March 3 folk customs?

March 3 festival customs:

1, eat the ground (shepherd's purse) boiled eggs

Han people in this day have eat the ground (shepherd's purse) boiled eggs custom. On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the people of the country have the custom of eating ground vegetables boiled eggs. Shepherd's purse, also known as ground vegetables, field children's vegetables, etc., is growing in the field corner of a wild vegetable. Although it is a wild vegetable, but fresh and delicious, nutritious. Folk proverb says: "March 3, shepherd's purse when elixir." "March 3, shepherd's purse boiled eggs." Spring is the season to pick and eat chestnuts. Spring food shepherd's purse is also China's folk long traditional custom.

2, water goblet

"Water goblet" is a custom derived from this festival. Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, people go to the river to have a picnic. Some of the wine glass into the slow water, so that the wine glass with the flow downstream not far from the waiting people will pick up the wine glass from the water, and then a drink, which is called "Qu Shui Liu Gobble"; some will be boiled eggs, into the water, like the wine glass in the water downstream, waiting for the people in the downstream will be taken out of the water, and then peeled and eaten, which is called "Qu Shui Liu Gobble"; some will be boiled eggs, into the water, like wine cups in the water, and then peeled and eat, which is called "Qu Shui Liu Gobble". This is called "floating vegetarian eggs in curved water"; some put jujubes into the pool, and then pick up and eat the jujubes in the same way as the eggs, which is called "floating Jiangzhao in curved water". This custom has been popular in some regions and ethnic minorities in China so far. Zhuang, Dong and other brother ethnic groups, March 3, there is the custom of eating colored eggs.

3, Zhuang: March 3 Song Wei Festival

The third of March in some minority areas is still a grand and grand festival. The Zhuang people in the lunar calendar on the third day of March held a grand festival of song - song Wei, Zhuang language called "nesting festival". According to legend, this day is the Zhuang song fairy Liu Sanjie's shipwreck day, so set up a festival to commemorate. Liu Sanjie is a famous singer of the Zhuang people in the Tang Dynasty, the Song Wei cultivated song fairy, will sing many beautiful and beautiful songs, was honored as the founder of the song activities and disseminators.

On the day of the Song Festival, every family will make five-color glutinous rice dyed with red orchid grass, yellow rice flowers, maple leaves, purple tomato vine, etc., and also dye colorful eggs to celebrate the festival. The festival usually lasts two or three days each time, and is held in an open space not far from the village, where bamboo and cloth are used to build a singing hut to receive singers from other villages. The songs are mainly sung by unmarried young men and women, but old people and children come to watch and cheer. The content of the song is very rich, there is knowledge of the disk song, fight wisdom of the barbaric song and love songs. The content is astronomy and geography, literature, society, ethics and morality. Among them, love songs are divided into meeting songs, invitation songs, love songs and so on.