The custom of March 3 of Li nationality

The custom of Li nationality on March 3: On this day, people have to get up early. Women are busy plowing glutinous rice on the mountain, girls pick the leaves of dyed rice, and men go up the mountain together to let dogs hunt and catch fish in the water. Every household kills chickens, buys meat, prepares good wine and puts on costumes. Li people in Sanya, Baoting, Lingshui and other places offered pig heads, rice wine and rice balls as sacrifices, and went to Robbie Cave and Ganshiling Cave in Sanya to pray for the safety of their ancestors. In Tongshi area, Li people held a banquet in Mujia to kill pigs, gathered people to beat gongs and drums, and danced to worship their ancestors.

The custom of March 3 of Li nationality

The third day of the third lunar month is a traditional auspicious festival for Li people to remember their ancestors, celebrate their new life, praise life and pursue love. On this day, people must get up early. Women are busy cooking glutinous rice on the mountain and preparing food for the festival. The girl went up the mountain to pick the leaves dyed with rice, and the men worked together, letting dogs go up the mountain to hunt and catching fish in the water. Every household kills chickens to buy meat and wine, and girls dress up, wear gold and silver, sing and dance to celebrate the annual March 3 rd Festival.

On March 3rd, Li people in Sanya, Baoting and Lingshui offered sacrifices to pig heads, rice wine and rice balls, and went to Robbie Cave and Ganshiling Cave in Sanya to pray for the safety of their ancestors. In the Year of the Ox in the third month of the lunar calendar, Li people in Tongshi held a banquet at Mutou's home, where people gathered to beat gongs and drums and dance to worship their ancestors to celebrate the blessings brought by spring. At the same time, they appealed for the blessing of pregnant women and wished them to have children in the future.

What activities do Li people have on March 3?

Li people's activities on March 3 are more colorful. In addition to inheriting traditional activities, Li traditional sports competitions also include bow and arrow shooting, pushing bars, playing top, climbing bars and pulling turtles.

In addition to riding cattle, swinging, wrestling, jumping firewood, dancing and other cultural performances and entertainment activities, there are also modern songs and dances, gardens, calligraphy and painting, and sports such as chess and cards, ball games, and track and field, making March 3 a tourist cultural activity with national characteristics in Hainan.

The origin of March 3 of Li nationality

In ancient times, the Li people living in Changhua River suffered a severe flood, and both people and animals died, leaving only a pair of brothers and sisters named Nanyin and Tian Fei. When the two brothers and sisters grow up, they decide to find their own partners and meet again at the foot of Bird's Nest Mountain on March 3rd every year.

As a result, both of them failed in recent years. Seeing that no one else could be found, my sister reluctantly tattooed her face with a bamboo stick and dyed it with plants to prevent her brother from recognizing herself and marrying her brother, so that the competition could continue.

So, on the third day of March of one year, they got married at the foot of Yanwo Ridge, where they spun and woven, had children, cultivated land, dug ponds and raised fish, and produced offspring for the Li nationality.

After that, on March 3rd every year, Nanyin and Mrs. Tian Fei and their descendants will return to Yanwoling to welcome the arrival of spring. Many years later, Tian Fei and Nanyin slept in a cave and became a pair of stones. In order to commemorate the achievements of the two brothers and sisters, the descendants of the Li nationality named this cave Mother Cave.

On March 3rd every year, Li nationality men, women and children bring glutinous rice, cakes, zongzi and rice wine from all directions to commemorate their ancestors by singing and dancing and pray for the prosperity and happiness of the nation.

Later, on March 3, Li people commemorated this auspicious festival in various ways, and March 3 became a grand festival for Li people.