What are the festivals of the Zhuang people The festivals of the Zhuang people, such as the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc., many of them are the same as those of the Han people. The first month of the New Year is very lively, the villages of young men and women are to traditional purchase "throwing embroidered balls play pouncing". Playing "mill fall" is also one of the traditional content, that is, planting a straight wood on the ground, with a horizontal wood chiseled therein, together with the top of the straight wood on the mill heart, the two a left and a right on the horizontal wood on the ends of the play, one after the other, this fall, this fall and the other rise, peng in mid-air, very interesting. The Zhuang have many fixed religious festivals every year. For example, some of the Zhuang offer the "Hall of the Elderly" in the first month of the year (also in May), and in February (also on the sixth day of June or October), they celebrate the New Year's Eve. Every year in February, "Dragon Sacrifice" is a **** with the festival of each branch. "Sacrifice of the dragon" by the village of two or more families to take turns to bear the sacrifices of chickens, pigs and other sacrificial offerings required by the calendar; sacrifice day, outside the walled city or riding a horse, wearing a bucket sign is not allowed to pass through the heart of the walled city, it is customary to think that every year to kill the pig "sacrifice of the dragon" can make the peace of mankind and animals, a bumper crop. March sacrifice of the God of Thunder, after planting rice seedlings and sacrifice "Tian Gong". July "to receive the ancestors". In August, each village offers land. December "send ancestors", send "Zao Wang". In addition, there are many taboos with religious superstitions. Such as the first day of the first month is not allowed to blow the fire, not to string doors. Usually can not sit in the middle of the threshold. Can not step on the stove and three feet. Can not carry a hoe or wear a hat into the home. You are not allowed to climb or cut down the trees on Longshan. If there is a wedding house, pregnant women are not allowed to visit the bride. When there is a woman in labor in the family, a straw hat is hung on the door, implying that outsiders are not allowed to enter.
Jump Palace Festival
In Yunnan Province, Funing, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Napo and other places, every year in the fourth month of the lunar calendar to jump Palace Festival. The time of the festival varies from place to place, starting from the third day of the fourth month, or from the eighth or eleventh day of the fourth month, and the festival is held for three consecutive days.
The first day should be called to hold a drum ceremony, by that the public (walled village), the palace head (chief) and other people dressed in ancient costumes, with the villagers ready to celebrate the festival to ask that the Mo (the oldest head) up the bronze drums for the festival. Namo promised to lead everyone to the place where the drum is buried, burning incense and chanting scriptures, pious sacrifices, and then the drum from the ground dug out, along with the offerings tied to the drum frame, the crowd sang and danced, clustered against the bronze drums lifted to the festival where the dance DD Gongping.
Gongping selected in the village side of the dam, the center with a fence surrounded by a root and branch of the golden bamboo. Legend has it that their ancestors were surrounded by foreigners in a war, and a hero hid in the golden bamboo bushes and repelled the enemy with a plan. Later, people honored the golden bamboo to commemorate the victory and formed the Jumping Palace Festival, which is a dance and singing festival around the golden bamboo.
After all the preparations for the festival are ready, Nama hits the drum three times to announce the start of the festival. Then blow the gourd sheng, hit the drum, people accompanied by music, and drums, around the golden bamboo enthusiastic dance. From time to time, some people jump hungry and tired, they stop to eat some glutinous rice, taste a piece of meat, drink a mouthful of wine, and then continue to dance.
The joyful song and dance activities lasted two days. On the first night, people go in groups to the houses of Na Mo and Na Gong to congratulate the festival. On the second night, they go to each house to dance the Golden Bamboo Dance, blessing every household with prosperity of people and animals and a good harvest. The youths play the role of various birds and animals for everyone to chase and beat. This interesting game, so that the festive night of the joyful atmosphere more intense.
The last day of the festival is commonly known as the "Three Dynasties". At noon, by the male organization of the village village households, to a nearby mountain, slaughter chickens and dogs, sacrifices to the ancestors to thank them for their benevolence, praying for the blessing of the ancestors. After the sacrifice, the ceremony of "sending the drums" will be held. The drums are escorted back to the Nama's home by the Nakong, the Gongtou, and the seven Pabi (festival hosts), who lead the crowd in song and dance. At this point, the festival ends. Now with the continuous development of economic and cultural, jumping Palace Festival has become a grand entertainment and material exchange ***, the festival content is richer, nearby Zhuang, Miao, Yao, Han and other nationalities also come to participate in the exchange of materials and entertainment activities to celebrate the festival.
