Guangxi March 3 Song Wei Festival is set in the Song Dynasty, thousands of years ago. It is reported that the Song people with the "Taiping Huan Yu Ji", there have been Zhuang "men and women in full dress? Gathering for songs". After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the development of Zhuang songs was especially prominent, and the songs were very popular. To the Qing Dynasty, the formation of hundreds of people to thousands of people gathered to sing a large-scale "song market".
Guangxi song dike festival on the third of March customs
The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as "March 3", is the day of the Zhuang people held song dike. Therefore, it is also known as the Song and Dance Festival (Song and Dance Festival).
"Song Wei", is a foreigner to the Zhuang set the Chinese name, the Zhuang language called "Huanlong Pangdang", meaning to the field to sing the song; some places called "Huanwu Dare", means out of the cave to sing the song. Because the Zhuang people in the past rarely built temples, idols are placed in caves. Cave is a sacred place, must be kept solemn, only to the cave outside to sing freely.
"Now Guangxi has become a sea of songs, are the three sisters personally passed on" the lyrics of the song circulated in Guangxi, the origin of the Zhuang Song Wei Festival, and the song fairy Liu Sanjie has a close relationship.
It is said that Liu Sanjie is a person of the Tang Dynasty, born in Guangxi Yishan a fisherman's family. She loved to sing songs since she was a child, and as an adult, she looked beautiful and became a songwriter. Nearby, a rich man Mo Huairen wanted to rob Liu Sanjie to marry him, Liu Sanjie swore to die, Mo Huairen asked someone to throw Liu Sanjie into the river. Liu San Jie drifted downstream to Liuzhou, where she was fortunately rescued and lived under the Yu Feng Mountain. When the townspeople heard the news, they rushed to learn the song. She later married a young hunter and has been passing on her songs here ever since. When Mo Huairen learned of this, he colluded with the government and threw Liu Sanjie and her husband and wife into the Little Dragon Pool at the bottom of Fish Peak Mountain. In the middle of the night, the moon and stars, when the townspeople salvaged the two of them, suddenly a gust of wind, only to see Liu Sanjie and the young hunter riding on the back of a fish, singing while taking off in the air. Since then, people said that Liu Sanjie had become an immortal, and called Liu Sanjie the Singing Immortal. Later generations of people in order to commemorate the song of the fairy, will be in every year on the third day of the third lunar month, Liu Sanjie "immortal" day, singing songs for three days and three nights, the song of the dike was formed.
Every Song Wei period, young men and women will put on the holiday dress, gathered in the wilderness or bamboo forest grassy slopes of the mountain impromptu duet, each other dish answer, singing one after another. In the song market, hard-working and intelligent Zhuang people, created a rich and colorful mountain songs, so that this traditional national festival is full of fascinating rhythms.
Guangxi's March 3 activities have their own characteristics
Han Deming, former vice president of the Guangxi Institute of Ethnic Culture and Arts, said that all parts of Guangxi have their own characteristics. For example, Wuming will hold a special local folk rituals, if you want to feel the Zhuang people over the "March 3" special rituals and celebrations, this is a good choice. In addition, Liuzhou, a long history of Yu Feng song dike, since the Tang Dynasty, every holiday, Yu Feng mountain, small dragon pool side, people's square, there are folk singers spontaneous companion singing songs, and attracted a large number of onlookers to join, the scene of joy and lively, a lot of the old songs are also because of the existence of the song dike can be preserved and inherited.
Sanjiang Dong snatch firecrackers also has a history of hundreds of years, every year, "March 3", the village will begin to organize the snatch firecrackers. Firecracker is a red cloth (or red silk) wrapped around the small iron ring, will be placed on the top of the iron cannon, and then ignite the cannon, the small iron ring rushed into the air, to be "firecracker" landing, the intended personnel that is to scramble to grab the firecracker and sent to the designated location for the winners. Snatch the flower cannon is equivalent to snatch the "first prize", meaning good luck and happiness, the winner can also get a pig, sheep, red eggs, wine and mirror screen and other incentives; flower cannon sub head cannon, two cannon, three cannon, some places there are four cannons, five cannons, snatch the firecracker is limited to men, often a family, a family, a village team, but also can be free across the village team.
Jingxi, Debao, Napo and other places of the "March 3" is mainly to worship. Lu Xiaoqin, an associate professor at the School of Literature of Guangxi University for Nationalities, said that on the day of March 3, people in these places will get up early in the morning and bring sacrificial offerings to worship their ancestral tombs, and then at noon, they will choose to get together in front of one of their ancestral tombs for a meal, "This kind of gathering is very cordial, and it can increase the sense of identity and family feeling between them. sense of identity and family." Lu Xiaoqin said. In terms of food and drink, the local sticky rice comes in both four and five colors, and some villages have a custom of placing a fried egg on top of each bowl of sticky rice.
What are the customs and traditions of the various ethnic groups on March 3
1. Han Chinese
The Han Chinese celebrated March 3 with rituals and sacrifices, and later developed folk activities such as playing by the river, meeting men and women, and enjoying flowers. The festival is also a day for men and women to go out for a walk, and is also known as China's Valentine's Day and Daughter's Day.
2, Li
Annual "March 3", just when the mountain flowers, red cotton color, betel nut fragrance, Li men and women will be dressed in costumes, with mountain orchid rice wine, bamboo rice and rice dumplings, from all directions to the assembly point to worship the ancestors.
3, Miao
March 3 is the Valentine's Day of the Miao, a day when Miao girls in full dress come to a fixed place to show their beauty. Young men also wait for this day, they have the opportunity to meet many girls, and they sing and dance and talk about love.
4, Zhuang
Strong people over the March 3 most of the song is to catch the dike, set up a song shed, held a song, young men and women sing, touch the egg, throw the embroidered ball. Legend has it that the day of March 3 is still in honor of the Zhuang song fairy Liu Sanjie and the formation of the festival, so it is also known as the Song Fairy Festival.
5, Yao
Also known as the "Ganba Festival", Ganba Festival is the Yao collective fishing and hunting festivals, the day just dawned, the Yao adult men holding bows and crossbows, muskets, with the poa at dawn on the fishing and hunting journey, leaving the women will be at home to kill chickens, ducks, glutinous rice, prepare for the festival of abundant food.