In Anqing City, Anhui Su Song County back of the mountain
There is Miss Chen Xing Yuan is the third of March to go to the legend of the and Fan, the third of March to eat artemisia is for the Miss Xing Yuan pray for peace.
Anhui Shucheng, Tongcheng Artemisia Artemisia
Artemisia Artemisia
(1) Ingredients: wild artemisia, rice flour, bacon, garlic, etc.
(2) Method:
1, fresh artemisia artemisia rubbed into a ball by hand, and then use a wooden stick to knock the artemisia artemisia juice all the way through;
2, the bacon will be cut into small squares, and then placed in the pan to fry, when the oil is out, the bacon will be put into a small square, and the bacon will be put into a small square. Bacon out of oil, will be rice noodles, chopped artemisia, garlic, etc. into the pot and mix well, add the right amount of cool water and stew for a while sheng up;
3, will be sheng up the noodles made into a poop-like, to be thin and thick uniformly, do a good job and put into a pot with a lid, low-fire kang, about 15 minutes or so can be.
The artemisia baba, crispy texture, fresh flavor and color, for Shucheng, Huoshan unique, the legend says that every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, to eat artemisia baba can be "Ba Soul".
Legendary stories: "Ghost Festival" and artemisia
Legendary stories in the very ancient time, the boundaries between the yang and the netherworld is not as strict as it is now, the souls of the dead can go to the yang to play, and the souls of the living can go to the netherworld to see the convenience of the same as going to the relatives.
Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the boundaries between life and death are more relaxed. On the night of the third day of the third month, the markets of the netherworld are decorated with lanterns, red and green, and the streets and alleys are crowded with gorgeous ghosts. Everywhere you can see dragon lanterns, lion dance, stilt walkers, flower boat, its bustling prosperity is not the earth's Spring Festival can be compared to the night, therefore, the human soul can not stand the temptation of the netherworld, have to the ghost market to play, some of them wandering in the streets and alleys to see the lights and watch the play; some in the restaurant and tea drinking and listening to the song; some take the opportunity to go to look at the ancestors who have never seen each other.
When the rooster crows at dawn and the ghost market closes, most of the wandering souls return to their respective bodies with satisfaction. A few were so happy that they stayed in the underworld. On the following day, there was a great deal of weeping in the world of the living. We invited monks and Taoist priests to recite sutras and draw talismans to invoke the souls of those whose souls did not return. The heartbreaking cries of the relatives and the scriptures and incantations of the monks and Taoist priests were able to bring back some of the wandering souls that were not playful, and some of the playful ones were able to leave the earth after seven days of physical decay.
Therefore, the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar has become a day of horror and anxiety on earth, known as the "ghost festival". No matter how much people fear, every year on March 3, "Ghost Festival" is still the usual visit. "On the eve of the Ghost Festival, people flocked to the temple to burn incense and kowtow, praying to the gods and bodhisattvas for blessings. The incense is so strong that it rushes to the lotus seat of Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy.
Guanyin counted on her fingers and knew the original reason for burning incense on earth. One night, she dreamed to a grandmother: "I am the South Sea Goddess of Mercy, knowing that the earth is in trouble, I have come to save you. I give you a plant of immortal grass, use it and the noodles to make poop and eat it, the first three days of March to keep safe and sound." Granny woke up with a start, and in her hand was really holding a green and fuzzy grass, and at a closer look, with the ground as long as the artemisia. She told the townspeople about the Guanyin Bodhisattva's dream of giving grass, everyone was very happy, busy to the ground to pick artemisia, grinding noodles to make poop to eat.
Strange as it may seem, anyone who eats artemisia on March 3 is safe and sound through the "Ghost Festival". The news soon spread all over the world, every year on the eve of March 3, girls and women in groups to the mountains to pick artemisia to do poop. Until now, Shucheng, Huoshan folk still have the custom of eating artemisia on March 3rd.
