Customs and traditional festivals of Zhuang nationality

"New Year's Eve" is called "New Year's Eve" and is the last day of the Lunar New Year. This is the biggest traditional festival of Zhuang nationality in Nanning. At the beginning of the month, we began to make all kinds of preparations for the New Year. On the 30th, every household was busy cleaning the quadrangle, changing clothes, killing chickens, fishing, frying oil tofu, making zongzi and steaming rice cakes. Before dinner, every household should offer sacrifices such as pork, chicken, wine and rice to worship the ancestors' gods. Then burn paper money and set off firecrackers. After the sacrifice, we began to have a reunion dinner. The dishes are rich, and everyone drinks heartily to repay the hardships and family happiness of the year, and the dishes of this meal should be kept to show that there is more than one year.

Monkey Love Festival:

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, every household brings people fruits and food such as pumpkins, plums, plantains and cooked corn cobs, or puts them in Shan Ye, and then hides in the corner of a stone, until groups of monkeys gather to watch them eat and chew, and then people quietly leave. Legend has it that this custom is related to Nong Gaozhi's resistance to the Song Dynasty. Once, Nong Gaozhi's troops were trapped in the mountains, and they relied on digging grass roots and peeling bark to satisfy their hunger. One morning on the fifth day of May, tens of thousands of monkeys suddenly fell off the cliff with giant pumpkins in their arms, and the rebels were saved. Therefore, people set up festivals to repay.

Water storage festival:

On the seventh day of July, every household cleans the water storage tank, and then goes to the spring, stream or river to pick up fresh water and fill it with water. People call the water picked up on this day "fairy water", which is used to cook longevity wine for the elderly, porridge for children, sauerkraut and fruit, and can also be used to dye cloth, make wine, make vinegar and treat diseases.

Visit luna festival:

August 15. Commonly known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Reunion Festival. On this day, Zhuang people eat moon cakes and steam powder to make cakes to celebrate the festival of killing ducks with chickens. Appreciate and worship the moon and Yue Bai in various ways.

Grade one and grade two

All tourists must eat zongzi. Zongzi of Zhuang nationality is a noble food. There are big and small zongzi, the big one is one or two Jin, the small one is two or three Liang, and there is another kind called "Feng Mo" (extra-large zongzi), one or two Jin. The main raw material of zongzi is glutinous rice, but it should have stuffing. The stuffing is peeled mung beans and semi-fat pig skin mixed with sauce, which is placed in the heart of Zongzi. After cooking, its taste is necessary.

Cooking festival

1February 23rd is the cooking festival. Legend has it that the Heaven Emperor sent the Kitchen God to the earth to take charge of fireworks and supervise people's behavior. Every Sunday, the Kitchen God returns to the sky to report on his work and the human situation. In order to please the Kitchen God and make him "speak well in heaven and have good luck tomorrow", people offer sacrifices to him and pray for the safety and happiness of his family. At that time, every family will kill a rooster as a sacrifice, and let the kitchen god be a guest and send it to heaven. On New Year's Eve, we will offer sacrifices to welcome the Kitchen God back. So, the dealer took advantage of the kitchen god to leave, and each family built a new kitchen and cleaned it. After the Cooking Festival, families began to prepare for the New Year.

Double Ninth Festival

In the past, Zhuang people in the suburbs had the habit of Double Ninth Festival. On the ninth day of September, families set up sacrifices to the ancestors, and then the whole family had a dinner to honor the elderly. On that day, some places still have the custom of offering sacrifices to sweep graves. For example, in Wulian Village, Ding Shuang, Zhuang people go out to offer sacrifices in the early morning.

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.

Bai Ya Festival

The Zhuang people in Zhenning and Suowu, Bao 'ai Town, Funing County, Yunnan Province, kill one cow, one pig, two chickens and forty-eight fish every April on Rabbit Day, and go to Bai Ya Mountain to offer a drink to the Zhuang woman Bai Ya (the legend is that Nong Gaozhi's mother). On that day, men, women and children were present, and the etiquette was very grand. According to legend, Bai Ya is the leader of a Zhuang village. She led the Zhuang people to fight against the officers and men and was killed after failure. They buried her at the top of a high mountain and called it Bai Ya Mountain. Every year, on the day of Bai Ya's death, the Zhuang people kill cows and pigs to commemorate her. This annual commemoration has never stopped, and over time, it has formed a festival-Bai Ya Festival. Traditional festivals and customs of Zhuang nationality.

Gyroscope joint

In places where Zhuang people live in compact communities in Guangxi, a famous sports activity-Gyro Festival is held every year. The time lasts for more than half a month from two or three days before New Year's Eve to the 16th day of the first month. Gyroscope, called "Le Jiang" in Zhuang language, is big and small, light and heavy. Some are as big as Hetian pomelo and weigh about a catty, some are as small as goose eggs, and some are 232. You must choose good quality hardwood to make a gyro. Its head should be smooth. When you "hit", use two or three feet of hemp rope to wrap it around several times until you feel fit, then hold the end of the hemp rope with the ring finger and little finger of your right hand and spin it to the ground quickly, and the gyro will "whir". A good quality coat, coupled with clever rotation technology, will take seven or eight minutes to fall off. It is even more lively to top the competition, and the winner is honored as the "top king". It is said that it has been more than 300 years since the rise of gyro play.