On the Si Festival is an ancient Han traditional festival, commonly known as the third month of March, the festival in the Han Dynasty, previously designated as the first half of March Si Day, and later fixed in the summer calendar on the third day of March. On the Si? Not only is the festival to get rid of evil spirits, also known as the daughter of the festival, the daughters at this time to perform the rite of passage.
The origin of the festival has a long history: in ancient times to the first of March Si Day for? On the sixth day of the month, the first day of the month of March. The Han Dynasty was designated as a holiday. Is the month on the Si, officials and people are Jie (clean) in the East Stream on the water, said that washing and cleansing, to go to the hostile disease (disease), for the big Jie? Later added the content of water banquets, trekking. In ancient times, March three very important festivals, but unfortunately, after the Song Dynasty, strict etiquette, men and women are not allowed to meet privately, the festival is declining, and ultimately forgotten. The first time I saw this, it was a very important event for me.
Festival of the water: If the Chongyang Festival can be called a festival on the mountaintop, then on the Si Festival can be called a festival on the water. This festival is on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the main content is to bathe in the water to get rid of bad luck. When the twilight of spring, the wind and the sun warm, officials and people, gathered at the water's edge, water in the body, trekking in the wild, have a life of love.
The Analects of Confucius and several of his students bathed in the water of Yishui in the late spring, wearing spring clothes, which is a trace of this holiday custom. The earliest record of this festival is a document from the early Western Han Dynasty, Zheng Xuan's note to the Zhou Rites: ? The yearly purification, now March on the Si, such as the water and so on.? After the embellishment of cultural celebrities, the festival has a refined tone.
Customs of the festival: wearing Chinese costumes, dancing "dance", kite flying, bathing, trekking, sacrificing to the heir of the sacrifice
Goblet, legend: ? The festival is also associated with Chinese calligraphy. It is also associated with Chinese calligraphy. In 353 A.D., the festival was celebrated in the city's capital. The festival was held in 353 A.D. The first is the "Lanting Preface", which was written by Wang Xizhi and 41 friends of the Lanting Party in Shaoxing, and since then, the "Lanting Preface" has been a popular favorite. Literati gatherings, goblets of water? It has become a story for the ages.
On the Si Festival food custom: the ancients had the custom of floating eggs beg son. In the picnic will be boiled eggs, duck eggs, etc. into the river, so that it downstream, waiting for the people in the downstream, from the water to eat, so-called? Qu water floating vegetarian eggs? ; some people also put red dates into the rapids, called? The curved water floats Jiangzhao. It's hard to peel a hot, freshly cooked egg, so it's a fun idea to float it in the water for a while and then eat it. Eggs are a symbol of fertility in any culture. The Zhuang, Dong and other ethnic groups also have the custom of eating colored eggs on March 3rd. During the Tang Dynasty, March 3 was still an important national festival. Every time this festival was held, the emperor would feast on his ministers at the Qujiang River, the so-called ? The so-called "Qu Shui Liu Goblet". , since the Song Dynasty after the gradual disappearance of many of the traditions of the festival.
Second Love Festival / March 3? March 3? is a traditional festival of the Li and Miao people, also known as? Love Festival? This is a traditional festival for the Li and Miao people to mourn their ancestors, celebrate the newborn, praise life and sing the praises of heroes and love. Because it is celebrated on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, it is called ? March 3?
About Li? March 3? Legend, it is said that in ancient times, mankind suffered a major flood, a man and a woman to hide in the gourd, with the flood drifted to the few deserted Hainan Island. In order to reproduce mankind, in March 3 that day, the two sing to show their love for married, reproduced the Li descendants. The descendants of the Li people have been commemorating their ancestor's beautiful marriage and the achievements of the Li people in various ways every March 3rd.
Customs: Half a month before the festival, men from all villages are invited to hunt in the mountains, and the hunted goods are salted and dried, to be used in the festival. The festival is held in the presence of the village elders, who host the worship ceremony. Unmarried men and women bring glutinous rice and sweet wine and dumplings to the field, singing songs about love. The rest of the people go to the river to fish, cooking, eating and drinking, celebrating the festival. At night, people sit around the bonfire, swinging, drilling fire rings, wrestling, dancing and other recreational activities.
Hainan Li and Miao traditional festival March 3, in addition to a wealth of cultural and recreational activities, during the period there is a whole cow, fish tea, mountain orchid wine, bamboo rice, three-color rice and other March 3 Li and Miao traditional food tasting.
Three Ghosts Festival / March 3? Jianghuai, Jiangnan area, every year on the third day of the third lunar month known as the Ghost Festival, legend has it that on this day the ghosts appear. At night, every family in every room of the house firecrackers, to scare away the ghosts, ghosts.
Four Song Wei Festival / March 3March 3 of the lunar calendar, also known as the "March 3 Song Festival" or "March Song Wei", is the traditional song festival of the Zhuang people. The Zhuang people have several regular folk songs gatherings every year, such as the 15th of the first month, March 3rd, April 8th, August 15th, etc., of which March 3rd is the grandest.
