March 3 what are the traditional customs and activities

Annual lunar March 3 is an important holiday, especially in Guangxi, there are two days of vacation arrangements, so what are the customary activities of the March 3 festival. Let's take a look at what are the traditional customs and activities on March 3 together!

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March 3 traditional customs activities

Guangxi March 3 customary activities

What to eat on the third of March

●Traditional customs activities on the third of March 1.Zhuang: song dike to welcome guests thousands of bamboo dance

"March 3" is the most important national festival of the Zhuang. The most important ethnic festival of the Zhuang people. Every "March 3", the Zhuang men and women will be like a dike will be gathered on the hillside singing songs, to carry out a series of grabbing firecrackers, playing drums, throwing embroidered balls and other cultural and sports activities with national characteristics. Wuming is the hometown of China's Zhuang, but also one of the birthplaces of Zhuang culture, every year on March 3, the local will be held "March 3" Song Wei and Luo Yue Cultural Tourism Festival. Song Wei generally sing songs to start, show Luo Yue community can sing and dance humanistic style, thousands of people *** jump bamboo dance, each square is very Zhuang characteristics, people holding colorful glutinous rice, holding the Zhuang wine, carry the hoe of labor, exquisite dustpan is also lifted in the hands.

2. Grab the "flower cannon" show ethnic charm "singing sitting sister" write romantic

"March 3" is not only the festival of the Zhuang, Dong, Miao, Yao and other minority groups will also celebrate the third of March. Ethnic minorities will also celebrate March 3, folk activities are also colorful. In Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, the annual March 3 "Flower Cannon Festival" attracts tourists from all over the world to explore and experience the festival, which also showcases a strong sense of ethnic integration.

3. In addition to grabbing the firecrackers, Sanjiang Dong's "singing and sitting", a traditional way of meeting young men and women, also adds a lot of romance to the March 3 festival.

4. Yao township songs to pass the friendship of Dongzhong Yao compatriots playing gyro

5. In Rongan County, Ya Yaoyao township Xigupo Tuen, every year, "March 3" will be held in the mountain song singing activities, the whole township of the mountain song enthusiasts have rushed here to take part in the annual mountain song duet.

6. In Dongzhong Township, Fangcheng District, the highlight of the March 3 festival is "playing the gyro and singing songs".

7. The Rui drums sound on March 3, delighting the eighteen bends of the mountain road. The Zhuang compatriots and Yao compatriots gathered together to celebrate the festival.

8. Dongzhong "anvil" gyro competition combines physical fitness and entertainment. Nowadays, as a traditional national sports competition, "anvil" gyro has appeared on various stages and sports occasions one after another, and is loved by more and more outsiders.

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●Guangxi March 3 custom activities 1. Ancestor worship

Some places in March 3 is mainly to sacrifice, they will all go out and bring sacrificial offerings to worship ancestral graves, the ceremony is mainly: weeding and add soil, repair cemeteries, incense on the graves, offerings, kneeling to toast, burning money, inserting mark hanging money, firecrackers, praying for the death of the ancestors. The ceremony includes burning incense, making offerings, kneeling and drinking, burning money, inserting markers and hanging money, and setting off firecrackers to pray for the ancestors' blessing on the family's happiness. After the worship, everyone gathers together for a meal, which is a very cordial way to increase the sense of identity and family among each other.

2. Five-color Glutinous Rice

Before the start of the "March 3" festival, families would select high-quality glutinous rice and soak it in the juice of different herbs to dye it and then steam it, which is called five-color glutinous rice. In addition to the five-color glutinous rice symbolizes a bountiful harvest, happiness and good fortune, because the five colors represent the five elements of yin and yang, the east and west, south, north and south, five directions, used in worship of ancestors, you can pray for a year of family peace, a bumper crop. In addition, every year in March and April is the body's coldest time, and the five colors of glutinous rice has the effect of driving away the cold and evil spirits, whether adults or children, appropriate eating some of the five colors of glutinous rice, is conducive to drive away the cold in the body.

3. Crashing colored eggs

During the festival, families selected eggs, boiled and then colored with various pigments, most of which are mainly red, because red represents a good omen of red-hot. Children will hang the colored eggs on their bodies, when they go out to play, meet the same hanging colored eggs partner, you can play the "hit the colored eggs" game, the two eggs against each other, there is no crack on the side of the winner, in the folklore, the success of the person who broke the colored eggs means that the hit a good fortune.

4. Embroidery ball love

Song Wei's embroidery ball is the girls before the festival to catch up with the crafts, the production process is very sophisticated, 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. A silk ribbon is attached to the ball, with silk spangles and decorated beads falling down, symbolizing pure love.

5. Jumping Bamboo Dance

Two large bamboo poles flat on the ground, outside the two large bamboo poles, two pairs of people, face to face with a small bamboo poles, along the large bamboo poles back and forth sliding bump, dancers in the two poles sliding in the gap between the two dancers jumping. Dance movements for the imitation of ants, turtledoves, leopards, paintbrush and other animal forms jump, lively and cheerful. The bamboo pole dance is generally divided into four parts: meeting in the mountains, crossing the river on a bridge, falling in love, and carrying the bride home. Each part of the dance reveals the sincere feelings of young Miao men and women and contains many original aesthetic elements, which are simple and natural.

