The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is an important festival of Zhuang, Han, Yao, Miao, Dong and other ethnic groups living in Guangxi. In Nanning, Liuzhou, Baise, Hechi, Chongzuo, Laibin, Qinzhou, Fangchenggang and other cities in the Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong and other ethnic minorities inhabited areas and some Han people about 27 million people, with the lunar calendar March 3 as their own important holiday customs. The Party Committee of Guangxi Autonomous Region and the People's Committee of the Autonomous Region *** have designated the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar as the traditional national holiday of the region and given it a two-day holiday, which will be conducive to the inheritance and carrying forward of the excellent traditional national culture of the region, and to the strengthening of the construction of the socialist spiritual civilization of the region, and to the further consolidation and development of socialist relations among the nationalities in the areas of equality, unity, mutual assistance and harmony. Ethnic relations, and promote all ethnic groups *** with unity and struggle, *** with prosperity and development.
The time in the lunar calendar on the third day of the third month, the ancient name of the festival. On the Si Festival in ancient China, in the myth, that is a "spring", "life", "blue water", "vanilla ", "clean", "beauty", "wine" and "elegance" for the The key words of the festival are: "The festival of flavor, elegance and beauty". Legend has it that this day is the birth of the Yellow Emperor, there are "February 2, the dragon head; March 3, born Regulus".
The origins of the festival can be pushed back to the memorial Fuxi's, is the most important ancient "purification provocation bath" activities in the festival. Its name was first seen in the Han Dynasty ancient books, the Han Dynasty before the first six days in early March called "on the Si", as the annual March on the Si are not fixed, but in March before and after the third, in order to facilitate good memory, Wei Jin after the unification will be on the Si Festival in the summer calendar, the first three days of March. Later generations followed, and then became the Han Chinese waterfront feasts, spring festival in the countryside.
The ancient traditional festival "March 3", in the whole of China, so far, many places are still popular in the festival is quite meaningful. It is popular among the Zhuang, Dong, Buyi, Shui, Mulao, Maonan, Miao, Yao, She and other ethnic groups. The Han Chinese have the custom of eating eggs boiled with ground (chestnut) vegetables, while the Dong hold activities such as snatching firecrackers, bullfighting, horsefighting, singing songs and stepping on halls, also known as the "Firecracker Festival"; the She take March 3 as the birthday of grain rice, and every family eats oolong rice; and the Li call the third day of the month "Vu Nianfu", in order to wish the best of luck for the future. The Lai people call March 3 as "Fu Nian Fu", a festival for wishing "Shan Lan" (mountain dry valley) and hunting harvest, and also a day for young men and women to have free relationships, people call it the day of love; March 3 of the Tujia people is the Valentine's Day of the Tujia people; on that day, the Tujia people's A-Go and A-Mei get together to matchmaking with mountain songs, and betrothal is made by stepping on the feet; Yao to March 3 for the "Ganba Festival", is the collective fishing and hunting festival, and will catch the wildlife fish distributed by household, *** enjoy the joy of harvest, after the clouds gathered in the square, singing and dancing, celebrate the festival.
"March song dike song full of days, the song girl to catch the dike race honey sweet; you sing me on the song up, the song girl holding hands meaning lingering ...... ", the early third of March of the lunar calendar in the land of the eight Gui, whether it is the city's streets and green spaces, or villages of the mountain side of the fields, everywhere the song ripples! The first three days of March in the lunar calendar, the land of Bagui, whether it is the city streets and green areas, or village hillside fields, everywhere singing. "March 3, is the singing festival of the Zhuang family; in former times, the male left and female right, divided into two formations; each other singing, one after another; sound and sound, resounding clouds; qin and seasons, moving to the world. Nowadays, the songs have flowed into common alleys and chirped in the quiet rooms of the halls; however, the true feelings are thin, and the fawning is very thick! Freedom is the most rare, the song is also; and commercial waves, has been washed away; contempt! Songs are not true, and people are not people!"
"How many people still play the fair chapter? The section of vomit ah, the crowd and; stroking the seven strings, the sound of sounding with the wind; chanting three, curling rhyme around the beam; the sun and the moon to hear me express my feelings, the world for my ears; there is a sounding qin, no sound; muy muy Ruoxi front not seen before the ancients, blank after not seen comers; looking for fishermen Ruoxi boat where? Looking at beauty Ruoxi day side ...... "Zhuang more than in March 3 to catch the song Wei, set up a song shed, held a song, young men and women sing, touch eggs, throw the embroidered ball, talk about love. Legend has it that in honor of the Zhuang song fairy Liu Sanjie and the formation of the festival, it is also known as the Song Fairy Festival. The Zhuang people come to sweep the graves on March 3, and usually steam five-color glutinous rice on this day. After thousands of years of history, the festival has endured, showing a strong vitality and extraordinary artistic creativity. Song Wei is generally popular in the whole Zhuang district, especially in the counties of Hongshui River, Zuojiang River and Right River Basin where the Zhuang people live most prevalent. According to the survey, there are now 640 singing dikes in Guangxi.
