The custom of the Zhuang people to celebrate the festival on March 3.

The festival customs of the Zhuang people on March 3rd include ancestor worship, eating colored glutinous rice, beating eggs, making love with hydrangea, and dancing bamboo poles.

1, ancestor worship

In some places, the third day of March is mainly a sacrifice, and some people in their club send sacrificial supplies to worship the ancestral graves. Their rituals mainly include weeding and adding soil, trimming the cemetery, burning incense and going to the grave, offering sacrifices, bowing down and toasting, burning money, hanging money by branding, setting off firecrackers, and praying for ancestors to bless their families' happiness and well-being.

Step 2 eat five-color glutinous rice

Before the "March 3rd" festival begins, every household will choose high-quality glutinous rice, soak it in the juices of different herbs, dye it and steam it, which is five-color glutinous rice. Five-color glutinous rice not only symbolizes harvest, happiness and auspiciousness, but also represents the five directions of yin and yang, five elements, east, west, north and south. It is used to worship ancestors, pray for family safety, and have a bumper harvest in a year.

Step 3 break eggs

During the festival, every family chooses eggs, and after cooking, they are colored with various pigments, most of which are mainly red, because red represents a good sign of prosperity.

4. Love of hydrangea

Hydrangea in Xu Ge is a handicraft made by girls before the festival. Exquisite craftsmanship, all silk crafts: 12 petals are connected into a sphere, each petal represents a month of the year, embroidered with flowers of that month. Some hydrangeas are made into squares and polygons.

5. jump on the bamboo pole.

Two big bamboo poles are laid flat on the ground, outside the two big bamboo poles, in pairs, holding small bamboo poles face to face and sliding back and forth along the big bamboo poles, and dancers jump in the gap between the two bamboo poles. The dance moves are lively and cheerful, imitating the shapes of ants, turtledoves, leopards and thrushes.