What are the festivals in Guangxi and what are the traditional festivals and customs in Guangxi

Guangxi is a multi-ethnic region of China with a rich and diverse festival culture. Here are some of the important festivals in Guangxi:

1.March Three Dragon Boat Festival: This is one of the grandest traditional festivals of the Zhuang people in Guangxi, usually held on the third day of the third lunar month.

People will row dragon boats, race dragon boats, and there will be singing and dancing performances and various folk activities. It is a lively event that attracts visitors from all over the world.

2.March 15 Zhuang Songwei: This is a traditional festival of the Zhuang people in Guangxi, and it is also an important part of Zhuang culture.

On this day, people gather in the square to sing, dance, and display traditional Zhuang costumes and handicrafts. This is a grand event to show the charm of Zhuang culture.

3.Dragon Boat Festival: Guangxi also celebrates the traditional Dragon Boat Festival, usually on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. People will make zongzi, race dragon boats, and there are also folk performances such as lion dances and dragon dances. In addition, Guangxi also has unique folk customs, such as using wormwood to drive away evil spirits and hanging calamus.

4.July 7th Qiqiao Festival: This is the traditional festival of Guangxi Zhuang, Yao and other ethnic groups, usually on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Women pray to Vega on this day for wisdom and skill, along with various folk activities such as lion dances, dragon dances, etc.

5.Mid-Autumn Festival: The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional and important festivals in China, and it is also rich in celebrations in Guangxi.

People will admire the moon, eat moon cakes, and there are also folk performances such as lion dances and dragon dances. Guangxi's Zhuang, Yao and other ethnic groups also have unique celebration methods, such as the Yao Torch Festival.

In addition to the above-mentioned festivals, there are many other important festivals in Guangxi, such as Qingming Festival, Duanyang Festival, Lunar New Year, etc. These festivals not only enrich the cultural connotation of Guangxi, but also an important way for people to inherit and carry forward the national culture. Both local residents and tourists can feel the unique charm of Guangxi in these festivals.

The Binyang Cannon Dragon Festival mainly includes activities such as the Hundred Dragons Dance, the Pennsylvania Cannon Dragon Night Gala and fireworks, intangible cultural heritage performances, the Cannon Dragon Display, the Hundred Family Banquet, and the calligraphy, painting, and photography exhibitions. "March 3rd" Song Wei, formerly known as the "March 3rd" Song Festival, has been held for 18 sessions since 1985, and was renamed "Song Wei" after 2003, launching activities rich in Zhuangxiang characteristics such as the Mountain Song Ring Competition and the Thousand People Bamboo Bar Array. The main activities of the Buluotuo Folk Culture and Tourism Festival include the opening ceremony, the night party of Buluotuo, the folk sacrifice ceremony of Buluotuo, the King of Zhuang Folk Song Competition, the International Lion Competition, the Zhuang National Song Wei Sports Games, the release of Buluotuo cultural research results, business activities, etc.

Huanjiang Maonan Dividing Dragon Festival, the main activities include sacrificial ceremonies, national sports performances, duet singing of mountain songs, national specialties and handicrafts exhibitions, national art evenings, and thousands of people noodle carnival bonsai party. Longsheng Hongyao Clothes Festival, Hongyao (a branch of the Yao nationality, with advocating red as the beauty, women wear mostly red clothes and get their name) cultural talk about the ancients, labor scene display, Hongyao customs display, national song and dance performances, thousands of bride performances and other activities.

Guangxi traditional festival customs:

1. Farm Tools Festival.

Traditional festivals of the Zhuang nationality in southwest Guangxi. It is held every year on the 29th day of the second lunar month. On that day, each household picked up all kinds of agricultural production tools processed and made by themselves to the polder, and arranged them in rows, including plow racks, ox yokes, dustpans, flat poles, hoes, plowshares, rakes, hoe handles, baskets, bamboo mats, grain baskets, grain buckets, and furniture.

People are buying for spring ploughing. The farm tool festival in northern Guibei is slightly earlier, it is the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, and the annual farm tool festival is unprecedented, and the street is crowded with thousands of people, and it is very lively.

2. Copper Drum Festival.

They are at the beginning of the first lunar month of each year.

I.X. May 30th. The Zhuang people in Changle Township carried the copper drum to the top of the high mountain near the village, hung it on the wooden frame, first beat the drum to worship the ancestors, and then carried out the copper drum beating competition. The method is to beat the big drum and the small drum to the small drum, with four sides as a group, each drum has 3 people, and the drum is played in rotation without interruption.

Win with loud and beautiful play, bright rhythm and long-lasting endurance. Matches tend to stay up all night. At the same time, young men and women sang in unison.

At the end of the game, people had a picnic with food such as rice dumplings brought from home.

3. Flower Po Festival.

The 29th day of the second month of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the god Hua Po. The Flower Festival is also known as the Kao Festival and the Kao Mary's Day. It is popular in all parts of Guangxi Zhuang nationality.

Zhuang women hold sacrificial ceremonies, women of the same generation in the village marry sisters with different surnames, pool money to prepare chickens and ducks from incense, candles, money paper, offering sacrifices to the god of flowers, and then go to the wild in groups to pick flowers to wear, praying for fertility and blessing the healthy growth of children.

4. March Three Songs Festival.

Guangxi is known as the "sea of songs", and the Zhuang people have several regular folk song gatherings every year, among which the third day of the third lunar month is the grand ceremony. On this day, every household makes five-color glutinous rice, dyes red eggs, and celebrates the festival, some of which last for two or three days. In the legend of the Zhuang people, it is the birthday of the ancestor of the Zhuang people, Bu Luotuo.