In fact, the Zhuang people like to get together to sing songs, not only on the day of the third of March, every day after finishing farm work after the close of work, everyone will be together to sing songs. "Fuwa hand dance five-color ring, joy came to my Zhuang family; Nidani hand holding five-color rice, singing songs to welcome Fuwa", "Zhuangxiang happy song is the Zhuang people's heart nest of spring song, Zhuangxiang happy song is the most joyful moment of the Zhuang people; Zhuangxiang happy song convergence of the long river of happiness on earth, Zhuangxiang happy song into the motherland of the infinite spring! The "March 3" festival is the most joyful moment for the Zhuang people.
"March 3" song dike, is to carry forward the national culture, invigorate the national spirit of the event, is to sing the prosperity of the various ethnic groups, eulogize the prosperity of the various ethnic groups of the event.
"March 3", but also the more common Buyei traditional festivals, festivals, sources and activities, with different living areas vary. In the festival to kill the pig sacrifice community God, the mountain God, eat yellow glutinous rice, each walled three or four days do not interact. Wudang District, Guiyang City, Wu Dang Xinbao Township, the area of the Buyei people also called "sacrificing silkworms", commonly known as "silkworms will be". Legend has it that in ancient times there was a crop farmer, found that every year after the spring sowing there are many silkworms will be seedlings biting dead. After repeated observation, he believed that the earthworms are the God of heaven to the earth's "heavenly horse". In order to avoid the seedlings suffer from insect pests, he used many ways to sacrifice, but did not work. Later, he fried grain flowers to feed the silkworms during spring sowing, and the seedlings were saved. The news soon spread to the Buyei families near and far. Since then, this area of the Buyi in order to protect the crops, for a good harvest, in this day every year, are used to fry grain flowers as offerings, three to five groups to the nearby hillside sacrifices "God of heaven, the ground silkworms," praying for God's blessing, do not call the ground silkworms biting the seedlings in the field, so that the five grains of abundance. After the sacrifice, people walk along the field side of the earth side of singing songs, and put the bag of flowers to the field in the soil.
"Love is not only colorful, but also pleasing to the eye." March 3 is also the Hmong Valentine's Day, a day when Hmong girls change into their festive dresses and young lads come to the singing field in groups with wooden leaves in their mouths to celebrate the spring sowing while everyone looks for their sweethearts in the crowd. When a Miao guy invited the girl song, the girl if no song, men should take the initiative to quit, another girl, if the girl took the song, it shows that the girl on the guy also love to, the two can continue to sing love songs.
The Buyei people of Guizhou Wangmo County say that the third day of the third month is a "cold day", and that eating dog meat can drive away the cold. There is a custom of treating dogs on this day. The northern dam Wanghe area, because of the low temperature, the maple leaves are still small, not color, to March 13th for the "Maple Leaf Festival". On the day of the festival, people went to the mountains and fields to walk in the spring, and children picked young maple leaves to make balls to throw, and women picked a few young maple leaves and inserted them in their buns. In addition, families dye glutinous rice in various colors and make flower glutinous rice. Young people go to the hillside to blow wooden leaves and sing mountain songs. If they meet a satisfactory opponent, they are invited to the Buyei village at night and sing songs all night long. At the end of the night, the host family gives the singers flower glutinous rice and chicken leg meat wrapped in banana leaves as a gift for the festival. Other ethnic groups such as the Shui, Miao, Mulao and Maonan all have their own traditional March 3 festival customs.
Many writers and writers have left ancient songs about March 3: "The weather is new on March 3, and there are many beautiful people in Chang'an by the water. The state of thick meaning far from the lady and true, the texture of the delicate bones and flesh uniform." Du Fu's "Lilien Xing" poem, describing the Tang Dynasty ladies in March 3 to the city south of the Qujiang River to play the scene of trekking, Yang Guifei and his entourage of body and look description is very detailed, wearing clothes with gold and silver thread embroidered with peacocks and unicorns, the head, the back, the waist ornaments are emerald jewels. There are also pianos and drums in the middle of eating delicacies, but also sarcastic Yang Guozhong siblings luxury meaning. Du Fu's sincere feelings can also reflect the mentality of the common people, outside the festival pomp and circumstance of the hush sigh.