Flower Dynasty Festival
Held on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, it is a traditional festival of the Zhuang people around Ningming and Longzhou in Guangxi. The Flower Dynasty Festival honors the Hundred Flowers Fairy, who, according to legend, descended on this day. She likes the kapok tree, because it grows straight and thick, spring full of red flowers, bright as fire. So she often perched on the kapok tree, blessing the earth, flowers, peace on earth.
The festival was chosen in the place where there are tall kapok trees. Young men and women gather from all directions. They wear national dress, carrying five-color glutinous rice, mochi or dumplings and other food, with a head scarf for lovers, a thousand needle bottom new shoes and other gifts, especially not without the carefully embroidered embroidered ball. People tired of green bushes in groups of three to five, singing songs, praise lovers, praise each other, even love, while singing the praises of hundreds of flowers fairy Jiajie, beautiful. Singing to love deep intention drunk, hydrangea will be with infinite soft ...... >>
What are the ethnic festivals of the Zhuang people in Guangxi There are several special festivals in a year, respectively Copper Drum Festival. Respectively held on the first, fifteenth and thirtieth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. At that time, the village lads form a copper drum team, carry the copper drum to the village near the top of a high mountain, hanging in the wooden frame, first hit the drum ancestor worship, and then hit the copper drum competition.
Agricultural Tools Festival. Festival from the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to thirty (some places to fifteen) days, to the large village as a unit or several villages jointly held, there are "please frog lady", "singing frog lady", "filial piety frog lady", "funeral frog lady", "the frog lady", "the frog lady", "the frog lady", "the frog lady", "the frog lady", "the frog lady", "the frog lady", "the frog lady". There are rituals such as "Inviting Frogwoman", "Singing Frogwoman", "Filial Piety", "Burial of Frogwoman" and so on. The whole festival activities to praise the frog God to bring rain to the earth, blessing the achievements of the harvest throughout, for the music God entertained Bo song and dance extravaganza.
Flower Lady Festival. The 29th day of the second month of the lunar calendar is the birth anniversary of the Goddess of Flowers. Zhuang women held a sacrificial ceremony, the village of the same generation of women with different surnames sisters, money to prepare for the chickens and ducks from the and incense and paper money for the flower God, and then groups of people to the field to pick flowers to wear, and pray for fertility and blessing of the child's healthy growth.
March 3 Song Festival. Guangxi has been known as the "sea of songs", the Zhuang people have a number of regular annual folk songs ***, which to the first three days of March in the lunar calendar for the grand. On this day, families make five-color glutinous rice, dyeing red eggs, celebrate the festival, some last two or three days. There are specific venues for the Song Festival in different places.
Eat new festival. Held every year in June of the lunar calendar, the specific date varies from place to place. At that time, rice and corn have begun to ripen, people take a little new rice, cook dry rice and vegetables for the festival.
Zhuang New Year. Zhuang New Year, the time is one month earlier than the Spring Festival. November 29 or 30 every year, the Zhuang village households to kill pigs and slaughter sheep, family ancestor worship, the United Village to worship the community, to welcome the New Year.
