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China is a fertile land with a long history and rich culture, with many folk customs. Please illustrate and write the meaning of this folk custom with examples.

I come from Guangxi. Let me introduce the folk customs of Zhuang nationality to you. ..

The Zhuang nationality township in Guangxi on the third day of the third lunar month is full of songs. People dressed up as festivals, and young men and women flocked to the song market with joy. Riverside, valley and forest are all natural stages. In the land of spring, thousands of trees revive, tender grass is tender, wild flowers are in full bloom, or white or purple or red, competing for fragrance and beauty. This beautiful spring scenery evokes people's beautiful feelings, and joyful songs echo in the air.

Geshi is a program gathering held by Zhuang people at a specific time and place, and it is a folk activity with Errenzhuan as the main body. The Song Festival on March 3rd is a festival song festival held on March 3rd of the lunar calendar. In order to carry forward the excellent national cultural traditions and meet the ardent aspirations of the broad masses of Zhuang people, the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region decided on 1983 to hold song concerts in Nanning, Liuzhou and Guilin every year on the third day of the third lunar month.

The folk activities in Geshi on March 3rd were very grand. Before the festival, every household prepared colored glutinous rice and eggs. People pick red bluegrass, yellow rice flowers, maple leaves and wisteria, and soak glutinous rice with the juice of these plants to make red, yellow, black, purple and white glutinous rice. According to legend, this kind of food was deeply appreciated by fairies and passed down; Some people say it's a sacrificial song for his third sister Liu. After eating this kind of meal, people will be prosperous and healthy. Eggs are objects used by young men and women in Song Dynasty to communicate and convey their feelings. Before the duet, Liu Sanjie's idol was carried by everyone for a week. People prayed that she could show her talent in the song market on March 3, and blessed everyone. People have finished worshipping the fairy Liu Sanjie, and they are scrambling to open their voices and sing to each other, singing one after another. Lyrics include astronomy, geography, national history, real life, production knowledge and so on. Men, women and children spend sleepless nights in this song city, which has also become a good place to impart knowledge. Cultural and recreational activities in Xu Ge are also very active and rich, such as grabbing fireworks, performing Zhuang Opera, acrobatics, dragon dancing, collecting folk songs and singing Guangxi Opera. The whole mountain village is immersed in the festive atmosphere.

The song party on March 3 is a good opportunity for young men and women to communicate. Every song city, young men and women within dozens of miles of Fiona Fang will gather in the song city. The young man sang against the girl he liked under the guidance of the singer. Usually, young men take the initiative to sing "sightseeing songs" first, observe and look for opponents, and sing songs that will be invited when they meet the right person. If the woman is interested, she will agree. The young men sang inquiry songs again, and became friends with each other, singing love songs and making love songs. The lyrics are improvised, blurted out and attached to the scene. Song is a red line, holding two hearts. If the girl thinks that the young talents and talents in front of her are satisfied, she will quietly give the hydrangea in her arms to the right person while others are not paying attention. "He" will return it with handkerchiefs, towels and other items, and then the song will be sweeter, so she will order Qin Jin's good.

In some places, colorful embroidery sheds were set up in Song City on March 3, with young men and women on both sides. Hydrangeas danced in the air, and soft silk ears fluttered in the wind, dancing with the girl's heart.

Hydrangea is made by girls before the festival, and the production process is very exquisite. All of them are silk handicrafts: twelve petals are connected into a ball, each petal represents a month of the year, and the flowers of that month are embroidered on it. Some hydrangeas are made into squares and polygons. Hydrangeas are filled with beans, millet or cottonseed. The balls are connected by ribbons, and the tassels and decorative beads symbolize pure love. The activity of throwing hydrangeas in the Song Dynasty was described in Zhu Fu's "Xi Man Cong Xiao" in the Southern Song Dynasty: "At the local folk festivals for several days in a row, men and women in the field were divided into two friends, each with colorful new beans and millet, and they were called Feifei." Zhou Qufei also said in Answer Beyond the Ridge: "It's the third day of March, when men and women get together, and they all belong to their ranks, and the songs are thrown away, which is the beginning. If men and women achieve their goals, women will get them. The marriage between men and women has been decided. "Flying waves are hydrangeas today. Xu Ge's hydrangea connects the love between men and women, which has become the custom of communication between young men and women in Zhuang nationality.

There is also a communication custom of young men and women in the Song Fair on March 3rd: touching eggs. Eggs are things that dye boiled eggs in various colors to convey feelings. The young man held an egg in the song market to touch the egg in the girl's hand; If the girl doesn't want to, don't touch the egg. Let the boy touch it if she wants. After the egg cracked, they ate the egg, which sowed the seeds of love.

The song market of Zhuang nationality is the crystallization of the traditional culture of Zhuang nationality, which was formed in the long-term historical process. There are many touching legends about its origin. Among them, the most popular story is "singing to choose a husband". Legend has it that a long time ago, the daughter of a Zhuang singer was dignified and beautiful, and her singing was euphemistic and crisp. The singer is bent on choosing a young man with outstanding talent and distinctive personality for his daughter as a son-in-law. The news spread like wildfire, and young men came to participate in the competition. The loser naturally left, and a young man with the best talent stayed and became relatives with the singer's daughter. Their union was told as a much-told story. Since then, young men and women have used songs to express their feelings and choose their spouses, thus forming a song market.