Guangxi Zhuang Mid-Autumn Festival Customs

Guangxi Zhuang Mid-Autumn Festival customs:

1, burning pomelo incense

Mid-Autumn Festival is the traditional festival of the Zhuang Shatian pomelo harvest season, some people will be inserted in the pomelo incense, called burning pomelo incense, and with a long pole lifted over the eaves of the house, said to the moon respect. Pomelo shell has a special aroma, fine incense inserted broken, fragrant, can drive away the filth.

2, Zhuang folk singing

In Wuming, Guangxi, every Mid-Autumn Festival night, the local Zhuang people will be in the worship of the moon, riding the bright moonlight, in groups on the banks of the Lingshui River singing, all night long. After the song, if there is a love of lovers, they will be married for a hundred years.

3, the Zhuang curse customs

"Cursing customs" is also known as "cursing the Mid-Autumn Festival", according to legend, there is a beautiful girl in ancient times, do not like false sweet words, preferring to like harsh and spicy curses, then there is a young man in the Mid-Autumn Festival night, in public! On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a young man scolded the thief who stole the girl's sugar cane. The girl fell in love with him and married him.

So, the descendants will be in the mid-autumn night quietly drilled into the vegetable garden, orchard, deliberately steal onions and garlic, steal fruit, annoy others, looking for scolding! The people who were stolen, on the contrary, secretly happy, out of the "scold" a few words, as a blessing, and this kind of scolding is not with dirty words.

4, put the dragon lantern

Put the "dragon lantern" is a folk custom in Nanning. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the woman to be married will do the "dragon lantern" herself. First, take a pomelo, hollow out the pomelo, put in a candle, "dragon lantern" is ready.

The Dong "Song Race"

The evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the well-prepared Lusheng singing and dancing team went to the neighboring cottages to race the song, the song is melodious, the dance posture, the crowd seems to be rippling in the watery moonlight, called the "moonwalking". The "moonwalking" is called the "moonwalking".

Dressed in festive attire, the Dong young men holding reed pipes, groups of people stepping on the moonlight, playing beautiful music, dancing in a joyful step from all directions to the race song site, a person leading the song and dance, the crowd accompanied by the same. The young man who can sing and dance was soon lured aside by a beautiful girl, and the two of them sang and danced to each other.