6. Songs of love

March 3 song pike is a good time for young men and women to socialize. Every song pike, within a radius of dozens of miles of young men and women gathered in the song pike point to sing. Usually the male youth first take the initiative to sing "tour song", observation to identify rivals, meet the right object, then sing a meeting song, invitation song. If the woman is interested, she agrees. The young men then sing a song of inquiry, and when they are in love 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 that the young man in front of the talent, song talent are satisfied, will take advantage of the bystanders do not pay attention to, quietly will be in the arms of the embroidered ball given to the person of interest, "he" will be reported to the handkerchiefs, towels and other items, and then the song is even sweeter, and then booked the good of Qin Jin.

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●What to eat on the third of March 1 chicken shit vine

The third of March in the lunar calendar to eat chicken shit vine, is a traditional custom of the local people in Beihai, Guangxi, we will be mixed with the leaves of the rice and ground into a powder, and then made into a piece of the chicken wire vine noodles, chicken wire vine made of this noodle_children's soup, the taste of the sweet and refreshing, it is the locals love! It is a favorite snack of local people. According to legend, the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the birth anniversary of Emperor Regulus, the founder of the Chinese nation, and the people of Beihai use it to commemorate this great man.

2 Shepherd's purse boiled eggs

Proverb: "March 3, shepherd's purse when the elixir." "March 3, shepherd's purse boiled eggs." Spring is the season to pick and eat chestnuts. Spring food shepherd's purse is also China's folk long traditional custom. Han Chinese people in this day have to eat the ground (chestnut) vegetables boiled eggs custom. It is said that it can remove rheumatism, clear fire, no pain in the waist and legs, and it can also prevent spring plague.

3 five-color glutinous rice

Black, red, yellow, white, purple - five-color glutinous rice is a traditional food in the Zhuang region, because the glutinous rice is a variety of colors and named, also known as "Wu rice". The Zhuang people regard the five-color glutinous rice as a symbol of good luck and good harvest.

4 artemisia

March 3 to eat artemisia, and traditional customs. The third of March is known as the ancient "on the Si Festival", also known as the folk "Ghost Festival". Legend has it that on this day, the human soul is easy to be wandering around the ghosts confused, simple and honest villagers believe that you must eat this artemisia with wild flavor, in order to put the human soul "poi" (sticky), not for the invasion of evil, people can be healthy, not sick. This beautiful wish passed from generation to generation, so that this thousand-year-old custom continues to this day, evolved into a local custom of praying for health and prosperity.

5 Thin Cakes

Eating thin cakes on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is one of the traditional customs of Tongan people. After Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan, his son Zheng Jing inherited his father's business and continued to fight against the Qing Dynasty, sending troops to attack the area around southern Fujian many times, causing heavy casualties among the people due to the stubborn resistance of the Qing army. Under the counter-attack of Zheng's army, the Qing army surrendered, and Zheng's army entered the city. The people welcomed Zheng's army while making pancakes to offer to their dead friends and relatives. Later the people used the pancakes to worship their ancestors on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar.

6 spring cake

The third day of March, on the day of the Si also has a food custom, is to eat "spring cake", the noodles into a thin cake, the egg boiled peeled, mashed, some people also add in garlic, the pancake rolled up to eat, there are places where the warmth of the early, there has been a small onion, spring cake rolled onion to eat.

7 moxa patties

Before and after the Qingming Festival, is the moxa grass grows luxuriantly and the most tender season, due to the lunar calendar March 3 and the Qingming Festival is close to the moxa patties have become "March 3" must-eat food.

8 Ummi rice

She ethnic group, every family makes Ummi rice, the whole family **** meal, gifts to friends and relatives, to celebrate the "Ummi Festival". Legend has it that in the Tang Dynasty, the She hero Lei Wanxing led an insurgent army to fight against the siege of the government army, and the army was greatly invigorated by the hunger of the Wu Nim fruit, and succeeded in breaking through the siege on the third of March, and succeeded in successive battles. In order to commemorate this event, the She people have to eat rice and sing songs on March 3 every year. On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, Wuzhou also has the custom of eating umi rice.

9 Zhuang dumplings

Ningming Zhuang dumplings are made of glutinous rice, pork and other boiled into a large dumplings, is the Zhuang "March 3" special traditional food. Zhuang dumplings originated in the Song Dynasty, called "wind Mo". It is a kind of oversized zongbao. On New Year's Eve, the girls fish out the cooked "Fengmo" from the iron pot for the first month of the year.

10Water Chrysanthemums

Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, in Anqing Taihu County, Qianshan area, there is the custom of eating water chrysanthemums. Water chrysanthemum is also known as sage, Qingming vegetable, cold food vegetable, poi vegetable, April and May to open tiny head-shaped flowers. It grows in the plains, fields and roadsides in central, eastern, southern and southwestern provinces of China. In the spring, you can pick the young stems and leaves, wash them, mix them into the glutinous rice flour, steam them or deep fry them, and then eat them, which is called "Qingming Ba" in the southwestern provinces.

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