What are the characteristics of the third day of March of the Li nationality?

Li nationality has a very broad mass base on March 3rd.

Since ancient times, every year on the third day of the third lunar month, the people of Li nationality have been dressed in festive costumes, carrying baskets of rice wine and bamboo fragrant rice, and gathered from all directions, or worshiping their ancestors, or in groups of three or five, singing and dancing, playing percussion instruments and celebrating the festival.

Young men and women even revel in festivals, make friends with songs, express their feelings with dances, immerse themselves in happy love until dawn, and will bid farewell to reunion on March 3 next year. Li nationality has a very broad mass base on March 3rd. With the changes of the times, the contents of the celebration are increasingly diverse, but performing songs, folk sports competitions, national songs and dances, wedding customs and so on are still the most basic contents.

Main activities:

Every spring, on the third day of the third lunar month, men and women in Mobil dialect wear costumes and bring Shan Lan rice wine, bamboo slips and zongzi to the meeting place from all directions to worship their ancestors. As night falls, old people get together to drink and catch up, while young men and women are in groups of three or five. People sing all night and convey their affection with songs. Li people living in the south of Hainan Island.

Every March 3rd Festival, pig's head, rice wine and rice balls are offered as sacrifices, and they go to Robbie Cave and Ganshiling Cave in Sanya to pray for the safety of their ancestors. On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the Li people in the harmonious area of Wuzhishan slaughtered pigs, held banquets, gathered people to beat gongs and drums, danced dances to worship their ancestors, celebrated the blessings brought by spring, inspired the souls of pregnant women and wished them children in the future.