2020 Guangxi Zhuang March 3 is Thursday, March 26th. The lunar calendar time is the third day of March.
Guangxi Zhuang March 3, also known as the "Song Wei Festival", "Song Fairy Festival", more than held song Wei activities. Young men and women singing, throwing embroidered balls, expression of affection. Glutinous rice is eaten during the festival. Glutinous rice is also known as "flower rice" or "green fine rice", or "Hui Naan" in Zhuang. (It is the glutinous rice soaked in maple leaf juice, purple bluegrass juice, red grass juice, yellow flower juice, respectively, dyed black, purple, red, yellow, plus glutinous rice color and become, color and flavor.) It is one of the favorite foods of the Zhuang people, symbolizing good luck.
The third day of the third month 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. Legend has it that in honor of the Zhuang song fairy Liu Sanjie and the formation of the festival, it is also known as the "Song Fairy Festival". The Zhuang people come to sweep the graves on March 3, and usually steam the five-color glutinous rice on March 3. On this day, families make five-color glutinous rice, dye colorful eggs and celebrate the festival. They set up song booths and hold song festivals, where young men and women sing songs, touch eggs, throw embroidered balls, and talk about love. Song Festival generally lasts two or three days each time, the location in the open space not far from the village, with bamboo and cloth built into a song shed, receiving singers from outside the village. Singing to unmarried young men and women as the main, but the old man, children will come to the spectators to help. The small song dike has one or two thousand people, the big song dike up to tens of thousands of people. Next to the song dike, vendors gathered, active civil trade, the nearby masses to catch the song dike people to provide housing and food, whether they know each other or not, are warmly received. A larger song dike, dozens of miles around the young men and women come to participate in the sea of people, singing one after another, very lively. Tianyang County's Qiaoye are traditionally larger song dike. People to the song dike on the race song, enjoy the song; male and female youth through the song, if the two sides of the love for each other, will give each other tokens, thought the love. In addition, there are interesting activities such as throwing embroidered balls and touching colored eggs. Throwing embroidered balls is mainly for entertainment, but also as a token of love. When a girl has a crush on a young man, she throws the ball to him. Touching colored eggs is to make fun of each other and also has the meaning of betrothal. The Song Festival is an event for the people's trade, and also an event to promote national culture.
March 3 of Minorities
March 3 of the Tujia People
March 3 of the Tujia People is the Valentine's Day of the Tujia People. On the day of March 3, the Tujia people get together and use mountain songs as a matchmaker to betrothal by stepping on feet. The Dong ethnic group holds activities such as snatching firecrackers, bullfighting, horsefighting, singing songs and stamping, also known as the "Firecracker Festival". Other ethnic groups such as the Shui, Miao, Mulao and Maonan all have their own traditional March 3rd festival customs.
The third day of the third month of the Lunar Calendar of the Li people
The third day of the third month of the Lunar Calendar is a traditional festival of the Li people. Li folklore: In ancient times, one year, northwest of Hainan Island, Changhua River flooding, flooded the mountains and villages, people and animals died, the world is left with a man and a woman, called each other brother and sister dependent on each other for life. The man's name was Rib Kung Fa and the woman's name was Bai Guan Yin. When they grew up, they got married in a cave in Yanwoling on March 3 of a certain year, had children, and multiplied their offspring for the Li people. Later they were both transformed into Guanyin stones. In order to honor them, every day, the Li men, women and children of all villages and cottages gather from all directions with dumplings and pastries to Yannanliang, Kintianxia, Mudanpo, and Jincuipo. During the day, the young men go out to fish, the girls cook and bake fish, and then put the baked fish together with the pastries and dumplings at the entrance of the cave to worship their ancestors. At night, people set up bonfires on the hillside and along the riverbank, singing songs, wrestling and swinging by the bonfire. Young men and women take this opportunity to talk about their love and give each other tokens. The girls will be hand-woven colorful belt tied in the waist of the young man, while the young man will be wearing earrings in the girl's ears, or the hairpin made of deer bone hairpin inserted in the bun of the sister, and promised to meet again on the third of March next year.
The Yao people on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar
The Yao people around the Yao Mountain Township of Hekou Yao Autonomous County in Yunnan Province celebrate the Ganba Festival on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year. At that time, the adult men who go hunting in the mountains with bows and crossbows, muskets, and take the poi to set out on the journey at dawn, and return home fully loaded by all means. Hunted game, everyone **** enjoy, if you do not get the prey back empty-handed, to be made fun of, especially the young man will be the girls contempt. Elderly people and women usually stay in the village, busy preparing the New Year's dinner, roast chickens and ducks, and cook colorful glutinous rice. In addition to this, they also have to pound poi and prepare fine wine. In the evening, men, women and children gather in the square to sing and dance to the sound of brass drums and music, celebrating the festival and praying for a good harvest. Yao people to March 3 for the "Ganba Festival", is the collective fishing and hunting festival, and will catch the wildlife fish distributed by household, *** enjoy the joy of harvesting, and then gathered in the square, singing and dancing, celebrating the festival.
She on the Si Festival customs
She March 3 has the custom of eating Wu rice. Legend has it that from the second year of the Tang Dynasty to the third year of the Kaiyuan era (669 - 15 AD), Lei Wanxing, the leader of the Shan Yue (the ancestor of the She people), and his fellow clansmen, Lan Fenggao, in the more than 40 years of struggle against the ruling class of the people of Shan Cheng in the south of Fujian Province and the east of Guangdong Province were besieged by the imperial army on the mountains in the sixth year of the Jinglong era (707 AD), and they relied on eating a kind of food called "Wu Rice". They survived by eating a kind of wild fruit called "Wu Rice", and finally broke through the siege on March 3 of the next year and won the victory. In order to commemorate these heroes, the people of March 3 as a holiday, and on this day to eat "Wu rice". The "Wu Rice" is made of glutinous rice dyed black with the juice of a plant.
With March 3 as the birthday of grain rice, every family eats Wu Rice. Legend has it that Lei Wanxing, a hero of the She tribe in the Tang Dynasty, led an insurgent army to fight against the siege of the government army, and the army was greatly invigorated by the hunger of Wu Nim fruit, and succeeded in breaking through the siege on the third day of the third month, and won successively in successive battles. In order to commemorate this, the She people eat rice and sing songs on March 3 every year. Among the She people, March 3 is a major festival comparable to the Spring Festival. On this day, families slaughter livestock and worship their ancestors. Many families often choose this day to organize weddings. Umi rice is eaten during the festival. At nightfall, bonfires are held and songs are sung. She people are good at singing and often invite She singers from all over the province to perform on stage, which is a very enthusiastic scene. During the festival, the She people also hold dances, including torch dances, wooden beat dances, bamboo pole dances, dragon dances, lion dances, and fish lantern dances. At the same time, there are asking stools, play stone plinth, belly top stick, play bar, drive wild boar She folk games.