In Guangxi, the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is not only the traditional Qingqing Song Festival of the Zhuang people, but also an important day for the Zhuang people to worship their ancestors, Pangu and Buluotuo. Every March 3, young men and women of the Zhuang nationality gather on the streets to sing and gather by the river for a feast.

5. Prime. Zhuang New Year, one month earlier than the Spring Festival. Every year on the 29th or 30th day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar, every household in the Zhuang village kills pigs and slaughters sheep, worships their ancestors, and worships the shrine in the village to welcome the New Year. The villages will carry out large-scale collective visits, drinking and feasting, and singing and music; Young men and women carry out social activities, and young men go to the village in groups to "make trouble" and choose a mate for songs.

These activities continue until around the 15th day of the first lunar month of the Chinese New Year.

Guangxi's customs and traditional culture:

1. March 3 of Wuming Zhuang Clan.

The holding of the Song Wei on March 3 is the tradition of the Zhuang people's nuclear bench chain, which is very common in Guangxi. Among them, Wuming March Three Song Wei is known for its large scale and distinctive characteristics! Since 2011, Wuming District has held a grand singing party every year, with the Zhuang Luoyue culture as the main line, showing Wuming's profound national cultural traditions.

On the third day of March, the entire streets and alleys of Wuming became a sea of songs and a world of dance. In addition to singing mountain songs, there are also traditional entertainment activities of the Zhuang people such as throwing hydrangeas, grabbing flower cannons, and jumping bamboo poles.

2. Binyang Cannon Dragon Festival.

The cannon shook thousands of mountains and woke up, and Longteng was prosperous. The Binyang Cannon Dragon Festival has a long history, and was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in June 2008, and is held on the 11th day of the first lunar month every year, attracting hundreds of thousands of local people and tourists to celebrate and pray together. The Binyang Cannon Dragon Festival has unique Binyang national characteristics of the dragon and lion dance team, the majestic dragon drum team, fairy horses, Zhuang Jin, colorful phoenix, color stands, stilts and other folk performances.

3. Longlin Yi Torch Festival.

The Longlin Yi Torch Festival enjoys the reputation of "the first night of Chinese ethnic customs" and "Oriental carnival night". In 2006, it was approved to be included in the first batch of national crude intangible cultural heritage list. Held on the 24th day of June of the lunar calendar every year, on this day, the Yi people are dressed in national clothes, light the torches, hold hands in a circle, sing and dance.

4. Ox King Festival.

Every year on the 12th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar, the lively Ox King Festival is held in Shali in western Guangxi. Every Ox King Festival, the Sally people will dress up in costumes, blow the horns, play the suona, carry the paper head model and sacrifices, put red on the cow, sing and dance, and hold various programs. The highlight of the whole festival is the bull king competition, when the referee shouted, the owner let go of the reins, the two bulls changed their heads to each other and rushed to start a fierce fight, the audience around held their breath to watch the game, and did not hesitate to applaud and cheer loudly when they encountered wonderful moments, and the audience was very lively!

5. Jinshan Flower Cannon Festival.

The Zuozhou Jinshan Firecracker Festival in Chongzuo City is the third batch of autonomous region-level intangible cultural heritage in Guangxi, and the Jinshan Firecracker Festival is held on February 29 of the lunar calendar every year. On this day, the local people will hold a grand Guanyin parade, and the Jinshan sisters dressed in costumes carefully carry the statue out of the temple and ask the Guanyin Bodhisattva to come out of the temple to send blessings.

The legal holiday in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is "March 3".

On December 23, 1949, the Government Council promulgated the Measures for Holidays on National Festivals and Memorial Days, which stipulated: "All holidays that are customary of ethnic minorities shall be prescribed by the local people living in large concentrations of ethnic minorities in consideration of the customs of various ethnic groups. "On December 7, 2007, the 198th executive meeting adopted the amendment and promulgated the implementation of the relevant holiday measures, the relevant contents.

On December 11, 2013, Article 4 of the newly revised "Measures for the Holiday of the National Annual Festival and the Memorial Day of the Shooting Lead Tour" stipulates: "The festivals customary of ethnic minorities shall be prescribed by the local people in the areas inhabited by ethnic minorities in accordance with the customs of each ethnic group. ”

The festivals of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region include: Spring Festival, Ant Kidnapping Festival, March and March Song Festival, Ox Soul Festival, Moyi King Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Frost Fall Festival.

Ant Kidnapping Festival: An ancient festival spread in the area of Donglan and Fengshan on the banks of the Hongshui River. Every year, from the beginning of the first month, it goes through three stages: looking for ants, filial piety, accompanying and burying ants, which lasts for a month.

Legend has it that the ant is the son of the Thunder King, who was sent to the world as an angel, and he gave rain to the world as soon as he called the Thunder King, so people were very grateful to him, and they died and hung their filial piety, such as respecting Kaoyan. These legends are all related to the fact that the ant is a totem of the Zhuang people.

Cloth Drying Festival: On the second day of the second lunar month, Zhuang women take out their self-woven and self-dyed cloth from the cabinet and dry it on the sundeck and the field. After the girls have dried the cloth, they are carefully dressed. The young men also put on new festive clothes and went to the village in groups, looking for girls with many disadvantages and skillful craftsmanship.

Ox Soul Festival: The eighth day of April every year is the Ox Soul Festival, also known as the Yoke Rent Morning Festival. In the consciousness of the strong man, the cow is a divine creature in the sky, not an ordinary animal in the mortal world.

On this day, both the hailstones and the cattle ceased to work. The owner soaks glutinous rice in maple leaf water and steamed rice, and then pinches a ball for the cow to eat. A small low table is set up outside the cattle pen, offerings are placed, incense and candles are lit, and the bull demon king is sacrificed, and people also sing mountain songs, sing colorful tunes, and celebrate the birthday of the cow.