The custom of Gewei Festival

Customs of Ge Weijie Festival: ancestor worship, five-color glutinous rice, egg collision, hydrangea love, bamboo dance and love songs.

1, ancestor worship

In some places, the third day of March is mainly a sacrifice, and some people in their club send sacrificial supplies to worship the ancestral graves. Their rituals mainly include weeding and adding soil, trimming the cemetery, burning incense and going to the grave, offering sacrifices, bowing down and toasting, burning money, hanging money by branding, setting off firecrackers, and praying for ancestors to bless their families' happiness and well-being. After the worship, everyone will get together for dinner. This kind of dinner is very harmonious, which can increase their sense of identity and family.

2, five-color glutinous rice

Before the "March 3rd" festival, every household will choose high-quality glutinous rice, soak it in the juices of different herbs, dye it and steam it, which is the five-color glutinous rice. Five-color glutinous rice not only symbolizes harvest, happiness and auspiciousness, but also represents the five directions of yin and yang, five elements, east, west, north and south. It is used to worship ancestors, pray for family safety, and have a bumper harvest in a year.

In addition, March and April each year is the coldest time for the human body, and five-color glutinous rice has the effect of expelling cold and evil spirits. Whether adults or children, eating some five-color glutinous rice properly is conducive to expelling the cold in the body.

Step 3 break eggs

During the festival, every family chooses eggs, and after cooking, they are colored with various pigments, most of which are mainly red, because red represents a good sign of prosperity. Children will hang eggs on their bodies. When they go out to play, they can play the game of "crashing eggs" when they meet the same partners who hang eggs. Whoever has no cracks will be the winner. In the folk, the person who succeeds in breaking eggs is a good hit.

4. Love of hydrangea

Hydrangea in Xu Ge is a handicraft made by girls before the festival. Exquisite craftsmanship, all silk crafts: 12 petals are connected into a sphere, each petal represents a month of the year, embroidered with flowers of that month. 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.

5. jump on the bamboo pole.

Two big bamboo poles are laid flat on the ground, outside the two big bamboo poles, in pairs, holding small bamboo poles face to face and sliding back and forth along the big bamboo poles, and dancers jump in the gap between the two bamboo poles. The dance moves are lively and cheerful, imitating the shapes of ants, turtledoves, leopards and thrushes. Bamboo dance is generally divided into four links: meeting in the mountains, crossing the river in the bridge, falling in love and taking the bride home. Every link reveals the sincere feelings of Miao young men and women, full of many original aesthetic elements, simple and natural.

6. Talk about love with songs

The Song Festival on March 3rd is a good opportunity for young men and women to communicate. At every concert, young men and women within dozens of miles of Fiona Fang will gather at the concert to perform duets. 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 all improvised and blurted out. 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.