What are the traditional festivals and customs in Guangxi?

Traditional festivals and customs in Guangxi;

1, Farm Tools Festival

Traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality in southwest Guangxi. It is held every year on February 29th of the lunar calendar. On that day, all kinds of agricultural production tools processed and produced by every household were picked out in the market and arranged in a row in turn, including plough frame, yoke, dustpan, dustpan, shoulder pole, hoe, plow, rake, hoe handle, laundry basket, bamboo mat, grain basket, grain bucket, furniture and so on. People are shopping for spring ploughing. The Agricultural Tools Festival in northern Guangxi is earlier, which falls on the eighth day of the second lunar month. The annual Farm Tools Festival is unprecedented, and the streets are crowded with tens of thousands of people.

2. Tonggu Festival

They are held on the first, fifteenth and thirtieth days of the lunar calendar. The Zhuang people in Changle Township carried the bronze drum to the top of the high mountain near the village and hung it on the wooden frame. First, they beat drums to worship their ancestors, and then they played a bronze drum competition. The method is drum-to-drum, small drum-to-small drum, four sides 1 group, 3 people per drum, taking turns to play without interruption. Win by playing loudly and beautifully, with bright rhythm and lasting endurance. Games often stay up all night. At the same time, young men and women sang together. After the game, people will have a picnic with zongzi and other food brought from home.

3. Huapo Festival

February 29th of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Huapo God. Huapo Festival is also called Kao Festival and Kao Notre Dame Festival. Zhuang people are popular in all parts of Guangxi. 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.

4. Song Festival on March 3rd

Guangxi is known as the "sea of songs", and the Zhuang people have several regular folk song gatherings every year, among which the third day of the third lunar month is grand. On this day, every household cooks colorful glutinous rice and dyes red eggs to celebrate festivals, some of which last for two or three days. In the legend of Zhuang nationality, it is the birthday of Buluotuo, the ancestor of Zhuang nationality. In Guangxi, the third day of the third lunar month is not only a traditional song festival for Zhuang people, but also an important day for Zhuang people to worship their ancestors and ancestors of Pangu and Buluotuo. On March 3rd every year, young men and women of Zhuang nationality gather in the street to sing and hold a banquet by the river.

5. prime of life

The New Year of Zhuang nationality is one month earlier than the Spring Festival. Every year on the 29th or 30th of the lunar calendar 1 1 month, every household in Zhuang village slaughters pigs and sheep, worships their ancestors, worships the community in the village and welcomes the new year. There will be large-scale collective visits between villages, and relatives will hold banquets to entertain themselves with songs; Young men and women carry out social activities, and young men go to the village in droves to "pick up girls" and choose spouses for songs. These activities last until around 1 month 15 of the Lunar New Year.