The most regional characteristics of Nanning customs and culture

Life is like a work of art that manifests its own marvelous significance. Maybe just for a piece of scenery, maybe just for a love, we exist in this world is full of vitality, beauty and joy everywhere, because of life we have to feel the customs to bring us fun, then, below I take you to see the most regional characteristics of the Nanning culture and customs.

Spring Festival customs in Nanning

Spring Festival is the biggest festival of the year in Nanning, the first day of zero hour, home firecrackers, said the old and welcome the new. On the second day of the year, friends and relatives bring gifts to visit each other to pay tribute to the New Year.

Fifteen Lantern Festival night lanterns. Sixteen suburban rural temple fair, "grab firecrackers". According to the unique Spring Festival customs of the Zhuang family, but also to pick new water, drink velvet water, lion dance, chicken dance, spring bull dance and other activities. Before dawn on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhuang housewives have gone to the creek to pick new water for the whole family. When picking new water, they also pick up a few stones that resemble livestock and imitate the cries of the six animals along the way home. When they return home, they put these stones into pig pens and cattle pens to pray for the prosperity of the six animals. Then, new water is used to boil New Year tea for the whole family to drink. The women of the Zhuang family want to drink Lingliang water, that is, before drawing new water, they compete to drink the fresh water held by the village's recognized "Lingliang Sister-in-Law," which they believe will make them smarter and more clever, and the girls who are to be married take this opportunity to pray for finding a husband of their choice in the new year. The dance of the chicken and the dance of the spring bulls in the western part of the country is also a unique feature.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, by the chicken dance of young people with wood, papaya made of two door chicken, playing the gong to go to each household to congratulate the New Year, they sang the auspicious and humorous dance chicken song, so that the host family smiling. The host family plucks a few chicken feathers from the "chicken" and inserts them into their own chicken cages, praying for the prosperity of six animals.

The cow dance is even more interesting. Dancing bull with the Department of exquisite "spring bull" show, a person in front of the head of the bull, a person in the back of the back bending arching back and flinging the tail; the back by a hand holding a plow frame of the man drove the "spring bull", clustered around the spring bull and drums and gongs, singing the song of the spring bull, vast and majestic, joyful and happy. The song of the spring ox is sung, and it is full of vigor and joy.

Dancing Spring Bull

In some areas of Guisi, the chicken dance and spring bull dance have been passed down from generation to generation, adding to the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival. The young men who perform the chicken dance carry two fighting cocks made of wood and papaya and beat a gong to every house in the village to celebrate the New Year. The cock dance songs are humorous and make the host family smile. Giving red envelopes to the New Year's Eve chicken dancers, and plucking a few chicken feathers from the "fighting chickens" and inserting them into their own cages, in order to pray for the prosperity of the six animals.

The Spring Bull Dance is even more interesting. "Spring Bull" is cleverly woven with bamboo, cow head, cow horns paste on the paper, painted cow eyes, cow body is a black cloth or gray cloth. The bull dancers perform in the village with gongs and drums, and the two men who are drilled into the bottom of the cloth, one in front of the bull's head, and one in the back bending over and arching his back to fling his tail, are followed by a man with a plough frame in his hand. In addition, there are gongs and drums, leading the singing of the spring bull song, where they go, where there is singing and laughter. Dance after the village and then to the village, from the first day to the Lantern Festival. The people who dance the spring ox bring the joy of the festival to the farmers, and at the same time, they also send their wishes for a good harvest and peace to the farmers.

Playing the flat-bar for the New Year

"Pounding the hall closed boom boom in the first month, this year everywhere corn abundance." This is an ancient proverb passed down by Zhuang families in Mashan, Du'an, Shanglin and Xincheng in Guangxi. Liu Xun in the Tang Dynasty in his "Ling Table Recorded in different" has vividly recorded the dance rhyme of pounding the hall: "Spring Hall, the deep wood carving and groove, a groove on both sides, about rows of lemons, men and women standing in order to pound the rice beams, knocking the groove gangway, are all over the beat, the groove sound like a drum, heard in the miles, though thinking about the woman's skill to make the fall anvil, can not be compared to its Liu Liang also. Today, instead of pounding bamboo is the farmer's stretcher, wooden boards instead of a large wooden trough, the old pounding hall to play the stretcher form of entertainment revitalized.