Zhang said, "March 3, the imperial banquet decided to Kun Chi Palace Zhuang Fu get feast word", "Phoenix downstairs on the Tianquan, Parrot Island turn pipe string. The old acquaintance of Pingyang beautiful place, now meet on the Si Sheng next year. The boat will be moving the water a thousand sun, curtain **** forest across both sides of the smoke. Do not drop the Jade Man to watch the Purification Drink, who makes the drunken dance whisk guest feast." This poem descendants gave a high evaluation, there is a natural work of art, although tricky and do not see traces of carving. Zhang said a lifetime of generals and prime ministers, politicians of the poet's sentiments to see the March 3rd feast, he was moved by the mountains and waters of the Tang Dynasty, moved by all the elves in heaven and earth! Such a majestic meteorological, letter cover Qiankun's verse, if not the sense of love to, how can we feel the March 3rd of the Tang Dynasty, as if the breath of life flowing in the sky and on earth!
"The sea sun is born in the night, the river spring into the old year". March 3 as Valentine's Day has a long history. As evidenced by a poem, Li Bai's poem: "The sound of whistling, Qin'e dreamed of breaking the moon of the Qin Lou; the moon of the Qin Lou, the color of the willow year after year, Ba Ling sad farewell. In the autumn festival on the Leyou Yuan, the old road to Xianyang was closed to the sound and dust." The color of willow here refers to the Valentine's Day on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. Through this poem, we can see how romantic the Valentine's Day in China is: a couple of lovers strolling on Ba on a sunny day in spring, folding willows to give each other gifts, and whistling incessantly, what a realm! Not only that, our country in a long, long time ago, loved ones parting, friends parting have the habit of folding willow to give each other, there is also a poem as evidence: "willow without a reason to give gifts to the other".
Zhang Wentian said: "Life is like running water, only in his rapids and run forward, only beautiful, only meaningful". March 3, as a festival, too old, as old as in the forest of high-rise buildings outside the remnants of a deep alley, covered with moss, green cloak, and the occasional bloom of a wooden door, silent, mottled paint, copper and green animal ring, but hidden allegory of its once-exalted. Nowadays, there are so many dazzling foreign festivals, young people's footsteps dancing to catch up with the fashion, neon, DJ hustle and bustle, and how many people with devotion to the past, to gently knock on the dusty doorway? It may only be as fossilized, scattered in some simple village.
March 3, the ancient on the Si Festival, people trekking and smelting, folding willow dipping water, purifying the age of filth, extremely grand, and cold food, Qingming and listed as three. Today, only legal Qingming, reminiscent of Huaiyuan, but a few places remaining ancient style. March, is the flowers blooming season; March, is the farmers sowing season, today's March, has become a girl with red lipstick. Choosing this time of year to celebrate, choosing this time of year to celebrate, choosing this time of year to be happy, how poetic and picturesque! The people who know how to live are the ones who know how to live!
"Every year there is a March 3", in ushering in this multi-ethnic traditional festivals, people feel the strong vitality of the ancient culture of the nation, as well as the urgency of developing its modern value. Contemporary singer Su Hong in her album "how I want to sing" has a song that sings "March 3", a few lines of lyrics touching: "Another year is March 3, kites fly all over the sky. The kites are flying all over the sky, holding my thoughts and dreams, going back to my childhood". "Nowadays, every time when the spring breeze is warm, I always think of March 3rd. There is a painting of a bird kite, and that little friend ......" These songs, perhaps the charm of the traditional festival is out of the way.
March 3, spring to, apricot blossom peach blossom full of mountains; before the rain, after the Qingming, the mountains walk; spring wind blowing, spring flowers fly, grass long warbler fly intoxicated; walk, swim, healthy and happy enough! Spring in March, spring is bright and beautiful, the breath of spring thickly surrounded us; grass grows and warblers fly, hundreds of flowers spitting stamens, the splendor of spring has y affected us, may you be happy and safe!
Author: Chen Yingfeng, male, originating from Bama, Guangxi
*** Lecturer at Bama County Party School
Cadre of the County Office of New Socialist Rural Construction, member of the county "Beautiful Bama Clean Countryside" office. Research direction is politics, economic management. Contact Tel: 0778-6220171? 13084943311 Postcode: 547500? E-mail: bmdxc#163...