What are the minority nationalities in Guilin? What is their traditional festival on the third day of the third lunar month?

March 3 is a traditional festival for the Han nationality and many ethnic minorities, which falls on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. In ancient times, Shangsi Festival was a festival to commemorate the Yellow Emperor. According to legend, March 3rd is the birthday of the Yellow Emperor. China has had "On February 2nd, the dragon looked up; I was born in Xuanyuan on March 3rd. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Shangsi Festival was changed to March 3, which was followed by later generations, thus becoming a festival for drinking and spring outing at the water's edge in the suburbs.

The third day of the third lunar month is also the birthday of the Taoist immortal Zhenwu Emperor. Zhenwu Emperor's full name is "Beizhen Naive Takeda Xuan Emperor", also known as Tian Xuan God, Xuanwu, Zhenwu Zhenjun. Born in the ancient Xuanyuan era, on the third day of the third lunar month. Many experts suggested that "China Christmas" should be held on March 3rd and the fourth day of Emperor Xuanyuan's birthday to enhance national cohesion.

March 3rd is also a traditional festival of Zhuang nationality. Zhuang people call it "Wobupo" or "Wopo", which originally meant to sing in the field outside the cave, so it is also called "Gewei Festival" and "Song Fairy Meeting" to commemorate Sanjie Liu.

What's the festival on March 3rd?

March 3rd is a traditional festival for many ethnic groups in China. In ancient times, Shangsi Festival was a festival to commemorate the Yellow Emperor. It is also said that March 3rd is the day when the Empress Dowager held a flat peach party, or the birthday of the Taoist Zhenwu Emperor. Zhuang nationality is also called Gewei Festival. In Guangxi, it is also called "Folk Song Festival".

March 3rd of Zhuang nationality:

"March 3rd of Zhuang Nationality" is not only an important festival of Zhuang nationality in Guangxi, but also an important festival of local Han, Yao and Miao nationalities, and its position in the minds of people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi is no less than the Spring Festival. Every year in Guangxi, more than 27 million people of all ethnic groups in 12 generations celebrate "March 3 of Zhuang nationality" in different ways, accounting for 54% of the total population in the region. In Zhuang nationality, "March 3rd" is not only a song festival of Zhuang nationality, but also a festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves.

On that day, every family of Zhuang compatriots in Chongzuo, Baise and other cities and counties in western Guangxi held a grand annual ancestor worship and grave sweeping activity. The so-called grave sweeping is the grave where every family gathers in the cemetery to worship their ancestors. Zhuang language in southwest Guangxi calls sweeping graves "visiting graves" or "monument graves". Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most grand and solemn festival of Zhuang nationality every year, and people think that the third day of the third lunar month is the most important festival.

People from afar will go back to their hometown to sweep their graves. This day is the day when the most people get together in a year. Among the Liao songs circulated among the Zhuang people for thousands of years, "March Song Steamed Black Rice to Worship the Mountain" sings: "On the third day of March, every family steamed black rice and gave me one or two groups to worship the grave mountain." This is a record of Zhuang people's custom of sweeping graves on March 3.