What are the Zhuang ethnic festivals Mongolia Mongolia's traditional festivals are mainly the New Year of the old calendar, the Mongolian language for the "Chagan Saren", that is, the white month. Mongolian New Year's Day is also known as the "White Festival" or "White Moon", which is closely related to the white of the milk. In addition, there are also the Naadam and Horse Milk Festivals. The Korean people's festivals are basically the same as those of the Han Chinese, including the Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Elderly People's Day. There are also three family festivals, i.e., the baby's first birthday, the H?nga Festival (60th birthday), and the H?ngw?ng Festival (60th wedding anniversary). On every Hui Jia Festival and Hui Marriage Festival, children, relatives, friends and neighbors bless and wish the old people a happy birthday. Dai Ethnic Group The major festivals of the Dai ethnic group include the Water Splashing Festival, the Door Closing Festival and the Door Opening Festival, all of which are related to Buddhism. Dongxiang People The Dongxiang people, like other religious people, have three major festivals every year, namely, Eid al-Fitr, Gulbang, and Sacred Discipline Festival, all of which are derived from the *** religion. The Hounan Festival of the Brown People is a grand annual festival of the Brown people, held on April 13-15, seven days after the Qingming Festival in the third lunar month. In the festival, the main activity is to splash water on each other, and the ceremony is held in accordance with the ancient and simple traditional way of the Brown people - the custom of welcoming the sun, so people call it the festival of welcoming the sun. The main festivals of the Nu people are: Spring Festival, known as "Jijiam" in Nu, also known as Qasi Festival; Fairy Festival, also known as the Flower Festival, is a traditional festival of the Nu people living around Gongshan, which takes place from the 15th to the 17th day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year; and the sacrifice to the God of the Valley, known as "Ruwei" in Nu, which takes place in the area of Pihe in the former Bijiang County. The traditional festival of the Nu ethnic group around Pihe in former Bijiang County is held on December 2-9 of the lunar calendar every year to pray for the blessing of the God of Valley.... Tatar Tatar language called "Gulbang Aiti", is *** language translation of the loan word, *** language "Kalbang", meaning "dedication". Gurban, is in the *** religious calendar on December 10, that is, 70 days after the "Meat Ceremony". Gulbang, Eid al-Fitr, the three major festivals. *** *** There are three major festivals, namely, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, and Eid al-Sunnah. All three are religious festivals. Eid al-Fitr is the *** word for "Eld? Fischer" translation, so also called "Erde" festival, in Xinjiang, there are also called meat cumin festival. Gulbang Festival, 70 days after Eid al-Fitr, that is, *** religious calendar of December 10, is the Gulbang Festival. Gulbang, also known as "Eid al-Adha", is the last day of the *** pilgrimage to Mecca (Mecca: the holy land of the *** religion). On this day, people take a bath, burn incense and fast for half a day. In the morning, people go to the *** Temple to participate in the rituals, bow to Mecca, ask the imam to slaughter animals, and give part of the slaughtered beef and mutton to relatives and friends, and give alms to the poor; the Feast of the Sacred Discipline, which commemorates the birth of the Prophet ***, falls on the 12th day of the month of March in the *** religious calendar, and is also the day on which *** passed away. The commemoration is usually held at the *** temple, where scriptures are recited and speeches are made about the holy deeds. Some places also hold a grand Ermai Li will be held on this day (good deeds banquet), feast guests. Manchus The Manchus are influenced by Han culture, and their festivals are similar to those of the Han, emphasizing the Lunar New Year. The first month of the 15th Festival of Lights, the first month of the 25th pray for the coming year over the "Tim Cang Festival", the second month of the second lunar calendar is the "lock dragon" day, and May end of the fifth, June 6, "King of the Bugs Festival", August 15, the Mid-Autumn Festival; Tim Cang Festival; the first month of the fifth day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Fifteenth Mid-Autumn Festival; Tim Cang Festival, every year on the 25th day of the first month, the Manchu rural families pay attention to the sticky sorghum rice, placed in the warehouse, with broomcorn stalks woven a small horse inserted in the rice bowl, meaning that the horse to home pack food, food and clothing. The first day, then add new rice, even add three times. Some people also use sorghum straw to make two hoes inserted in the rice. This festival is still retained in the rural areas of the Northeast; Bug King Festival, June day, easy to make insect plague, living in Liaoning Province, Xiuyan, Fengcheng area of the Manchu in the past on the sixth day of June, a family out of a person to the Bug King Temple pilgrimage, kill pigs to sacrifice, begging for the Bug King to avoid disaster, to ensure that the ground harvest is good. Nowadays do not engage in the Bug King Festival ritual sweeping activities, but the family to dry clothes on this day to prevent insect infestation. Li The festival of the Li people has a close relationship with the calendar of the Li people. Before the liberation of the Li festivals, in the neighboring Han areas and Li and Han mixed areas, most of them use the lunar calendar, festivals are the same as the Han, such as the Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and so on. As far as the Li are concerned, the grandest and most common festivals are the Spring Festival and March 3rd. Naxi People The festivals of the Naxi people are many of the same as those of the Han Chinese, such as the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc. However, the activities of the Spring Festival are different from those of the Han Chinese, with strong ethnic characteristics. Like many ethnic groups in the southwest, the Naxi also have the Torch Festival. And the traditional festivals of this ethnic group are mainly the Mule and Horse Club, Farming Tools Club, Dragon King Club and Chao Shan Club.
