Traditional Festivals on March 3 of the Lunar Calendar

March 3 is an important festival of the Zhuang, Han, Yao, Miao, Dong and other hereditary ethnic groups, and is no less important than the Spring Festival in the minds of the local people.

1, Han

March 3, known as the ancient Shangsi Festival, is a festival in honor of the Yellow Emperor. Legend has it that the third of March is the birth of the Yellow Emperor, China since ancient times, "February 2, the dragon carries the head; March 3, birth of Xuanyuan" said. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, on the Si Festival was changed to March 3, followed by future generations, and then became the Han Chinese waterfront banquets, countryside tour of the spring festival.

The Han Chinese, have to eat the ground (chestnut) cauliflower boiled eggs custom. On the day of the folk have flow cup, flow egg, flow date, beg son and wear willow circle, visit spring, trekking, eat clear essence of rice as well as songs and other activities. Han Chinese people in March 3, in addition to sacrifices, the later stages of the development of the river play, men and women to meet, willow and flowers and other folk activities.

2, Zhuang

March 3 of the lunar calendar, is a grand festival of the Zhuang people, according to legend, to commemorate the Zhuang song fairy Liu Sanjie and the formation of the festival, so it is also known as the Song Fairy Festival. March 3 to catch the song dike, take the song shed, held a song, young men and women sing, touch the egg, throw the embroidered ball, talk about love. The Zhuang people come to sweep the graves on March 3, and usually steam five-color glutinous rice on March 3, the festival is also known as the Song Fairy Festival.

Singing Wei usually opens with singing of mountain songs to show the humanistic style of being able to sing and dance. Thousands of people *** dance bamboo pole dance, each square is very characteristic of the Zhuang township, and people hold five-color glutinous rice, hold the wine of the Zhuang township, carry the hoe of labor, and the delicate dustpan is held up in their hands.

3, Dong

Dong family legend, the Dong family in ancient times, the original belongings of the Dong family always to the flowering of the tung tree for rice-planting festival. But one year the tung tree did not blossom, the result of the wrong time, had to flee to the newspaper Jing area, in order to learn from past lessons, every three days in early March, people will blow the reed-sheng singing, visit friends and relatives, and remind each other of the busy farming Dong, more than in the festival held in the snatching of firecrackers, bullfighting, horsefighting, singing, stepping on the hall and other activities, also known as the "Firecracker Festival".

Early in the morning, the girls went to the garden to pick half a basket of vegetables, washed, dressed well gathered under the tree in Moga, waiting for the young men there waiting for an opportunity to ask for a basket to the person of interest, the person who got it and the girl agreed to return to the basket on the date when the gift of fruits and fabrics. Once upon a time there are a pair of young men and women in love, and the woman's mother promised her to a rich merchant, scheduled to be married on the fourth day of March. On the third day, the couple in love under the Moga tree, grief and anger, jumped into the pool to martyrdom. In honor of the two, every year on March 3, the local youth will come here to blow the sheng song, breaking the shackles of arranged marriages.

4, Miao

"March 3", also known as "Pick Onion Festival", is the evolution of the Miao's ancient love festival for young men and women, it is said that every March 3 this day, men and women in the name of digging onions gathered together on the hillside, and love each other while digging onions. love each other, while digging wild onions while talking and singing Miao songs, the custom has continued to this day.

On this day, Hmong girls dress up and come to a fixed place to show their beauty. Young men also wait for this day, they have the opportunity to meet many girls, sing songs with them, and if they like each other, they can immediately drag them home. That's why you can see a lot of men and women pulling and tugging after the song session breaks up.

5, Yao

"March 3" is also known as "Ganba Festival" that is, every year before the "March 3", Yao men are a week in advance to the old forest to guard hunting, hunting wild animals, down the river! Before the "March 3" every year, Yao men go to the old forest a week in advance to hunt, kill wild animals, fish and shrimp in the river, and bake them into dry bar to bring home. Women go to the mountains to pick small indigo leaves and other natural dyes, boiled water and dyed into red, yellow, blue, purple four colors of glutinous rice used to pay homage to Pangu, year after year, has been passed down to the present day.

Yao, also March 3 for the song festival, in addition to singing the prelude to the song, tea song, scattered songs, but also sing the song of complaint and Xiexian song, but seldom sing love songs. The food and drinks are wine, tea, and so on.

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6, Buyi

Guiyang City, Wudang District, Xinbao Township, a Buyi will be "March 3" also known as "sacrificing silkworms". This area of the Buyi in order to protect the crops, for a good harvest, on the third day of March every year, are used to fry grain flowers as offerings, in groups of three or five to the nearby slopes to sacrifice "God of heaven, the earthworms," praying for God's blessing, do not call the earthworms biting the field saplings, so that the grains are plentiful. After the sacrifice, people walk along the field side of the earth and sing songs, and scatter the flower of the grain into the soil.

Northern dam Wanghe area, due to low temperatures, when the maple leaves are still small, can not color, to March 13 for the "Maple Leaf Festival". On the day of the festival, people go to the mountains and fields in the spring, children pick young maple leaves made into a ball to throw playing, women pick a few young maple leaves inserted in the bun. In addition, families dye glutinous rice in various colors and make flower glutinous rice. Young people go to the hillside to blow wooden leaves and sing mountain songs. If they meet a satisfactory opponent, they are invited to the Buyei village at night to sing songs all night long. At the end of the night, the host family gives the singers flower glutinous rice and chicken leg meat wrapped in banana leaves as a gift for the festival.

7, She

The third of March is the birthday of the grain rice, and every family eats umi rice. It is said that among the She people, March 3 is a major festival comparable to the Spring Festival. On this day, families slaughter livestock and worship their ancestors. Many families often choose this day to organize weddings. Umi rice is eaten during the festival. When night falls, bonfires are held and songs are sung competitively.

Legend has it that in the Tang Dynasty, Lei Wanxing, a She hero, led an uprising of all ethnic groups and was trapped in the mountains during a battle. With no provisions, the army was about to be wiped out, so they ate a kind of wild fruit called "Wu Nim Zi" to fill up their stomachs, and held out for several months, breaking out of the encirclement on March 3 of the following year, and winning the battle. In order to honor these She heroes, the She people ate "Wu-mi rice" on the third day of the third month every year to commemorate them. "Around March 3 is the spring plowing season, so eating "Wumi rice" also has the meaning of praying for a good year.

8, Li

March 3, is the traditional Li excursion festival. According to legend, during the flood, the siblings, Tianfei and Guanyin, drifted in the Wuzhi mountainous area and were spared. In order to pass on the generation, the sister face tattoo, so that the brother can not be recognized, with the couple, children, slash-and-burn farming, so that the Five Fingers Mountain rich. Since then, every year on March 3, the Li ethnic youth will bring bamboo tube incense rice, hand in hand with a flower umbrella, to the Five Fingers Mountain, to meet the spring.

Every March 3, Li compatriots from all villages gather in the wilderness, carry mountain orchid rice wine, bring bamboo rice, hold a powder gun, archery competitions, as well as middle-aged and elderly Li men and women chanting and singing, dancing bamboo pole dance and other characteristics of the rich folklore and folk activities. At that time, you can also see young men and women in pairs to carry out "mountain love" this unique way of love.