The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar in 2019 is Sunday, April 07, 2019 on the solar calendar.
The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is Shangsi Festival, commonly known as March 3, a traditional Chinese folk festival. The festival can be traced back to the end of the Spring and Autumn period in the written record, is the most important festival in the ancient "purification bath" activities, people go to the water bathing in groups, known as the "Purification of purification", and since then has increased the content of the rituals and banquets, goblets and so on.
Anciently, the "stem and branch" date, the first six days in early March, called "on the six". After the Wei and Jin dynasties, the festival was changed to the third day of March, it is also known as the heavy three or March three. Later generations followed, and then into the water's edge of the feast, the countryside tour of the spring festival. The traditional on the Si Festival, is also a day of purification, that is, "spring bath day", also known as the daughter of the Festival. After the Song Dynasty, the festival is gradually being forgotten, as is the Flower Festival.
Today, the third of March in some ethnic minority areas in southwest China, is still a grand and grand festival, from Dali, Yunnan Province, held every year on the third of March in the Water Festival activities, vaguely can be seen in the ancient times on the Si Si Festival of purification of the shadow of the custom. "The March 3 festival is still practiced by the Zhuang, Dong, Buyi, Yao, Li, She and Tu ethnic minorities.
The festival is also known as the "Spring Bathing Day" because it is associated with water. It is also known as the "Spring Bathing Day", and there are also purification, semi-annual ceremonies or bathing activities. Bathing is to remove the disaster. At that time, it was believed that women's infertility was caused by ghosts and gods, so they used the bathing of the festival to cure infertility.
Such a long time, the custom, the bath into the important content of the festival. The goblet is a game passed down in ancient China, this game is very old, Yat-sen poem has a cloud: "goblet with the wave pan".
Folk Customs on March 3
Traditional Folk Customs
The Han Chinese people will hold an ancestor-worshipping ceremony in the hometown of the Yellow Emperor in Henan Province.?
Ethnic Characteristics
Strong
Strong "March 3" customs, many people only know the song to talk about love, in fact, there are many Zhuang "March 3" customs, snatch the firecrackers, throw the embroidered ball, eat five-color glutinous rice, etc. is also interesting! The festival is also an interesting custom.
Wrapping five-color glutinous rice
Prior to the festival, every family prepares five-color glutinous rice and colored eggs. People pick red orchids, yellow rice flowers, maple leaves and purple vines and soak the glutinous rice 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 it was y appreciated by the fairies; it is also said to be a sacrifice to the singing fairy Liu Sanjie. Eating this kind of rice, people are prosperous and healthy. Colored eggs are used by young men and women to socialize and convey their emotions in the Song Wei.
Grabbing the firecrackers
On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar and after the autumn harvest, some ethnic minority areas in Guangxi will organize their own grabbing the firecracker movement, participating in the grabbing of the firecrackers of each team of eight people, the players through the breakthrough, blocking, changing direction, fast rushing, etc. rushed into the other side of the turret, will be put into the firecrackers counted as a score. The rules of the game are similar to those of the Western sport of 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 game is usually located on the riverbank or hillside, not limited to the number of people, not divided into teams, each gun must grab, three guns end.
Embroidery ball love
Song Wei's embroidery ball is the girls in the festival before the craft, the production process is very delicate, each is 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 decorative beads falling from below, symbolizing pure love.?
Playing Flat Stretcher
Playing Flat Stretcher is a traditional self-entertainment activity, and every member of the Zhuang family is a performer in the "Playing with the Hall", where women's movements are light and graceful and men's movements are strong and powerful. The Zhuang people 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 a bench or a rice-pounding trough, rhythmically beating the bench and hitting the flat stretcher against each other.
Songs of love
"March 3" song dike is a good time for young men and women to socialize. Whenever the song pike, within a radius of dozens of miles of young men and women gathered in the song pike point. The young men are instructed by the singers to sing with their favorite girls.
