"March 3" is the most solemn ethnic traditional festival and song dike in the Zhuang region. Every year the lunar calendar "March 3" will become a public holiday in Guangxi, the autonomous region as a whole two days off. The following is my organization to share the origin of Guangxi Zhuang March 3, welcome to read and learn!
The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as "March 3", is the day of the Zhuang people held song Wei. Therefore, it is also known as the Festival of Song and Dance (Song and Dance Festival).
"Song Wei", is a foreigner to the Zhuang set the Chinese name, the Zhuang language called "Huanlong Pangdang", meaning to the field to sing the song; some places called "Huanwu Dare", means out of the cave to sing the song. Because the Zhuang people in the past rarely built temples, idols are placed in caves. The cavern is a sacred place, must remain solemn, only to the cavern outside to let loose free singing.
"Now Guangxi into a sea of song, are three sister mouth" this circulated in Guangxi, the lyrics of the song, the origin of the Zhuang song Wei Festival, and the song fairy Liu Sanjie has a close relationship.
It is said that Liu Sanjie is the Tang Dynasty, was born in Guangxi Yishan a fisherman family. She loved to sing songs since she was a child, and when she became an adult, she looked beautiful and became a singer. Nearby, there is a rich man Mo Huairen wanted to rob Liu Sanjie and his marriage, Liu Sanjie swore to die from, Mo Huairen asked people to throw Liu Sanjie into the river. Liu San Jie drifted downstream to Liuzhou, where she was fortunately rescued and lived under the Yu Feng Mountain. When the townspeople heard the news, they rushed to learn the song. She later married a young hunter and has been passing on her songs here ever since. When Mo Huairen learned of this, he colluded with the government and threw Liu Sanjie and her husband and wife into the Little Dragon Pool at the bottom of Fish Peak Mountain. In the middle of the night, the moon and stars, when the townspeople salvaged the two of them, suddenly a gust of wind, only to see Liu Sanjie and the young hunter riding on the back of a fish, singing while taking off in the air. Since then, people said that Liu Sanjie had become an immortal, and called Liu Sanjie the Singing Immortal. Later generations of people in order to commemorate the song of the fairy, will be in the lunar calendar every year on the third of March, Liu Sanjie "immortal" days, singing songs for three days and three nights, the song of the formation of the dike.
According to records, the Song Wei Festival has a history of thousands of years. Song people written by the "Taiping Huan Yu Ji", there have been Zhuang "men and women in full dress ...... party for song" records. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the development of Zhuang songs is particularly prominent, the song will be very prevalent. In the Qing Dynasty, the formation of hundreds of people to thousands of people gathered to sing a large-scale "song market".
Every time the song dike period, young men and women will put on the festival dress, gathered in the mountains or bamboo forest grass slope improvisation singing, each other dish answer, singing one after another. In the song market, hard-working and intelligent Zhuang people, created a rich and colorful mountain songs, so that this traditional national festival is full of fascinating rhythms.
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● The significance of the March 3 of the Zhuang People
It has created a precedent for the autonomous local governments in Guangxi to determine their own statutory ethnic traditional festivals, which is of far-reaching significance.
It is the first time in the history of Guangxi that it has created a precedent for the governments of autonomous localities in Guangxi to establish national holidays covering their own autonomous localities based on the traditional and customary festivals of the autonomous subject peoples, which is of far-reaching significance, and is specifically manifested in two aspects, one of which can be further improved at the level of the autonomous region. The Zhuang, as the autonomous main ethnic group in Guangxi, has major festivals other than March 3, as well as June Festival, July 14, Frogwoman Festival, etc. Can these festivals also be recognized as national holidays? "In addition to March 3, their major holidays include the June Festival, the 14th of July, and the Frogwoman's Day, all of which are worthy of consideration as to whether they can be recognized as national holidays. Xinjiang, Tibet, Ningxia and other autonomous regions of the national holidays, there is more than one; Secondly, the people's governments of autonomous counties based on the traditional customary holidays of the autonomous body of the local people's government introduced to cover the local national traditional holidays to become possible. Guangxi has 12 national autonomous counties, all belonging to minority populated areas, the autonomous counties of the main body of the autonomous national major traditional customary holidays belonging to their own people, according to the relevant provisions of the law, the local government have the right to provide for the region's national traditional customary holidays. Therefore, the introduction of the autonomous region level of national traditional holidays, in theory and practice for the autonomous county level of national traditional holidays to provide a basis for the introduction of the possibility.