Boiled eggs with water chestnuts
On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the people of China have the custom of eating boiled eggs with water chestnuts. Shepherd's purse, also known as ground vegetables, field children's vegetables, etc., is a kind of wild vegetables growing in the corner of the field. Although it is a wild vegetable, but fresh and delicious, nutritious. Folk proverb says: "March 3, shepherd's purse when elixir." "March 3, shepherd's purse boiled eggs." Spring is the season to pick and eat chestnuts. Spring food shepherd's purse is also China's folk traditional custom for a long time. Poetry Classic" has "its sweet as chestnut" chant; Xin Qiji also has "the city of peaches and plums worried about the wind and rain, spring in the stream head of chestnut flower" poem.
The Qing Dynasty's Ye Tiao Yuan's "Hankou bamboo stick lyrics" said: "The three-three order of the festival heavy kitchen, the taste of the new tune and a pile. The rice dishes and eggs are boiled, very full and very fragrant." In the lyrics of the ground rice vegetable that refers to the chestnut. Ground beet is not only nutritious, but also can cure many diseases. It is not only a dish of delicacies, but also a side of elixir. "Shepherd's purse, also known as the ground vegetable, protect life grass, chicken heart vegetable, its roots, flowers, seeds can be used as medicine. In traditional Chinese medicine, the medicinal value of chestnut is very wide, known as "vegetable licorice".
Motherland medicine believes that: the chestnut taste sweet, cool, return to the liver, spleen, kidney meridian, and spleen, diuresis, stop bleeding, bright eyes and other effects. Shepherd's purse edible method is many, can mix, can fry, can braise, also can be used to do stuffing or do soup, are color and lustre attractive, taste delicious, is a medicine and food of the same source of delicious vegetables. In Hunan, with chestnut to cook eggs is the most common way of eating. Every March 3, the day, shepherd's purse will grow stems and flowers, women will pick to insert in the hair.
Because of the harmonic sound of chestnut is "gather wealth", therefore, the people and according to folklore, on the third of March this day, in the ancestor worship, with the help of ancestral spirits and wealth, people will be fresh chestnut after washing and tying into a small bundle, into the eggs, jujubes, the wind ball, and then two or three slices of ginger, cook a pot, the whole family have to eat a bowl, eat both the food and the egg, and the whole family will eat a bowl. Eat a bowl of food can be handed over to the fortune, but also to prevent headaches and dizziness, over time it has formed a folk unique therapeutic practices. It is said to be able to remove rheumatism, clear fire, no pain in the waist and legs, but also to prevent spring fever.
The custom of eating eggs boiled in the ground (chestnut). The folk on that day have flow cup, flow egg, flow date, begging son and wear willow circle, visit spring, trekking, eat clear essence of rice as well as songs and other activities. Han Chinese March 3, in addition to sacrifices, the later stages of the development of the river play, men and women will meet, willow and flower viewing and other folk activities. Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "The weather is new on March 3, and there are many beautiful people by the water in Chang'an". Song Dynasty Ouyang Xiu also wrote in a word: "Qingming on the West Lake, full of prosperity. Competition Road, who's home. Green willow Zhu wheel go tin car. Tourists will go at sunset, wake up drunken clamor." These all show that the custom of March 3, the Tang and Song dynasties are still prevalent. At the same time, this festival is also a day for men and women to go out for a walk, also known as China's Valentine's Day, Daughter's Day.
Taiwan, Fujian region on March 3 for the "March Festival", "picking rat koji (Qu) grass, combined with rice flour for kuey teow to worship their ancestors" (Qing Qianlong emperor "Taiwan Fu Zhi"), part of the people will be selected on the third of March on the Day of the Tomb Sweeping, both trekking, to remove the meaning of the It is also a way of removing the ominous meaning of the festival.
Chongqing Zhongxian and other places have "March will", held in memory of the enemy general Bamanzi grand event, is the day, the masses carry Bamanzi idol parade around the city, followed by the social fire team, play dragon lanterns, lion dance, home lanterns, firecrackers, lively.
In the Yinghong Town, Yingde City, the Chinese settlement area, women will be on the third of March to collect the leaves of mugwort, ramie, roadside green and other plants, and rice flour made into kuey teow to eat, said to be able to remove all diseases. "March 3 is one of the major festivals of the Zhuang people, and is the main manifestation of the traditional Luo and Yue culture, collectively known as the "March 3" Song Wei. Currently, six "March 3" Song Wei and Wuming Luo Yue Cultural Tourism Festival have been held in Wuming County, Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Township. 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.
