What festivals do Zhuang people have?

The Spring Festival, "March 3rd", "July 14th", February 2nd, April 8th, Dragon Boat Festival, June 6th, July 7th, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Winter Solstice are quite grand for Zhuang people.

Brief introduction of Zhuang grand festival

1, Spring Festival

This is the heaviest festival. After the sumptuous dinner on New Year's Eve, people will keep watch around the fireplace. When the time comes, people immediately burn incense and candles and offer sacrifices on the altar. The children set off firecrackers. In many places, Zhuang women immediately take buckets or bamboo tubes to play "new water" in springs and rivers for good luck. Young people hold songs or lion dances, play in the hall, listen to Zhuang opera, and so on. Cultural and recreational activities are rich and colorful, and people are immersed in the festive atmosphere.

2. Gyroscope part

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.

3. Dragon Festival

This is a traditional festival of the Zhuang people in Funing County, Yunnan Province and Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture nearby. "Long Duan" (Zhuang language, meaning to drive the dam) is a transliteration of Zhuang language, which means to meet in a wide and flat place. The Dragon Boat Festival begins on March 25th of the lunar calendar and lasts for three days.

Step 4 eat a festival

It is a special festival for the Zhuang people in Longzhou County and Pingxiang City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. "Eating" means "celebrating" in Zhuang language. During the festival, people dance lions, play dragon lanterns, sing and dance, which is very lively.

5. Bai Ya Festival

The Zhuang people in Zhenning and Suowu, Bao 'ai Town, Funing County, Yunnan Province, kill one cow, two pigs and forty-eight fish every April, 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.

6. March 3rd

This is a song festival of Tomb-Sweeping Day and Zhuang nationality. Tomb-Sweeping Day was influenced by the Han nationality. However, some strong people sweep graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day on March 13, 14 and 26, which is very different from Han nationality. Strong people attach great importance to offering sacrifices to sweep graves, so the whole family will go out and bring colorful boards, meat, incense and paper banners to worship the ancestral graves. In many places, grand song parties are held at the same time for the March 3 rd song party. In recent years, the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has designated this day as a festival for the Zhuang people. Young men and women find their favorite partners through songs.

7. Cattle Soul Festival

On the eighth day of April every year, it is the festival of cattle soul, also called the festival of taking off the yoke. In the eyes of the strong, cows are sacred objects in the sky, not ordinary animals on the ground. On the eighth day of April every year, Niu Wangmo falls from the sky to protect cattle from death. Because it is a festival for cows, people and cows stop working on this day. The host soaked the steamed rice with glutinous rice in the maple leaf, and then pinched a ball for the cow to eat first. Outside the cowshed, offerings are arranged, incense sticks are lit to offer sacrifices to Niu Wangmo, and people also sing folk songs to celebrate Niu's birthday.

8. Mowang Festival

The second day of June every year is King's Day, which commemorates Mo Yi, a Zhuang hero who dared to resist the feudal emperor. June 2 is a small sacrifice every year, and a big sacrifice every six years. The small sacrifice is to kill chickens and ducks and burn incense, asking him to bless the strong family. The big sacrifice is very grand, and a grand ceremony will be held at King's Temple in Mo Yi. After the sacrifice, each dish will be divided according to the number of households in the village, and one person from each household will attend the dinner.

9. Mid-Autumn Festival

July 14 to 16 is the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as Ghost Festival. This is a big festival for the strong, second only to the Spring Festival. There has been a festive atmosphere since the seventh day of July. July 7th is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet. Zhuang people think that today is the day when fairies take a bath. It is especially good to dye cloth with water, make vinegar and boil medicine. At noon, every household ran to the river or the mountain spring to fetch water. In some places, the seventh day is regarded as Daughter's Day. Instead of crossing the magpie bridge to find her husband like a weaver, the married daughter left her husband's family and returned to her mother's arms.

10, first frost festival

It is a festival to commemorate the heroine, Cen Yuyin, who fought against foreign aggression. It has a history of more than 360 years. This festival is popular in Xia Lei, Lei Ping and Bao Xu in daxin county, but its influence extends to Tiandeng, Jingxi and Debao counties. In the early morning of sunset, people gathered in Yuyin Temple with Ciba, glutinous rice, meat and incense. There are performers, folk singers, lion dancers and so on.