1, "March 3" festival, also known as the sacrifice of the dragon ("dragon" is the meaning of the gods) festival, is one of the most important traditional festivals of the Zhuang people in Qubei, has a history of thousands of years.
2. Since ancient times, the Zhuang compatriots in Qubei have been celebrating the March 3 Festival on the first snake day of March in the lunar calendar every year. During the festival to carry out activities such as sacrificing the dragon, sacrificing the small white dragon and sacrificing ancestors. The purpose is to advocate the clan to respect the mountains and forests, protect the woods, protect water, and live in harmony with nature.
3, the first round of the first month of the lunar calendar every year is the first day of the Dragon Festival for the first month of the Dragon Festival Zhai God (Zhai God equivalent to the Han Chinese God of the mountains and land God) days. The public offering is a pig, which is killed and placed on a tree platform in a kneeling position.
4, a man from each family to participate in the public ceremony, each person will be a bowl of three-color glutinous rice and a handful of incense to the officiating priest to offer to the dragon platform, and then bowed to worship. After the worship, they drink wine and eat, during which they are free to sing prayers for the gods.
Customs on the third day of the third month:
Eating eggs boiled with water chestnuts
On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, there is the custom of eating eggs boiled with water chestnuts, which, according to the old people, can be eaten throughout the year without pain in the waist and legs and headaches. The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the day when the Han Chinese welcome the souls of their ancestors, honor them by eating eggs, and hope to dip into their spirits.
Flying kites
The people of Jiangnan have had the custom of flying kites at Qingming since ancient times. Shanghai proverbs: "February 2, rubbing hemp thread, March 3, kite flying" and: "Yangliuqing, kite flying." Folk also said that the kite will be sent to the sky, the line will be cut, let it drift away, will be a year of illness and worry away.