The origin of March 3 and the way to celebrate the festival

The origin of the national festival "March 3"

March 3, on the third day of the third month of the summer calendar, the day of the folk have flow of cups, flow of eggs, flow of jujube, begging for a child and wear willow circle, visit spring, trekking, eat Qingjing rice, and songs and other activities. Taiwan, Fujian March 3 for the "March Festival". This year, the new calendar March 31 when the March 3, this article excerpts from some of the national holiday habits, come to feel the joy of the festival.

On March 3:

Traditional Han Chinese festival, formerly known as the "on the sixth day", the first in March, the first day of the sixth for the "on the sixth", the Han Dynasty as a holiday. "is the month on the Si, the officials and people are Jie (clean) in the East Stream on the water, said the washing and purification, to go to the past dirt (disease), for the big Jie" ("After the Han Book - rituals on the Chi"). After the addition of water banquets, trekking content. After the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Festival was changed to the third of March, followed by future generations, so the Han Chinese waterfront banquets, spring festival in the countryside. The day folk have flow cup, flow egg, flow date, beg son and wear willow circle, visit spring, trekking, eat clear fine rice and singing and other activities. Taiwan and Fujian March 3 for the "March Festival", "picking rat koji (Qu) grass, combined with rice flour for kuey teow to worship their ancestors" (Qing Qianlong "Taiwan Fu Zhi"). Zhongxian County, Sichuan and other places have "March will", held in memory of the anti-enemy general Bamanzi grand activities, is the day, the masses carry Bamanzi idol parade around the city, followed by social fire team, play dragon lanterns, lion dance, family lanterns, firecrackers, bustling. The traditional festival of many ethnic minorities in the south of China. Zhuang, more than in March 3 to catch the song Wei, set up a song shed, held a song, young men and women sing, touch the eggs, throw the embroidered ball, talk about love. Legend has it that the festival was formed to commemorate the Zhuang song fairy Liu Sanjie, so it is also known as the Song Fairy Festival. The Dong ethnic group, more than in the festival held to grab the firecrackers, bullfighting, horsefighting, singing, stepping on the hall and other activities, also known as the "Firecracker Festival". The Buyi, in the festival to kill pigs to sacrifice the god of the community, the god of the mountain, eat yellow glutinous rice, the cottage within three or four days do not interact with each other. Yao people 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. The She ethnic group to March 3 for the birthday of the grain rice, families eat umi rice. Li called March 3 "Fu Nianfu", for wishing "Shanlan" (mountain dry valley) and hunting harvest festival, but also young men and women are free to interact with the day. Other ethnic groups such as the Shui, Miao, Mulao, Maonan, etc. have their own traditional March 3 festival customs.

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The Zhuang March 3:

The Zhuang, who live in the western part of Gui, on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year, every household uses red, yellow, blue, purple and white rice cooked with young maple leaves and red orchid grass, etc., and inserts branches of maple leaves on the lintel of the door and around the houses, builds a cloth hut at the end of the village, and sets out offerings of five-colored rice under the hut. Singing, catching song pedantry, the elderly also dyed hard-boiled eggs in a small net pocket, hanging in the chest of the children, young men and women in the catching song pedantry, but also "touch the egg". Why is this custom on the third day of the third month of the Zhuang people?

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a man named Wei Da Gui in the township, who worked as a minister under a local emperor. Dagui is not very old, but learned, talented, and, very concerned about the plight of the Zhuang people, the emperor gave his salary, he took back to the countryside to the people, their own two sleeves, nothing. One year, the state of the township drought, the townspeople begged Dagui to the soil emperor Zao Ming free grain, Dagui kneeled and said: "the state of the township of the people have no harvest, I accompanied the thousand years old to inspect." Dagui accompanied by driving to the state of the township, only to see the cracked fields, ears withered and scorched, a group of groups of yellow skinny people kneeling on the mountain road to complain of suffering. Da Gui knelt down and said, "I hope that the thousand years old man will see this in person, and I hope that the grain will be exempted." The earth emperor had no choice but to exempt the township from the imperial grain. After that, he hated Dagui to the bone, but in view of Dagui's reputation, and can't find any fault to get rid of him, so he made a poisonous plan, plotting to frame Dagui.