What are the traditional festivals of the Zhuang The traditional festivals of the Zhuang are the Song Wei Festival (March 3), Long Duan Festival, and Zhong Yuan Festival.
What are the grand festivals of the ethnic minorities in Guangxi The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is located in the southern border of China, with beautiful landscapes, four seasons of spring, and rich in produce, inhabited by 12 ethnic groups such as Zhuang, Han, Yao, Miao, Dong, Mulao, Maonan, Hui, Jing, Yi, Water and Gelao. Major festivals such as the Miao Lusheng Horse Fighting Festival, Yao Panwang Festival, Miao Chunshe Festival, Zhuang March 3 Song Festival, Liangshuang Fish Festival, Miao La Drum Festival, etc., are traditional festivals for the Zhuang, Dong, Mulao, and Gelao ethnic groups to worship the God of Cow. It is also known as Ox Birthday, Ox King Festival, and Yoke Festival. It is mostly held on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, but also on the eighth day of the sixth month or the eighth day of the eighth month. Medicine King Festival is also known as Medicine Master Festival. Traditional festival of the Zhuang people. Zhuang, Dong, Miao and other ethnic traditional festival. Also known as the Open Green Festival, New Rice Festival. Held annually in the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the specific date varies from place to place. Taste the new festival, commonly known as "eat the new festival", the Zhuang folk traditional festival. Held every year in July and August of the lunar calendar when the new grain is ripe. Zhuang New Year, one month earlier than the Spring Festival. Every year on November 29 or 30 of the lunar calendar, Zhuang villages, every family kills pigs and goats, the family sacrifices ancestors, the joint village to worship the community, to welcome the New Year. Dong "DuoYe" festival has a long history, "DuoYe" means "dancing with songs" in Dong language, "DuoYe" is the translation of Dong language. Doye" is a translation of the Dong language, is a collective song and dance of the Dong people, participants need to hold hands in a circle, follow the rhythm of the leader of the song while singing and dancing. On the eighth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Dong people celebrate the annual traditional weaving festival. On the ninth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Miao people celebrate the traditional festival, the Jumping Slope Festival. Bucheon has a history of hundreds of years for the "Dragon Frying on the Lantern" event. Yazheng Festival, with the theme of welcoming the spring festival, is held on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and Tongmu Township of Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County organizes the festival every year.
At the end of 2015, the Chinese Folk Artists Association officially named Rongshui Miao Autonomous County as "China's Hometown of Hundred Festivals and Folklore". According to statistics, Rongshui currently **** there are 138 ethnic folk festivals, the most representative of the Miao Lusheng Fighting Horse Festival, Yao Panwang Festival, Miao Spring Festival, Zhuang March 3 Song Festival, Liang Shuang Haunted Fish Festival, Miao Drum Festival, etc. In September 2006, included in the first batch of the national "intangible" protection list of the Miao series of slopes will be grouped*** more than 30, typical representative of the 13th day of the first month of the month. The "Lusheng Horse Fighting Festival", "Autumn Fish Burning Season" and other folk activities are famous far and wide.
What are the traditional festivals of the Zhuang people? The Zhuang have the following traditional festivals
First, March 3, is the grandest festival of the Han, Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong, Mulao, Maonan and other ethnic groups in Guangxi, which was recognized as a traditional customary festival in Guangxi in 2014 and was given a two-day holiday. The "March 3" song dike is popular in the Zhuang region, especially in the Hongshui River and the Left and Right River basins. The number of people in each song pike is as few as a few hundred, or as many as thousands or even tens of thousands of people.
Second, the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival of the Zhuang people from the New Year's Eve to the first day of the first month, the second, *** three days, but the third to the fifth is still counted as the Spring Festival period. It is the grandest festival of the year for the Zhuang people. Preparations generally start from the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, when families engage in hygiene, sewing clothes and pants, buying New Year's goods, posting couplets, making cakes, killing pigs, wrapping rice dumplings, setting off firecrackers, and wearing special costumes. The Spring Festival is also a day of reunion, and anyone who works outside the home is usually rushed home before the 30th of the year to have a reunion dinner.
