Do you know what holiday March 3 is?

"March 3" is a major folk festival in China. At the same time is also a major festival of ethnic minorities, "March 3" than "February 2" more famous, to say "March 3" of the origin, can be pushed back to memorial Fuxi's. Fuxi and his sister Nuwa, reproduction of offspring, the Yuandong region respectfully referred to as the "March 3" festival. Fuxi and his sister Nuwa Tuan earth to create people, reproduction of offspring, Yu East area honored Fuxi as "human ancestor", in Huaiyang (Fuxi built the capital) built Tai Hao mausoleum ancient temple, by the lunar calendar from February 2 to March 3 for the Tai Hao mausoleum temple fair, the good men and women, the south boat north horse, all gathered in the mausoleum area, pilgrimage to worship the human ancestor.

March 3

Fuan She "March 3" Cultural Festival

In 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. At nightfall, bonfires are held and songs are sung. She people are good at singing and often invite She singers from all over the province to perform on stage, which is a very enthusiastic scene. During the festival, the She people also hold dances, including torch dances, wooden beat dances, bamboo pole dances, dragon dances, lion dances, and fish lantern dances. At the same time, there are also She folk competitions, such as asking stools, playing stone plinths, abdominal top sticks, playing kongs, and driving wild boars. The "March 3" festival is a microcosm of the humanistic history of the She people, with distinctive ethnic characteristics and a strong local flavor, and has an irreplaceable and important value in the construction of new countryside and the strengthening of national unity. As the She people live in the less developed areas along the southeast coast in a scattered and small gathering, with the process of modernization and the change of the living environment of the She people, the language, costumes, songs and dances of the She people are gradually being Sinicized, and the traditional festivals and activities of the March 3 tend to dwindle, and it is urgent to strengthen the protection of these festivals.

March 3 is also the traditional festival of Zhuang, Dong, Miao and Buyei ethnic groups. "March kapok red scarlet, eight singers to meet. Embroidery ball pulling thousands of family love, the Zhuang village song sea waves flying." The Zhuang people in the lunar calendar in March 3 Song Wei Festival, people in addition to steam colorful glutinous rice and red eggs to commemorate the ancestors to entertain friends and relatives, the main is to hold a "song Wei" activities, dressed in male and female youth singing all day to song endorsement, choose the object, meet the lover.

Dong "March 3" men and women singing

March 3, is the Dong social play festival. Early in the morning, the girls go to the garden to pick half a basket of vegetables, washed, dressed well gathered under the Moga tree, waiting for the young men there waiting for an opportunity to ask for a basket, the girl who got it and agreed to return the date of the basket, when the return 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.

March 3 is also a traditional festival of excursions for the Li people. Legend has it that 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, matched into a couple, children, slash and burn, so that the five finger mountain rich. Since then, every year on March 3, the Li ethnic youth will bring bamboo tubes with fragrant rice, hand in hand with a flower umbrella, to the Five Fingers Mountain, to meet the spring.

March 3 is also a festival for Koreans to worship their ancestors. On this day, women go to the mountains to collect Jindalai flowers to make flower-flour food for worship. At the same time, families prepare food and wine and hold spring tours. Spring in March, Yanbian all over the mountain flowers, bright wind, spring tour people, step all over the green mountains, and forget to come back.

March 3 is a gathering in Guizhou, Hunan, Guangxi Miao, Yao "Flower Cannon Festival". On this day, people are happy to watch or participate in a special competitive, confrontational sports - snatch the firecracker competition. The firecracker is an iron ring with a diameter of about 6 centimeters and wrapped with colorful silk. After igniting the gunpowder, the iron ring is blasted into the air above the venue. When the ring falls, the person who picks it up scores points.

March 3, the Yi people gathered by the river, dancing, young men and women looking for couples to say love. The Li people on Hainan Island hold a rally on the same day to wish for a good harvest.

Taiwan, Fujian region on March 3 for the "March Festival", "picking rat koji (Qu) grass, combined with rice flour for kuey teow to worship their ancestors" (Qing Qianlong emperor "Taiwan Fu Zhi"), part of the people will be selected on the third of March on the Festival of the Tomb Sweeping, both trekking, to get rid of the meaning of bad luck. It is also a way of removing the ominous meaning of the festival.

Chongqing Zhongxian and other places have "March will", held in memory of the enemy general Bamanzi grand event, is the day, the masses carry Bamanzi idol parade around the city, followed by the social fire team, play dragon lanterns, lion dance, home lanterns, firecrackers, lively.

In Yinghong Town, Yingde City, an area inhabited by overseas Chinese, women will collect the leaves of various plants such as mugwort, ramie and roadside green on March 3, and make kuey teow with rice flour for consumption, which is said to be able to get rid of all kinds of diseases.

The traditional festival of the Tu people is the Egg Festival. The festival is held on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar or on the eighth day of the third month or on the eighteenth day of the third month every year, varying from place to place. At that time, in the temple to hold sacrificial offerings, please the priest chanting dance pay God, in order to avoid disasters and disasters, to ensure a bumper crop, livestock and prosperity. Attendance of the masses also carry a lot of hard-boiled eggs, one is self-eating, the second is to knock each other as a play.