What festival is the third day of the third lunar month?

The third day of the third lunar month is a traditional festival for many ethnic groups in China, with Miao and Yao as typical examples. In ancient times, young men and women of Zhuang nationality gathered in the street to sing and held banquets by the river. According to Zhuang legend, March 3rd is the birthday of Buluotuo, the ancestor of Zhuang nationality. The Han nationality is the Shangsi Festival, and there is a saying that ancestors are sacrificed on March 3, Xuanyuan is sacrificed on March 3 and Chiyou is sacrificed on March 3.

The third day of the third lunar month is not only a simple traditional song festival for Zhuang people, but also an important day for Zhuang people to worship their ancestors and ancestors of Pangu and Buluotuo.

Now, as a legal traditional festival in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, all citizens in this autonomous region have a two-day holiday.

It is also a traditional festival for Zhuang, Yao, Dong and Miao people in Guangxi. Song Club is not only a grand event to promote national culture, but also a grand event for national economic exchanges. According to records, the song club has a history of thousands of years. The development of Zhuang folk songs is particularly prominent, and the songs are well-known. In ancient times, young men and women gathered in the street or by the river to hold banquets and sing songs. In the Qing Dynasty, hundreds or even thousands of people gathered to sing.

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Zhuang people

According to the custom of "March 3rd" in Zhuang nationality, many people only know how to talk about love with songs. In fact, there are many customs in the "March 3rd" of Zhuang nationality, such as grabbing fireworks, throwing hydrangeas and eating colorful glutinous rice, which are also interesting holiday customs.

Five-color glutinous rice

Before the festival, every household prepared colorful glutinous rice and eggs. People collect red bluegrass, yellow rice flowers, maple leaves and wisteria, and soak glutinous rice with the juice of these plants to make red, yellow, black, purple and white glutinous rice. According to legend, this kind of food was handed down after winning the appreciation of fairies; Some people say that this is a sacrifice to the Song fairy Liu Sanjie. After eating this kind of meal, people will be prosperous and healthy. Eggs are objects used by young men and women in Gewei to communicate and convey their feelings.

Grab fireworks

On the third day of the third lunar month and after the autumn harvest, folk associations in some minority areas in Guangxi spontaneously organized fireworks grabbing activities.

Eight people from each team took part in the fireworks grab. Players rush into the opponent's battery by breaking through, blocking people, changing direction and sprinting. , and put the fireworks into the music. The rules are similar to western football, so it is called "Oriental football".

The traditional "fireworks" is an iron ring, about 5 cm in diameter, wrapped in red cloth or red silk. The competition venue is generally located on the river bank or hillside, and the number of people and teams is not limited. Every shot must be robbed, and the third shot is over.

Hydrangea flirting

Hydrangea in Xu Ge is a handicraft made by girls before the festival. Exquisite craftsmanship, all silk crafts: 12 petals are connected into a sphere, each petal represents a month of the year, embroidered with flowers of that month. Some hydrangeas are made into squares and polygons. Hydrangeas are filled with beans, millet or cottonseed. The balls are connected by ribbons, and the tassels and decorative beads symbolize pure love.

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March 3 of the Dong people is also called Sowing Festival, Begging for Onions Festival and Fireworks Festival. According to Dong's legend, in ancient times, they always regarded the flowering of tung flowers as a transplant festival. But one year, this tung tree didn't blossom, so it missed the farming season and had to flee to Beijing.

In order to learn lessons from the past, on March 3, people played Lusheng, visited relatives and friends, and reminded each other that it was time to do farm work. On March 3rd, the Dong people held fireworks, bullfighting, Touma, singing duet and stepping on the hall, so it was also called "Fireworks Festival". ?

Yao (the legendary leader of the tribal alliance in the late period of the patriarchal clan society in ancient China)

In memory of this national hero, people named it March 3, also known as "Ganba Festival". Before March 3rd every year, Yaomen must kill wild animals in the old forest one week in advance, touch fish and shrimp in the river, bake them into dry pens and take them home, and distribute them to households, enjoying the joy of bumper harvest.

Women went up the mountain to pick natural dyes such as small indigo leaves, boiled them and dyed them into red, yellow, blue and purple glutinous rice for Pangu. On the day of the festival, the Yao people put down their farm work and have a collective rest 1 day. Men read classics, drink and entertain, while girls and boys get together in the barren hills and wild forests beside the stockade, singing, playing and falling in love. ?

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Every year, the third day of the third lunar month is a traditional national festival of the Buyi people in Zhenfeng and Wangmo.

In the traditional concept, in order to make the whole village achieve the goal of "praying for disaster relief, keeping the village safe, good weather and abundant crops", Zhenfeng Buyi people who have lived on the banks of Beipan River for generations will hold corresponding sacrificial activities on the third day of the third lunar month.

Mountain worship is one of the main activities of Buyi people on March 3. Sacrifice to mountain gods should be carried out after "sweeping the village to ward off evil spirits"