Why do you want to play folk songs and jump on bamboo poles on March 3?

The third day of the third lunar month, also known as Shangsi Festival, is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, with Han, Zhuang, Miao and Yao as typical examples. March 3 is still a grand festival in some minority areas in southwest China.

In the Central Plains of northern China, there is also a "February 2, the dragon looks up; On March 3rd, XuanYuanSheng ". On this day every year, Chinese descendants from all over the world come to xinzheng city, the hometown of the Yellow Emperor, to seek roots and worship their ancestors. In The Analects of Confucius, it is recorded that "people are in the late spring, have finished their spring clothes, five or six people are crowned, and the boy is six or seven people, bathing in the release, and the wind is dancing and singing", and the "Qushui Flow" in The Preface to Lanting is related to Shangsi Festival.

"March 3rd" is a simple traditional song meeting of Zhuang people, and it is also an important day for Zhuang people to worship their ancestors and ancestors of Pangu and Buluotuo. On March 3rd every year, young men and women of Zhuang nationality gather in the street to sing and hold a banquet by the river. At the same time, "March 3rd of Zhuang Nationality" is not only an important traditional festival of Zhuang nationality, but also a traditional festival of Han, Yao, Dong and Miao nationalities in Guangxi.

Most Zhuang people celebrate the third day of March by catching up with song parties, setting up song booths and holding song parties. Li people call March 3rd Love Day, which is the same as Hainan Miao Festival. She people gather in the ancestral hall from morning till night, singing songs to remember their ancestors, picking barnyard grass leaves, soaking tender leaves in glutinous rice to cook black rice, and entertaining guests to exorcise evil spirits and pray.

From 20 14, "March 3rd of Zhuang Nationality" is a legal traditional public holiday in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and all citizens in the autonomous region have two days off.