What are the festivals in Guangxi

1, Spring Festival

Time: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar

Introduction: The Spring Festival is the biggest festival of the year in the Nanning area, the first day of the year from 00:00 hours, home firecrackers, said that the old and welcome the new. On the second day of the family and friends with gifts to visit each other "New Year's Eve", fifteen Lantern Festival night lanterns. Sixteen county rural temple fair, "grab firecrackers". According to the unique custom of the Zhuang family, there are also activities such as picking new water, drinking velvet water, lion dance, chicken dance and spring bull dance. Before dawn on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhuang housewives have gone to the creek to pick new water for the whole family. When picking new water, they also pick up a few stones that resemble livestock and imitate the cries of the six animals along the way home. When they return home, they put these stones into pig pens and cattle pens to pray for the prosperity of the six animals. Then, new water is used to boil New Year tea for the whole family to drink. The women of the Zhuang family drink the water of Lingliang, that is, before drawing the new water, they compete to drink the fresh water held by the "Lingliang Sister-in-Law", who is recognized in the village, and believe that this will make them smarter and more clever, and the girls who are about to get married take this opportunity to pray that they will find a husband of their choice in the new year.

2, Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar

Introduction: in the northwest of Gui, Gui southwestern ethnic minority areas popular on the Lantern Festival Race custom, people in the evening of the Festival on the Lantern Festival, the lamps of their own good out of the race, compared to who did the best and most skillful. People not only race each other's lanterns, but also compete with the moon, various kinds of lanterns or hanging in the trees, or on the ground, forming a colorful night scene. These lamps are usually inserted into the pomelo, which has a symbol of warding off evil spirits, or using incense instead of fire, i.e., inserting countless sticks of incense into the pomelo to form a starry light. When the lamps or incense naturally extinguish, it means that the 15-day Spring Festival has come to a successful end, and a new year has begun. In Guangxi, Shanglin, Jingxi and other places also have the custom of eating oil dumplings (also known as fried piles or oil piles in some places). In Bobai on this day, each family should kill chickens and burn "finished lamp" paper, sacrificing to the gods and ancestors. That night, people go to the wild vegetable field, pick others a few pockets of green vegetables home, called "steal green", said good "signs". Shahe, Dungu and other places in addition to stealing green, some people also planted in the green hemp ground rolling, that can cure back pain.

3, dragon head

Time: the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar

Introduction: February 2 is the most famous dragon head to grab the firecrackers. Flower Cannon Festival is popular in Guangxi Sanjiang, Longsheng, Rongshui and Hunan Channel and other places in the Dong, Zhuang, Miao, Mulao and other ethnic minorities of the traditional festival, the festival period varies from place to place, there is the third day of the first month, but also the 15th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the second day of the second month, and so on. In Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, the Fu Lu Firecracker Festival is the most lively, and the main activity is to grab the firecrackers. On the day of the firecracker, nearby villages and hamlets all organize a firecracker grabbing team to grab the firecracker, each team has more than ten to twenty people. Cannon is decorated with red and green velvet thread small iron ring, will be placed on the top of the iron cannon, to be fired after the iron ring from the air to the ground, the participants that is to scramble to grab the cannons and sent to the designated location that is the winner. Famous is the Rongshui Dongtou Township Firecracker Festival, two years to do, are in February 2 that day.

