The traditional festival of many ethnic minorities in southern China.
Strong people: more than in March 3 to catch the song Wei, set up a song shed, held a song, young men and women sing, touch the egg, 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 Dong ethnic group: the festival is also known as the "Flower Cannon Festival", with activities such as snatching firecrackers, bullfighting, horsefighting, singing, and stamping.
Buyi: in the festival to kill pigs to sacrifice the god of the community, the god of the mountain, eat yellow glutinous rice, the cottage within three or four days do not interact with each other.
Yao: March 3 for the "Ganba Festival", is the collective fishing and hunting festivals, and will catch wildlife fish distributed by household, *** enjoy the joy of harvesting, and then gathered in the square, singing and dancing, celebrating the festival.
Li: March 3 for the "Fu Nianfu", the day of the festival, the Li people gathered together, wishing "mountain orchid" (mountain dry rice), hunting double harvest. The old people carry pickled mountain flavor and brewed glutinous rice wine, to the village of the most prestigious old man's home, sitting around, on the banana leaves and papaya leaves drink other ethnic groups such as the Shui, Miao, Mulao, Maonan and other ethnic groups have their own traditional customs of the March 3 festival.
She: March 3 is the birthday of grain rice, and every family eats umi rice.
Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the She people celebrate the "Wu Rice Festival", every family does Wu Rice, the whole family **** meal, gifts to friends and relatives. At the same time also gathered together plate song, dance, to commemorate this festival. Lianjiang County, Xiaocang National Autonomous Township, She people also have Wu Rice Festival, this day the village is bustling with activity. Wu Rice is a wild plant called Wu Nim Tree, which is used by the She people in the mountains. The leaves are taken and boiled in the soup, then the glutinous rice is soaked in the soup for several hours and picked up, and then put in a wooden retort to be steamed and made. The color of this kind of rice is blue-green and black with oil, and it is soft and delicious in the mouth. Because of its antiseptic and spleen-opening properties, the rice is packed in a ramie bag and hung in a cool, ventilated place where it will not become rancid for several days. If it is fried with lard, it is even more flavorful and delicious. Therefore, it is said that "one family steams ten families".
The origin of the rice is said to be that during the Tang Dynasty, Lei Wanxing, a hero of the She ethnic group, led the She army to rebel against the government, and was besieged by the imperial army in the mountains, where they lost their external support and were deprived of food and provisions, so the She army had to search for food in the mountains. In late autumn, most of the trees in the mountains fell fruit, but there is a kind of wild plant called Wu Nim tree, although the leaves fell, but the branches are hanging on the string of sweet fruit like pearl, everyone picked a handful of bring back to the camp, Lei Wanxing also tasted it, feel sweet and delicious, and then ordered a large number of collection of wild fruits to fill up the hunger, the army food is solved, and the resistance to the government army won a victory.
After one year, on the third day of March, Lei Wanxing suddenly remembered the sweet fruits he had eaten in the mountains, and wanted to eat Unimu fruit, but it was spring, and the Unimu tree had just sprouted green leaves, so there were sweet fruits. The townspeople had to take down the leaves of the tree and processed and cooked with glutinous rice, the result was that the glutinous rice also showed the same blue-black color as the fruit of the Wu Nim, and the fragrance was very strong, and Lei Wanxing ate it, his appetite increased greatly, and he was very happy, and he ordered the She Army to cook the Wu Nim rice on this day every year.
She people in order to commemorate the victory of Lei Wanxing led by the She army against the soldiers, in the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year, men and women go out to "trekking", collect the Wu Nim leaf, every family to do the Wu rice, and handed down to this day it has become a festival of the She ethnic group, the present day "Wu Rice Festival "In addition to retaining the original customs, the festival is also filled with songs and dances, and is even more lively.
Turkish people
Turkish people's traditional festival egg will. The festival is held on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar or on the eighth day of the third month or on the eighteenth day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year, varying from place to place. On that occasion, sacrifices are offered in the temples, and priests are invited to chant and dance in order to avoid calamities and ensure a good harvest and prosperity for people and animals. Attendees also carry a lot of hard-boiled eggs, one is self-catering, the second is to knock each other for fun.
Buyi
March 3, is the more common traditional festival of the Buyei people, commonly known as "March 3". The origin of the festival and the content of the activities, with different residential areas vary. Wudang District, Guiyang City, a new Fort Township area of the Buyei will be "March 3" also known as "sacrifice 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 bitten to death by seedlings. After repeated observation, he believed that the earthworms is the God of heaven to the earth's "heavenly horse". In order to avoid the young mu suffered from pests, he used many ways to sacrifice put are not effective. Later, he fried grain flowers to feed silkworms in spring sowing, and the result preserved the seedlings. 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 the first three days of each year, do not move on the sand Baogu flowers as offerings, in groups of three or five to the nearby slopes of the sacrifice "God of heaven, the ground silkworms," praying for the blessing of the God of heaven, 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 and sing songs, and scatter the flower of the grain into the soil.
