Also known as "Big Festival". Traditional folk festivals of Zhuang nationality. Popular in Guangxi, Longzhou County and Pingxiang City. Eating Chili peppers is held on the 30th day of the first lunar month every year, which means "celebrating" or "making up for the Spring Festival". According to legend, when the Spring Festival approached, French invaders invaded the frontier. In order to crack down on invaders, local young adults took up arms to defend their homes, so they failed to celebrate the Spring Festival on time. On the 30th day of the first month, the soldiers who went to war returned home in triumph. The villagers slaughtered chickens and sheep, made glutinous rice cakes, warmly entertained them, celebrated their victory, made up the Spring Festival, and followed suit. During the festival, people dance lions, play dragon lanterns, sing and dance, which is very lively.
Tuwang Festival
Dong people in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County in Guangxi have a "Tuwang Festival" two days before the Grain Rain Festival in the lunar calendar every year. At that time, young men and women from all villages will come to Tuwangpo, not far from the village, to hold various activities, which is actually a happy festival for young people. In addition to duets, cockfights, arm-wrestling and shotguns, there are traditional activities of eating tea buds, that is, young men string tea buds in circles with rattan branches, and then put them around their necks when girls are not looking, or simply throw them into young women's baskets, put the unshelled tea buds in their mouths, and force them to swallow bitter and astringent tea buds to test the loyalty of girls' love. Legend has it that there were 18 young Dong men and women in ancient times who hanged themselves in front of Grain Rain because they were unwilling to succumb to feudal ethics and strive for freedom of marriage. In memory of this 18 couple, people get together to eat tea buds on this day every year to commemorate them. It has gradually evolved into a fixed festival for young Dong men and women to engage in social and entertainment activities.
Bird catching festival
Every year, the first day of the second lunar month is the "Bird Festival" of Yao people. According to legend, a long time ago, the forests in Yao mountainous areas were dense, which was very suitable for birds to thrive. Tits, pheasants and turtledoves that feed on grain have become the number one enemies of early corn and early spring crops in Yaoshan. People have no crops every year, so they have to live on wild vegetables, and the government's sources of money, water and grain have also dried up. The news alarmed the emperor, who issued an imperial edict: whoever controls bird damage will be rewarded with nine ridges and nine years of tax exemption. The imperial edict was sent to 99 villages in 9 mountains, 9 ridges, and the mountain owners and cultivators tried their best. There is a Yao girl named Messi. She is smart and has a good voice. As long as she sings to the mountain, the bird is too ashamed to speak and the song stops. They are still hovering in the sky, pursuing the taste of songs, and they are too fascinated to fly away. On the first day of February, Messi took the birds away from Yaoshan with the young people who studied singing with her on weekdays. Birds are intoxicated by singing for half a year. When they woke up and flew back to Yaoshan, only hay, corn stalks, sweet potatoes and vines were left on the slope. The cultivators have collected food in the village. This year, 99 villages in 9 mountains and 9 ridges were not harmed by birds, and all of them got a bumper harvest.
The emperor rewarded it, but the credit was cheated by a greedy mountain owner. The following spring, the emperor sent envoys to ask the mountain owner to drive away the birds, but the mountain owner made no achievements. Seeing that the birds almost ate all the seeds sown, my sister couldn't bear to let everyone miss the sowing season, so she opened her mouth and the birds listened to her. This fact alarmed the special envoy. When the envoy returned to Beijing and presented it to the emperor, the emperor happily gave Yaoshan to his sister. Therefore, the Yao family must regard the early February of the lunar calendar as a bird catching festival.
On this day every year, whether it is sunny or rainy, groups of young men and women in Yao Village gather on the mountain and sweetly sing love songs, folk songs, crossword puzzles and songs from sunrise to the moon. When you are thirsty, drink a clear spring; Hungry, have some Baba. The bird forgot to go home, and the singer didn't want to go back to the village. It was not until the night dew soaked the head handkerchief that they sent men to women and women to men, sent them over mountains and mountains, sent them to ride horses and sing a song, and soon entered the village entrance, and then broke up affectionately. This day; Young people are busy catching up with each other and looking for bosom friends. At home, the old people knead the glutinous rice overnight into copper coins, poke them on bamboo branches, and insert them on the altar or at the door of the hall. It's called "bird food cake". It is said that when a bird pecks Baba, it will stick its mouth and shell together and will never spoil food again. In the evening, Yao's family also walked through the village's string of fire ponds and tasted the "bird cakes" of each family, praying that there would be no natural and man-made disasters and that there would be a good result after a hard year.
Old people's day
Since ancient times, Koreans have regarded respecting the elderly as an extremely important etiquette in family and even the whole social life. In daily life, they take care of the elderly very much. When the festival arrives, first congratulate and greet the elders at home, and then congratulate and greet the elders in the village. Since 1982, in Yanbian, where Korean people live in concentrated communities, associations for the elderly have been established everywhere, and September 3rd has been designated as "Day for the Elderly". Respect for the elderly and love for the young are held every year to create various favorable conditions for the health and longevity of the elderly. It has become a virtue for people to carry forward the custom of respecting the elderly.
Koreans regard 60 as a watershed in their lives, so there are 60-year-old flower banquets, 70-year-old ancient banquets, and "getting married" on the 60-year-old wedding anniversary, which are all activities they attach special importance to.
On the day of the flower banquet, the children held a birthday party for the elderly, invited relatives and neighbors to get together and thanked their parents for their kindness.
The birthday ceremony is carried out like this: children first put on special clothes for the elderly and put birthday mats in the hall or yard! Sitting in the middle of the birthday party, the elderly in Huajia accepted birthday presents with their peers in the neighborhood.
When candy, fish, meat, cakes and tables were placed on the birthday table, the birthday ceremony began. Children, in order of seniority, relatives and friends, in order of distance, propose a toast in turn. Or raise a glass, or offer poems, or sing and dance. These rituals
After that, the birthday will enter the feast stage for everyone. Friends and relatives who came to celebrate their birthdays ate, drank, danced and sang, and returned home happily.
Speaking of "Flower Banquet", here is another story.
It is said that once upon a time, the king of South Korea promulgated a law stipulating that old people should be buried whether they are dead or not when they are 60 years old. A young man surnamed Jin did not want to bury his father, so he hid his father. Later, a country gave the king of South Korea three difficult questions. If he couldn't answer them, he would destroy the country of South Korea. The king was very worried. The young man surnamed Jin talked about it when he was cooking for his father. The old man frowned and took it to heart, and came up with a wonderful way to answer three difficult questions. The young man told these methods to the king of South Korea and saved the country's disaster. Later, the king knew that these good ideas came from an old man who was about to be buried, so he ordered the abolition of this law and set up a "flower banquet" to commemorate the wisdom of the old man.
Such stories are also circulated among the Han nationality and other ethnic groups, but there are not many festivals for the elderly like the Korean nationality. It can be seen that Koreans pay more attention to the return of parental rearing, which is also a concentrated expression of Korean virtue.