Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Festival, Torch Festival and March 3rd are national festivals?

Tibetan bathing festival

Yi torch festival

On March 3rd, Li and Miao nationalities.

"March 3rd" is a traditional festival of Li and Miao people, also known as "love plot". This is a traditional festival for Li and Miao people to mourn their ancestors, celebrate their new life, praise life, and praise heroes and love. It is called "March 3" because it is celebrated on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar.

Regarding the origin of the "March 3rd" of the Li nationality, it is said that ancient humans suffered from a flood, and a man and a woman hid in a gourd melon and drifted with the flood to the uninhabited Hainan Island. In order to breed human beings, on March 3rd, they expressed their love to Song and got married, thus breeding descendants of Li nationality. On March 3, the descendants of the Li nationality commemorated their ancestors' happy marriage and their achievements in breeding the Li nationality in various ways.

"March 3rd" is also a traditional festival for Miao people to commemorate their ancestors. According to the legend of Miao ancient songs, in ancient times, five ancestors of Miao nationality (surnamed Deng, surnamed Pan, surnamed Li, surnamed Zhao and surnamed Jiang) crossed the ocean to Hainan Island. On their way across the sea, they agreed that when they reached the shore, they would go their separate ways and make their own living, but they would meet once a year on the third day of the third lunar month. Later, according to the instructions of our ancestors, on March 3 every year, Miao people gather in groups of three to five to commemorate their ancestors.

On the third day of March every year, when the mountain flowers are blooming, the red cotton is in full bloom and the betel nut is fragrant, Li Men and the women will put on their costumes and come to the venue from all directions to worship their ancestors with Shan Lan rice wine, bamboo rice and zongzi. Whenever night falls and the mountain breeze is cool, elderly people get together to drink and catch up, while young men and women meet in groups to sing and express their love. At dawn, I will say goodbye and see you on March 3 next year. On this day, Miao people will kill chickens and catch fish, steam tricolor rice and offer sacrifices to their ancestors.

1984, with the approval of Guangdong Provincial People's Congress and Provincial People's Government, the People's Government of Hainan Li and Miao Autonomous Prefecture designated "March 3rd" as a festival. After the revocation of the autonomous prefecture, the cities and counties under the jurisdiction of the former autonomous prefectures such as Qiongzhong and Baoting still retain this traditional festival.

Yi torch festival

Torch Festival is a grand traditional festival of Yi people in Zhijin, which is divided into "Big Torch Festival" and "Little Torch Festival". The Little Torch Festival is on April 24th of the lunar calendar, and the Big Torch Festival is on June 24th of the lunar calendar. Large and small Torch Festivals have the same activities.

On the festival day, every household in Yi Nationality Village has to erect many torches in front of the door to prepare for activities. At the same time, choose an open space near the village, erect a pine tree with a length of 10 ~ 20 meters in the center of the ground, put a wooden stick with red paper flowers horizontally at the top of the pine tree, and pile a pagoda-shaped torch around the pine tree with flammable firewood as an activity place. In the evening, the host of the festival led the gongs and drums team to beat drums. Every household in the village heard the sound of gongs and drums and went out to light torches. Men, women and children gathered at the activity venue holding torches. After everyone arrived, the host gave the order, and everyone raised the torch and ran to the pagoda-shaped torch to light it. At that time, the flames were blazing and cheers were everywhere. Everyone held small torches around the big torch, danced "Harvest Dance", sang harvest songs, and sang and danced enthusiastically. At the end of the song and dance, people from all households walked into their fields with torches, held torch parades in scattered places, and traveled all over their fields to express their desire to eliminate pests, pray for good weather, ensure a bumper harvest of crops, ensure the safety of the people and the prosperity of six livestock. Zhijin Yi Torch Festival takes Songshuping, the third town in Tang Dynasty, as the main event, and thousands of people attend it every year. An orderly monument was erected at the venue to record the formation and continuation of the Torch Festival here. In recent years, with the improvement of the economic and cultural living standards of Yi compatriots, the atmosphere of Torch Festival is getting more and more grand every year. Taking the harvest dance of Torch Festival as the material, the national culture and art team of this county compiled and practiced yi dance's "Ring the bell to celebrate the harvest", which was well received in provincial and local performances.

Tibetan bathing festival

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July 10 (September 2000) is a traditional festival of the Tibetan people, which has a history of at least 700 to 800 years in Tibet.

At this time, according to Buddhism, the water on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has eight advantages: sweet, cool, soft, light, clear and odorless. Seven cups won't hurt your throat, and eight cups won't hurt your stomach. Therefore, July is called the best time to take a bath. Tibetan bathing festival lasts for five or six days. During the festival, whether in towns or villages, rural areas or pastoral areas, people bring tents, butter tea, highland barley wine, Ciba and other foods to the banks of Lhasa River and Yarlung Zangbo River to compete for water and enjoy playing in the water. Bathing Festival is a masterpiece of Tibetan folk culture, with a long time span and wide spread. Until today, it is still full of vigor and vitality, and it also absorbs a lot of entertainment culture, thus making today's bathing festival evolve into a comprehensive social festival integrating religion, entertainment, fitness and social education.

