Traditional festivals and customs of Zhuang nationality

Traditional festivals and customs of Zhuang nationality are:

1, Pinxin Festival: a traditional folk festival of Zhuang nationality. It is held every year when the new valley is mature in July and August of the lunar calendar. Generally, every household has lived alone, and will invite nearby relatives and friends to get together. On that day, every household cooked rice with new rice, slaughtered chickens and ducks to prepare pork, and offered sacrifices to ancestors and various gods in return for their protection and harvest. Early in the morning, women went to the fields to cut green rice leaves, offer them to shrines, offer food and fruits, and then burn incense and light oil lamps. Everything is ready, call the dog to the shrine, scoop up a spoonful of new rice and feed it with various dishes. After the dog is full, the whole family will sit around and eat. Legend has it that the earliest grain seeds were brought by dogs. In order to thank the dogs for their contribution, they must be allowed to eat the new year's goods first.

2. Traditional folk festivals of Zhuang nationality. Commonly known as grasshopper festival. The festival lasts from the first day of the first lunar month to the 30th day (in some places, it lasts until the 15th day), and it is held jointly in large villages or several villages. There are sacrificial ceremonies such as "inviting frogmen", "singing frogmen", "filial piety frogmen" and "burying frogmen". Throughout the festival, praise the frog god for bringing rain to the world and blessing the harvest. It is a song and dance event to entertain the gods. People regard the first frog found on the first day of New Year's Day as sacred, and the person who caught the frog was respected and supported, and became the leader who presided over the frog sacrifice ceremony that year. The modern Frog Women's Festival has evolved into a festival and song meeting for mass entertainment, so it is also called "Ma Songhui".

3. Eating Festival: a folk festival of Zhuang people in Longzhou County and Pingxiang City. Chi Li Zhuang language means "celebrating" or "making up for the Spring Festival". According to legend, when the Spring Festival approached, French invaders invaded the frontier. In order to crack down on invaders, local young adults took up arms to defend their homes, so they failed to celebrate the Spring Festival on time. On the 30th day of the first month, the soldiers who went to war returned home in triumph. The villagers slaughtered chickens and sheep, made glutinous rice cakes, warmly entertained them, celebrated their victory, made up the Spring Festival, and followed suit. During the festival, people dance lions, play dragon lanterns, sing and dance, which is very lively.

4. Huapo Festival: a traditional festival of Zhuang nationality. According to folklore, Liu Jia, the ancestor of Zhuang nationality, was born from flowers. Later, the director sent flowers and children. All people came to this world from the flowers in Liu Jia Garden, so they are considered as the goddess of flowers. February 29th of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Huapo God. Zhuang women hold sacrificial ceremonies. Women of the same generation in the village formed sisters with different surnames, raised funds to prepare chickens, ducks and incense sticks to sacrifice to the flower gods, and then went to the wild in droves to collect flowers and wear them, praying for fertility and wishing their children healthy growth. Women who have no children will go to the wild to pick flowers and wear them in the future, so that the flower god can send them flowers and give them to their children. If you are pregnant in the future, in order to make the child have a soul after birth, you must ask the teacher to chant Buddhist scripture in the wild, to spend flowers, and to do a bridging ceremony in the ditch on the roadside to take the flowers off the bridge. After the child is born, the goddess should be installed in front of the maternal bed and worship regularly. This custom has disappeared now.

5. Wang Yaojie: Also known as Pharmacist's Day. Traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality. Legend has it that the drug king is a powerful drug god. He discovered herbs, cured people and taught people the knowledge of planting, collecting and treating diseases. In the past, all the larger villages in Zhuang area had Yaowang Temple. Every May, Dragon Boat Festival is held to offer sacrifices to the King of Medicine, and activities of collecting medicines and preventing diseases are carried out. For example, Zhuang people in northern Guangxi went up the mountain this day to collect Chinese tallow, Hypericum japonicum, cucurbit tea, Acer truncatum and other herbs to boil water and take a bath. I think this will make the skin smooth and free from scabies. On this day, the Zhuang people in Jingxi County opened a medicinal materials market, specializing in various medicinal materials, and the buyers were enthusiastic. It is said that this medicine has special effects. In addition, every household also wraps triangular zongzi, cooks vinegar in the house, burns grapefruit skin, and inserts wormwood at the door to ward off evil spirits and drive away the epidemic.