The Zhuang people living in the western part of Gui, on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year, every household uses red, yellow, black, purple and white rice cooked with tender green maple leaves and red orchid grass, and people insert a branch of maple leaves on the lintel and around the houses, set up cloth scaffolding at the end of the village, and set up tributes such as five-colored rice under the scaffolding, and men, women, children and young people sing and catch up with the song, and the old people also put the Dyeing of cooked eggs in a small net pocket, hanging in the chest of the child, men and women in the song of the young, but also "touch the egg".
There are several historical stories about the origin of the third day of the third month of the Zhuang people:
Mythological story of the Zhuang people - Special Digging Tomb Sweeping
According to legend, in ancient times, there was a crone with no heir, and then saved a wounded snake. When the snake was healed, she refused to leave, so the crone said to the snake: there is a difference between humans and animals, and we humans don't have tails, so if you want to be with me, you have to give up your tail. Later, the old woman chopped off a small section of the snake's tail, and the snake's tail became shorter, so the people called the snake "Te Nuggets", "Te" means male in Zhuang, "Nuggets" means short tail in Zhuang. Zhuang is the meaning of the short tail, people called the old woman "乜掘", "乜" is the meaning of the Zhuang language mother. From then on, sox-dig raised Te-dig like a son. Now the Zhuang people still have a related custom, that is, the newly purchased chickens and ducks on the tail of a few hairs plucked off, meaning that the crone, like the wild animals, to become a member of the human family. In fact, this custom and legend reflects the ancient human domestication of animals, from wild to domesticated ancient memory. The absence of a tail also reflects the evolution of mankind from from primitive man to civilized man.
Later, the crone died of old age, the neighbors put the crone into the coffin, they said to the snake: special dig ah, special dig! She usually regarded you as her own, she is gone, see how you give her filial piety. Snake seems to understand the human language, blinking, suddenly the wind and rain, a gust of wind will be the crone's coffin and the snake together to the highest peak of Daming Mountain above. At that time, it was around the third of March, and later every time around the third of March, the Daming Mountain area appeared extreme weather, storms or hail, the local people thought it was the special digging back to sweep the tomb to pay homage to his mother.
People in order to praise the great qualities of sox digging and extol filial piety, they gave the crone sox digging to set up a temple, people in order to express respect, in Zhuang language will be called "Dabao Temple", or "Bupa Temple" (Lobo Temple), collectively referred to as the Han Chinese language In Chinese, it is collectively called "Dragon Mother Temple". The local Zhuang people also began to worship snakes, and were respectful of them, avoiding killing and eating them. Along with with the cultural spread and influence of the Zhuang's ancestor, the Luo Yue ethnic group, the form of the snake was later integrated into the form of the Chinese totem dragon, so then the Special Digging became the embodiment of the dragon, and it was also elevated to become the original dragon, so the Special Digging is also known as Digging the Tail Dragon. Daming Mountain then became a natural giant sacred tomb, and became the belief of the ancient Zhuang people's mind that when people died, their souls would also fly back to Daming Mountain. Therefore, Daming Mountain is also regarded as the tomb of ancestors, and became a holy mountain in the myths and beliefs of the Zhuang and Dong ethnic groups. Therefore, it is said that the Zhuang people in the Daming Mountain area are the real "descendants of the dragon". So XDU was honored as the mother of the dragon, and the temples of worship all over the world were facing Daming Mountain.
The traditional time for the Zhuang to visit their graves is March 3rd. On the first day of March, people would pick maple branches and put them in doorways and windows, and on March 3, they would make five-colored glutinous rice to worship their ancestors and the temple of the Dragon Mother.
Story of the Zhuang People - Sai Song Choosing Son-in-Law
One of them is the story of "Sai Song Choosing Son-in-Law". Legend has it that in the old days, an old Zhuang singer's daughter was very beautiful and good at singing mountain songs, and the old man wanted to choose a young man with outstanding singing talent as his son-in-law. Young singers from all over the world rushed to the festival to propose marriage, and from then on, regular song contests were formed.