Qingshuijiang Miao Dragon Boat Festival

In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the Han people have the custom of dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival. Miao people living in Kaili, Guizhou also have the custom of dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival in May of the lunar calendar. The Dragon Boat Festival of the Han nationality is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, while the Dragon Boat Festival of the Miao nationality is on the 24th to 27th of the fifth lunar month. The Miao language of Dragon Boat Festival is called "Zhaweng" (meaning to row a dragon boat), and it is also called "Louweng" (meaning to eat dragon meat).

Dragon Boat Festival is generally held on Qingshui River, which passes through Kaili, also known as Longtou River. Every year in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the Miao people who live here will spend the Dragon Boat Festival here.

Legend of Miao Dragon Boat Festival

About the origin of Camus Dragon Boat Festival, there are two legends circulating in southeastern Guizhou.

There is a legend that the Dragon King, who represents the rain in the sky, once took a wrong step in the rain, and the time of the rain went against God's will. God was so angry that Lei Gong cut the Dragon King into pieces and threw it into the river. From then on, in the event of drought, the Miao people built dragon boats and rowed along the Qingshui River, symbolizing the resurrection of the Dragon King hacked to death by Lei Gong and raining on the earth as usual. This is an ancient custom of dragon boat racing for rain.

Another legend says that two men, father and son, were fishing in the river, and the son was caught by the dragon king as a pillow. In a rage, my father set fire to the Dragon Palace, cut the dragon into several pieces and floated in the river. Let's check the dragon meat and share it. But after eating meat, it was completely dark in kuya for nine days, regardless of day and night. One day, a woman took her children to the river to wash clothes. The child beat the river with a wooden stick and kept imitating the sound of drums. It will be dawn soon. In the future, the Miao people near this river will celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival and play drums for dragon boat races.

Miao dragon boat is made of Chinese fir and consists of three parts: denominator boat and two side boats. There are six cabins in the center of the mother ship. The fourth cabin is filled with pigs, sheep, geese and sailors' food presented by relatives and friends during the Dragon Boat Festival. The side boats are places for sailors to paddle. The Miao people row the dragon boat standing, which is different from the Han people sitting and rowing.

The faucets are exquisitely carved. On the horns like horns, auspicious words such as "good weather" and "peaceful country and people's safety" are usually written. Usually, the dragon boat is placed in the "dragon boat boron" specially used to put the hull. Some "Dragon Boat Sheds" are also covered with couplets, such as: "Dragon Boat is an eternal thing, loyalty and filial piety are prosperous for a thousand years, brocade is all over the world, mountains and rivers are eternal, and the sequence is prosperous for a hundred years" and so on. Most of the horizontal approvals are "people's reunion" and "Wanbao comes to the DPRK". Before the Dragon Boat Festival, the villagers held a grand ceremony to worship the dragon boat, and then they carried it down and put it into Qingshui River for practice and competition.

The Miao people who take part in the dragon boat race have as many as thirty or forty sailors per boat, and the leading figure is the "Dragon Bow", which means the drummer on board. The sailors of the whole ship listened to the drummer's command and paddled according to the rhythm of the drums. A little boy dressed as a woman, wearing Miao silver ornaments and knocking on the gong. At the helm will be the person who knows the most about water, the ferryman, and a strong man with good strength will stand at the bow and pole. There is also a special person who is responsible for putting soil cannons on the boat at the beginning of the game, when leaving the village and when returning to the village. There are even "literate people" who can write and calculate, and write down all the gifts from three relatives and six relatives on board. During the festival, sailors enjoy three meals a day of wine and meat, all donated by villagers and relatives and friends in villages along the Yangtze River. After the Dragon Boat Festival, you need to enjoy a goose or a duck. The selection of sailors is very strict, and no woman with children at home can be a sailor.

At the end of the Dragon Boat Festival, each village should choose the fattest pig in the village and invite the whole village to have dinner after slaughter to thank the whole village for their support of the Dragon Boat Festival.

The Camus Dragon Boat Festival is from May 24th to 27th in the lunar calendar, and as early as May18th and19th, the dragon boat will be washed. On the 22nd and 23rd, the mother ship was tied to the ship and the faucet was installed. On the 24th, a grand opening ceremony was held, and a square table was placed beside a well or ditch with a dragon god. The legs of the table should be tied with branches without leaves and bark, an umbrella, red cloth, paper money and a handful of grass. Provide a liter of rice on the table and take down a white rooster to sweep away evil spirits and worship God. In the past, on the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival, wizards were asked to recite scriptures. Now, the witchcraft etiquette here is mostly simple. However, the rules of witchcraft are endless. For example, the dragon boat must not stop or rest in the process of crossing, and must row to the end in one breath. After the dragon boat turned around, the helmsman gave each sailor a bunch of exorcism grass and threw it into the river together.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, there were a sea of people on both sides of Qingshui River. Besides boat racing, there are folk activities such as drumming and blowing sheng. This period is also a festival for young men and women to sing and love each other. (China Folk Network)