"March 3rd" is a traditional festival of which nationality? Zhuang and Manchu.

"March 3rd" is a traditional festival of Zhuang nationality in Guangxi.

March 3rd (March 3rd of Zhuang nationality), also known as Gewei Festival, Gepo Festival or Gexian Festival, is a traditional festival for the Zhuang people to worship their ancestors and choose their spouses by songs. It is a traditional festival with Zhuang characteristics gradually formed by the Zhuang people and their ancestors under specific historical conditions and living environment. March 3rd of Zhuang nationality is mainly spread in Luobo Town, Liangjiang Town, Luwo Town, Matou Town and Luowei Town in the west of Wuming District.

On June 5438+ 10/0, 2008, the "March 3rd" song fair declared by Wuming District Cultural Center was approved by the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and included in the second batch of intangible cultural heritage list of the autonomous region. The project numbers are: 100, 2014,65438+October, Zhuang March.

The historical origin of March 3rd.

According to historical records, the March 3rd of the Zhuang nationality comes from the sacrifice to the Northern Emperor Zhenwu God, and the March 3rd of the Zhuang nationality is the inheritance of the ancient Shangsi Festival in China. Nowadays, the "March 3rd Festival" is gradually fading in the Central Plains. The Zhuang people have infiltrated the culture with national characteristics into the March 3rd Festival in the history, which makes the March 3rd of the Zhuang people continue to be passed down in the national culture.

In ancient China, there was a record of "March 3rd, Shangsi Festival". In the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu described the customs of the Tang Dynasty in the poem "Two Ways": "There are many tourists in on the third day of the Third-month in the freshening weather and Chang 'an waterfront. Song described the scene of Guilin at 3 o'clock in March today in "March 3 in Guangxi": "The customs of the early old days are flourishing, and the whole city is boiling with Jiangqu".

The Southern Song Dynasty Zhou Dynasty's "Qu Fei answers the generation outside the ridge" records: "It is agreed to meet at the address, and the men and women in the fourth grade get together, each living in a row, tie a ball with five colors, and throw it with the song, which is called flying." When men and women succeed, women get married and men get married. "Qi Fei (now hydrangea) is a common entertainment and affection object in the gathering activities of Zhuang nationality.