March 3 Song Festival, Song Wei Festival, Song Granny Festival or Song Fairy Festival and so on. Guangxi Zhuang March 3 is to sing as the main activity content of the festival of ancestor worship, so also known as the Song Wei Festival, Songwoman Festival or Song Xian Festival. March 3 is the day of ancestor worship for the Zhuang people. On this day, Zhuang families bring prepared offerings, such as meat, pastries, incense and candles, and paper streamers to the graves of their ancestors. The offerings are set up and the ritual of worship is performed.
It is said that this is in honor of the Zhuang singing fairy Liu Sanjie. Liu Sanjie's voice was loud and clear, beautiful singing, was pushed as the song fairy, was loved by the people. However, the wealthy people hated her singing to satirize the wealthy people's unkindness and expose their exploitation and oppression of the people's sins, so they pushed Liu Sanjie off the cliff when she went up to the mountain to cut firewood, and fell to her death. Zhuang family members remembered Liu Sanjie, in her fall on the third day of March held a song Wei, which gradually formed the March Song Wei Festival.
March 3 was originally a day of ancestor worship. On this day, the Zhuang family should bring prepared offerings, such as meat, cakes, candles and paper streamers to the ancestors' graves to pay tribute to their ancestors. The offerings are set up and the ritual of worship is performed. According to the traditional custom of the Zhuang people, all the offerings prepared for the ancestors must be eaten on the spot and cannot be taken home. In this way, after eating the offerings for the ancestors, the Zhuang family members will carry out the singing activities of the Song Wei. The Zhuang family members call the song dike place as song dike, meaning singing in the field. This activity is held many times in the spring and fall, and the March 3rd is the most grand.
Later, the Song Wei Festival evolved into a young men and women singing, touching the egg, throwing the embroidered ball, talk about love activities. Every day, the Zhuang men and women in the hillside, lawn, sun field, singing songs to each other, the content of the song is very broad, to participate in the song of the old, young and middle-aged people, but the most active is the young men and women's love song singing. They meet friends with songs, songs to pass the voice of the heart, songs to pass the love, with the compilation of singing, flexible. Some outstanding singers, in the song dike to find a person of interest, thus making the annual song dike festival has become a song, choose even festive activities.
What to do on March 3, Guangxi?
Package five-color glutinous rice
Before the festival, every family prepares five-color glutinous rice and colored eggs. People pick red orchid grass, yellow rice flowers or yellow gardenia, maple leaves, purple vine, with the juice of these plants soaked glutinous rice, made of red, yellow, black, purple, white five-color glutinous rice. Legend has it that this food was passed down after it was y appreciated by the fairies; it is also said to be a sacrifice to the singing fairy Liu Sanjie. When you eat this kind of rice, people will be prosperous and healthy.
Grab the flower cannon
On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar and after the autumn harvest, some ethnic minority areas in Guangxi folk will spontaneously organize the grab the flower cannon movement.
Each team has 8 players who participate in grabbing the firecrackers. The players rush into the opponent's turret by breaking through, blocking people, changing direction, and rushing fast to put the firecrackers into the score. The rules 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, not limited to the number of people, not divided into teams, each gun must be grabbed, the end of the three guns.
Hydrangea love
Song Wei's hydrangea is the girls in the festival before the craft, the production process is very delicate, 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. The ball is attached to a silk ribbon, under which fall silk spikes and decorated beads, symbolizing pure love.
Playing Bianlian
Playing Bianlian is a traditional self-entertainment activity, and every Zhuang family member is a performer of "playing with the hall", and the women's movements are light and graceful, while the men's movements are strong and powerful. The Zhuang people pray for a good harvest.
The dance form of playing the flat dancer has a double dance, four people wear flowers, more people wear flowers and other sets. The dancers are mostly in pairs. The dancers hold the flat stretcher in their hands and surround the bench or pounding trough, rhythmically beating the bench and hitting each other's flat stretcher.
Songs about love
"March 3" Song Wei is a good time for young men and women to socialize. Whenever the song dike, within a radius of dozens of miles of young men and women gathered in the song dike point. The young men sing songs with their favorite girls under the guidance of the singers.