4, Qingming Festival

Time: around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar

Introduction: Hengzhou villagers Qingming Festival to take willow leaves and snails soaked in water to wash their eyes, it is said to brighten the eyes; after sweeping the graves of Xingren County, white paper as a long streamer hanging on the head of the tomb, known as "marking the grave! "In Kaiyang County, when sweeping tombs, the officiating priest of the year prepares wine and food for the sacrifice, and after the sacrifice, friends and relatives have a banquet nearby, which is called a "picnic"; most of the townspeople of Wuzhou sweep tombs on the day of the Ching Ming Festival and the following days, and only a small part of the townspeople sweep tombs on the day of the Ching Ming Festival. Most Wuzhou villagers sweep their graves on the day of the Qingming Festival and a few days afterward, while only a small number of villagers sweep their graves a few days before the Qingming Festival. Zhuang family members love the five-color glutinous rice very much, seeing it as a symbol of good luck and a good harvest. On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar or on the big day of the Ching Ming Festival every year, Zhuang people usually make five-color glutinous rice to offer sacrifices to ancestors and entertain friends and relatives. On the occasion of a child's full moon and a housewarming, they will also steam five-color glutinous rice and give it to their neighbors to express their respect. The Zhuang people love maple leaves, and believe that maple leaves can "get rid of evil spirits" and bring good luck and peace.

5, Dragon Boat Festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar

Introduction: Guangxi people over the Dragon Boat Festival, to commemorate the Qu Yuan and the traditional customs inherited from the Dragon Boat Race, eat rice dumplings, and preparation of livestock sweet and so on. Before the legend of Qu Yuan has not been widely spread, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is inherited from the taboo on the evil day, to health care, to avoid the epidemic, and health care, to avoid the epidemic, and the main embodiment of hanging moxa leaves calabash, Pei scented sacs to avoid the evil spirits, as well as bathing in herbal baths, soak and drink herbal wine and xionghuang wine.

6, Mid-Autumn Festival

Time: 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar

Introduction: In Nanning, Guangxi, people over the Mid-Autumn Festival in addition to preparing a sumptuous reunion feast, the evening also called friends to the outdoor moon. Seeing lanterns is the main event, and various shapes of lantern shows in parks on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival make people forget to come back. In the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Dong ethnic group in Guangxi, at night, the well-prepared Lusheng singing and dancing teams go to the neighboring cottages to compete in the songs, the songs are melodious, the dances are graceful, and the crowds seem to be rippling in the watery moonlight, which is called "moonwalking". The Dong people have the custom of "Song Race and Marriage Proposal". On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Dong young men dressed in festive costumes, holding reed shengs, groups of people stepping on the moonlight, playing beautiful music, dancing happily from all directions to the race song site, a person leading the song and dance, the crowd accompanied by each other. The audience was like a cloud, and the sound of music was deafening. The young man who can sing and dance was soon led to one side by a beautiful girl, and the two of them sang and danced together. When a pair of young men and women dance to the mountain path, the race song field is also less and less people, left alone young men and women only to wait for the moon old man in the next year and then throw the red line.

7, Fuyang Street Lantern Festival

Time: the first ten days of the first month of the lunar calendar to the first fifteen days

Location: Fuchuan County, Hezhou City

Introduction: It is the traditional lantern festival of the Lantern Festival of Fuchuan County. The festival lasts for six days, with the first ten days as the upper lantern festival and the fifteenth as the lower lantern festival. The streets of the lantern building bright lights, drums and gongs, firecrackers, yellow dragon, green dragon, white dragon and other dragon dance team out in front of the lantern building dance worship. The county men, women and children gathered in the county town, enjoying the lanterns and watching the dragon, singing and watching theater.

8, the Wind Festival

Time: the twentieth day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar

Location: Lingui District, Guilin City

Introduction: Guilin City, Lingui County, Miaoping Wei traditional festivals. Legend has it that in ancient times, the wind god was angry and the villages were affected. A fairy instructed the people to ban the sound and wind on the 20th day of the first month, and sacrificed to the wind god, which was really effective, and this day became the Festival of the Prohibition of Wind. Before the festival, people used straw to tie some crosses, pressed them to the corners of the fields and hung them on the eaves of the houses. During the festival, all sound is prohibited, even drying clothes can only be laid on the grass, in order to avoid the noise made by people coming and going, the whole village are away from home to the temple ping Wei to celebrate the festival. Festival activities are colorful, banging gongs and drums, lion dance and opera, nightfall, singing songs. This was originally forbidden sound and wind of the day, into the temple ping Wei a joyful event.

