What are the customs of the Zhuang nationality on March 3?

"March 3rd" is one of the major festivals of Zhuang nationality and the main manifestation of traditional Yue culture, which is collectively called "March 3rd" song meeting. At present, six "March 3rd" song concerts and Wuming Luoyue Cultural Tourism Festival have been held in Wuming County, Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Adjacent to Xu Ge, vendors gather and folk trade is active. People nearby provided accommodation and food for those who came to arrest Xu Ge, and they were warmly received whether they knew each other or not. A large-scale song concert was attended by dozens of young men and women in Fiona Fang, with a sea of people and songs, which was really lively. Qiao Ye has always been a big song fair in Tianyang County. People go to song parties to compete and enjoy songs; Young men and women sing, and if they hit it off with each other, they give each other tokens as tokens of their love. In addition, there are interesting activities such as throwing hydrangeas and touching eggs.

On the third day of the third lunar month, every Zhuang family living in western Guangxi cooks red, yellow, black, purple and white rice with light green maple leaves and red bluegrass. People hang branches of maple leaves on lintels and around houses, set up tents at the end of villages, and put colored rice and other tributes under the tents. Men, women and children sing around the tent and catch up with the concert, and so do the old people.

There are several historical stories about the origin of March 3 of the Zhuang nationality:

The Myth Story of Zhuang Nationality-Digging Graves Specially

According to legend, in ancient times, there was an old woman who had no children and later saved an injured snake. The little snake refused to leave after being injured, so the old woman said to the little snake that people are different from animals. We have no tail. If you want to be with me, you must abandon your tail. Later, the old woman cut a small piece of the snake's tail, and the snake's tail became shorter, so people called the snake "Tecai", which means male in Zhuang language and short tail in Zhuang language, so people called the old woman "Maocai", which is the mother of Zhuang language. From then on, Michaelis raised him as his son. Now there is a related custom of Zhuang nationality, that is, pulling a few hairs from the tail of a newly bought chicken and duckling, which means to get rid of the wildness of an animal like this old woman and become a member of the human family. In fact, this custom and legend reflects the ancient memory of ancient humans domesticating animals from the wild to their homes. Tailless also reflects the evolution of human beings from primitive people to civilized people.

Later, the old woman died of old age. After the neighbors put the old woman in the grave, they said to the little snake, dig, dig She has always regarded you as her own. When she leaves, see how you can be filial to her. Little snake seemed to understand people's words and blinked. Suddenly, there was a strong wind, and a gust of wind swept the old woman's coffin and little snake to the highest peak of Daming Mountain. At that time, it was around March 3, and then on March 3 every year, there would be extreme weather, heavy rain or hail in Daming Mountain area, and local people thought it was specially dug to visit his mother.

To celebrate the great quality of digging filial piety, people dug a temple for the old woman. In order to show respect, people call it "Dapo Temple" or "Laopo Temple" in Zhuang language, and "Dragon Mother Temple" in Chinese. The local Zhuang people also began to worship snakes, and stayed away from them, avoiding killing and eating them. With the cultural spread and influence of Luoyue nationality, the ancestor of Zhuang nationality, the shape of snake was later integrated into the shape of totem dragon in China, so Tedig later became the incarnation of dragon and was upgraded to the original dragon, so Tedig was also called tail-digging dragon. Daming Mountain has become a natural giant sacred grave and a belief in the hearts of Zhuang people in ancient times. I believe that when people die, the soul will fly back to Daming Mountain. Therefore, Daming Mountain is also considered as the tomb of ancestors and has become a sacred mountain in the myths and legends of Zhuang and Dong languages. Therefore, the Zhuang people in Daming Mountain area are the real "descendants of dragons". Therefore, Mi Fei Dig was honored as the Dragon Mother, and all the temples dedicated to it were facing Daming Mountain.

Then it is the traditional time for Zhuang people to sweep graves on March 3. On the first day of March, people will pick branches of maple trees and put them in the gaps between doors and windows. On the third day of March, they will make colorful glutinous rice to worship their ancestors and the Dragon Mother Temple.

Dragon Mother Culture in Daming Mountain Area (Ⅱ)

The Historical Story of Zhuang Nationality —— Singing and Choosing a Mate

One of them is the story of "singing folk songs to choose a husband". It is said that in the past, the daughter of an old Zhuang singer was very beautiful and was good at singing folk songs. The old man hopes to choose a young man with outstanding singing skills as his husband. Young singers from all over the world came here one after another, and Seg proposed. Since then, regular SEG meetings have been formed.

The Historical Story of Zhuang Nationality —— Liu Sanjie

The other one is widely circulated in Zhuangxiang to commemorate Sanjie Liu. It's because the song fairy Liu Sanjie used the song as a sword to resist the landlord and fight for the interests of the people. When she was chopping wood on the mountain, she was cut off by the landlord and fell off the cliff. She survived, was rescued by the A Niu family, and began to use folk songs against the landlords. People from all over the country went there to sing, and at the same time, she and A Niu sang under the rattan tree, forming a story.

The Historical Story of Zhuang Nationality —— Wei Dagui

Another legend is that a long time ago, there was a man named Wei in Zhuangxiang. He was a minister under a local tyrant. Da Gui is young, but he is knowledgeable and talented. Moreover, he is very concerned about the sufferings of the Zhuang people. He took the salary given to him by the emperor and distributed it to the people when he returned to his hometown. He has nothing he can call his own. The local tyrant hated Wei, because he had told Zhuang people not to eat the imperial grain, so he tried every means to frame Wei. One plan was to ask Wei to complete an attic as required, but he did. One plan didn't succeed, and two plans were born. When Da Gui was in Tomb-Sweeping Day, he wanted a pig's head as heavy as the mountain behind the house to worship his ancestors, and Da Gui got his wish. The local tyrants came up with a deadly trap and asked Da Gui to get 490 yuan in 20 days.

A male egg, because "men don't have children, how can roosters lay eggs?" The emperor was furious and ordered the arrest of Da Gui. When the Zhuang people heard the news, they immediately sent them to Guangxi and hid in the maple forest on the mountain. Imperial soldiers searched the mountain and surrounded them. They saw glutinous rice left in the forest, but no one was there. The emperor ordered the release of Yamakaji, which happened to be March 3rd. After the imperial soldiers left, the villagers went up the mountain and found Da Gui's body in a hole in a maple tree. Everyone buried him with tears in their eyes. Men, women and children burst into tears at the grave. Tears spilled on the grave, and suddenly a small green maple tree and a clump of green, red and blue grass grew on the grave. In memory of Da Gui, the villagers built a temple next to the tomb and named it "Da Gui Hall". Because Da Gui liked drinking and eating glutinous rice before his death, he defeated the emperor by drinking and eating glutinous rice, and was later killed because he could not get the male eggs. Therefore, on this day in early March, every family in Xiangxiang came to Da Gui's grave with rice wine, glutinous rice and boiled eggs to pay homage. While people were mourning, the sky suddenly thundered and a colorful snake rushed out of the temple. The snake nodded to the villagers and went straight to the palace to kill the emperor.

Since then, in order to commemorate Da Gui, Zhuang people in western Guangxi have set up greenhouses in their villages every year until the third day of March. Because it is said that the dead who died outside can't enter the house, people have to put colorful glutinous rice and other sacrifices under the tent to offer sacrifices to the dead in Da Gui, and praise and thank Da Gui for his strong music around the tent. It has been passed down from generation to generation, forming the custom of catching up with the March 3 rd Song Festival.