What are the traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality? What are the traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality?

Introduction: Zhuang nationality is one of the national festivals in China, and we are very familiar with it. The most famous festival of Zhuang nationality is March 3rd, which is celebrated solemnly every year. What other traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality do you know? I want to know what the traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality are, and what the traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality are, please see my introduction.

Traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality are mostly the same as those of local Han nationality. Traditional folk festivals of Han nationality, such as Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Spring and Autumn Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and New Year's Eve, are also festivals of Zhuang nationality. There are several regular folk song gatherings of Zhuang nationality every year, among which "March 3rd" is the most grand, and there are other festivals such as Zhongyuan Festival, Gyro Festival, Longduan Festival, and Maturity Festival. There are also some festivals developed by the Zhuang people themselves, such as Chili Festival and Bai Ya Festival.

Introduction of Traditional Festivals of Zhuang Nationality

New Year's Eve

"New Year's Eve" is called "New Year's Eve" and is the last day of the Lunar New Year. This is the biggest traditional festival of Zhuang nationality in Nanning. At the beginning of the month, we began to make all kinds of preparations for the New Year. On the 30th, every household was busy cleaning the quadrangle, changing clothes, killing chickens, fishing, frying oil tofu, making zongzi and steaming rice cakes. Before dinner, every household should offer sacrifices such as pork, chicken, wine and rice to worship the ancestors' gods. Then burn paper money and set off firecrackers. After the sacrifice, we began to have a reunion dinner. The dishes are rich, and everyone drinks heartily to repay the hardships and family happiness of the year, and the dishes of this meal should be kept to show that there is more than one year.

Monkey Love Festival:

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, every household brings people fruits and food such as pumpkins, plums, plantains and cooked corn cobs, or puts them in Shan Ye, and then hides in the corner of a stone, until groups of monkeys gather to watch them eat and chew, and then people quietly leave. Legend has it that this custom is related to Nong Gaozhi's resistance to the Song Dynasty. Once, Nong Gaozhi's troops were trapped in the mountains, and they relied on digging grass roots and peeling bark to satisfy their hunger. One morning on the fifth day of May, tens of thousands of monkeys suddenly fell off the cliff with giant pumpkins in their arms, and the rebels were saved. Therefore, people set up festivals to repay.

Water storage festival:

On the seventh day of July, every household cleans the water storage tank, and then goes to the spring, stream or river to pick up fresh water and fill it with water. People call the water picked up on this day "fairy water", which is used to cook longevity wine for the elderly, porridge for children, sauerkraut and fruit, and can also be used to dye cloth, make wine, make vinegar and treat diseases.

Visit luna festival:

August 15. Commonly known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Reunion Festival. On this day, Zhuang people eat moon cakes and steam powder to make cakes to celebrate the festival of killing ducks with chickens. Appreciate and worship the moon and Yue Bai in various ways.

Grade one and grade two

All tourists must eat zongzi. Zongzi of Zhuang nationality is a noble food. There are big and small zongzi, the big one is one or two Jin, the small one is two or three Liang, and there is another kind called "Feng Mo" (extra-large zongzi), one or two Jin. The main raw material of zongzi is glutinous rice, but it should have stuffing. The stuffing is peeled mung beans and semi-fat pig skin mixed with sauce, which is placed in the heart of Zongzi. After cooking, its taste is necessary.

Cooking festival

1February 23rd is the cooking festival. Legend has it that the Heaven Emperor sent the Kitchen God to the earth to take charge of fireworks and supervise people's behavior. Every Sunday, the Kitchen God returns to the sky to report on his work and the human situation. In order to please the Kitchen God and make him "speak well in heaven and have good luck tomorrow", people offer sacrifices to him and pray for the safety and happiness of his family. At that time, every family will kill a rooster as a sacrifice, and let the kitchen god be a guest and send it to heaven. On New Year's Eve, we will offer sacrifices to welcome the Kitchen God back. So, the dealer took advantage of the kitchen god to leave, and each family built a new kitchen and cleaned it. After the Cooking Festival, families began to prepare for the New Year.

Double Ninth Festival

In the past, Zhuang people in the suburbs had the habit of Double Ninth Festival. On the ninth day of September, families set up sacrifices to the ancestors, and then the whole family had a dinner to honor the elderly. On that day, some places still have the custom of offering sacrifices to sweep graves. For example, in Wulian Village, Ding Shuang, Zhuang people go out to offer sacrifices in the early morning.

Farm tools festival

Traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality in southwest Guangxi. It is held every year on February 29th of the lunar calendar. On that day, all kinds of agricultural production tools processed and produced by every household were picked out in the market and arranged in a row in turn, including plough frame, yoke, dustpan, dustpan, shoulder pole, hoe, plow, rake, hoe handle, laundry basket, bamboo mat, grain basket, grain bucket, furniture and so on. People are shopping for spring ploughing.

