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Why do some people say that Guangxi people have many festivals to celebrate?

Because the holiday is good! When I was a child, I liked festivals best, because I would cook big meals and some cakes at home. When I was a child, I looked forward to various festivals every year, and my family was very happy on holidays. Of course, we should pass on these festivals.

In our country, apart from the big festivals such as Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, there are many small festivals in the middle, such as the second day of February, the second day of June, the seventh day of July and the fourteenth day of July, which are all festivals we will celebrate. Perhaps because we are busy farming in the countryside, we pay special attention to festivals, which means that we can relax and get together, and it also means that we can treat ourselves well on weekdays.

Besides, we usually cook delicious food during holidays. For example, Tomb-Sweeping Day cooks mugwort leaves.

Zongzi will be made during the Dragon Boat Festival and the winter solstice.

Even on July 14, we will make cakes such as taro cakes and thousand-layer cakes.

In short, there are many festivals and many delicious foods. We still have three days' holiday in Guangxi on March 3rd, which is a traditional festival of Zhuang people in Guangxi. On March 3rd every year, Guangxi has three days' holiday, which is the only legal holiday in Guangxi. This shows the importance we attach to festivals!

There are festivals, but have you ever waited for death? You mainlanders really, our festivals in Guangxi are none of your business! You are nothing, nothing! Why do you always take my big Guangxi as an example? Shall I ask you for money? All the food you want is our own. Is it wrong for us to unite for the holidays in Guangxi?

There are festivals in Guangxi every month, including the New Calendar Festival and the Lunar New Year. I stopped talking in January. It's the same all over the country. On the second day of the second lunar month, dragons look up, and some areas have "social" festivals. Kill pigs in the village to cook cooked food, and distribute it to everyone according to the more or less share that each household will give; On the third day of the third lunar month, most folk festivals in Guangxi are celebrated by ethnic minorities, who sing folk songs, fight bulls and cook colorful meals. On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, some people cook colorful rice, except ourselves, of course, symbolically give some to the cows to comfort their hard work; On the fifth day of May, the Dragon Boat Festival includes jiaozi, lion dance and dragon boat race. June 6th and June19th, I don't know why they are called "Fool's Day", which is quite grand, but only a few people have observed it. They will buy food and invite relatives and friends to eat and drink at home. On the seventh day of July of Valentine's Day in China, the 13th "New Festival" is to pay homage to the family members who have just passed away, and the 14th Mid-Autumn Festival (Ghost Festival) is not only to pay homage to the deceased ancestors, but also to visit relatives and friends. The second day of August is the same as the second day of February, and the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th is basically the same. There are indeed many festivals, but not all festivals are celebrated by region.

In the modern fast-paced life, the relationship between people is more cold and more interests. These festivals in Guangxi are not only to celebrate the harvest, but also to draw closer the relationship between relatives and friends, so that everyone can relax and have fun after work. There may be differences, which is just a statement. )

I am from Guangxi! Since ancient times, Guangxi has been a province where a variety of ethnic minorities have gathered, with large mixed communities and small settlements, mainly farming. Every village has festivals around the busy farming season. Villages arrange appropriate days to get together with friends and treat guests, express gratitude to others for their usual help, and also show the cohesion of farmers' lives!

The Spring Festival is to be celebrated. Opening the new year-every village will invite guests to dinner on the first day of the first month. In February, when the land was born, the election date of each village was different. Friends and relatives get together and start spring ploughing (mainly rice seeds) after the festival. Next, it is the banker's third day of March. Everyone knows this, even stereotypes are almost like that! Qingming is a national holiday, which needs no introduction. Dragon Boat Festival on May 5th. In June and July, during the "New Rice Festival", these villages were also bombed in turn. From July 14 to 16, this ghost festival is also grand. After all, you can't neglect your ancestors if you live well! Mid-Autumn Festival. On the Double Ninth Festival, it is also true that people in Guangdong and Guangxi pay more attention to and respect the elderly. Next is the "Harvest Festival", which means to celebrate after the autumn harvest of late rice. This will definitely invite friends to dinner! On the solstice of winter, this is the small year of Guangdong and Guangxi people, and the "Winter New Year" is also very grand!

Festivals are mostly because the time of spring planting and autumn harvest in each village is different, and the date of celebration is also different. People like to visit relatives and friends. The hospitality and good wine of Guangxi people make every festival more grand! To sum up, Guangxi people are hospitable, Guangxi people drink good wine, Guangxi people like cohesion, and Guangxi people are United!

