the third day of the third lunar month is the time for the Han nationality to offer sacrifices to the Yellow Emperor, the first ancestor of Chinese civilization. In fact, this day is a festive day for Gelao people. Why should Gelao people try their best to celebrate this day? What traditional festival will it be? 4hw.com.cn reading channel will watch with you: what traditional festivals will Gelao people celebrate on the third day of the third lunar month?
What traditional festivals do Gelao people celebrate on the third day of the third lunar month
In Gelao culture, their new year's Day is not the traditional lunar January 1, but the third day of March. The third day of March is the Gelao people's Spring Festival. At that time, we should prepare chicken, wine, meat, rice and other land to worship mountain gods or seedlings. I think it will be auspicious and peaceful to respect these gods. After the offerings are used, they gather in the mountain or in front of the stronghold. The local Gelao people are called the new year, commonly known as the Gelao year.
After breakfast on this day, all the men, women and children of the Gelao family wear brand-new national costumes, carry Gelao's unique five tube Lusheng and other national musical instruments, national sports equipment such as bamboo strips and eggs (solid balls woven with bamboo strips and filled with cotton), as well as wine and meat meals, and gather on the lawn where the tombs of their old ancestors are buried from all directions.
When people arrive in Qi, the leaders of the family light firecrackers and fire guns to indicate the beginning of the new year. Then people will combine freely and start all kinds of cultural and recreational activities. When people enjoy themselves until about two o'clock in the afternoon, people gather in front of their ancestors' graves to worship their ancestors. When offering sacrifices, the elders are in front and the younger are in the back. The leader kills 10 live chickens (5 cocks and 5 hens, which are brought by 10 families in turn every year) and sprinkles blood drops into the wine to offer sacrifices to the ancestors.
During the memorial ceremony, we should use the national language to praise the achievements of our ancestors in 'opening up wasteland and creating grass', and pray for our ancestors to bless our children and grandchildren. After the ancestor worship, people moved to the lawn in the order of age, facing the mountain forest, worshipping the mountain god and 'seedling land'. Pray for the mountain god and 'seedling land' in the national language to protect the Gelao people from bumper grain and prosperity. After the sacrifice, they began to eat new year's dinner.
During the new year's dinner, they are divided into several tables according to the number of people. No matter their age, as long as they have the same generation, they will sit at one table. Ten people at each table squat in a circle on the lawn according to their generations. The high generation sits in the front row and the low generation sits in the back row. There are several generations in several rows. Each table uses a wooden basin to scoop a basin of chicken soup and a basin of vegetables in the middle of the circle. After each person respects each other with a glass of wine, they begin to eat new year's dinner. After the new year's meal, they went home. Spring ploughing begins after the new year.
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