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Why does the fireworks festival, which has a history of hundreds of years, make Dong people laugh co

the fireworks festival of Dong nationality is an important festival among the traditional festivals of Dong nationality! Do you know how the Dong fireworks festival came? 4hw.com.cn tells you that the Dong fireworks festival with national flavor is so colorful and interesting!

The Dong fireworks festival with national flavor is so colorful and interesting

Fulu fireworks festival in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County is the most lively of the Dong fireworks festival.

The main activity of the fireworks festival is that each village organizes to grab fireworks. Fireworks are a small iron ring wrapped with red cloth (or red silk), which is placed on the top of the iron gun, and then ignited. The small iron ring rushes into the air. When the 'fireworks' land, the scheduled personnel will strive to grab it, seize the fireworks and send it to the designated place as the winner.

Grabbing fireworks means auspicious happiness. You can get rewards such as pigs, sheep, red eggs, wine and mirror screen. Fireworks are divided into three guns, the second gun and the third gun, and there are four or five guns in some places. Firecracker snatching is limited to men. They often form teams with one family, one ethnic group and one village. They can also form teams freely across villages. Snatching fireworks was originally a folk religious ritual and custom to repay the wish for inheritance. Now it has developed into a mass cultural and sports activity and has been included in the national minority traditional sports competition.

Snatching fireworks is the most important activity of Fulu at March 3. It has a hundred years of history like a small town. March 3, also known as' Shangsi Festival ', is the first day of March in the lunar calendar, so it is also called' Yuansi '. Dong people set off fireworks on this day, so it is also called fireworks festival. Fireworks is a traditional festival of the Dong nationality on March 3. Its origin should be the entertainment Carnival of the Dong nationality, which is more popular in the border areas of Guangxi and Guizhou where the Dong nationality lives.

The main content of the fireworks festival is to grab fireworks. The fireworks are made of an iron cylinder with fire inside. A color iron ring with a diameter of 4cm and wrapped with silk thread is placed at the muzzle. The iron gun is placed in the center of the drum tower field. After a simple ceremony, it is ordered to light the fireworks. With a loud noise, the iron ring flies into the air, and the players of both sides scramble to grab it. Squeezing, robbing, protecting, blocking and passing are allowed on the field, but there shall be no hurtful actions. The one who can put the iron ring on the podium will win. Fireworks usually have three shots, but also five or more. The old people think that the first artillery is happy, the second artillery is promoted and rich, and the third artillery is prosperous. So both sides will fight hard for each shot.

Fireworks Festival is one of the most lively festivals in Dong township. Every festival, people of all ethnic groups from dozens of miles around come to participate. Any village can organize gun teams. It is said that firecrackers have a history of hundreds of years.

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