The Legend of the Flower Goddess Festival of the Zhuang People

The Flower Lady Festival is a traditional festival of the Zhuang people, which comes from a beautiful legend, and from this festival we can also find the positive outlook of the Zhuang people, which is reflected in the people's love of life. The following is my collection of the legend of the Flower Lady Festival, welcome to read reference!

The Zhuang minority has a number of unique traditional festivals, and the Flower Lady Festival is one of them. The festival is also called the Festival of the King of Flowers or the Festival of the Queen of Flowers and the Holy Mother of God. On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year, the local people will hold the ceremony of the Flower Goddess Festival. On that day, the local people will bring the offerings prepared in advance to the Flower Goddess Temple to worship and pray for blessings.

On the same day, women of the same generation in the village will go out to the field to pick flowers, and if the flowers they pick are white, it means that the Flower Lady will give her a boy. If the flowers are red, then it means that a daughter will be born. In addition to picking flowers and worshipping the Flower Lady, on that day, the local community will also organize "Flower Lady" congee, lanterns, parade, give flowers and other folk activities, so that people feel the "Flower Lady" of the goodness of being a "Flower Lady" as virtuous and good. The festival is a great example of how the "Flower Lady" can be a good person, and how she can be a good person. From this festival, we can see that the status of "Flower Lady" in the hearts of local people is quite high. Let's start with the origin of the Flower Lady Festival.

There is a folk legend in the Zhuang that the ancestor of the Zhuang, Liujia, was changed from flowers, and people were transformed into people by the flowers in the garden of Liujia, and the Flower Woman of the garden of Liujia was in charge of giving birth to children. Fertility and reproduction are the most important things in life, and the importance of the flower woman in charge of fertility is self-evident. Therefore, the local people usually set up the Flower King Temple at the bottom of the mountain or in the village to show their respect for the flower woman.

When there are children in the family, they need to make offerings to the Flower Goddess regularly to pray for her blessings and peace. From the above, it can be seen that the festival is a universal event, with the focus on women and children.

Among them, married women who are eager to have children are the main ones, and these women are usually relatively young and fertile, and have a great desire to reproduce.

Expanded Knowledge:

The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the biggest festival of our Zhuang people. Sacrificing ancestors, family reunion, meeting relatives and making friends, almost all the big events can be concentrated in this season of spring blossoms. For this reason, all residents of Guangxi can get two extra days of vacation to go back home to reunite with their loved ones and take part in the festivities.

March 3, as the name suggests, is the festival on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. Because traditional festivals are celebrated more often in ethnic minority areas, generally these festivals can last anywhere from one day to a dozen days. In addition to the March 3 activities in Wuming District, Nanning City, Yongning District, the Flower Goddess Festival is also very grand. The culture of praying for blessings and thanksgiving for more than two hundred years has been passed down through various activities.

The Flower Lady Festival is a traditional festival in some areas of the Zhuang ethnic minority. Traditional festival. Legend has it that the Flower King is the goddess of fertility and the guardian of children for the Zhuang people. And the first grandmother of the Zhuang people Six A is said to have been born from the flowers, specializing in charge of giving flowers to send children.

And in the town of Pu Miao, Yongning District, there is another legend of the Flower Lady. Legend has it that in Pumiao Town, opposite the Five Sacred Palace of the pier, there is a kind and charitable grandmother often to the passing merchants selling porridge, such as the poor people will be free to give porridge. After the grandmother passed away, the townspeople built a temple in her honor and held commemorative activities on the twelfth day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year, which gradually formed the local unique Flower Lady Festival.

The festival reminds people to do good deeds by giving alms as she walks.

The most attractive part of the festival is the parade of the Flower Lady and the congee of the Flower Lady. This is the flower lady parade before the "flower lady send blessing" car, holding two bouquets of flowers "flower lady" half-sitting, in its left and right sides were suspended standing boy and girl, the boy held a lotus lamp, the girl is a hand with a bowl of congee flower lady, a hand shaking the blessing of the fan. The amiable Flower Lady doesn't mind the children having fun with her.

"Flower Lady Porridge" collects rice from various families and boils it carefully, and distributes it to passers-by on the day of Flower Lady Festival at several fixed locations. It is a symbol of collecting rice from hundreds of families, praying for the blessing of thousands of families and enjoying the feast of hundreds of families. There is a saying in Pu Miao, "Drinking Huapa congee, you will be blessed for the rest of your life", so the queue of people wanting to eat the congee is a hundred meters long, and no matter men, women, and children, they all want to drink a bowl of Huapa congee, and get the blessing of Huapa. A bowl of light Hanapa congee is full of warmth, satisfaction, health, gratitude, harmony, good luck, joy and good fortune. In this strong folkloric flavor of the Flora Festival, the townspeople, tourists porridge blessing *** enjoy.

Banyin Strong Drum is also an important cultural showcase. The ethnic heritage of Pumiao is relatively complete and rich system. When it comes to our ancestral Banyin skills, I guess most people do not know, I am no exception haha.

After drinking the steaming hot Hua Bo congee, I climbed straight up to the park next to it for a panoramic view of the pier. The bronze statue of Goddess of Mercy standing on the hill for people to burn incense and pray for blessings. It's interesting to see how the residents here yearn for a better life.

There is a synchronized display of cultural content in the Pojin Academy, with a detailed introduction of the Bawuyin, Bawuyin playing costumes, photo exhibitions, and so on.

The Hundred Families Banquet was also the highlight of the day. This year, 168 tables of delicacies were arranged in Xinxing Square, inviting the general public, volunteers, community workers and cultural inheritors*** to enjoy the feast.

The evening code king competition, very lively. Guess the code, also considered a specialty of Guangxi. Play is relatively simple, is a digital addition game, two people at the same time reached out and shouted code (a person can only be out of a hand), one of them shouted in the two sides of the fingers of the two hands added to the number of wins.

The guessing code has a lot to offer. For example, "three chicken", from that era when people buy three yellow chicken only three dollars a catty; for example, "four red dumplings", from ancient times with red meat, red beans, red glutinous rice, brown sugar dumplings, alluding to the four seasons of wealth, red hot, now Zhuangxiang dumplings have evolved into green bean dumplings; "six uncle Gong " originated from the story of Lu You's descendants (in the vernacular, six with the Lu homophonic).

Folk culture is not a superstitious activity as some people think, but a kind of cultural inheritance, thanksgiving to ancestors, and education of love. In the context of realizing our Chinese dream, cultural folklore activities are more worthy of publicity, participation and attention, and worth protecting.