9, Firecracker Festival

Time: different places, from the first month to October have

Location: Guilin City

Introduction: Firecracker Festival is a traditional festival of the Dong ethnic minority. On this day, flower cannons are set off, and the first one indicates prosperity of people, the second one is congratulations on wealth, and the third one is a good harvest. After the firecracker activity, young men and women get together to play Lusheng and dance. At night, bonfires are lit, and there are singing Dong opera and free songs, a lot of laughter. The date of the Flower Cannon Festival varies from place to place, from the first month to October. Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County is on the third day of the first month (lunar calendar, the same below), Meilin is on the second day of February, Fulu is on the third day of March, and Linxi is on October 26, so it depends on your luck whether or not you can happen to be there.

10, open Spring Festival

Time: the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar

Place: Hezhou City

Introduction: Hezhou City, locals in the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar for the "open Spring Festival". On this day, every family prepares a feast to entertain the guests who come to "eat more and more prosperous". Huangtian Town is the most lively, the day of the festival, the town streets and lanes are decorated with lights, and there are lion dances, dragon dances, dancing, singing, snatching firecrackers, cultural parades and other rich cultural activities, family guests, feasts.

11, Yangshuo social day

Time: Lunar February or August

Location: Yangshuo County, Guilin City

Introduction: Yangshuo social day is divided into spring society and autumn society, the fifth day of the spring e for spring society, the fifth day of the autumn e for the fall society, generally in the second and eighth months of the lunar calendar. It is a popular saying in Yangshuo's rural areas that "it is better to be an official for three years than to play the society for one day". Because in every village, regardless of wealth and nobility, less than ten households, more than two, thirty households, in order to deal with each other's funeral, in the community to meet in the day of the "Eat Society" (one man per household), and a year for the funeral of the covenant, the provisions of the year's funeral of the funeral of each household on the funeral of the owner of the amount of money, food, responsible for lifting the coffin to send a funeral, etc., the rural areas, commonly known as the "Ten Friends Society". Anyone who does not participate in the "eating society", was expelled from the "ten friends of the community", the community is no longer responsible for his family's funeral.

12. Cow King Festival

Time: The eighth day of the fourth lunar month

Place: Yangshuo County, Guilin City

Introduction: The Cow King Festival is said to be the birthday of the cow. People celebrate the ox's birthday in different ways, cleaning the ox pen in every house, inserting "maple incense" at the door of the ox pen, sacrificing to the ox king at the door of the ox pen, cooking glutinous rice to feed the ox, and letting the ox take a rest on this day. On this day, farmers in the Yangshuo countryside eat black glutinous rice and feed it to the cows to help them get rid of disasters and to thank them for their hard work.

13, Longmu Cultural Tourism Festival

Time: the seventh day of the fifth lunar month to the tenth day of the fifth lunar month

Location: Wuzhou City, Guilin Road, Longmu Temple

Introduction: Longmu Cultural Tourism Festival to the famous at home and abroad in Wuzhou Longmu Temple as a center to show the colorful religious culture and Wuzhou folk art. "Dragon Mother Culture" is a Lingnan culture with strong local color, in the West River Basin, Pearl River Basin folk have a great influence, enjoy a high status, and has long been renowned. Legend has it that Longmu was the leader of the Baiyue tribe in the Xijiang River Basin, surnamed Old Woman. In her lifetime, she had been a water ruler for the people and had benefited them. The belief in the Mother of the Dragon is especially widespread in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. Every year, many tourists are attracted to come to worship, especially every year, the Dragon Mother's birthday (the eighth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar), the folk will spontaneously held a powerful ceremony to open the birthday.