Northern Damwang River area, due to low temperatures, when the maple leaves are still small, can not color, to March 13 for the "Maple Leaf Festival". On the day of the festival, people go to the mountains and fields in the spring, children pick young maple leaves made into a ball to throw playing, women pick a few young maple leaves inserted in the bun. 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 to 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. The Buyi people in Wangmu County, Guizhou Province, 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 a dog on this day. Anlong County, Guizhou Province, part of the Buyi legend March 3 is the shadow of the "mountain god" birthday.
People in order to avoid the god of the mountain released locusts hurt crops, to ensure a good harvest, the old custom of sweeping the village sacrifice of the god of the mountain. "March 3" this day, people to the village in front of the altar of the mountain god set up rooster, knife head and other offerings, but also to kill a dog, the blood will be sprinkled in the paper flag, paper horse and the village in and out of the main road entrance to the stone, and then by the "old devil male" and other personnel to carry a dog dripping with blood of the paper flag, the paper horse Then the "Old Devil Gong" and other people will carry the paper flag and paper horse drenched with dog's blood to each house to get rid of demons and ghosts. At the entrance of each house, a bench is set up with a "water bowl" filled with fresh water and a bowl filled with gravel. The "old devil" in front of the gate incantation "magic scripture", play a few "Nongyang Gua", and then the gravel grains to the house scattered, the water bowl of water splashed around, overturned the bench in front of the gate, buckle up the water bowl, meaning that the bench is full of water. The water bowl was then snapped up, meaning that the devil had been swept away. Finally, to this inserted with dog blood on the paper flag, good on the paper horse, another to sweep his home. Village households are round sweeping finished, "the old devil male" mouth to the altar, the collection of sweeping the demons and ghosts focused on the suppression of the gods before, and then the whole village men at the altar of the meal on the spot, known as "accompanying the gods to eat".
The county's De lying town called "March 3" for the "drive Mao Suzuki", also known as the "Mao Suzuki Song Festival", a three-day party of tens of thousands of people. On March 3, the Buyei in the area of Bada River in Luoping, Yunnan Province, is a festival for young men and women to sing and tune to each other. On this day, men, women and children come to the riverside to listen to young people sing songs and watch children compete in bamboo rafting and water pistol shooting. Some families also make flower glutinous rice for children to send to the side and the village; some use small flower cloth pockets filled with eggs and all kinds of food for young people playing and participating in the competition activities to eat. Luoping Niu Street of the Buyi young men and women in these three days, held a grand tour of the mountain, song and dating activities.
Youths of all ethnic groups from dozens of miles around also come to the area around the hillside of Matou to participate in and watch this traditional song-pairing competition. Singers can show off their skills on such occasions, and with their genius for improvising poems and chants, they can sing with their rivals for three days and three nights or even longer. Many young men and women have formed love relationships through these events.
The Dong
The Dong family legend says that in ancient times, the original belongings of the Dong family always celebrated the rice-planting festival when the tung tree blossomed. But one year, the tung tree did not blossom, the result of the wrong farm time, had to flee to the newspaper Jing area, in order to learn from past lessons, every three days in early March, people will blow the reed-sheng singing, visit friends and relatives, and remind each other of the busy farming Dong, more than in the festival held in the snatching of firecrackers, bullfighting, horsefighting, singing, stepping on the hall, also known as the "Firecracker Festival.
The Dong March 3, the festival for five days. On the first day of the third month of the lunar calendar, families start to prepare for the festival.
On the second day of the month, girls are invited to the river to fish and catch shrimp, and prepare a picnic with the boys on the slope.
Early in the morning of the third day, the girls dressed up, carried delicate bamboo baskets, went to the vegetable garden to pick a full monitor onions and garlic, washed with water at the spring. They are lined up in a long line, standing in the water on the path, shyly waving the basket, quietly looking toward the hillside, waiting for the lover to ask for. At this time, the hillside has long been full of people, including the girl's family, to see which in the end the scion took the basket. A group of young men wearing neat green cloth lapel tops, in people's good-natured laughter, one after another on the waterside path. At this time, the young men ask for the basket from the girl of their choice in public, and the winner will be welcomed with a burst of oohs and aahs of admiration, and the young man can quietly agree with the girl to return the basket. Can't get the basket of young men will attract onlookers boo boo mocking sound, and then in the village next to the hillside song, to continue to search for a soulmate, singing until dawn. At noon on this day, people concentrated in the center of the village on the field of song and dance.