Bai Ya Festival

The Zhuang people in Zhenning and Suowu, Bao 'ai Town, Funing County, Yunnan Province, kill one cow, one pig, two chickens and forty-eight fish every April on Rabbit Day, and go to Bai Ya Mountain to offer a drink to the Zhuang woman Bai Ya (the legend is that Nong Gaozhi's mother). On that day, men, women and children were present, and the etiquette was very grand. According to legend, Bai Ya is the leader of a Zhuang village. She led the Zhuang people to fight against the officers and men and was killed after failure. They buried her at the top of a high mountain and called it Bai Ya Mountain. Every year, on the day of Bai Ya's death, the Zhuang people kill cows and pigs to commemorate her. This annual commemoration has never stopped, and over time, it has formed a festival-Bai Ya Festival. Traditional festivals and customs of Zhuang nationality.

Gyroscope joint

In places where Zhuang people live in compact communities in Guangxi, a famous sports activity-Gyro Festival is held every year. The time lasts for more than half a month from two or three days before New Year's Eve to the 16th day of the first month. Gyroscope, called "Le Jiang" in Zhuang language, is big and small, light and heavy. Some are as big as Hetian pomelo and weigh about a catty, some are as small as goose eggs, and some are 232. To make a gyro, you must choose good quality hardwood. Its head should be smooth. When you "hit", use two or three feet of hemp rope to wrap it around several times until you feel fit, then hold the end of the hemp rope with the ring finger and little finger of your right hand and spin it to the ground quickly, and the gyro will "whir". A good quality coat, coupled with clever rotation technology, will take seven or eight minutes to fall off. It is even more lively to top the competition, and the winner is honored as the "top king". It is said that it has been more than 300 years since the rise of gyro play.

Longduan steet

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival for the Zhuang people in Funing County, Yunnan Province and Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture nearby. "Long Duan" (Zhuang language, meaning to drive the dam), a traditional festival of Zhuang nationality, transliterated in Zhuang language, means to meet in a wide and flat place. According to legend, this festival has a history of more than 700 years. It was originally to commemorate the deeds of 1052, the national hero Nong (Zhuang) who rebelled against the Song Dynasty in April. Longduan Street has developed into a traditional festival for the Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Yi and Han nationalities in Funing County and its surrounding areas to exchange materials and celebrate together. According to legend, in the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to resist the cruel oppression and exploitation of feudal rulers, farmers led the Zhuang people in Guangxi to rise up and win one after another, established the "Nantian" and claimed to be the "Southern King", and conquered Nanning, Qinzhou and Guangzhou, which had great influence. Later, the insurgents lost and retreated to Funing. In order to quell the peasant uprising and weaken the rebel forces, the rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty dismissed the Zhuang people to Guizhou and other places. Before leaving, the Zhuang people gathered in succession, saying goodbye and urging the villagers to reunite again next year. Since then, every year in the third month of the lunar calendar, Zhuang people who have been living in other places will go home to reunite with their relatives and friends. With the passage of time, the "dragon section" festival was formed. The Dragon Boat Festival begins on March 25th of the lunar calendar and lasts for three days. As the host village before the festival, pigs and cows were slaughtered, a stage was set up on the dam, and accommodation arrangements for receiving guests were made. At that time, the girls will wear collarless cardigans, batik skirts with silver rows and embroidered lace patterns at the corners, gorgeous chest bags and embroidered shoes, and all the flowers will be beautiful. Brave young people meet girls and sing and dance until sunset. Those who are still interested can continue to sing with the girl into the village.

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

The Spring Festival of Zhuang nationality lasts for ***3 days from New Year's Eve to the first and second days of the first month, but the third day to the fifth day is still considered as the Spring Festival period. This is the biggest festival of the Zhuang nationality in a year. Generally, preparations begin on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Every household engages in hygiene, sewing clothes and trousers, buying new year's goods, putting up couplets, making cakes, killing pigs, making zongzi, setting off firecrackers and wearing special clothes. The Spring Festival is also a time for reunion. Anyone who works outside should go home for reunion and have a reunion dinner before the 30th. During the Spring Festival, in addition to visiting relatives and friends, young men and women often participate in cultural and sports activities, such as singing duet, playing top, dancing, ball games and performances. On New Year's Eve, people kill chickens and ducks, steam braised pork, powder lean meat, cook barbecued pork and so on. In the eight-course dinner, "white chopped chicken" is indispensable. Families with elderly people will stew pig's trotters and whole chickens. Rice needs to be cooked a lot and saved for the next day, which symbolizes wealth.

On New Year's Eve, every household should keep the New Year's Eve until midnight when chickens crow and firecrackers are set off to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.

Chunshe holiday

Also known as "Baoyang Festival", it means "Spring Prayer". On the second day of February, all villages or clans jointly slaughtered pigs and sheep, and went to the country altar or the land temple to offer sacrifices to the country king or the land god, praying for the gods to bless the whole village for peace, good weather and prosperity of people and animals. In ancient times, there was a custom of "Spring Society, where urban and rural people spent money to worship the land god, and people of all ages gathered to drink and spread happiness". Each family has one person to participate in the activities of the sacrificial society, usually male (that is, parents; If the father dies, the eldest son will attend. After the sacrifice, eat dinner in front of the social altar, or go home to worship the ancestors by distributing the offerings evenly to each household.