The traditional holidays of each ethnic group have their own specific connotations, or originated from the commemoration of ancestors or heroes or major events, or originated from the worship of various deities, and others originated from a variety of economic activities, but they have two prominent essential attributes: First, they are the most important carrier of the traditional culture of the ethnic group, focusing on carrying the traditional culture of the ethnic group. A nation's clothing, food, housing, transportation, use of material culture and beliefs, rituals, customs, songs and dances, myths, legends and other aspects of spiritual culture are often reflected in the traditional festivals of the nation, and some of the most national characteristics of the traditional culture and even due to the emergence of a traditional festival. March 3 of the Zhuang people is no exception, such as the Zhuang people have always been known as the "singing and dancing nation" reputation, the Zhuang township known as the "song of the sea", the most centralized external manifestation of this cultural characteristic is no more than the "March 3". "March 3" activities, the most representative of the Zhuang people's five-color glutinous rice is initially for the "March 3" activities to eat, and so on. Secondly, it is the most important way and platform to display the traditional culture of the ethnic group. For an "outsider" to observe and understand the traditional culture of another ethnic group, the fastest and most effective way is to personally participate in the traditional festivals of this ethnic group, in the festivals of the ear, empathy - through the national festival this Through the national festivals this "window", you can see the colorful, graceful national costumes, you can taste the unique flavor, characteristics of the rich national food, feel the songs and dances, grand and warm atmosphere of the festival, to appreciate the bold and unrestrained, warm and hospitable character of the nation, and to understand the rich connotation of the accumulation of deep national culture. In a word, through the national traditional festivals, you can observe a nation from multiple angles and in an all-round way, understand a nation and then love a nation. By participating in or observing the different forms of March 3 activities, such as singing songs, snatching firecrackers, throwing embroidered balls, trekking, and various rituals, you can appreciate and feel the profound traditional ethnic culture of the Zhuang people from all angles and perspectives.
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● Traditional Customs of March 3 of the Zhuang people in Guangxi
What is the extent of the lunar March 3 grand? To the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region as an example, in the local people to the March 3 commonly known as the Festival of Songs, when Guangxi Liu Sanjie to the image of the song is so come, so every year this holiday, Guangxi as a holiday to the province's people a day off, the local in addition to the song, there will be a number of other traditional practices, which have eaten 3 things to do a thing of tradition!
Eat 3 things
Eat yellow peaches
Since it is the legendary Peach Banquet, on the day of March 3, everyone will eat peaches, if there is no fresh peaches, everyone will use canned peaches instead, after all, in such an important holiday, to eat on the After all, on such an important holiday, eat peaches even if it is a good luck!
Eat Shepherd's purse eggs
At the end of spring, shepherd's purse is a blossoming fruit is very scenic wild vegetables, in many local traditions, there are shepherd's purse boiled eggs practice, with shepherd's purse boiled eggs have a fragrance, and then drink a mouthful of shepherd's purse soup, is said to be the efficacy of the heat, therefore, in such an important holiday, eat shepherd's purse boiled eggs is also an important part of the festival. , eating eggs boiled with water chestnuts is also a symbol of good luck and prosperity!
Eat Qu Mazai
Qu Mazai famous "endive", "invasion of Mazai", sweet taste in the mouth, after the strength of a touch of sweetness, Qu Mazai has the role of clearing the heat to remove the fire, many of the rural areas are planted as a treasure. Rural areas are planted as a treasure, due to the inconvenience of planting city people, so in the city to sell qu qu lettuce are sold by the amount to sell, the value is very high, due to the qu lettuce have sweet and sweet flavor, so there is a symbol of good meaning, so in the day of the third of March there is to eat qu lettuce practice!
Do 1 thing: collective bathing
In many places there is this traditional practice, on the day of the third of March, people ask friends and relatives to go to bathe together, the so-called bathing is not like our usual simple bathing, legend has it that in the process of bathing, it is the process of reflection and sobering up of a person, it is to put the body of the dirt and the bad things all All washed away, and friends and relatives together with the collective bathing, is a symbol of gathering wealth and blessings, so in March 3 there is the practice of collective bathing!
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