March 3rd. In She. Tu. Buyi. Dong. What is the festival of the Yao people?

Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the She people celebrate the "Wu Rice Festival", where every family cooks Wu Rice, and the whole family ****s a meal, and gives gifts to friends and relatives. At the same time also gathered together plate song, dance, to commemorate this festival. Lianjiang County, Xiaocang National Autonomous Township, She people also have Wu Rice Festival, this day the village is bustling with activity. Wu Rice is a wild plant called Wu Nim Tree, which is used by the She people in the mountains. The leaves are taken and boiled in the soup, then the glutinous rice is soaked in the soup for several hours and picked up, and then put in a wooden retort to be steamed and made. The color of this kind of rice is blue-green and black with oil, and it is soft and delicious in the mouth. Because of its antiseptic and spleen-opening properties, the rice is packed in a ramie bag and hung in a cool, ventilated place where it will not become rancid for several days. If it is fried with lard, it is even more flavorful and delicious. Therefore, it is said that "one family steams ten families".

The origin of the rice is said to be that during the Tang Dynasty, Lei Wanxing, a hero of the She ethnic group, led the She army to rebel against the government, and was besieged by the army of the imperial court in the mountains, losing external support and cut off from food. In the late fall, most of the trees in the mountains fell, but there is a wild plant called Wu Nim tree, although the leaves fell, but the branches are hanging on the string of sweet fruit like pearls, everyone picked a handful to bring back to the camp, Lei Wanxing also tasted it, felt the sweet and delicious, and then ordered a large number of collection of wild fruits to fill up the hunger, the army food is solved, and the resistance to the government army won a victory.

After one year, on the third day of March, Lei Wanxing suddenly remembered the sweet fruits he had eaten in the mountains, and wanted to eat Unimu fruit, but it was spring, and the Unimu tree had just sprouted green leaves, so there were sweet fruits. The townspeople had to take down the leaves of the tree and processed and cooked with glutinous rice, the result was that the glutinous rice also showed the same blue-black color as the fruit of the Wu Nim, and the fragrance was very strong, and Lei Wanxing ate it, his appetite increased greatly, and he was very happy, and he ordered the She Army to cook the Wu Nim rice on this day every year.

She people in order to commemorate the victory of Lei Wanxing's army against the soldiers, on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year, men and women go out to "trekking", collect the leaves of the Wu Nim, and every family cooks the Wu rice, which has been passed down to the present day as a festival of the She people, and now the "Wu Rice Festival" has retained its original customs. "In addition to retaining the original customs, the festival is also filled with songs and dances, making it even more lively.

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The traditional festival of the Tu people, the Egg Festival. The festival is held on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar or the eighth day of the third month or the eighteenth day of the third month every year, depending on the place. At that time, in the temple to hold sacrificial offerings, invited priests chanting dance to pay the God, in order to avoid disasters, to ensure a good harvest, people and animals. Attendees also carry a lot of hard-boiled eggs, one is self-catering, the second is to knock each other for fun.

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March 3, is a more common traditional festival of the Buyi people, commonly known as "March 3". The origin of the festival and the content of the activities, with the different areas of residence vary. Wudang District, Guiyang City, a new Fort Township area of the Buyi people will be "March 3" also known as "sacrifice silkworms", commonly known as "silkworms will be". Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a crop farmer, found that every year after the spring sowing there are many silkworms will be bitten to death by seedlings. After repeated observation, he believed that the earthworms is the God of heaven to the earth's "heavenly horse". In order to avoid the young mu suffered from pests, he used many ways to sacrifice put are not effective. Later, he fried grain flowers to feed silkworms in spring sowing, and the result preserved the seedlings. The news soon spread to the Buyei families near and far.

Since then, this area of the Buyi in order to protect the crops, for a good harvest, in the first three days of each year, do not move on the sand Baogu flowers as offerings, in groups of three or five to the nearby slopes of the sacrifice "God of heaven, the ground silkworms," praying for the blessing of the God of heaven, do not call the ground silkworms biting the seedlings in the field, so that the five grains of abundance. After the sacrifice, people walk along the field side of the earth side of singing songs, and put the flower of the grain to the field in the soil. People believe that the sacrifice of the earthworms, both to make them confused, but also to seal their mouths, the field seedlings can be free from insect pests. Later, March 3 was designated as the "Song Festival". The Buyei in the southern suburbs of Guiyang called "March 3" as "Fairy Song Festival". The content of the festival is more or less the same as that of Xinbao Township, Wudang District, but they use singing to pray to the God of Heaven to avoid disasters, and young men and women go to the mountains to sing songs on this day. Legend has it that whoever sings the most melodious song, the singing fairy in the sky will give you a golden voice when he hears it. Wherever you labor, you will hear the golden voice singing, and the pests won't dare to hurt the crops when they hear this voice. "March 3 is the "Tomb Sweeping Festival" of the Buyi people in Luodian County, Guizhou Province. On this day, two families or clans collectively go to their ancestors' graves to hang green, kill pigs and chickens, and set up wine, food and flower glutinous rice offerings. After sweeping the graves, people have fun, hunting and picnics on the graveyard. In the south of Luodian County, around the Hongshui River, "March 3" is also known as the "Maple Leaf Festival".

North of the dam Wanghe area, due to low temperatures, the maple leaves at this time is still small, failed to 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. The Buyi people in Wangmu County, Guizhou Province, say that the third day of the third month is a "cold day" and that eating dog meat can drive away the cold. There is a custom of treating a dog on this day. Anlong County, Guizhou Province, part of the Buyi legend March 3 is the shadow of the "mountain god" birthday.