Story of Zhuang History--Liu Sanjie
The other one is widely spread in the Zhuang countryside in honor of Liu Sanjie. Told because the song fairy Liu Sanjie song as a sword, resistance against the landlord, for the people to fight for profit, in the mountains when cutting firewood by the landlord cut the mountain vine, fell off the cliff, the great disaster, was saved by the family of the cow, with the song and began to confront the landlord, people from all over the world to run to there Liu Sanjie song, at the same time, and the cow in the vine tree under the song of the story of the marriage.
Story of Zhuang history-Wei Da Gui
Another story is that a long time ago, there was a man named Wei Da Gui in the township of Guoxiang, who worked as a minister under an emperor. Dagui is not very old, but learned, talented, and, very concerned about the plight of the Zhuang people, the emperor gave him his salary, he took back to the townships to distribute to the people, their own two sleeves, nothing. The soil emperor because of a Wei Dagui to the Zhuang people to report to the Imperial grain and hate Wei Dagui, and then tried every possible way to frame Wei Dagui. One plan was to ask Wei Dagui to complete an attic according to the requirements, but Dagui completed the requirements. When one plan didn't work, another one was born, telling Da Gui to ask for a pig's head as heavy as the big mountain behind the palace to offer to his ancestors during the Qingming Festival, and Da Gui also fulfilled the order. The emperor came up with another poisonous plan, telling Dagui to get 490 male eggs within twenty days, because "men don't give birth to children, how can roosters lay eggs?" The emperor was furious and ordered Dagui to be arrested. On hearing this, the people of the Zhuang family immediately sent Dagui to hide in the maple forest on the mountain. Imperial soldiers searched on the mountain, heavily surrounded, only to see the forest with the rest of the glutinous rice, is not seen, the emperor ordered to set fire to the mountain, this day happens to be the third day of March. After the imperial troops left, the townspeople went up the mountain in a hole in a maple tree that could not be hugged over found the body of Dagui, everyone with tears in his eyes to bury him. Men, women and children cried loudly in front of the grave. Tears sprinkled on the grave, and a small green maple tree and a cluster of red orchid grass grew on the grave. In order to commemorate Dagui, the townspeople built a temple next to the grave, called "Dagui Hall". Because Da Gui loved drinking wine and eating glutinous rice in his lifetime, and defeated the emperor by drinking wine and eating glutinous rice, and was later killed because he couldn't get a boiled egg, so, on the day of the beginning of March, every family in Quxiang took rice wine, glutinous rice and boiled eggs to Da Gui's tomb to pay homage to him. Just when people were in mourning, the sky suddenly thundered and a big five-colored snake rushed out from the temple, which nodded to the townspeople and went straight to the palace to bite the emperor to death. Since then, Guanxi Zhuang people around the region in order to commemorate Dagui, year after year to the first three days of March this day, villages and cottages are set up shed, because the legend of the spirits of the deceased can not be outside the home, so people had to be set up under the cloth shed on the five-colored glutinous rice and other offerings for the spirits of Dagui, in the cloth shed around the singing of praises and thanks to Dagui's Zhuang Huan. Generation to generation, the formation of the current March 3 song Wei customs. The festival was held to grab firecrackers, bullfighting, horsefighting, singing, stepping on the hall and other activities, also known as the "Firecracker Festival".
The Dong family legend, the Dong family's original territory in ancient times was always to the flowering of the tung tree for rice-planting festival. But one year the tung tree did not blossom, the result of the wrong time, had to flee to the newspaper Jing area, in order to learn from past lessons, every March 3 people will blow the reed-sheng singing, visit friends and relatives and remind each other of the busy farming Dong, more than in the festival held to grab the firecrackers, bullfighting, horsefighting, singing, stepping on the hall and other activities, also known as the "Festival of the Firecracker".
The Dong March 3, the festival for five days. On the first day of the third month of the lunar calendar, families start to prepare for the festival.
On the second day of the month, girls are invited to the river to fish and catch shrimp, and prepare a picnic with the boys on the slope.