What a wonderful festival! It should be explained that this is all due to the personality habits of Guangxi people. We in Guangxi are hospitable and enthusiastic, and the folk customs are tough and aggressive! Therefore, every holiday will have fireworks, lions and other competitive competitions, which are very lively. Even sometimes it is normal to fight to the death! So it is not surprising that there are many festivals.

There are many festivals and sacrifices, which proves that we have a lot of inheritance. Only Lingnan people have better preserved the 5,000-year tradition of the Chinese nation. Most of the real inheritance of Han civilization is concentrated in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and on the Central Plains, especially in the east and northwest. To a great extent, it has the characteristics of foreign (or nomadic) nationalities. People who really know the history of China will certainly agree with me. You know, temples, ancestral temples, festivals and other activities are not made up by us in modern times.

I come from Guangxi. There are many festivals in Guangxi, almost every month. Of course, there are also big sections: the Spring Festival and the first day of the first month, Guanyin Dan on February 2nd and18th, Tomb-Sweeping Day on March 3rd, Dragon Boat Festival on April 8th, Guanyin Dan on May 5th, June18th, Ghost Festival on July14th, Mid-Autumn Festival on August15th. Plus the welfare clubs in spring, summer, autumn and winter all year round, is it much?

Yunfu, which borders Guangdong and Guangxi, also has many festivals to celebrate, such as the first day of the first month, the seventh day, the sixteenth day, the second day of February, Tomb-Sweeping Day in March, the eighth day of April, the May Festival, Guanyin's birthday in June, July 14th, August 15th, the Double Ninth Festival in September, the winter of November, the first day of December and the first day of December! This is a festival that our village celebrates every year. There are really festivals every month except October.

There are indeed many festivals to celebrate, such as Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, February 2nd, March 1st, March 3rd, (and Tomb-Sweeping Day) April 4th, April 8th, May 5th, June 6th, July 7th, July 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, August 15th, 16th and September 9th. There are also He Sheguo and Miao Sheguo ... Different places have different festivals.

Guangxi is a multi-ethnic community with 12 ethnic groups, including Zhuang, Han, Yao, Miao, Dong, Mulao and Maonan. On the one hand, various ethnic groups have formed colorful and distinctive traditional cultures in the long historical development process. The traditional festivals of ethnic minorities, such as "March 3rd" of Zhuang nationality, "Camellia oleifera Festival" of Longsheng Miao nationality, "Clothes-drying Festival" of Yao nationality and "Hege Festival" of Sanjiang Dong nationality, show rich folk customs and unique charm and become a beautiful landscape.

On the other hand, all ethnic groups have lived together for a long time, communicated with each other, recognized each other, influenced each other and absorbed each other, so there are some similarities and similarities in culture. This feature is highlighted in national festivals, which are one of the important contents of national traditional culture, that is, different nationalities living in the same area celebrate the same festival. Among the numerous national festivals in Guangxi, "March 3rd" can undoubtedly be regarded as "the first festival in Guangxi" in terms of both the participating nationalities and the participating population.

The festival customs and habits in Guangxi are embodied in various festival activities. They have their own festivals almost every month, and the festivals of the people in Guangxi can be described as one after another. From the content, these festivals include wishing good luck in the New Year, celebrating the beginning of farming, praying for the prosperity of six livestock, bumper harvests, comforting livestock or farmland to successfully complete a certain stage of tasks, celebrating bumper harvests, commemorating ancestors and other historical and traditional figures, and other specific good days.

It's a festival for Guangxi people. Every household kills chickens and ducks, or cooks pigs and sheep. Use glutinous rice to make five-color rice, rice flowers, rice cakes, glutinous rice balls or zongba, and have a family reunion, have dinner and drink, or invite guests away. It fully embodies the good wishes and feelings of the people of Guangxi who love life and create life. It reflects the noble moral character of the people of Guangxi, such as solidarity and mutual assistance, and love for guests as guests, and also reflects the good wishes of the Zhuang people for the blessing of many gods (gold, wood, water, fire, earth, etc.). ).

In connection with this, the festival activities of Zhuang nationality are more colorful. Before ancestor worship, it is necessary to burn incense to ancestors' graves, temples or "Mount Tai" gods, perform lion dance, dragon dance, dog dance, cat dance, chicken dance, spring cow dance, celebrate the New Year, stick red paper on houses, countries, trees, rocks and mountains, or gather dragon lanterns, pretend ancient events, and sit in karaoke bars to sing, all according to local conditions.