March 3 Song Festival Traditional festival of the Zhuang people. Also known as the March Song Wei. Guangxi is known as the "sea of songs", the Zhuang people have several regular
annual folk song gatherings, including the first three days of March in the lunar calendar for the grand. On this day, families make five-color glutinous rice, dye red eggs, and celebrate the festival,
which lasts for two or three days. There are specific venues for the Song Festival in different places. Generally, they are on the slopes of mine fields. Some of the bamboo and cloth
Pi built into a singing hut, receiving singers from other villages. Participants in the unmarried young men and women as the main, the elderly and children also come to play and cheer. In the song
polder around, vendors gathered, folk trade is active. Larger song dike, dozens of miles around thousands of men, women and children have come
to participate in the sea of people, singing, lively. Famous song dikes are Bama's Panyang Riverside, Du'an's Cotton Mountain,
Tianyang's Qiaoye, Tiantong's Yangyan, Yishan's Xiajian, Liuzhou's Yufeng Mountain, etc. People go to the song dikes to compete in the race. People go to the song dike on the song competition, song appreciation;
Male and female youth song to love, love for each other will be given to the token, thought the love. In addition, there are embroidered ball throwing, touching colorful eggs, perform Zhuang
theatre and other recreational activities. The Song Festival is not only an event of ethnic culture, but also an event of ethnic economic exchanges. In order to promote the national culture,
In 1984, the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region organized the "March 3" Song Festival, singers from all over Guangxi gathered in Nanning, and all the brothers and sisters of all nationalities in the country and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao as well as foreign friends came to sightseeing, which was an unprecedented event. 1985, the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
put the "March 3" Song Festival into the hands of the people of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The "March 3" was designated as a festival of culture and art.
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The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar for China's traditional festival, and "on the Si Festival", "Qingming Festival", "Treading Green Festival" and so on have a close connection. In the southwestern ethnic minority areas, it is also an important festival. In the southwestern ethnic minority areas, and is an important song and dance festivals, including the Zhuang as the most. Because of the activities of the day to the song-based, so also known as "Song Wei Festival", "song of Granny Festival" and so on, also referred to as "Song Festival". Zhuang about the origin of March 3rd has a variety of legends, there are said to be a pair of young men and women singing love, but due to the bondage of feudal rituals failed to combine, both martyred, later generations of young people in order to commemorate them and the formation of the Song Festival. The most widespread legend is about Liu Sanjie's: Liu Sanjie sang beautifully in the south, was worshiped as the song fairy, the wealthy hated her song to reveal the crime, while she went up to the mountain to cut firewood, sent people to cut off the mountain vines, so that Sanjie fell into the valley and died, and the descendants will be in the first three days of March of her death singing for three days and three nights in honor of the Song Fairy. The custom of the Zhuang people to sing songs has been recorded in the Taiping Huan Yu Ji of the Song Dynasty. The place where the Zhuang people sing to each other is called Geping, "Huanlongdong" in Zhuang. It means to sing in the field, also called "Huanwu dare", that is, to sing outside the cave. During the period, people with maple leaves, yellow flowers, March flowers cooked and dyed glutinous rice, in order to pay tribute to Liu Sanjie, and their own consumption, it is said that eating this can be as prosperous as flowers and trees. Songs when men and women were three or five groups of teams, the two sides selected that is the beginning of the song, the lyrics are mostly love songs, but from shallow to deep, involving a wide range of "talk about love" in a question and answer in the singing of real life, history and legends, and so on. In the old days, most of the lyrics were improvised and sung. Nowadays, there are also those who utilize the inherited lyrics. The tunes are single and repetitive, but melodious and melodious. This song often starts in the evening, until dawn, there are also day and night continuous singing. In the song dike, young men and women also touch colored eggs, throwing embroidered balls and other customs. Now, the Zhuang March 3 activities are still very prevalent, there are government-organized, more is the people's spontaneous. Now the scale of the old particularly large, people such as the sea, songs such as tide, spectacular.