Early in the morning of the third day, the girls dressed up, carried delicate bamboo baskets, went to the vegetable garden to pick a full monitor onions and garlic, washed with water at the spring. They are lined up in a long line, standing in the water on the path, shyly waving the basket, quietly looking toward the hillside, waiting for the lover to ask for. At this time, the hillside has long been full of people, including the girl's family, to see which in the end the scion took the basket. A group of young men wearing neat green cloth lapel tops, in people's good-natured laughter, one after another on the waterside path. At this time, the young men ask for the basket from the girl of their choice in public, and the winner will be welcomed with a burst of oohs and aahs of admiration, and the young man can quietly agree with the girl to return the basket. Can't get the basket of young men will attract onlookers boo boo mocking sound, and then in the village next to the hillside song, to continue to search for a soulmate, singing until dawn. At noon on this day, people concentrated in the center of the village on the field of song and dance.
The fourth day of March also held a grand masquerade. On the afternoon of the fifth, a farewell ceremony will be held for guests from neighboring villages who come to watch. In the festival to kill a pig sacrifice society god, mountain god, eat yellow glutinous rice, the village three or four days do not communicate with each other. Yao to March 3 for the "Ganba Festival", is the collective fishing and hunting festivals, and will catch the wildlife fish distributed by household, *** enjoy the joy of harvesting, after the clouds gathered in the square, singing and dancing, celebrating the festival.
March 3, is the more common Buyei traditional festival, commonly known as "March 3". The origin of the festival and the content of the activities vary with the area of residence. Wudang District, Guiyang City, a new Fort Township area of the Buyei will be "March 3" also known as "sacrifice silkworms", commonly known as "silkworms will be". Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a crop farmer, found that every year after the spring sowing there are many silkworms will be bitten to death by seedlings. After repeated observation, he believed that the earthworms are the God of heaven to the earth's "heavenly horse". In order to avoid the seedlings suffer from insect pests, he used many ways to sacrifice, but did not work. Later, he fried grain flowers to feed the silkworms during spring sowing, and the seedlings were saved. The news soon spread to the Buyei families near and far.
Since then, this area of the Buyi in order to protect the crops, for a good harvest, on the third day of March every year, are used to fry the flowers as offerings, three to five groups to the nearby hillside to sacrifice "God of Heaven, the ground silkworms," praying for God's blessing, do not call the ground silkworms biting the seedlings in the field, so that the five grains of abundance. After the sacrifice, people walk along the field side of the earth and sing songs, and scatter the flower of the grain into the soil.
Northern Damwang River area, due to low temperatures, when the maple leaves are still small, can not color, to March 13 for the "Maple Leaf Festival". On the day of the festival, people go to the mountains and fields in the spring, children pick young maple leaves made into a ball to throw playing, women pick a few young maple leaves inserted in the bun. In addition, families dye glutinous rice in various colors and make flower glutinous rice. Young people go to the hillside to blow wooden leaves and sing mountain songs. If they meet a satisfactory opponent, they are invited to the Buyei village at night and sing songs all night long. At the end of the night, the host family gives the singers flower glutinous rice and chicken leg meat wrapped in banana leaves as a gift for the festival. The Buyi people in Wangmu County, Guizhou Province, say that the third day of the third month is a "cold day" and that eating dog meat can drive away the cold. There is a custom of treating a dog on this day.
Some of the Buyi people in Anlong County, Guizhou Province, say that March 3 is the birthday of the "Mountain God".
People in order to avoid the God of the mountains released locusts hurt crops, to ensure a good harvest, the old custom of sweeping the village sacrifices God of the mountains. "March 3" this day, people to the village in front of the altar of the mountain god set up rooster, knife head and other offerings, but also to kill a dog, the blood will be sprinkled on the paper flag, paper horse and the village in and out of the main road entrance to the stone, and then by the "old devil male" and other personnel to carry a dog dripping with blood of the paper flag, the paper horse Then the "Old Devil Gong" and other people will carry the paper flag and paper horse drenched with dog's blood to each house to get rid of demons and ghosts. At the entrance of each house, a bench is set up with a "water bowl" filled with fresh water and a bowl filled with gravel. The "old devil" in front of the gate incantation "magic scripture", play a few "Nongyang Gua", and then the gravel grains to the house scattered, the water bowl of water splashed around, overturned the bench in front of the gate, buckle up the water bowl, meaning that the bench is full of water. The water bowl was then snapped up, meaning that the devil had been swept away. Finally, to this inserted with dog blood on the paper flag, good on the paper horse, another to sweep his home. Village households are round sweeping finished, "the old devil male" mouth to the altar, the collection of sweeping the demons and ghosts focused on the suppression of the gods before, and then the whole village men at the altar of the meal on the spot, known as "accompanying the gods to eat".