One day, he called Dagui to the front: "Dagui, you have always been very capable, and now I want to ask you to do something for me" Dagui heard, I know that the soil emperor does not have good intentions, but he still said calmly: "Please thousand years old to come." The earth emperor half squinted his eyes and said: "I am building a pavilion, lack of tiles, I heard that the shape of human skin can prevent cold and heat, waterproof and fireproof, durable, I want you to get me 900 pieces of shape of human skin as tiles within two months, then there will be a heavy reward, if you can't finish it, you will be severely punished." Da Gui easily replied, "When the time comes, please ask the thousand years old to personally go under the city gates to order and accept the goods. "

A month passed, Da Gui did not move, fifty-nine days passed, Da Gui still did not move. The deadline came, Dagui called 900 strong family man, each with a catty of glutinous rice, a catty of rice wine, a catty of pepper, came to the foot of the Imperial City, set up a pot to cook glutinous rice, boil chili vegetable soup, one by one, take off his shirt, bare bladder, sitting under the city gate drinking wine, drinking chili soup, eat glutinous rice. Just when they are full of wine and rice, sweating profusely, the earth emperor arrived in a palanquin. Dagui rushed forward to salute and said, "The goods have been delivered to the Thousand Years, but these cheap bastards have leaky skins, can they be used?" The earth emperor got down from the sedan chair and took a look, each one of them was wet on their black and red skin, as if they were fished out of the water, and the stench was overwhelming. The earth emperor covered his nose with his hand, frowned, took a few steps back and said, "Leaky and smelly, can't be used, can't be used." After saying that, he turned the sedan chair around and went back to the palace.

One plan has not yet been realized, and two more plans have arisen. Almost to the Qingming Festival, the earth emperor again replaced Dagui to the front, pretending to be very sincere: "Dagui, you have always been very clever, now I have a thing I have to ask you to do." As soon as Da Gui heard this, he knew that the earth emperor was again harboring malicious intentions, but Da Gui said without fear, "Please tell me clearly, Your Majesty." The earth emperor narrowed his eyes and said, "I need a pig's head as heavy as the big mountain behind the palace to offer to my ancestors during the Ching Ming Festival, you get it for me within a month, and there will be a heavy reward for you then, and you will be severely punished if you fail to do it by the due date." Da Gui laughed very easily and said, "Good to do, good to do."

Twenty days passed, Dagui did not move, thirty days passed, Dagui still did not move. The deadline passed, the earth emperor sent soldiers to catch Dagui, Dagui carried a big scale and the soldiers sent along to see the earth emperor: "Your Majesty, the Zhuang family is bigger than the mountain head of the pig's head of a lot, just do not know the weight of the big mountain behind the palace, please the emperor to use this scale to weigh, I can go back to carry the pig's head." "This ......" The earth emperor was dumbfounded.

The earth emperor saw that Dagui was too clever to stay in the palace, it was a bane, had to get rid of him, so there came up with a poisonous plan. One day, he called Dagui to the front: "Dagui, you have always been smart and capable, another month is the queen is sitting in the month, I heard that the male eggs of the strong family is very nutritious, you give me in twenty days to get 490 male eggs to, then heavily rewarded." Dagui promised with his mouth full.

After the deadline arrived, the earth emperor sent soldiers to catch Daguai, Daguai quickly saluted and said, "I'm very sorry, I help up is sitting in the month, according to the rules of the Zhuang family, I have to take care of seventy-seven and forty-nine days before I can go out, and then I will send the emperor to the male eggs." The soldier's messenger bellowed, "How can a man in the world give birth to a child?" "If men don't give birth to children, how can a rooster lay eggs?" The soldier messenger was speechless. He could only go back to report to the emperor, who was furious and ordered Dagui to be arrested.

The people of the Zhuang family heard the news and immediately sent Dagui to hide in the maple forest on the mountain. The imperial soldiers searched the mountain, heavily surrounded, only to see the mountain forest with the rest of the glutinous rice, is not seen, the emperor ordered to set fire to the mountain, this day happens to be the first three days of March. After the imperial troops left, the townspeople went up the mountain in a hole in a maple tree that could not be hugged over found the body of Dagui, everyone with tears in his eyes to bury him. Men, women and children cried loudly in front of the grave. Weeping! Weep! Tears sprinkled on the grave, and a small green maple tree and a clump of red orchid grass grew on the grave. In order to commemorate Dagui, the townspeople built a temple next to the tomb, named: "Dagui Hall". Because Da Gui liked drinking wine and eating glutinous rice in his lifetime, and defeated the emperor by drinking wine and eating glutinous rice, and was later killed because he couldn't get a male egg, so on the day of the third day of the third lunar month, every family in Suk Heung took rice wine, glutinous rice and cooked eggs to Da Gui's tomb to pay tribute. Just when people were in mourning, the sky suddenly thundered and a big five-colored snake rushed out from the temple, which nodded to the townspeople and went straight to the palace to bite the emperor to death.

From then on, the western part of the Zhuang family in honor of Dagui, year after year to the third of March this day, villages and cottages are set up shed, because legend has it that the spirits of the dead outside can not come into the home, so people have to be set up under the cloth shed on the five-colored glutinous rice and other offerings for the spirits of Dagui, around the cloth shed singing praise and thanks to Dagui's Zhuang Huan. The custom of singing in praise and thanks to Dagui was passed from one generation to the next, and now the custom of catching the March 3rd song and meandering has been formed.

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