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What is the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar

The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the festival. Lunar "March 3" is the traditional festival of many ethnic groups in China, including the Zhuang as a typical. According to legend, the third day of March on the summer calendar is the birth of the Yellow Emperor, which was originally a festival to commemorate the Yellow Emperor, in the northern central plains of China since ancient times, "February 2, the dragon carries the head; March 3, born Regulus," the saying. Earlier on the first of March in the lunar calendar on the Si Day, the theme of the event is to purify the purification of purification, also known as the spring bathing day. According to records, the Spring and Autumn period on the Si Festival has been very popular, "Zhou Li" Zheng Xuan note cloud: "years of purification, now March on the Si such as water and so on".

"March 3" is not just a simple traditional Zhuang Song Festival, but also the Zhuang ancestor worship, worship Pangu, Bluto ancestor of the important days.

Every March 3, young men and women of the Zhuang ethnic group gather on the streets to sing songs and on the riverside to drink and feast. At the same time, "March 3 of the Zhuang" is not only an important traditional customary festival of the Zhuang, but also a traditional festival of the Han, Yao, Dong, Miao and other ethnic groups in Guangxi.

Most of the Zhuang people celebrate March 3 by rushing to the singing pueblo, setting up singing huts and organizing singing sessions. The Li people call March 3 the Day of Love, the same as the Miao festival in Hainan. The She people gathered at the ancestral shrine, from morning to evening, the song plate song, remembering the ancestors, and picking the leaves of the Wu Nim tree, take the juice of its young leaves soaked in glutinous rice cooking Wu rice, hospitality to guests, in order to drive away evil spirits and pray for blessings.