About the origin of the Song Wei Festival, the Zhuang folk have many beautiful and moving legends. Some people say that in ancient times there was a pair of lovers, are famous singers, often sing songs to express mutual affection. However, due to the bondage of feudalism, they could not be married, so they were desperate to both die of martyrdom. People in order to commemorate the couple, so in the first three days of March to sing to mourn.
It is also said that in the Tang Dynasty, the Zhuang people out of a song fairy, named "Liu Sanjie". She is very clever, often using songs to celebrate labor and love, exposing the evils of the rich, the rich hate and afraid of her, so one year on the third of March, by Liu Sanjie in the mountains cutting firewood, the rich sent people to cut off the mountain vines, so that she fell off the cliff and died. The descendants in order to commemorate the song of the fairy, will be in Liu Sanjie was killed on the day of the gathering to sing, a song is three days and three nights, song Wei this formation.
1. Song Festival generally lasts two or three days each time, the location of the open space not far from the village, with bamboo and cloth built into a song shed, reception of singers from outside the village. The songs are mainly performed by unmarried young men and women, but old people and children have come to watch and cheer. The small song dike has one or two thousand people, the big song dike up to tens of thousands of people.
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. People to the song dike on the race song, song; male and female youth through the song, if the two sides of the love, they will give each other tokens, that love. In addition, there are also throwing embroidered balls, touch colorful eggs and other interesting activities.
Throwing the embroidered ball is mainly entertainment, but also as a token of love. When a girl has a crush on a young man, she throws the embroidered ball to him. The Song Festival is an event of folk trade and the promotion of national culture.
2. Every family uses red, yellow, blue, purple and white rice cooked with tender green maple leaves and red orchid grass, people put a branch of maple leaves on the lintel and around the houses, put up cloth scaffolding at the end of the village, and set up five-color rice and other offerings under the cloth scaffolding, men, women, children and young people sing songs around the cloth scaffolding to catch up with the song, and the old people put the dyed hard-boiled eggs in a small mesh pocket and hang it on the chests of children, men, women, young people and children sing around the cloth scaffolding, and catch the song, and the old people put dyed hard-boiled eggs in small net pockets and hang them on the chests of children, men, women, young people and young people sing and catch the song. Male and female youth in the catch song pedantry, but also? Touching eggs. Touching the colorful eggs is to make fun of each other to enjoy, but also have the meaning of love.
Five other festivals / March 3March 3 Atlas Zhongxian, Sichuan and other places have? March will? March will be, held to commemorate the anti-enemy general Barmanzi's grand activities, is the day, the masses lift Barmanzi's idol parade around the city, followed by social fire team, play dragon lanterns, lion dance, family lanterns, firecrackers, lively and extraordinary. The traditional festival of many ethnic minorities in the south of China. Zhuang, more than in March 3 to catch the song Wei, set up a song shed, held a song, young men and women sing, touch the eggs, throw the embroidered ball, talk about love. It is said to be a festival formed in honor of Liu Sanjie, the song fairy of the Zhuang nationality, so it is also called Song Fairy Festival (see "March Song Wei Festival" below).
The Dong nationality holds many activities such as snatching firecrackers, bullfighting, horsefighting, singing and stepping on the hall, which is also known as "Firecracker Festival". also known as "Flower Cannon Festival". The Buyei people kill pigs and sacrifice to the god of society and the god of mountain on the festival, eat yellow glutinous rice, and all villages don't communicate with each other for three or four days. Yao ethnic group to March 3 for? Ganba Festival? is a collective fishing and hunting festivals, and will catch the wildlife fish distributed by household, *** enjoy the joy of harvest, after the clouds gathered in the square, singing and dancing, celebrating the festival. She ethnic group to March 3 for the birthday of the grain rice, families eat umi rice. The Li people call March 3? Fu Nianfu? The Li people call March 3 as "Fu Nian Fu", which is a celebration of the birthday of Gumi. Shanlan? (mountain dry valleys) and hunting harvest festival, but also young men and women are free to interact with the day, people call it love day. About its origin, there is a beautiful legend story.
Li, it is said that a long time ago, the seven fingers of the Ling area encountered a rare drought, people spend days like years. Early one morning, a young man named Yayin told everyone that he dreamed of a lark, to get rid of this disaster, we must climb to the top of the Five Fingers Mountain, blowing the nose to trap it. Yayin volunteered to climb to the top of Five Fingers Mountain, where he played his beloved nosejob. He blew for three days and three nights before a lark flew from the valley, and Yayin rushed to catch it. He chased it over a hillock, and at last Yayin took a good look at it and saw that the lark had turned into a very beautiful Li girl. The girl promised to go to the earth with Yayin to relieve the disaster. After the drought was lifted, he did not realize that he had angered the master of the mine. He sent his men to catch the girl, and when Yahin came, the two of them hid in a cave, and the master ordered his men to burn the cave with fire when suddenly dark clouds rolled, thunder, rock cracked and landslide, crushed the evil master and his men all to death. Yayin and Bailing girl turned into a pair of birds, flew up to the sky, the townspeople rushed to hear the news, seeing them off, dancing and singing excitedly, wishing them happiness and fulfillment. This day is the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, since this day has become a traditional festival of the Lai family.
