The Customs of Dasi Town

The folk culture of Dasi Town is a link between the past and the future, and its entertainment activities are rich and colorful. Folk cultural groups include Dragon and Lion Team, Tiaolingtou Team and Tea Picking Team. The residents are mainly Zhuang people, who speak Zhuang local dialect and vernacular (Cantonese).

Zhuang, Han and other ethnic minorities live together, and they are closely related, integrated and have similar living customs. Festivals mainly include Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, March 3rd, Dragon Boat Festival, Ghost Festival (July14th), Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Winter Solstice Festival. Among them, March 3 is a traditional festival of Zhuang nationality, and other festivals are basically the same as those of Han nationality and Zhuang nationality.

Every year on March 3rd and Mid-Autumn Festival (festivals are celebrated in different villages, usually from August 8th to August17th), every family welcomes friends and relatives to get together to celebrate the festival. The masses have the custom of jumping on the ridge when celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The residents of Dasi Town are used to making zongzi during the annual Wu Rui Festival and the Spring Festival. The main foods of important festivals are: oil eggs, black rice, fried dates and so on.

Tiaolingtou

The oldest ritual mask dance in Qinzhou. According to the records of Qinzhou annals in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 1658 years ago was popular in Yongle Capital, Qin Zhou (now Dasi Town, Guitai and other Zhuang settlements), and it was extended to Zhuang and Qiang villages in the city fourteen years ago (1834). At first, the time of offering sacrifices was the Mid-Autumn Festival every year (August 15 in the family calendar), and it was extended to the beginning of August to the end of August in 35 years of the Republic of China, and the villages took turns to hold it regularly. It is the same as the "music and dance" in the Huashan mural of Zhuang nationality in Guangxi. According to 1983, the staff of China Dance Research Institute went to Qinzhou to video the dance, saying that "this kind of dance legend was born in Yao and Shun, and now it is rare in China."

Qinzhou tea-picking opera

The folk song and dance drama system belongs to the category of traditional operas in China, which originated in Jiangxi and was introduced to Qinzhou in about 1780. After more than 200 years of reform, it has become a unique local tea-picking drama in Qinzhou. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 10 tea-picking songs and dances, more than 50 small plays and more than 60 major plays such as Shuner.