Three, the first two, where guests must eat dumplings. The Zhuang family's dumplings are more noble food. Dumplings are large and small, large one or two pounds, small two or three two, there is a called "wind Mo" (oversized dumplings), weighing one or two pounds.
Four, gyro festival, in Guangxi Zhuang settlement, held every year, a famous sports event - gyro festival. Time is from the old calendar year New Year's Eve two or three days before the New Year's Eve to the sixteenth day of the first month, which lasted more than half a month. Gyro, the Zhuang language called "Lejiang", it has a big and small, light and heavy. There are as big as Hetian pomelo, weighing about a catty, there are as small as a goose egg, there are two or three two. It is said to play gyro since the rise of so far, has a history of more than 300 years.
Fifth, Longduan Festival, is a traditional festival of the Zhuang people in and around Funing County, Wenshan, Yunnan Province. "Longduan" (Zhuang language, catching the meaning of the field dam), is a translation of the Zhuang language, meaning to go to a wide and flat place to get together. Legend has it that this festival has a history of more than 700 years and was originally held in honor of the national hero, Nong Zhiguo, who rose up against the Song Dynasty in April 1052 AD. Long end of the festival has developed into a rich Ning County and the neighboring area of Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Yi, Han people of all ethnic groups for material exchanges, *** with the celebration of traditional festivals.
Six, eat Li Festival, Longzhou County, Guangxi, Pingxiang City, a unique festival of the Zhuang people. "Eat Li" means "celebrate" in Zhuang. The Zhuang people have a tradition of celebrating the Spring Festival. However, when the Spring Festival came in 1894, the French invaders invaded our borders. In order to fight against the invaders, young and strong men went to the frontiers, killed the enemies bravely and defended their homeland. On the 30th day of the first month, the soldiers returned in triumph, the townspeople killed chickens and slaughtered sheep, made sticky rice, hospitality, *** with the celebration of victory, make up for the Spring Festival. Since then, gradually formed to eat Li Festival. During the festival, people dance lions, play dragon lanterns, singing and dancing, lively.
Seven, Yabai Festival, Funing County, Yunnan Province, Peeling Ai town of Ning, Suowu area of the Zhuang, the day of the rabbit in April every year, we have to kill a cow, a pig, two chickens and forty-eight fish, to Yabai Mountain to go to the sacrifice of the Zhuang women Yabai (a legend of Nong Zhigao mother). On that day, men, women and children were all present, and the ceremony was very solemn. According to legend, Yabai was the leader of a Zhuang village, who led the Zhuang people to fight with the government soldiers and was killed after the defeat. The people buried her to the top of the mountain, and called this mountain Yabai Mountain. Every year, on the day of Yabai's death, the Zhuang people would kill cows and pigs to pay tribute to her. In this way, year after year to pay tribute, never interrupted, over time, they formed a festival - Yabai Festival.
Eight, the Zhuang in the Zhuang language called "will also benefit", and the Spring Festival called "will Kun" that is, the Han Festival. Zhuang year to the lunar calendar in December for the first year, the end of November for New Year's Eve, customary called "WeiYiJiu", meaning over two nine (no matter how big the month is small, are so called). On this day, the whole village pooled funds to buy a pig, (some villages take turns to feed the community pig by household) slaughtered to worship the king of the community, praying for the blessing of the grain harvest.
What are the festivals of the Zhuang people? 5 points The Zhuang people have their own festivals every month. Among them, the grandest ones are the Spring Festival, the Ancestor Festival, the March Song Festival, the Cow's Soul Festival, the Moyi King Festival, the Mid-Yuan Festival, and the Frost Festival, etc.
The Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Zhuang people.
Spring Festival
Spring Festival is the most important festival. After a sumptuous dinner on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, people gather around the fire to observe the New Year's Eve. As soon as the Zi Hour arrives, people immediately burn incense and light candles, and make offerings of pork, whole chickens, dumplings, dumplings, rice wine and other offerings on the altar of the gods. The children set off firecrackers. There are many places of the Zhuang women immediately carrying buckets or bamboo tubes to the spring, the river to play "new water", for good luck. Men carry lanterns to the temple community to burn incense and paper. Some places to open the door, the family gathered in the courtyard towards the east to pay homage, blessing: "the East, a year of Wanli, this year is better than last year!"
