle dragged away, read some hope that his sister to go home soon to visit his family words, to express their feelings of farewell to his sister. After the bride on the car, there are matchmakers, the bride's aunt or uncle and one or two good friends in the front of the car to sit with, other people and send the bride to meet the people can only follow the team and travel. Welcoming team on the way to the gong, drums, eating suona, firecrackers, singing songs wedding tune, the scene is very lively. When welcoming the bridegroom's family home back to the door, it will be a pause, by the "road public" to come to the carriage to the toast, the toast is generally hope that the newlyweds and love, and grow old together and so on. Afterwards, the bride, accompanied by the matchmaker and others, goes straight into the hall and performs the worship ceremony. Worship three times kneeling, a worship ancestors, two worship grandparents, three worship parents, then the bride and groom holding hands and swear to heaven. After the oath, the groom will be busy for the congratulatory friends and relatives to wash dishes, wipe the table, to show diligence, to win the hearts of the crowd. This is the end of the wedding ceremony.
On the evening of the wedding, the bride goes back to her mother's house with her aunt and uncle and her girlfriend. The next morning, the bride's relatives carry the dowry to send the bride back to her mother-in-law's home, a process known as "giving away the dowry". After the new daughter-in-law arrives at her mother-in-law's home, a special legal ceremony is held, in which the "Taoist priest" who presides over the ceremony delivers the daughter-in-law's name, birth date and life destiny to the ancestors of her mother-in-law's family, in the hope that the ancestors will bless the newlyweds with a long and happy life. After that, the new daughter-in-law washes tables and chairs and takes care of the house with her girlfriend, who came with her. On the night of the wedding, the bride waits for the guests to leave, and then uses a basin to bring warm water to help her in-laws wash their feet as a sign of filial piety. On the third day after the wedding, the newlyweds prepare wine, meat, rice and vegetables to pick back to the bride's home, condolences to the family and friends of the bride's family, so that they know the groom before returning to the in-laws on the same day to begin the formal life of husband and wife. The whole process of marriage is over.