When it comes to March 3, many people have such questions: why does March 3, 2018 have a holiday? In fact, this is a special festival for ethnic minorities. Guangxi Zhuang people attach great importance to March 3, so when does March 3 have a holiday? How many days does March 3 have in total?
What time is the holiday on March 3
The 'Zhuang March 3' holiday schedule in 2018 is determined. The 'Zhuang March 3' holiday is April 18 and 19. After the adjustment, Guangxi people will have a five-day long holiday from April 18 to 22!!
According to the notice, during March 3, 2018, all citizens in the autonomous region will have two days off, and April 18 and 19 (that is, the third and fourth day of the third lunar month) will have a holiday. On Friday, April 20 and Sunday, April 15.
Why is March 3 off
The third day of the third lunar month is an important festival for Zhuang, Han, Yao, Miao and Dong nationalities in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In Nanning, Liuzhou, Baise, Hechi, Chongzuo, Laibin, Qinzhou, Fangchenggang and other cities, where Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong and other ethnic minorities live together, as well as some Han people, there are more than 27 million people who have the custom of taking the third day of the third lunar month as their important festival.
The Party committee of Guangxi Autonomous Region and the people's Government of Guangxi Autonomous Region have determined the "March 3" of the lunar calendar as the traditional festival of Guangxi, and given 2 days off. This will help to inherit and carry forward Guangxi's excellent national traditional culture, strengthen the construction of socialist spiritual civilization in Guangxi, further consolidate and develop the socialist national relations of equality, unity, mutual assistance and harmony, and promote the common unity and struggle of all ethnic groups and common prosperity and development. This festival began in the Tang and Song Dynasties and prevailed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It originated from the spring of ethnic minorities. They had just passed the busy period of farming and had a few days off to have a good year. The way of leisure and praying was mainly to sing folk songs. In some places, the hosts and guests of each family sang with each other on the hillside, and some of the songs could last for three days and three nights!
Some places may not sing folk songs, but on March 3, they will bring chickens, ducks and fish to worship the mountain, just like Qingming Festival, to commemorate their ancestors. In other places, guests will be invited to participate in Lusheng treading Hall (similar to football's firecrackers), fill up the five colored glutinous rice rice made by their own home, drink their own rice wine, watch the Zhuang Opera, bullfight, fight for colored eggs, and enjoy the festival like the Spring Festival.
Myth and legend of March 3
It is said that in ancient times, there was an old woman who had no offspring, and later saved a wounded snake. The little snake refused to leave after being injured. The old woman said to the little snake: there are differences between human and animal. We have no tail. If you want to be with me, you must give up your tail. Later, the old woman cut off a small part of the tail of the little snake, and the tail of the little snake became shorter, so people called the little snake "special digging", which means man in Zhuang language, short tail in Zhuang language, and the old woman "what digging", which means mother in Zhuang language. From then on, he took digger as his son. Now there is a related custom left by Zhuang nationality, which is to pluck a few hairs from the tail of the newly bought chicks and ducklings, which means to get rid of the wild animals like this old woman and become a member of the human family. In fact, this custom and legend reflect the ancient memory of domestication of animals from wild to domestic. No tail also reflects the evolution of human beings from primitive to civilized.
Later, when the old woman died, the neighbors buried her, and said to the snake, "dig, dig! She usually sees you as her own, and she goes away to see how you can give her filial piety.". The little snake seemed to understand people's words, blinked his eyes, and suddenly the wind and rain were strong. A gust of wind rolled the old woman's coffin and the little snake to the top of Daming Mountain. At that time, it was around March 3. Later, around March 3, there was extreme weather, rainstorm or hail in Daming Mountain area. The local people thought it was dug back to visit his mother.