March 3 is a traditional festival of several ethnic groups in China:
I. March 3 on the lunar calendar is a traditional festival of several ethnic groups in China, of which the Zhuang is typical, in ancient times, young men and women of the Zhuang people gathered on the streets to sing songs and converge on the riverside to drink and feast. In the Zhuang legend, the third of March is the Zhuang ancestor Bluto birth date. The Han Chinese for the Festival, there are March 3 worship ancestors, March 3 worship Xuanyuan said.
Second, March 3 of the lunar calendar, not only is purely traditional Zhuang Song Festival, but also the Zhuang ancestor worship, worship Pangu, Bluto ancestor of the important days.
Three, the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is also the traditional festival of Guangxi Zhuang, Han, Yao, Dong, Miao and other ethnic groups. Song Festival is not only an event to promote national culture, but also an event of national economic exchanges. According to records, the festival has a history of thousands of years. The development of Zhuang songs is particularly prominent, the song will be very popular, in ancient times, young men and women gathered in the streets or riverside feasts and songs. To the Qing Dynasty, the formation of hundreds of people to thousands of people gathered to sing the large-scale "song Wei.
March 3 is a traditional festival of many ethnic groups in China, some of the March 3 ethnic festivals are introduced as follows:
One, the Zhuang
In 1984, the People's Government of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region formally designated the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar as a national festival of the Zhuang people --- "March 3".
In 1984, the People's Government of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region officially designated the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar as a national festival of the Zhuang people.
On March 3 in 2018, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region scheduled a three-day regional holiday on April 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 (the third, fourth and fifth days of the third lunar month), making up a five-day long vacation with the weekend.
"March 3" is one of the major festivals of the Zhuang people, and is the main manifestation of the traditional Luo and Yue cultures, collectively known as the "March 3" Song Wei. Currently in the Zhuang hometown of Nanning City, Guangxi Wuming County held six "March 3" song dike and Wuming Luo Yue Cultural Tourism Festival. Next to the song dike, vendors gathered, active civil trade, the nearby masses to catch the song dike people to provide housing and food, whether they know each other or not, are warmly received.
A larger song dike, dozens of miles around the young men and women have come to participate in the sea of people, singing one after another, very lively. Tianyang County's Qiaoye are traditionally larger song dike. People to the song dike on the race song, enjoy the song; male and female youth through the song, if the two sides of the love for each other, will give each other tokens, thought the love. In addition, there are also throwing embroidered balls, touching colored eggs and other interesting activities.
Second, the Dong
The festival is held to snatch the firecrackers, bullfighting, horsefighting, singing, stepping on the hall and other activities, also known as the "Firecracker Festival" production of yellow glutinous rice and so on.
The Dong family legend, the Dong family's original territory in ancient times was always in the blossoming of the tung tree for the rice-planting festival. But one year the tung tree did not blossom, the result of the wrong time, had to flee to the newspaper Jing area, in order to learn from past lessons, every March 3, 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, fighting horses, singing, stepping on the hall and other activities, 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 basket full of onions and garlic, and washed them with water at the spring. They are lined up in a long line, standing on the water's edge, shyly waving their baskets, quietly looking up the hill, waiting for their lovers to ask for them. At this time, the hillside has long been full of people, including the girl's family, to see which in the end the scion of the basket away.
A group of young men, dressed in neat green cloth lapel tops, walked up the water's edge path one by one, amidst the good-natured laughter of the people. At this point, the young men ask for a basket from the girl of their choice, and when they get one, they are greeted with a chorus of "oohs and aahs", and the young man can make a quiet agreement with the girl about when to return the basket.
The young man who can't get a basket will attract the mocking sound of "boo boo" from onlookers, and then sing to each other on the hillside next to the fortress to continue to search for their soulmates, and continue to sing until dawn.
This day at noon, people concentrated in the center of the village on the field of song and dance.
On the fourth day of March, a grand masquerade ball is held. On the afternoon of the fifth, a farewell ceremony is held for guests from neighboring villages.
Three, Yao
In the festival to kill pigs to sacrifice the god of the community, the god of the mountain, eat yellow glutinous rice, the villages within three or four days of each other. Yao to March 3 for the "Ganba Festival", is the collective fishing and hunting festivals, and will catch the wildlife fish distributed by household, *** enjoy the joy of harvesting, after the clouds gathered in the square, singing and dancing, celebrating the festival.
Legend has it that a long time ago, beasts often in and out of Yao villages hurt people, damage crops, in order to defend the homeland, the village of the national hero Pangu rate of warriors on the mountain to guard the hunt, kill the beasts, Pangu unfortunate antelope antelope with horns top broken abdomen and died on the spot, that day is the first three days of March of the lunar calendar.
In order to commemorate the national hero Pangu, the Yao people will be the first three days of March every year to locate the commemoration of Pangu's day, named "March 3," also known as "Ganba Festival," that is, every year, "March 3," before the Yao people, the Yao people will be the first day to commemorate Pangu's day, named "March 3," also known as "Ganba Festival. Before the "March 3", Yao men are a week in advance to the old forest hunting, hunting beasts, fish and shrimp in the river, and baked into the dry bar to bring home.
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 used to pay tribute to Pangu, year after year, has been passed down to today.
Past "March 3", the Yao people put down the hands of the agricultural work of the collective rest day, in order to pay tribute to Pangu, that is to say, the women rest to do sewing, the men read the scriptures, drinking, entertainment, the girls and young men, but the village side of the barren mountain, the longitudinal forests of the song, talk about love, play.
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