Lianshan has a unique Zhuang flavor. Zhuang people are born to sing, the movie "Liu Sanjie" fully demonstrated this, the so-called "go out three steps to start singing", Lianshan people love to use song to express their feelings, feelings, joy or distress. The architecture, festivals and wedding customs of the Zhuang family have their own distinctive ethnic characteristics.
The county has Jinshan Cultural Square, Lianshan Cultural Square, libraries, cultural centers, museums, youth palace and other venues, run by ethnic singing and dancing troupes; towns and villages have cultural stations, cultural rooms (farmhouse). Plaza culture, sending plays to the countryside, sending movies to the countryside, sending books to the countryside and other activities are carried out in depth, and the cultural life of the masses is rich and colorful. Folk and ethnic arts organization and development, cultural heritage protection in an orderly manner, has published "collection of folk songs", "Selected Folk Literature Works", "Ethnic and Folk Literature and Arts Collection" and other books, "small long encouragement", "snatch the firecracker", "bombing the fire lion" declared to become a provincial and municipal intangible cultural heritage. Discovered four Neolithic sites such as Jitian Turtleback Mountain, the collection of cultural relics amounted to more than 1,700 pieces, to determine the Taibao West Gate House, Matoushan Cliff Rock Carvings and Castle Ruins, Eagle Pass Revolutionary Ruins and other 10 county-level cultural relics protection units. It is the hometown of Chinese folk culture and art (firecrackers). Radio and television network renovation is in full swing, and the coverage is gradually expanding. The "New Year's Eve Song" is a mass song competition in Shangshuai Township, Zhuang District, Lianshan County. As the name suggests, the meaning of "New Year's Eve Song" is that every year, from the night of New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival, people from all villages, men, women and children, can participate in the song contest by the creek or on the riverbank. There is an agreed time, there is not about the start, generally a village as a party, there are several villages united as a party, all parties are not willing to show weakness, are invited to the experienced, knowledgeable "song master", "song Jiao" pressure, in the side of the teaching singing or advice. Singers are generally a pair, can be a man and a woman, can also be two men and two women, requiring the two voices to be in tune. Singing, two people standing side by side together, each with a finger by the ear, amplify the throat singing, so that the other side of the river to hear clearly. Singing the New Year's Eve song does not specify which party first sing ask, such as the other side sings the answer can not be answered, ask the party also took the initiative to sing the answer to tell the other side. But because both sides are not convinced of defeat, so it is often sung late into the night, and even overnight, there are several consecutive days and nights of singing, the more people sing the more, the larger the scale of the side of the neighboring towns and villages of the singers also heard to participate.
New Year's Eve song sing-along, the content of the main knowledge song (such as split words, guessing, riddles, counting, etc.) is the main, there is also a large part of the random and spontaneous miscellaneous songs. New Year's Eve songs are mostly sung in high tones, with a certain format and rhythm, neat text structure, a lot of pi Xing, high and pleasant voice, melodious and distinctive. Such as (New Year's Eve Song): "New Year, New Year, New Year Celebration of the New Year, reading under is Kong precisely Confucius, singing precisely Liu San Yin." Spring Festival
The Spring Festival is the grandest festival of the year, during the first to fifteenth day of the first month, the Zhuang people visit friends and relatives during the day, and at night they organize cultural and recreational activities, including the "Song Hall Night", in which men and women are on one side of a fire and sing songs and drums, and go on a tour of villages and villages.
Lunar New Year's Eve
Every year on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival night townships have "fire lion dance" activities, in the vibration of the day of the sound of firecrackers, the lion dancers take turns, the scene is spectacular.
The Plowing Festival
February 2 is the Plowing Festival of the Zhuang people, and every family makes mochi for the festival, which is an omen of a smooth plowing and a good harvest in the coming year. Zhuang parents clad in straw raincoat, head hat, rolled up pants legs, bare feet, holding a bowl of soup patties, to the field to wish "plowing smoothly, a good harvest throughout the year", in this festival, there is a guest dinner does not stay overnight custom. It means that if the guests stay overnight, the crops in the mountains will be spoiled by animals. Yao people, on the other hand, take the patties to the ground and stick them on bamboo poles for the birds to eat, and will the birds to stop eating the seeds in the ground in the spring sowing.
April 8
April 8
Anciently known as "Longhua Hui", commonly known as the Ox King's Birthday, is a major festival of the Zhuang people. On this day, the Zhuang family door, cattle pen are inserted with leaf maple branches, plow oxen free, feast relatives and friends, very lively. And cook yellow, black two-color glutinous rice to feed yellow, buffalo, people also grab food. If there is a child in the family is weak and sick, they will carry him into the cattle pen to eat, in order to show that the children can be as rough as cattle, fast growth and robust.
