The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the Zhuang, Yao, Dong, Miao, Bai and other ethnic minorities in Guangxi will sing songs on the third day of the lunar calendar. Lunar March 3 for these ethnic minorities, is one of the more grand traditional festival, and in this day the most representative activities is the singing of songs, mostly men and women singing traditional love songs, so it is known as the mountain song will be.
The Zhuang March 3 singing customs
The Zhuang called this day song festival, in honor of the song king Liu Sanjie also known as the song will be. Some people say that in ancient times, a pair of lovers, who were both famous singers, often sang songs to express their mutual adoration. However, due to the constraints of feudalism, the two could not be married, so they were desperate to both martyrdom. In order to commemorate this couple, people sang songs on the third day of March. It is also said that in the Tang Dynasty, there was a song fairy named "Liu Sanjie". She was very clever and often sang songs about labor and love, exposing the evils of the rich, who hated and feared her, so one year on the third day of the third month, when Liu Sanjie was chopping wood on the mountain, the rich man sent someone to cut off the vines, so that she fell off the cliff and died. In order to commemorate this song fairy, the descendants gathered and sang on the day of Liu Sanjie's death for three days and three nights, and the Song Wei was formed.
Song-pairing custom on March 3 of the Dong tribe
The night of March 3 of the Dong tribe is a night of joy. Male and female compatriots, each has his or her own favor. In that night, three or five girls sing in a group on a wooden building, and the lovers of these girls come to this building in groups of three or five to sing love songs to their sisters. But there is a board wall as a boundary, the lover shall not enter the house, the feelings of innocence. The Dong people here have a habit, not the third of March, young people can only sing quietly in the mountains; only the first three days of March can sing in the village, so the three days called "mass three days". The young men and women cherish these three days, they sing: "March 3, gold and silver flowers bloom all over the mountain, all over the mountain, everyone comes to this group to play."
Miao Song Customs
Love sprouts with songs in the midst of labor. The Miao people will be March 3 this day is also known as the "pick onion festival", hard-working young Miao people will be gathered on the hillside on this day, while picking onions, while singing songs, in turn, for the opportunity to look for a person of destiny, the Miao song mellifluous drift in the hillside, shuttle in the smile like flowers between the young men and women of the Miao people.
Yao singing custom
With the song to eliminate a tired. The Yao people's March 3, also known as "Ganba Festival", is a day of traditional Yao customs, including playing oil tea and singing songs. The Miao men will go hunting, fishing and shrimping a week in advance, and bake all kinds of dried meat to bring home as festival food. Legend has it that there was once a fairy who could not bear to see the hard labor of the Yao people, so he added a rope to the people's stretcher and basket to lighten the people's burden, and taught the Yao people to sing mountain songs to eliminate their fatigue. Since then, the Yao people have been grateful to the gods, and have positioned the day they met the gods as the Mountain Song Festival.
The custom of singing songs on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar
The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is a traditional festival of the She people. Every year before and after the third of March, the She people gathered in the place decorated with lanterns, flags and coils fluttering, firecrackers vibrating, dressed in festive attire of the She people from large villages and small cottages like a tidal wave of crowds, singing songs, ritual dances, folkloric performances, sports competitions, and other activities lively month of Bufan.
Different customs of different ethnic groups on the third of March
1, Zhuang
Before the festival, families prepare colorful glutinous rice and colored eggs.
The red orchid grass, yellow rice flowers, maple leaves and purple powder vine are collected and soaked in the juice of these plants to make red, yellow, black, purple and white glutinous rice. Legend has it that this food was passed down after the fairies praised it, and some say it was given to the singer Liu Sanjie. When one eats this food, one is rich and healthy.
2, Dong
According to the Dong legend, in ancient times, the place of origin of the Dong people always took the blossoming of the tung tree as the transplantation festival. But one year, the tung tree didn't blossom, so they missed the farming season, so they had to flee to Baojing. In order to learn the lesson from the past, people sing Lusheng every March 3, visit friends and relatives and remind each other of the farming season. The festival is also known as "Fireworks Festival", in which the Dong people hold fireworks, bullfighting, horsefighting, dueling songs and stepping on the hall.
3, Yao
During the festival, people kill pigs to sacrifice to the commune and the mountain gods, eat yellow glutinous rice. Each village has no contact for three or four days. The Yao people designate March 3 as the "Ganba Festival", which is a collective fishing and hunting festival. They distribute wild animals and fish to each family to share the joy of the harvest. Then they gather in the square to sing and dance to celebrate the festival.
4. She People
March 3 is the birthday of Gummi. Every family eats black rice. It is said that Lei Wanxing, a hero of the She tribe in the Tang Dynasty, led an insurgent army to fight against the siege of government forces. He used Wu Ren Guo to fill up his hunger and gained a strong military power. On March 3, he successfully broke through the siege and won a series of battles.