The origin and customs of the March 3rd Festival in Guangxi

The third day of March in Guangxi is the Song Wei Festival, and the festival customs are: wrapping five-color glutinous rice, grabbing flower cannons, hydrangea teasing, playing flat dan, and talking about songs.

1. Wrap five-color glutinous rice.

Before the festival, every household prepares five-colored glutinous rice and eggs. People pick red orchid grass, yellow rice flower or yellow gardenia, maple leaf, purple vine, and soak glutinous rice with the juice of these plants to make red, yellow, black, purple, and white glutinous rice. According to legend, this food was passed down after being appreciated by the fairies.

2. Grab the flower cannon.

On the third day of the third lunar month and after the autumn harvest, some ethnic minority areas in Guangxi will spontaneously organize a campaign to grab fireworks. There are 8 people in each team participating in the snatching of fireworks, and the team members rush into the opponent's turret by breaking through, blocking people, changing directions, and rushing quickly, and put the firecrackers into the score. The rules are similar to the game of rugby in the West, so it is called "rugby in the East".

3. Hydrangea teasing.

The hydrangea of Gewei is a handicraft made by the girls before the festival, and the production process is very exquisite, all of them are silk handicrafts: twelve petals are connected into a sphere, each petal represents a certain month of the year, and the flowers of the month are embroidered on it. Some hydrangeas are made in square, polygonal, etc.

The hydrangea contains bean millet or cottonseed. A silk ribbon is attached to the ball, and silk tassels and decorated beads are pendant, symbolizing pure love.

4. Flattening the shoulder.

Playing flat is a traditional self-entertainment activity, every Zhuang family is an actor who "plays in the hall", the women's movements are light and graceful, the men's movements are strong and powerful, and the self-entertaining "playing in the hall" entrusts the Zhuang people to pray for a bumper harvest.

5. Talk about songs.

The "March 3rd" song is a good time for young men and women to socialize. Every time there is a song, young men and women within a radius of dozens of miles gather at the songwei point. Under the guidance of the singer, the young man sang to the girl he liked.

Origin: "March 3rd" is the birthday of the ancestor of the Zhuang people, Bu Luotuo, in the legend of the Zhuang people. Legend has it that the third day of the third lunar month is the birthday of the Yellow Emperor. March 3, born Xuanyuan".

Customs: 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.

At the same time, "March 3rd of Zhuang Nationality" is not only an important traditional custom festival of the Zhuang nationality, but also a traditional festival of the Han nationality, Yao nationality, Dong nationality, Miao nationality and other ethnic groups in Guangxi.

"Guangxi March 3rd Township Music Broadcast Global" activity

Guangxi March 3, Township Music Broadcast Global" activity in the form of theatrical performances to promote and spread Guangxi's characteristic national culture, showing the beautiful situation of Guangxi's ethnic groups living in harmony and harmonious development, sending out Guangxi's voice to the world, telling Guangxi's story well, letting the world understand Guangxi, improving the reputation and influence of Zhuangxiang culture at home and abroad, condensing the broad consensus and strong positive energy of the Chinese people at home and abroad, and guiding the majority of overseas Chinese to enhance their identification with the great motherland and the Chinese nation. It has played a positive role in the recognition of Chinese culture.

In the district, the "Guangxi March 3, Township Music Broadcast Global" activity entered the overseas Chinese villages and farms, combining cultural publicity with public welfare and charity, poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, and promoting and spreading Guangxi's characteristic ethnic culture through their familiar hometown sounds in a way that the majority of overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives like to see, and send them the blessings of their hometown.

Guangxi's March 3rd was called the Shangsi Festival in ancient times, it is a festival to commemorate the Yellow Emperor, in ancient times, the 3rd of March was also the Shangsi Festival, and later it was merged by the Qingming Festival, and now the Shangsi Festival has gradually disappeared, but the traditional minority festival of March 3rd is still tenaciously rooted in this land.

Legend has it that this is the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West, in ancient times, the first day of the third month of the lunar calendar was the "Shangsi", and the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar was set after the Wei and Jin dynasties.

Fan Ye of the Southern Dynasty Song Dynasty uploaded in the "Book of Etiquette of the Later Han Dynasty": "The stars and the moon are on the top, the officials and the people are clean and on the east flowing water, it is said that washing and uprooting, removing dirt and phlegm, is a great clean." It is said that in ancient times, people would wash by the Qingshui River on this day, for the purpose of hygiene and health care, and later it evolved into a festival of drinking and feasting by the water and spring outing in the suburbs.

Wu Zimu of the Song Dynasty recorded in "Menglianglu March": "Give a banquet to Qujiang, pour the capital to drink wedges, and go green". At present, the Han nationality and many ethnic minority areas in China still inherit the traditional festival of "March 3rd".

It's just that the content and meaning of "washing and removal" have been diluted. Nowadays, the March 3rd Festival has become a comprehensive festival that holds grand temple fairs, spring outings, leisure, amusement, and market activities.