14, Welfare May 8 Festival

Time: the eighth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar

Place: Yangshuo County, Guilin City

Introduction: Welfare May 8 Festival is the welfare of Yangshuo County Folk Organization in the town of Foley folk arts, sports and ritual activities. Every year on the eighth day of May, pike households tied up three feet six inches high vertical colorful lanterns to the town in front of the temple of the father-in-law, mother-in-law burning, and then sacrificed to the two temples in the more than one hundred bodhisattva and will be lifted, held to the street parade. The parade is accompanied by cultural and sports teams, such as lion dancers, card-playing lanterns, stilt walkers, and eight immortals. After the procession, there are folk art performances and sports activities, which usually last for five to ten days. During the festival (locally known as the rush period), every family makes bitter gourd stuffing as the main dish of the family and entertains guests.

15, Taste the New Festival

Time: The sixth day of the sixth lunar month

Place: Yangshuo County, Guilin City

Introduction: On this day, farmers are prepared to make offerings of wine and gifts to the corners of the fields, and use money and paper to tie buckets full of new grains and insert them into the base of the fields to show that they are full of paddy rice or to carry a bodhisattva. or "carry the bodhisattva" to pray for a good harvest.

16, June 23 Festival

Time: June 23 of the lunar calendar

Location: Yangshuo County, Guilin City

Introduction: June 23 Festival is a folk organization in the town of Bayshore folk arts and culture, sports and rituals, the locals also known as the catching period. June 23, is the most lively days of the year in Baisha Town, this day is the Three Kingdoms period of Shu general Guan Yu's birthday, Guan Yu loyalty and righteousness, people will use various forms of commemoration of him. Grab "flower cannon" is a very important activity in this festival, in the first thing before the station, no matter who get the red ring can grab, this is the strength and wisdom of the competition.

17, Mengshan Yao Pan Wang Festival

Time: the fourth to the sixteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar

Location: Mengshan County, Xiayi, Changping

Introduction: Mengshan County, held every year on the fourth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the "Pan Wang Festival," which is the first day of the lunar calendar. Xiayi Yao people's song dike. August 16th for the "Road Repair Festival", is the Changping Yao people's song dike. Every Song Wei Festival, Yao men and women, young and old, all dressed in colorful costumes, rushed to the Song Wei, singing, dancing. Young men and women use the form of song, each other pouring out love, question and answer names, sung to the love of the time, give each other tokens of betrothal. At the same time, the song also sings a beautiful new life.

18, Miao New Year

Time: The time of the Miao New Year varies from place to place, basically after the end of the fall harvest

Location: Guilin City

Introduction: The Miao New Year is a traditional festival of the Miao people. Firecrackers are set off in the morning on the day of the festival, and three firecrackers are set off in a row to show the auspiciousness of the festival. During the festival, people visit friends and relatives to congratulate each other. Some places hold grand bullfights and horse races. Among them, the Lusheng Stomping Hall activity is the most wonderful, at that time, the young man Lusheng loud and clear, pleasant to the ear, the girls dressed in festive costumes, wearing dragon and phoenix silver horns, silver hairpins, silver combs, stepping on the sheng song beat, dancing. By stepping on the hall, young men and women are free to choose their couples.

19, Gongcheng Peach Blossom Festival

Time: March every year

Place: Gongcheng County, Guilin City

Introduction: Whenever March, in the peach blossom in full bloom in Gongcheng County, the annual "Peach Blossom Festival" will be held. During the Peach Blossom Festival, the villagers sing and dance, to dance friends, flowers to spread love, "enjoy the Gongcheng Peach Blossom, live in an ecological home, eat green food, do the living gods," is the tourists trekking to see the flowers and appreciate the strong breath of spring is the perfect place to go. In March, Dashan Peach Garden - China Peach Blossom Art Expo Park on the banks of the Li River, ten miles of peach blossoms, a hundred miles of galleries, ten thousand acres of peach blossoms reflecting the red, attracting more and more tourists to come.

20, Fushan Song Festival

Time: May every year

Location: Hezhou City

Introduction: Every year on May 19, Fushan held a grand song festival, also known as the Chen Wangzhi birthday. Ethnic singers from Hunan, Guangdong, Gui, and Gui provinces, as well as folks from all over the countryside, come to gather, sing and play to each other, pay respect to the gods and Buddha, and pray for auspicious samples. Floating mountain up and down a sea of people, firecrackers, singing like a tide.