Yao Festival
The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the Dragon Boat Festival, and Lianshan's over-the-hill Yao do not call it the Dragon Boat Festival, they call it the Yao Festival. On this day, Yao compatriots in addition to killing chickens and ducks, eat rice dumplings, but also in the doorway of each house to hang kudzu vine, in order to ward off evil spirits.
Seventh month incense
The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year is the traditional festival of Lianshan Zhuang "July incense", this festival Zhuang family members do not invite guests to eat, but to go down to the river to play in the water, bathing. Legend has it that on this day, the Milky Way water in the sky and the streams on earth converge, and the water flowing in the river is holy water, which is very beneficial to human beings, and people can anti-inflammatory, de-toxicize, drive away evil spirits, moisturize their skin, make them look beautiful, do not give birth to heat rash, and get sick less often, and prolong their lives. On this day, the girls and young women of the Zhuang family used to jump into the river around noon to wash their hair with holy water, take a bath, and play with water with their hands. It is said that the water on this day is used to make vinegar, and the vinegar is fragrant and durable, so it is called "July Fragrance" (also known as "Long Festival").On September 23, 2006, the first "July Fragrance" Water Playing Festival of the Zhuang Family was successfully held in Guangdong (Lianshan).
The first "July Fragrance" festival of the Zhuang family in Guangdong (Lianshan) was successfully held on September 23, 2006.
September 9
The Zhuang called the fire ban festival, engaged in the "send the fire god" activities, this day, farmers in the wilderness with straw or thatched straw huts, to the evening of each family one person with a torch to burn the house, and then "yell" a dark home, meaning to send the fire god to heaven, and then the first time to go home in the dark. The idea is to send the fire god to the sky to avoid fire.
In addition to the above large-scale festivals, June 6 of the Taste of the New Festival, the Zhuang people pack two or three city pounds of heavy aiqing brown, to the field to sacrifice to the gods, the Zhuang language is called "worship Juana", praying for the field of the gods to cover a good harvest. July 14th of the Zhuang visiting relatives festival, August 15th Mid-Autumn Festival, October 16th Yao playing song hall and so on. Lianshan folk traditional sports have martial arts, snatch firecrackers, chase lanterns and children and youth sports games "hen hatching nest" and other projects.
Snatch the firecrackers
Snatch the firecrackers, commonly known as the cannon, is the traditional sports of the Zhuang people held a temple fair. Participating teams of 8 to 10 people each, the game, an iron wreath of 8 centimeters in diameter, into the gunpowder cannon, and then ignite the cannon, the wreaths will be sent up to the sky. Wreaths fall, the two sides of the players that fierce grab or hide or throw, the atmosphere is tense and enthusiastic, in the prescribed time, to be the referee sounded a gong or whistle to declare the end of the game, the wreath in the hands of the party that party is the victory. The wreath belongs to the victorious party to keep, the game back to the gun club for the game, help name "return gun".
Chasing lanterns
Chasing lanterns is also a traditional sports program of the Zhuang people, the activity time in the Spring Festival sunny weather. Sky lanterns, also known as "Kongming lanterns", first woven with bamboo wattles into the bottom diameter of 0.33-1 meters, 1-2 meters high cylindrical or conical frame, and then paste the paper closely, like a rocket, hanging inside a wire knotted fire blue for relaxation of firewood burning. The production of sky lanterns, the requirements of the upper and lower proportional, left and right balance, lightweight, so that the sky lanterns rise smoothly, conical sky lanterns should also set up a rudder. When the lanterns are released, the pine firewood inside the fire is ignited, and people play gongs and drums and blow suona with great enthusiasm. Sky lanterns gradually rise to the sky, when the bottom of the firecrackers, people will begin to chase, regardless of the "sky lanterns" floating to wherever or how far, are in hot pursuit to first grab the sky lanterns for the win. When the lamp was carried back, people also beat the gongs and drums to blow the oboe to welcome it.
Hen Hatching
Hen Hatching
Hen Hatching, known as "baa the put yo" in Zhuang, is a sports activity for Zhuang children and teenagers. The number of participants in the game is usually six to eight. Before the game begins, first on the ground to draw a circle about 0.5-1 meters in diameter as a "chicken nest", "chicken nest" put 7-8 fist-sized stones as "eggs". Then, draw lots to choose a person to play the "hen". At the beginning of the game, pretending to be a "hen" first in the "chicken nest" on all fours to support the ground, in the shape of a "hen hatching eggs", the task is to guard the "egg "The task is to guard the eggs from being snatched away by others. The rest of the people in the "chicken nest" around the "egg". For those who come to "snatch the eggs", if they are kicked by the "hen" to any part of the body, they cannot come back to "snatch the eggs". Playing "hen" in the foot kicking, hands can not leave the ground, not allowed to support out of the "chicken nest" outside the kick. A round of the end of the game, play "hen" can keep "eggs" is not snatched up victory, snatch light is a failure.