Reflections on the composition of March 3rd Song Fair Festival

"In March, the sky is full of songs, and the singing girls go to the fair to compete with sweet honey; you sing to me, and the singing girls hold hands and are affectionate...", on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the land of Bagui, no matter what Whether it is the green space on the streets of the city or the fields on the mountainside of the village, singing is everywhere.

The "March 3rd" Song Fair is a traditional singing festival of the Zhuang people. After thousands of years of history, it has endured, showing its tenacious vitality and extraordinary artistic creativity. Song fairs are generally popular in the entire Zhuang area, especially in the counties where the Zhuang people live together in the Hongshui River, Zuojiang and Youjiang basins. According to a survey, there are now 640 song fairs in Guangxi.

Early in the morning on the third day of the third year of junior high school, Amei, a young woman who lives in Yiling Village, Wuming County, put on her most beautiful clothes and went out. At the Cultural Center Square in the county seat, Amei said happily: " I come to the Song Fair every year, and I am planning to participate in the antiphonal singing event today!”

In the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, there are 12 ethnic minorities who love to sing, and each ethnic group has extremely beautiful songs. Folk songs all have traditional singing festivals, such as the Miao people's "Zu Mei", the Dong people's "Huiqi", the Jing people's "Singing Ha", etc. The Nanning International Folk Song Art Festival was developed from these song fairs, and the Zhuang people's " "Sing Fair" is one of the most distinctive song festivals.

In recent years, the "March 3" Song Fair has attracted the attention of many Chinese and foreign friends. In Wuming, a county under the jurisdiction of Nanning City, the capital of Guangxi, Mei Sizhe and his wife from New York State and their daughter Mei Jinhong are not only fans of the "March 3rd" song fair, but also active participants in the song fair. Women Zhe and Mei Jinhong played folk songs of their hometown on recorders for the Zhuang people in Wuming. The Zhuang nationality in Wuming County has rich cultural heritage, and the Chinese Zhuang language uses Wuming dialect as the standard pronunciation. Mei Sizhe, a Zhuang language expert from the International Language Research Association, has been living in Wuming with his family for nearly 10 years.

Mei Sizhe told reporters in fluent Chinese: "I like Wuming very much, and I also like the folk songs sung by the Zhuang people here. They write their lives into the lyrics and like to use their singing voices. Express your feelings. This is my third time to participate in the "March 3" Song Fair. My wife and daughter also like to participate in this Zhuang singing festival. It is a very wonderful enjoyment. "< /p>

In fact, the Zhuang people like to get together to sing folk songs, not only on the third day of March, but also after finishing their farm work every day.

The Zhuang people traditionally like to celebrate festivals. Since the Zhuang people are very hospitable, friends from far and near come to the song fair on the third day of March. The host's family receives relatives and friends, and the more guests there are, the greater the honor. During the day, guests are entertained with five-color glutinous rice, chicken, duck, fish and homemade rice wine. In the evening, the owners and guests of each family sing folk songs to each other in the open space near the village or on the hillsides or rivers, surrounded by mountains and rivers. Folk songs come and go, and people who listen to the songs gradually gather to form a singing fair. In some places, the singing fair only lasts for three days and three nights. Dismissed.