The fourth day of March also held a grand masquerade. On the afternoon of the fifth, a farewell ceremony is held for guests from neighboring villages.
Yao
Legend has it that a long time ago, beasts often in and out of Yao villages hurt people, damage crops, in order to protect the homeland, the villages of the national hero Pangu rate of warriors on the mountain to guard the hunting, hunting beasts, Pangu was unfortunately antelope with a horn broken suit and died on the spot, that day is the third day of the third month of the Chinese lunar calendar, in order to commemorate the national hero Pangu, the Yao people every year, the third of the third month of March positioning to remember In order to remember the national hero Pangu, the Yao people have positioned the third day of the third month of every year to remember the day of Pangu, and named it as "March 3" also known as "Ganba Festival" that is, before the "March 3" every year, the Yao men go to the old forest a week in advance to guard the hunt, kill wild animals, go down to the river to fish and touch shrimps, and roast the fish and shrimp. The Yao men go to the old forest a week in advance to hunt, kill wild animals, go down to the river to fish and shrimp, and bake them into Ganba to bring back home. The women go to the mountains to pick small indigo leaves and other natural dyes, boil the water and dye it into four colors of red, yellow, blue and purple glutinous rice to be used to pay tribute to Pangu, year after year, and has been passed down to this day. In the past, "March 3", the Yao people put down their hands of agricultural work collective rest day, in order to pay tribute to Pangu, that is to say, women rest to do sewing, men read the scriptures, drinking, entertainment, the girl and the lads but to the village side of the barren mountain, the long forest to the song, talk about love, play.
Li
Said March 3 for the "Fu Nianfu", for the "Shanlan" (mountain dry valley) and hunting harvest festival, but also young men and women are free to interact with the day, people call it the day of love. About its origin, there is a beautiful legend. It is said that a long time ago, the seven finger ridge area encountered a rare drought, people live like a year. Early one morning, a young man named Yayin told everyone that he dreamed of a lark, and to get rid of this disaster, he had to climb to the top of Five Fingers Mountain and blow his nose to trap it. Yayin volunteered to climb to the top of Five Fingers Mountain, where he played his beloved nosejob. He blew for three days and three nights before a lark flew from the valley, and Yayin rushed to catch it. He chased it over a hillock, and at last Yayin took a good look at it and saw that the lark had turned into a very beautiful Li girl. The girl promised to go to the earth with Yayin to relieve the disaster. After the drought was lifted, he did not realize that he had angered the master of the mine. He sent his men to catch the girl, and when Yahin came, the two of them hid in a cave, and the master ordered his men to burn the cave with fire when suddenly dark clouds rolled, thunder, rock cracked and landslide, crushed the evil master and his men all to death. Yayin and Bailing girl turned into a pair of birds, flew up to the sky, the townspeople rushed to hear the news, seeing them off, dancing and singing excitedly, wishing them happiness and fulfillment. This day is the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, and since then this day has become a traditional festival of the Li family.
To celebrate March 3, preparations are made half a month in advance. The men go hunting in the mountains and seal the trophies; the women spring rice and make rice dumplings at home; the young men and women prepare beautiful clothes and gifts for love. The prey and rice dumplings are used as offerings to the ancestors in the ritual hall, and if there is nothing to be gained from the hunt, chickens are killed instead, and the rituals are officiated by the old men of the clan.
Korea
Korean folklore, the third of March is the return of the swallows, women in twos and threes, out of the house trekking, picnic to eat azalea cakes, drink azalea wine and peach blossom wine, and at the same time to butterflies to divine marriage and so on.
Eastern Japan
Daughter's Day is a festival for Japanese girls, also known as Doll's Day, Jumi (じょうし/じょうみ), and Hina Matsuri (Hina Matsuri). It belongs to one of the "five festivals", "Momo no Setsubun" (Momo no Setsubun). It was originally celebrated on March 3 of the lunar calendar, but was changed to March 3 of the Western calendar after the Meiji Restoration. During the Daughter's Day, most members of the family try to get together to wish the girls a healthy and safe adulthood, and the parents set up a ladder-like display for their daughters, where dolls dressed in Japanese kimono are placed from top to bottom, which are called hina-forms in Japan. Heian period in Japan by the Tang Dynasty on the Feast of the Buddha (March 3) "goblet" custom, people made of paper in the shape of a person, said he was not feeling well will be transferred to the human form, and then put into the river to flow away. Currently, some places in Japan still maintain this custom, and on the night of the various human dolls float with the river, praying for health and peace. In Japan, the Boys' Day is scheduled for the Dragon Boat Festival.
Ryukyu
In Ryukyu, women bathe in the sea to pray for health.