21, Nanning International Folk Song Festival

Time: September or October or November every year

Location: Nanning City

Introduction: Guangxi has been known as the "sea of song" reputation, is the Zhuang song fairy Liu Sanjie's home, Guangxi, the people of all ethnic groups have always loved to sing folk songs. People of all ethnic groups in Guangxi have always had the custom of singing folk songs. In order to carry forward the folk songs, from 1993 onwards, Guangxi began to organize folk song festival. People in the folk song festival to song to pass on love, song will be friends, *** with the lyrics of the aspirations for a better life and love. Folk songs have become a rainbow between the ethnic groups of Guangxi and the brotherly ethnic groups of the country and the world. In order to make the folk song festival more unique, the people's government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region decided to change the name of "Guangxi International Folk Song Festival" to "Nanning International Folk Song Festival" in 1999, and it is scheduled to be held in Nanning in September, October or November every year by the people's government of Nanning City, invited by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Government of the People's Republic of China. The Nanning Municipal People's Government invites the Department of Cultural Libraries of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China and the Department of Cultural Propaganda of the State People's Committee to jointly organize the festival.

22, ASEAN Expo

Time: September every year

Location: Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center, Qingxiu District, Nanning City

Introduction: China ASEAN Expo is one of the exhibitions in China that is run by the governments of many countries **** and held in one place for a long time. With the exhibition as the center, at the same time to carry out multi-disciplinary and multi-level exchange activities, set up a platform for exchanges and cooperation between China and ASEAN, economic and trade activities and cultural exchanges combined. During the fair, the "Southeast Asia" evening party, "Nanning International Folk Song Festival" opening party, "China" evening party, golf celebrity tournament, "Friends of Tennis" celebrity tournament, fashion festival, food festival, etc., colorful cultural and sports activities are interspersed.

23, International Jasmine Culture Festival

Time: September every year

Location: Hengxian County, Nanning City

Introduction: China International Jasmine Culture Festival, organized by the China Flower Association Flower Culture Committee, China Tea Circulation Association Tea House Specialized Committee, the People's Government of Nanning City, Guangxi Hengxian People's Government to host. This international festival project settled in Hengxian, starting in 2010, held once a year, in September 2010, the first China International Jasmine Culture Festival was successfully held in Hengxian, Guangxi.

24, Guilin Landscape Tourism Festival

Time: October to December every year

Location: Guilin City

Introduction: Guilin Municipal People's Government in order to increase the popularity of tourism in Guilin, enhance the tourism of Guilin, to attract tourists, in order to the off-season of the tourism industry in each year (October to December) to organize annual international tourism festival activities. International tourism festival activities. 1992 began to organize the landscape tourism festival, tourism festival not only enriches the tourist life of tourists, but also more and more welcome by Chinese and foreign tourists.

25, Fishing Fire Festival

Time: December every year

Location: Yangshuo County, Guilin City

Introduction: "Fishing Fire Festival" is one of the eight beautiful scenes in Yangshuo. In the old days, the fishermen in the Li River used to fish at night, and often tens of hundreds of rafts would go out and gather in the Baisha River Bay, and the fishermen would light up the lanterns on the rafts to lure the fish on the hook. The fishing lamps, gusts of water, as if the night sky stars, reflecting the rafts shuttling on the surface of the water and fish eagles appearing in the water, breathtaking.

26, Baise Tourism Food Culture Festival

Time: December every year

Location: Baise City

Introduction: for the development of food culture resources in Guangxi and promote the development of tourism, in December 2002, held the first Guangxi Baise Tourism Food Culture Festival. Festival activities are the opening ceremony, Zhuangxiang decorated fashion show modeling, glutinous rice production "the world's first mochi", "eat in Baise" green health food cooking contest, famous special new products exhibition and sale, investment_talk, the closing ceremony and so on.