On the first day of the year, most of the strong people are not strung out. People eat soup dumplings during the day, and only eat meat dishes for dinner, that can eliminate disasters and diseases. There are many taboos on the first day. This day is forbidden to say unlucky words. Prohibited scissors, for fear of the new year, family members clever tongue, quarrels and curses; shall not sweep the floor, for fear of financial ruin. May not take things outside the dry bar, not to borrow things to others, for fear of family wealth outflow. Some places are prohibited to beat gongs and drums, for fear of disturbing the ghosts and gods, but some places can play a kind of high cowhide drums, around dozens of miles clearly audible. Many places from the first to the first five stove to burn a section of hardwood, can not be extinguished, said the descendants of long, smoke and fire. This day is also not allowed to kill, pigs, chickens, ducks must be cleaned up a few days before, in order to prepare for the sacrifice and food.
The Zhuang people do not bow, kneeling, shaking hands and other courtesies, but through language and rich expression to fully express their holiday greetings, people in the village or on the road to meet, they congratulate each other on "congratulations on wealth."
From the second day of the month, friends and relatives began to come and go to pay their respects. Especially the daughters who have been married. To bring a few pounds of meat or chickens and ducks and other gifts, with their husbands and children to return to their mother's home to pay homage to the New Year. Married sisters take advantage of this time to meet, *** to catch up on the goodbye.
According to the usual concept, the entire first month belongs to the festival. Therefore, the Zhuang people in Wenshan, Yunnan Province, to play a month of copper drums, dancing for a month. Others are in the beautiful scenery of the river, the valley, the youth held a song Wei or lion dance, playing pounding hall, listen to the Zhuang opera, and so on. Recreational activities are colorful, people immersed in the atmosphere of the festival.
Ant-trafficking Festival
This is an ancient festival circulating in the area of Donglan and Fengshan along the Hongshui River. Every year, from the first day of the first month, it lasts for a month through three stages of looking for ant-traffic, mourning ant-traffic, accompanying ant-traffic and burying ant-traffic. There are two stories about the ant crutch festival, one of which says that a long time ago the son ate the old man and killed the old mother for the New Year. Then came out a filial parents of Donglin, others to come to kill his parents, he grabbed the knife not to let. He also refused to eat the flesh of other people's parents. Later, his mother died. He used the coffin to decorate the coffin to keep the spirit. Outside the house ants do not care Donglin grief, wow wow screaming people upset. Donglin in a fit of pique, poured boiling water on the ants, who knew that caused great trouble. The earth broke the sound of frogs, the sun is red like fire, the drought is so dry that the earth is cracked. Later, Bluto and Mlojia said ant crutch is not a mortal thing, she is the sky of the heavenly Leiba's heavenly daughter, she called the genius of the day rain, must be given to her to accompany her, please ant crutch back to the village for the New Year, this is the ant crutch festival origin. Another story says, ant abduction is the son of the King of Thunder, was sent to earth as an angel, he called the King of Thunder to give rain on earth, so people are very grateful to him, dead mourning, such as honoring the mother. These legends, are and ant crutch is the Zhuang totem related.
March 3
March 3 is the Qingming Festival, but also the Zhuang song festival. As the Qingming Festival is influenced by the Han Chinese. But there are also Zhuang people in March 13, 14, 26 over the Qingming Festival tomb-sweeping, and the Han are very different. The Zhuang people attach great importance to sweeping, when the whole family goes out, bringing five-color plates, meat, incense, candles, paper streamers to the ancestors' graves to make offerings and perform worship. Mountains and fields from time to time came the sound of firecrackers, a long time ceaselessly, the hillock, forest groves, white soul streamers in the top of the grave on the bamboo poles fluttering, resulting in a mysterious and solemn atmosphere. Zhuang customs, offerings must be eaten in the wild, there are places to throw away do not eat, superstition that, bring home will attract ghosts into the door.