People in order to avoid the god of the mountain released locusts hurt crops, to ensure a good harvest, the old custom of sweeping the village sacrifice of the god of the mountain. "March 3" this day, people to the village in front of the altar of the mountain god set up rooster, knife head and other offerings, but also to kill a dog, the blood will be sprinkled in the paper flag, paper horse and the village in and out of the main road entrance to the stone, and then by the "old devil male" and other personnel to carry a dog dripping with blood of the paper flag, the paper horse Then the "Old Devil Gong" and other people will carry the paper flag and paper horse drenched with dog's blood to each house to get rid of demons and ghosts. At the entrance of each house, a bench is set up with a "water bowl" filled with fresh water and a bowl filled with gravel. The "old devil" in front of the gate incantation "magic scripture", play a few "Nongyang Gua", and then the gravel grains to the house scattered, the water bowl of water splashed around, overturned the bench in front of the gate, buckle up the water bowl, meaning that the bench is full of water. The water bowl was then snapped up, meaning that the devil had been swept away. Finally, to this inserted with dog blood stained paper flag, good on the paper horse, another to go to his home to sweep. Village households are round sweeping finished, "the old devil male" mouth to the altar, the collection of sweeping the demons and ghosts focused on the suppression of the gods before, and then the whole village men at the altar of the meal on the spot, known as "accompanying the gods to eat".

The county's De lying town called "March 3" for the "drive Mao Suzuki", also known as the "Mao Suzuki Song Festival", a three-day party of tens of thousands of people. On March 3, the Buyei in the area of Bada River in Luoping, Yunnan Province, is a festival for young men and women to sing and tune to each other. On this day, men, women and children come to the riverside to listen to young people sing songs and watch children compete in bamboo rafting and water pistol shooting. Some families also make flower glutinous rice for their children and distribute it to the side and the village; some use small flower cloth pockets filled with eggs and various kinds of food for the young people who play and participate in the competition to eat. Luoping Niu Street of the Buyi young men and women in these three days, held a grand tour of the mountain, song and dating activities.

Youths of all ethnic groups from dozens of miles around also come to the area around the hillside of Matou to participate in and watch this traditional song-pairing competition. Singers can show off their skills on such occasions, and with their genius for improvising poems and chants, they can sing with their rivals for three days and three nights or even longer. Many young men and women have formed love relationships through these events.

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According to the legend of the Dong family, in ancient times, when the tung tree blossomed, it was always the rice-planting festival in the primitive territories of the Dong family. But one year, the tung tree didn't blossom, so we missed the farm time and had to flee to the area of Baojing. In order to learn the lesson from the past, people played the reed-sheng and sang songs on the third day of the third month of March, visited friends and relatives and reminded each other that they should be busy with the farm work. The Dong people hold activities such as robbing flower gun, bullfighting, horsefighting, singing songs and stepping on the halls in this festival, which is also known as the "Festival of Firecrackers".

March 3 of the Dong nationality is a five-day festival. On the first day of March in the lunar calendar, every family starts to prepare for it.

On the second day of the lunar month, girls are invited to fish and catch shrimps by the river and prepare picnic with young men on the slope.

Early in the morning of the third day of the month, the girls dressed up, put on the delicate bamboo basket, to the vegetable garden to pick a full monitor onions and garlic, washed with water at the spring. They are lined up in a long line, standing on the water side of the path, shyly waving the basket, quietly looking toward the hillside, waiting for the lover to ask for. At this time, the hillside has long been full of people, including the girl's family, to see which in the end the scion took the basket. A group of young men wearing neat green cloth lapel tops, in people's good-natured laughter, one after another on the waterside path. At this time, the young men ask for a basket from the girl of their choice in public, and the one who gets it will be greeted with a burst of "ooh-ooh", and the young man can make a quiet agreement with the girl about the time to return the basket. Can't get a basket of young men will attract onlookers "boo boo" taunts, and then in the village next to the hillside song, to continue to search for a soulmate, singing until dawn. At noon on this day, people concentrated in the center of the village on the field of song and dance.

The fourth of March also held a grand masquerade. On the afternoon of the fifth, a farewell ceremony will be held for the guests from neighboring villages who come to watch.

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Yao to March 3 for the "Ganba Festival", is the collective fishing and hunting festivals, and will catch the wildlife fish distributed by household, *** enjoy the joy of harvesting, and then gathered in the square, singing and dancing, celebrating the festival.

Legend has it that a long time ago, beasts often in and out of Yao villages hurt people, damage crops, in order to defend the homeland, the villages of the national hero Pangu rate of warriors on the mountain to guard the hunting, hunting beasts, Pangu unfortunately antelope antelope with a horn top broken suit and died on the spot, that day is the first three days of March of the lunar calendar, in order to remember the national heroes of the Pangu, the Yao people every year, the first three days of March of the positioning of the memory of the Pangu days, called "March 3" also known as "Ganba Festival" that is, every year before the "March 3", Yao men are a week in advance to the old forest hunting, hunting and killing wild animals, fish and shrimp in the river, and baked into the The women go to the mountains to pick small animals. The women go to the mountains to pick small indigo leaves and other natural dyes, boil the water and dye it into four colors of red, yellow, blue and purple glutinous rice for Pangu, year after year, has been passed down to today. In the past, "March 3", the Yao people put down the hands of the agricultural work of the collective rest day to pay tribute to Pangu, that is, the women rest to do needlework, men read the scriptures, drinking, entertainment, girls and boys but meet to the village side of the barren hills, the longitudinal forests in the song, talk about love, play.