March 3 is what people will do during the festival

1, wrapped 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.

Lore has it that this food was passed down after it was y appreciated by the fairies; some people also say that it was offered to the singing fairy Liu Sanjie. After eating this kind of rice, people will be prosperous and healthy. Colored eggs are the items used by young men and women in the Song Wei to socialize and convey their emotions.

2, snatch firecrackers

In the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, as well as after the autumn harvest, some ethnic minority areas in Guangxi will spontaneously organized to snatch firecrackers movement. Each team has eight members who participate in the snatching of firecrackers. The players rush into each other's turrets by breaking through, blocking people, changing direction, and rushing fast to put the firecrackers into the turrets, and then score points.

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 competition site is usually located on the riverbank or hillside, no limit to the number of people, nor the number of teams, each gun must grab, three guns end.

3, the embroidered ball love

Song Wei's embroidered ball is the girls rushed before the festival crafts, production process is very delicate, each is a silk crafts: twelve petals linked into a spherical, 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 embroidered ball is filled with bean millet or cottonseed. A silk ribbon is attached to the ball, with silk spangles and decorated beads falling down, symbolizing pure love.

4, playing the lentil

Playing the lentil is a traditional self-entertainment activity, every Zhuang family member is "playing with the hall" actors, women's movements are light and graceful, men's movements are strong and powerful, self-entertainment "playing with the hall", which is a symbol of the Zhuang people's prayers and hopes. It is the desire of the Zhuang people to pray for a good harvest.

The dance form of playing the flat dancer has a double dance, four people wearing flowers, more people wearing flowers and other sets. 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.

5, the song about love

March 3 song Wei 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. The young men sing songs with their favorite girls under the guidance of the song masters.

Usually, young men first take the initiative to sing excursion songs, observe and search for rivals, and when they meet a suitable object, they sing a meeting song and an 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 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.

Baidu Encyclopedia - March 3