Wenshan March 3 what is the festival

1, "March 3" festival, also known as the sacrifice of the dragon ("dragon" is the meaning of the gods) festival, is one of the most important traditional festivals of the Zhuang people in Qubei, has a history of thousands of years.

2. Since ancient times, the Zhuang compatriots in Qubei have been celebrating the March 3 Festival on the first snake day of March in the lunar calendar every year. During the festival to carry out activities such as sacrificing the dragon, sacrificing the small white dragon and sacrificing ancestors. The purpose is to advocate the clan to respect the mountains and forests, protect the forests, protect water sources, and live in harmony with nature.

3, the first round of the first month of the lunar calendar every year is the first day of the Dragon Festival for the first month of the Dragon Festival Zhai God (Zhai God equivalent to the Han Chinese God of the mountains and land God) days. The public offering is a pig, which is killed and placed on a tree platform in a kneeling position.

4, each family out of a man to participate in the public sacrifice, each person will be a bowl of three-color glutinous rice and a handful of incense to the officiating priest to offer to the dragon platform, and then bowed to worship. After the worship, they drink wine and eat, during which they are free to sing and pray to the gods.

Customs on the third day of the third month:

Eating eggs boiled with water chestnuts

On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, there is a custom of eating eggs boiled with water chestnuts, which, according to the old people, can be eaten throughout the year without pain in the waist and legs and headaches. Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the Han Chinese welcome the souls of their ancestors and eat eggs in honor of them, hoping to dip into the aura.

Flying kites

The people of Jiangnan have had the custom of flying kites at Qingming since ancient times. Shanghai proverbs: "February 2, rubbing hemp thread, March 3, kite flying" and: "Yangliuqing, kite flying." Folk also said that the kite will be sent to the sky, the line will be cut, let it drift away, will be a year of illness and worry away.