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 satisfied with the talent of the young man in front of her, she will take advantage of the unnoticed, quietly give the embroidered ball in her arms to the person of her choice, and "he" will be rewarded with handkerchiefs, towels and other items, and then the song is even sweeter, and then booked a good relationship with Qin Jin.
Bronze drums
Some ethnic minorities in Guangxi have always had the habit of beating bronze drums in festivals or rituals, and this custom has been inherited to this day, and now Donglan, Tian'e and other Zhuang people have "March 3" and Spring Festival every year, and the Yao people in Du'an, Bama and Dahua have Zhu Zhu Festival, and the Yao in Nandan hold funeral rituals, and the Yao in Nandan hold funeral rituals, and the Yao in Nandan hold funeral rituals, and the Yao in Nandan hold funeral rituals, and the Yao in Nandan hold funeral rituals and funeral rituals. The Nandan Yao people hold funeral rituals, and the Nandan Zhongbao Miao people celebrate the Spring Festival or meet joyful celebrations by striking copper drums to express their congratulations or condolences.
Touching Colored Eggs
Colored eggs are hard-boiled eggs dyed in color to convey love. The young man in the singing pike holding colored eggs to touch the girl in the hands of the colored eggs; the girl if not willing to hold the eggs do not let touch, if the intention to let the young man touch. Eggs touch cracked after two people **** eat colored eggs, which sowed the seeds of love. Nowadays, touching colored eggs has the meaning of "touching touching, touching out good luck".
The Dong people
The Dong people's "March 3" is also known as "Sowing Festival", "Onion Festival" and "Flower Cannon Festival". ". According to the legend of the Dong family, in ancient times, they always planted rice seedlings when the tung tree blossomed. But one year the tung tree did not blossom, and as a result, they missed the farming time and had to flee to the area around the newspaper Jing.
To learn from the lessons of the past, every March 3, people will blow the reed-sheng and sing, visit friends and relatives, and remind each other that it is time to busy farming. The Dong ethnic group is also known as the "Flower Cannon Festival" because it is held on March 3, with activities such as snatching firecrackers, bullfighting, horsefighting, singing and stamping.
Yao
Yao March 3 in honor of the national hero, people named this day March 3, also known as "Ganba Festival". Every year before March 3, Yao men are a week in advance to the old forest hunting, killing wild animals, fish and shrimp in the river, and baked into dry bar to bring home, distributed by household, *** enjoy the joy of harvest.
Women go to the mountains to pick small indigo leaves and other natural dyes, boiled water and dyed into red, yellow, blue, purple four colors of glutinous rice, used to pay tribute to Pangu. On the day of the festival, the Yao people put down their farm work and take a collective rest for 1 day, while the men read scriptures, drink wine and have fun, and the girls and young men meet on the barren hills and woods by the walled villages to sing, play, and talk about love and affection.
Buyi
The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year is a traditional national festival of the Buyei people in Zhenfeng and Wangmu. In the traditional concept, in order to make the whole village people to achieve the "sacrifice disaster pray for blessings, village peace, wind and rain, grain harvest" purpose, generations living in the Beipanjiang River in Zhenfeng Buyi people in the lunar calendar on the third day of the third of March to hold the corresponding ritual activities.
Sacrificing the mountain is one of the main activities of the "March 3rd" of the Buyi people. Sacrifices to the mountain gods should be performed after "sweeping the village to drive away evil spirits". On the day of "March 3" festival, every household in the village, in addition to a male parent to participate in the sacrifice of the mountain god activities, the rest of the young and old heard the sacrifice of the mountain god to kill the pig before the firecrackers to go up to the mountain to "avoid the bugs", that is, to avoid all kinds of insect pests, disasters and epidemics.
Buyi festival "March 3", there have been many changes, become the Buyei regional group gatherings, with special song and dance performances, as well as other festivals and recreational activities.