Usually young men first take the initiative to sing the "tour song", observation and search for rivals, encountered the right object, then sing a meeting song, invitation song. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on a new product or service. The young men then sing a song of inquiry, and when they have mutual affection, they sing songs 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, they will take advantage of the bystanders do not pay attention to, quietly will be in the arms of the embroidered ball gifted to the person of interest, "he" is reported to handkerchiefs, towels and other items, and then the song is even more sweet, and then booked the good of Qin Jin.
Legend:
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a Zhuang Township, the three daughters were born as beautiful as heavenly fairy, the eldest daughter and the second daughter were married to the son of a big family, only the third daughter named Limei has not been married out. She was very clever, able to poetry and song, kind-hearted, often behind the back of the family to be kind and charitable. When she was eighteen years old, despite the pursuit of her rich officials, but she was all rejected, so that the parents hurt their brains.
It turns out that Li Mei has a sweetheart, he is the son of a poor family in the village, the villagers called him Ah Qiang brother. A strong although poor, but kind-hearted, often do good for the poor, no matter who has what farm work is too busy, he always make time to go to help, his family has what is good to eat, but also the villagers, and thus get the love of everyone. Ah Qiang is also smart, although the scriptures and holy books did not read much, but can speak and write. In particular, he could sing poems and mountain songs, and he was able to improvise in response to the situation. Although Li-mei scriptures and holy books than he read more, but also worship him as a teacher. Ah Qiang see Li Mei modest and studious, always treat her as a sister, often together to discuss poetry, this year, the second half of the lunar calendar, the Zhuang Township held a mountain song contest, Li Mei, Ah Qiang brother are enrolled in the competition. Listen to their songs, everyone is intoxicated, linger. As a result, they both won the first prize. Through this competition, Li Mei has a further understanding of Ah Qiang, especially on his brilliant, now singing and helpful character of deep admiration, and then developed feelings of love. After everyone left, Li-mei intentionally stayed behind and affectionately revealed her love for Ah Qiang and swore, "If Ah Qiang does not marry her, she will not marry anyone in her life." To her words, Ah Qiang was very happy, but then thought of his own life, embarrassedly excused himself and said, "I come from a poor background, I'm afraid your parents will not agree to this marriage." Li Mei hugged him tightly and told him, "No, as long as you go to the door and ask for marriage, they will agree." Li Mei's pursuit of Ah Qiang brother matchmakers know, they all said they are willing to donate the bride price for Ah Qiang, as long as the member of the family to open the grace.
A late night, Li Mei jumped out of the window to find Ah Qiang brother to go, just as they are pouring out their hearts to each other at the time, the staff of the family broke in, forcibly arrested Li Mei back, Li Mei sobbed, and prayed for her parents to fulfill her and Ah Qiang's this marriage. Said Aqiang although poor, but with his wisdom and hard-working hands will have a good life. But stubborn parents still do not agree with her pleas. The infatuation of Li Mei see can not be married to Ah Qiang, it is disheartened, the idea of light hearted. After her parents have gone to bed, she leaves a suicide note and hangs herself from a beam. Outside the door of the maid woke up in a haze, heard anomalies in the boudoir, open the door to see, she was shocked, Li Mei has been looking for death. She desperately called for help, at once, outside the family howled, they looked at the suicide note, regret should not interfere with the daughter's freedom of marriage, the townspeople heard the cries, and knew that the Li Mei in order to rebel against parental interference in the freedom of marriage and died of anger, she y sympathize with the couple of outside the extremely resentful.
Besides, Ah Qiang from the family failed to propose marriage, returned home, tea and rice, head to fall on the bed, parents how to call him, is not pit sound. When the Li sister martyrdom of the bad news came, is undoubtedly a major spiritual blow to the Aqiang, his brain buzzing, thought of life can not be married, and then die in the netherworld to be married. Thinking of this, he got up and walked out of the house, three steps and did two steps, walked to the home, "wow" jumped to the Li Mei's body, said when it was too late, then fast, he got up violently and crashed into the beams, but also martyred. This day is the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the townspeople see the good son of the Zhuangxiang, a good daughter of both martyrdom, all grief, choking, crying. Some of them also to the old song to praise their faithful love, a song is three days and three nights, three days after the solemn burial for the two of them.
In order to commemorate the two, every year people will be in March 3 this day, steamed glutinous rice, bring chickens, ducks, fish and meat, up the mountain for their graves, while singing and singing, song Wei so formed.