Many places at the same time as the cleaning, but also held a grand song Wei, is the March 3 Song Festival. In recent years, the people of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region *** this day as a festival of the Zhuang people. 1984 in Nanning held the first song festival, more than 700 singers from various counties on stage, so that the March of the Yongcheng into a sea of song and dance. Even foreign friends also traveled across the ocean to share the joy of the festival with the Zhuang people. During this period, often accompanied by sacrifices to the gods, playing jiao-festival and other superstitious activities, but more attractive is to grab the firecrackers, theater, acrobatics, martial arts performances, dance colorful dragons, dance colorful phoenixes, singing Caicha ring poetry and other colorful and rich cultural and recreational activities, and in recent years has added a new play, film, ball games. But young men and women ...... >>
What are the festivals of the Zhuang people, in what months and on what days, and what is the way of celebration? 1, March 3
On the day of March 3 of the lunar calendar, families make five-color glutinous rice, dye colorful eggs, kill chickens and ducks, drink to celebrate, and take different ways to celebrate this festival, some places are even more grand than the Spring Festival.
2. Spring Festival
is the most important festival of the year for the Zhuang people. It is celebrated for three days from the 30th day of the Lunar New Year to the first and second days of the first month of the year, ****. During the Spring Festival, in addition to visiting friends and relatives, young men and women go to participate in songs, playing gyro, dancing, ball games, theater and other recreational and sports activities.
3, gyro festival
The time is from the old calendar year New Year's Eve two or three days before the New Year's Eve to the sixteenth day of the first month, which lasted more than half a month. It is celebrated by a competition to play gyro.
4, Longduan Festival
The traditional festival of the Zhuang people in and around Funing County, Wenshan, Yunnan. The Longduan Festival starts on the 25th day of the third month of the lunar calendar and lasts for three days. The girls put on the corner, cuffs set with silver rows and embroidered with lace patterns of collarless slash blouse and batik tunic, wearing Zhuang brocade chest pocket, feet wearing embroidered shoes, each flower clusters, beautiful. The handsome young men meet the girls and sing and dance until sunset. There are still people who can follow the girl into the village to continue the song.
5, eat Li Festival
Longzhou County, Guangxi, Pingxiang City, a unique festival of the Zhuang people. It is held on the 30th day of the first month. During the festival, people dance lions, play dragon lanterns, sing and dance, lively.
6, Yabai Festival
Fu Ning County, Yunnan Province, Peeling Ai town of Ning, Suowu area of the Zhuang, the day of the rabbit in April every year, we have to kill a cow, a mouthful of pigs, two chickens and forty-eight fish, to Yabai mountain to go to the sacrifice of the Zhuang women Yabai.
7, the Zhuang New Year
The Zhuang New Year to the lunar calendar in December for the first year, the end of November for the New Year's Eve. Within ten days of the New Year for the festival activities, villages and towns beat gongs and drums, playing the flute and qin, and enjoying themselves. Friends and relatives visit each other to congratulate, young people play the mountains and villages to sing songs for fun. Some also around the brotherhood of national gift, near neighboring Miao, Dong, Yao, Han and other ethnic groups, come to visit, some also sounding guns, drums, blowing the sheng, said congratulations, everywhere joyful, full of national unity atmosphere.
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has those legal holidays? Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region legal holidays are "March 3".
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region *** Standing Committee was informed that: every year the lunar calendar "March 3" will become a public holiday in Guangxi, the autonomous region of two days off. Specific vacation time, will be determined by the autonomous region *** Office at the beginning of each year after the announcement.
December 23, 1949, the State Council issued a "National Annual and Memorial Day Holidays", which provides that: "All minority customary holidays, by the various minority populations of the local people ***, at the discretion of the custom of the various ethnic groups, the date of the holiday." Article 4 of the Measures for Holidays on National Yearly Festivals and Commemorative Days, newly revised by the State Council on December 11, 2013, which was adopted at the 198th executive meeting of the State Council on December 7, 2007, stipulates, "Holidays customarily observed by ethnic minorities shall be prescribed by the local people *** of the areas in which the ethnic minorities reside, in accordance with the customs of the ethnic minorities, as to the dates of holidays. nationalities' customs, stipulate the dates of vacation."
"March 3 of the Zhuang nationality" is not only an important festival of the Zhuang nationality in Guangxi, but also an important festival of the local Han, Yao, Miao and other nationalities, which is no less important than the Spring Festival in the minds of the people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi. Every year, more than 27 million people of the 12 ethnic groups in Guangxi take different ways to celebrate "March 3 of the Zhuang", accounting for 54% of the total population of the region.
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