What festival is the third day of March of Yao nationality?

What's the festival of March 3rd of Yao nationality? What day is March 3rd of Yao nationality?

March 3 is the Yao Song Festival, which falls on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year.

March 3rd is Yao Song Festival.

The traditional festival of Yao nationality in Longsheng Autonomous County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is held on the third day of the third lunar month every year. On this day, the local Yao people will hold activities of playing camellia and singing folk songs. Local folk songs, order songs, tea songs, worship songs, etc. The forms are flexible and diverse, including duet, chorus, teaching singing and so on. There is a local proverb that "the mountain is lined with red flowers and green leaves, and the Yaozhai Camellia oleifera is accompanied by folk songs". According to legend, Yao's family was so tired that they bent their backs when they dug mountains and cultivated land in spring and harvested in autumn. The gods in the sky pitied their hardships and were moved by their industrious spirit, so they dressed up as passers-by businessmen to help the Yao people and tied a hemp rope on people's poles and baskets, making the burden light and leisurely. Then they let everyone sit down and rest, and taught them to sing folk songs and sing around, forgetting fatigue. This day happens to be the third day of the third lunar month. Later, in order to thank the gods for their help, the Yao family designated this day as a traditional song concert.

The fifth day of May is the bathing festival of Yao people.

Yao festivals in Xincheng, Shanglin, Mashan and Du 'an in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region are held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. On the morning of the festival, people from every household go up the mountain with knives and hoes to collect leaves, stems, roots, skins, flowers and fruits of various plants, which are called "hundred herbs". Collecting herbs must be done in the morning, because people think this time is the most auspicious time of the day when the air is fresh and the sun is full.

After the herbs are collected, they are washed and dried. Wait until around five in the afternoon. The oldest and healthiest old man in the family will chop the medicinal materials into small pieces, put them in a large pot, cook them with clear water, and then take them out. Then scoop the herbs in the pot into a big jar, add some salt, and when the herbs are warm, the whole family will take a bath according to their age. Taking a bath with herbs is refreshing. It is said that it can eliminate all diseases and enhance physical fitness, but it can't be washed with water within two days after washing, otherwise it can't prevent diseases and ward off evil spirits. According to folklore, the Bath Festival is to commemorate a healthy and long-lived Yao old man. It is said that the old man took a bath with herbs on May 5th every year from the age of 15, and lived to the age of 139.

The beginning of June is the Six Sacrifices Day for the Yao People.

The folk festival of Yao Hong people in Longsheng Yao Autonomous County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is held on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month every year. Legend has it that the Yao people in ancient times forgot to sacrifice to the gods because they were busy with farming and hunting. The Jade Emperor sent two plague gods to Yaoshan to spread malaria and other diseases to punish the Yao people. It will be several years before they come back. One day, the gods of two athletes were talking under a tree, saying that they had forgotten the sun and the moon after they came to the earth. After listening to this, they went back to Yaocun to discuss and decided that on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, every family would kill and cook, bang gongs and firecrackers, sprinkle lime everywhere as snow, and the children shouted "New Year" everywhere. The athlete God was tricked into returning to heaven in advance, so that Yao's family could get well-being. This year, because the ground was sprinkled with lime, the crops grew well, so the "half-year" festival was held every year on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month.

In the past, the local Yao people cultivated Xintian, and each place chose a larger field as the "Tianniang", that is, the mother of many fields. Anyone who has Tian Niang will kill ducks on the sixth day of June as a sacrifice to Tian Niang and pray for a bumper harvest. Early in the morning, the host family killed the duck, cooked it and put it in the basket. Then they brought a pot of wine, three sticks of incense, three wine glasses, a pile of paper money and a reed with paper flowers to Abel Tamata Niang to toast and burn incense and paper money to worship. People who go to the fields hold a draft in their hands, indicating that they can't talk to other people. The ducks in the field are not for outsiders to eat. When eating ducks, the family put up a straw sign, indicating that eating ducks is for the field, hoping that others will not come into the house. Other families also offer sacrifices to God and Mother Earth on this day. On this day, all fields are planted with colorful flags to ensure a bumper harvest and avoid disaster.

Yao (the legendary leader of the tribal alliance in the late period of the patriarchal clan society in ancient China)

Yao people are mainly distributed in more than 30 counties in Guangxi, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou and Jiangxi. According to the fifth national census in 2000, there are 263,742 Yao people1person in China, among which Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is the largest inhabited area of Yao people, with more than14710/6 people, accounting for 55.8 1% of the total population of Yao people in China. Followed by Hunan Province, there are 704,564 Yao people, mainly living in 22 counties such as Jianghua, Ningyuan, Lanshan, Xinning and Longhui. There are 20007 Yao people in Guangdong Province, with Liannan, Ruyuan, Lianxian, Qujiang, Lianshan and Shixing1/counties as the main settlements. There are 1 year and 6 10 people in Yunnan province, with Hekou, Jinping, Pingbian, Yiwu, Mengla, Malipo, Guangnan, Funing and other 17 counties as the main settlements. There are 44,392 people in Guizhou Province, mainly distributed in Libo, Liping, Congjiang and Rongjiang counties. There are 69 inclined personnel in Hainan province. In addition, Yao people are scattered in Zhejiang, Hubei, Hebei, Fujian, Jiangxi, Beijing and other provinces and cities, with a population of 1000.