March 3, is the more common Buyei traditional festival, commonly known as ? March 3? The source of the festival and the content of the activities, with different residential areas vary. Wudang District, Guiyang City, a new Fort Township area of the Buyi people will be? March 3? Also called? Sacrifice silkworms? which is commonly known as the "Earthworm Festival". The earth silkworms will be? Legend has it that in ancient times there was a crop farmer who found that every year after the spring sowing, there were many silkworms that would bite the seedlings to death. After repeated observation, he believed that the earthworms were put on the earth by the God of Heaven. Tianma? In order to avoid the young mu suffered from pests, he used many ways to sacrifice put are not effective. Later, he fried grain flowers to feed silkworms in the spring sowing, and the result preserved the seedlings. The news soon spread to the Buyei people near and far. This area of the Buyi in order to protect the crops, for a good harvest, in the three every year, the first three days, not moving on the sand Baogu flowers as offerings, three to five groups to the nearby hillside sacrifices? God of Heaven, Earthworms? , praying for God's blessing, do not ask the silkworms to bite the seedlings in the field, so that a good harvest. After the sacrifice, people walk along the field side of the earth side of singing songs, and put the bag of grain flowers scattered into the field. People believe that the sacrifice of the earthworms, both to make them confused, but also to seal their mouths, the field seedlings can be free from insect pests. Later, March 3 was designated as? Song Festival. The southern suburbs of Guiyang Buyei put? March 3? is called the "Fairy Song Festival". Fairy Song Festival. The content of the festival is more or less the same as that of Xinbao Township in Wudang District, but they use singing to pray to the gods of heaven to avoid disasters, and on this day young men and women go up to the mountains to sing songs to each other. Legend has it that whoever sings the most melodious song, the singing fairy in the sky will give you a golden voice when he hears it. You labor to where, where you will hear the golden voice in singing, pests hear this voice will not dare to hurt the crops.
? March 3rd? is a festival of the Buyi people in Luodian County, Guizhou Province. It is a festival for the Buyei people in Luodian County, Guizhou Province. This day to two families or clans collectively to the ancestral graves cemetery hanging green, killing pigs and chickens, set up wine and vegetables and flower glutinous rice offerings. After sweeping the graves, people have recreation, hunting and picnic on the graveyard hill. The area around Hongshui River in the south of Luodian County, ? March 3rd? is also known as the Maple Leaf Festival. Maple Leaf Festival. In the area of Damwang River in the north, due to the low temperature, the maple leaves are still small and fail to be colored, so March 13th is the Maple Leaf Festival. Maple Leaf Festival. On the day of the festival, people went to the mountains and fields to trek in the spring, children picked young maple leaves made into a ball to throw playing, women picked a few young maple leaves inserted in the bun. In addition, families dye glutinous rice in various colors and make flower glutinous rice. Young people go to the hillside to blow wooden leaves and sing mountain songs. If they meet a satisfactory opponent, they are invited to the Buyei village at night and sing songs all night long. At the end of the night, the host family gives the singers flower glutinous rice and chicken leg meat wrapped in banana leaves as a gift for the festival. The Buyei people in Wangmu County, Guizhou Province, have a legend that the third day of the third month is ? Cold Day? , eating dog meat can drive away the cold. There is a custom of treating a dog on this day.
Anlong County, Guizhou, part of the Buyi legend March 3 is the shadow? The god of the mountain? s birthday. People in order to avoid the God of the mountain released locusts hurt crops, to ensure a good harvest, the old custom of sweeping the village sacrifice God of the mountain. March 3rd? On this day, people to the village in front of the altar of the mountain god set up rooster, knife head and other offerings, but also to kill a dog, will be sprinkled with blood in the paper flag, paper horse and cottage in and out of the main road entrance to the stone, and then by the? Old Devil Gong? And then by the old devil male? and other personnel to carry the dog blood drenched in paper flag, paper horse to each household to sweep away demons and monsters. A bench should be set up at the entrance of each house, and a water bowl filled with water should be placed on the bench. Water Bowl and a bowl filled with gravel. Old Devil Gong? at the entrance of the house. Magic Sutra and playing a couple of "Nong Yang Gua". Nongyang Gua? Then, the rubble and stones were scattered to this house, the water bowl was splashed around, the bench in front of the gate was overturned, and the water bowl was buckled up, which meant that the devil had been swept away. Finally, to this inserted with dog blood on the paper flag, good on the paper horse, another to go to his home to sweep. The village households have finished sweeping,? Old Devil Gong? Mouth to the altar of the gods, the collection of sweeping demons and monsters focused on the suppression of the gods before, and then the whole village men at the altar of the gods on the spot will eat, known as? Accompanying the god to eat? The county's De lying town said? March 3rd? for? Catch the woolen cedar tree? It is also known as the Maosugi Song Festival. It is also known as the Maosugi Song Festival. It is a three-day festival with tens of thousands of participants. The Buyei people celebrate the March 3rd Festival, not necessarily on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. It is a certain law, for example, the Year of the Tiger is the first Tiger Day into the lunar calendar in March.