The origin and custom of March 3rd.

Legend has it that this is the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West.

In ancient times, every year on the third day of the third lunar month, people would go to the river for a picnic. Some people put their glasses in slow water and let them run down, while those who wait not far downstream pick them up from the water and drink them all at once. This is called "meandering water flowing". Some put boiled eggs into the water, and they flow down the river like wine glasses. People waiting downstream take the eggs out of the water and peel them and eat them. This is called "floating eggs in curved water". Some put red dates in the pool and pick them up like eggs. This is called "Qu Shui Fu Jiang Zao".

The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, also known as "March Song Festival" or "March Song Festival", is a traditional song festival of Zhuang nationality. There are many beautiful and moving legends about the origin of Ge Wei Festival among Zhuang people. ?

In ancient times, there was a couple, both famous singers, who often sang folk songs to express their affection for each other. However, due to the shackles of feudal ethics, the two could not get married, so both of them died in despair. People sang in memory of the couple on March 3rd.

Second, there was a singer named "Liu Sanjie" in the Zhuang nationality in the Tang Dynasty. She is very clever. She often praises labor and love with folk songs and exposes the sins of the rich, who hate and fear her. Therefore, on the third day of March one year, when Sanjie Liu was chopping wood on the mountain, the rich sent someone to cut off the vines, causing her to fall off the cliff and die. In memory of the singer, later generations gathered to sing on the day of Liu Sanjie's death. Singing for three days and three nights, the song fair was formed in this way. These legends are hard to verify now, but the book Taiping Universe written by Song people records: "A strong man is familiar with the valley, and he chooses a day to worship the gods, and men and women will sing songs at the grand event." This shows that the song fair was also very prosperous at that time. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the development of Zhuang folk songs was particularly prominent, and the song club became a place for cultural entertainment and romance between men and women, and there were games of throwing hydrangeas. After the woman threw the hydrangea to her beloved man, they both quit the music scene and gave each other tokens of love. In the Qing dynasty, a large-scale activity attended by thousands of people was formed.