The county's De lying town called "March 3" for the "drive Mao Suzuki", also known as the "Mao Suzuki Song Festival", a three-day party of tens of thousands of people. March 3 of the Buyei in the area of Bada River in Luoping, Yunnan Province, is a festival for young men and women to sing and tune to each other. On this day, men, women and children come to the riverside to listen to young people sing songs and watch children compete in bamboo rafting and water pistol shooting. Some families also make flower glutinous rice for children to send to the side and the village; some use small flower cloth pockets filled with eggs and all kinds of food for young people playing and participating in the competition activities to eat. Luoping Niu Street of the Buyi young men and women in these three days, held a grand tour of the mountain, song and dating activities.
Youths of all ethnic groups from dozens of miles around also come to the area around the hillside of Matou to participate in and watch this traditional song-pairing competition. Singers can show off their skills on such occasions, and with their genius for improvising poems and chants, they can sing with their rivals for three days and three nights or even longer. Many young men and women have formed love relationships through these events.
The Buyi people in Wangmu County, Guizhou, attach special importance to the "March 3" festival, which has been held every year for several years, attracting friends from all over the country to visit. March 3 is called "Fu Nian Fu", a festival for wishing "Shan Lan" (mountain dry valley) and hunting a good harvest, but also a day for young men and women to freely socialize, and people call it the day of love. About its origin, there is a beautiful legend story.
Li "March 3" is the traditional festival of the Li people, people call it the day of love, and the same Hainan Miao festival. Legend has it that two siblings survived the ancient flood by hiding in a pumpkin. In order to start a family, they decided to split up to look for others, and agreed to meet on the third day of the third month of the next lunar calendar. As a result, several years passed without any success. Seeing that she could not find anyone else, the younger sister endured the pain of using a bamboo stick to tattoo her face with a pattern, and then dyed it with a plant to prevent her brother from recognizing her, in order to tie the knot, thus enabling the continuation of the race. This is also the Li "March 3" festival and the legend of the origin of the tattooed face. So far in the Oriental City, Dongfang Township in the middle of the party, every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, all over the Li young men and women gathered together to participate in the "March 3" event, singing and dancing, talk about love. Tujia's March 3, is the Tujia's Valentine's Day. On the day of March 3, the Tujia people get together to match their love with a mountain song and step on the feet to get married.
Other ethnic groups such as the Shui, Miao, Mulao and Maonan all have their own traditional March 3 festival customs.
"March 3, Treading on the Beach" is a folk custom in Shipu Township, Xiangshan. There are several stories about its origin. One of them is related to production and labor: around the third day of the third month of the local lunar calendar, the ground and water temperatures begin to rise, and the shallow sea snails scramble to climb up the beach to reproduce. Local people will go to the beach to pick up snails in this season, resulting in "March 3, step on the beach" labor scene.
Nowadays, although the resources of the beach are gradually being depleted, the local old people still can't resist taking their younger generation to the beach on this day to relive the scene of snail picking in the past. The labor scene of "March 3, trekking on the beach" has gradually formed a brand new folk cultural activity.
Today's "March 3rd, Treading on the Beach" has been characterized by folk cultural activities as the main body, sports, fishery competitions, and invited foreign singing, dancing, and acrobatic programs as the accompanying features. There are various kinds of cultural performances, including horse lanterns, dragon lantern dances, colorful pavilion parades, etc., as well as Yueju Opera performances based on folk stories such as "The Hot Snail Girl Recruiting Marriage" and entertainment activities such as "The Hot Snail Girl Throwing Colorful Balls" recruiting marriages among the spectators. These activities are characterized by folklore, mass, participation and entertainment. Egg Festival, a traditional festival of the Tu people. The festival is held on March 3 or the eighth day of the third month of the lunar calendar and the eighteenth day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year, which varies from place to place. At that time, sacrificial offerings are held in temples, and priests are invited to recite sutras and dance to pray for the gods, so as to avoid calamities and ensure a good harvest and prosperity for people and animals. Attendance of the masses also carry a lot of cooked eggs, one is self-eating, the second is to knock each other as a play.