The origin of March 3 in Guangxi is to honor Liu Sanjie.
Legend has it that at the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was a woman named Liu Sanjie in Guangxi, who was good at singing mountain songs and had a melodious voice. Every year on March 3, she would sing in the mountains to convey her emotions to people and inspire them to fight. Over time, this festival has evolved into a traditional festival in Guangxi and an important cultural activity for the local people. Every year on March 3, mountain song contests, song and dance performances and other activities are held throughout Guangxi to honor Liu Sanjie and her mountain song culture.
Liu Sanjie is a real character, but for the real existence of Liu Sanjie period as well as the various aspects of the statement is also strange, some people say she is the emergence of Yizhou, some people say that he is from the emergence of the Luo Cheng each have their own way of saying that no one can confirm that Liu Sanjie in the end is born from what part of the world, can only be based on the ancients to stay words to guess.
Guangxi March 3rd customs are:
1, line song sitting sister
Song Wei welcome guests, thousands of people bamboo dance. "March 3" is the most important ethnic festival of the Zhuang people. Every "March 3", the Zhuang men and women will gather on the hillside like a dike to sing songs and carry out a series of cultural and sports activities with national characteristics, such as grabbing the firecrackers, playing drums and throwing embroidered balls. The "Flower Cannon" show ethnic charm, "singing and sitting on the sister" to write romantic.
2, eat hard-boiled eggs
"March 3, shepherd's purse hard-boiled eggs." Spring is the season to pick and eat chestnuts. Spring food shepherd's purse is also China's folk long-standing traditional customs. The Han Chinese have the custom of eating eggs boiled with ground vegetables on this day.
3, kill the pig
In the festival to kill the pig sacrifice society god, mountain god, eat yellow glutinous rice, the cottage within three or four months do not interact. Yao to three three for the "Chiba Festival", is the collective fishing and hunting festivals, and will be caught by the distribution of wild fish by household, *** enjoy the joy of harvesting, after the clouds gathered in the square, singing and dancing, celebrating the festival.