March 3, 2019 is coming. This festival belongs to many ethnic minorities. Every time, they will hold a song party. So which nationality will hold the March 3 Song Festival? Let's learn about it.
Which nationality is the song festival of March 3
March 3 is mainly a traditional festival in Guangxi. It is a festival celebrated by Zhuang, Dong, Buyi, Miao and other ethnic groups in Guangxi. Every year, a large scale 'March 3' Song Festival is specially held. The 'March 3' Song Festival is also known as' Gepo Festival 'and' Gewei Festival '.
The festival is also called 'March 3' and 'Gepo Festival', which is divided into day fair and night fair. In the field, the main content of the day song fair is the selection of songs; in the village, the night song fair mainly sings production songs, season songs, pan songs and history songs. In addition to the third day of March in the lunar calendar, song fairs can be formed during the Spring Festival, the eighth day of April, the mid Yuan Festival, the Mid Autumn Festival, marriage, children's full moon, housewarming and other seasons. Even when the songs on the way to the fairs meet the opponents, they can form temporary fairs.
The customs of March 3
1. Han nationality
March 3, called Shangsi festival in ancient times, is a festival in memory of the Yellow Emperor. According to legend, March 3 is the birthday of the Yellow Emperor. Since ancient times, there has been a saying in China that "on February 2, the Dragon rises; on March 3, Xuanyuan is born.". After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Shangsi festival was changed to March 3, which was followed by later generations, and thus became a festival for drinking and feasting by water and spring outing in the suburbs of the Han nationality.
The Han nationality has the custom of eating boiled eggs with ground (Shepherd's purse) cauliflower. On that day, there were activities such as Liubei, liuegg, liuzao, Qizi, dailiuquan, Tanchun, outing, Qingjing rice and Song Festival. In addition to sacrificial rites, Han people gradually developed into folk activities such as riverside play, men and women meeting, planting willows and enjoying flowers.
2. Zhuang Nationality
March 3 of the lunar calendar is a grand festival for the Zhuang people. It is said that it is a festival formed in memory of the Zhuang singer Liu Sanjie, so it is also known as the singer's day. On the third of March, they went to the song fair, set up a singing studio and held a song party. Young men and women sang songs, touched eggs, threw hydrangeas and fell in love. Zhuang people usually come to visit tombs on March 3 and steam five colored glutinous rice at March 3.
Song fair usually starts with singing folk songs to show the cultural customs of being good at singing and dancing. Thousands of people dance bamboo pole dance together. Each square has the characteristics of Zhuang nationality. People hold five color glutinous rice, hold the good wine of Zhuang nationality, carry the hoe of labor, and also hold the delicate dustpan in their hands.
3. Dong Nationality
According to the legend of the Dong family, in ancient times, the original territory of the Dong family always took the flowering of tung trees as the transplanting Festival. But one year the tung trees did not blossom, so they missed the farming season, so they had to flee to Baojing. In order to learn from the past, on the third day of March, people play Lusheng to sing songs, visit relatives and friends, and remind each other that they should be busy farming. More than festivals, there are activities such as firecrackers, bullfighting, horse fighting, dueling songs and stepping on the hall, also known as "fireworks festival".
In the morning, the girls go to the garden to pick half a basket of vegetables, wash them, dress up, and gather under the MOGA tree. The young men waiting there wait for the chance to ask for the basket from their sweetheart. The recipients agree with the girl on the date of returning the basket, and then give back fruits and cloth. Once upon a time, a young man and a woman fell in love, and her mother promised her to a rich businessman, who was scheduled to get married on the fourth day of March. On the third day of junior high school, the couple who fell in love with each other jumped into the pool to die for love under the MOGA tree. In memory of them, on March 3 every year, local youths come here to play Sheng duels and break free from the shackles of arranged marriage. The customs of March 3
4. Miao Nationality
'march 3 ', also known as' picking onion Festival', is an evolution from the ancient love festival for young men and women of the Miao nationality. It is said that every March 3, men and women gather together in the name of digging wild onions to love each other on the hillside and sing Miao songs while digging wild onions.
On this day, Miao girls dressed in costumes came to a fixed place to show their beauty. The boys are also waiting for this day. They have the chance to meet many girls and sing with them. If they like each other, they can go home immediately. So after the song party broke up, you can see a lot of men and women talking.
5. Yao nationality
March 3, also known as ganba Festival, means that before March 3 every year, Yao men go to Laolin one week in advance to hunt, kill wild animals, go down to the river to catch fish and shrimp, and roast them to dry and take them home. Women go up to the mountains to pick natural dyes such as indigo leaves. After boiling water, they dye glutinous rice into red, yellow, blue and purple, which is used to present Pangu to the public year after year.
Yao people also take March 3 as their song festival, singing not only the preface song, the tea song and the scattered song, but also the complaint song and the Xie Xian song, but rarely the love song. Wine, tea and so on are indispensable for eating and drinking.
Which nationality's festival is the third of March? In addition to the above nationalities, there are also some ethnic minorities who celebrate the third of March. You might as well come and have a look.
6. Buyi Nationality
The Buyi generals in Xinbao Township, Wudang District, Guiyang city are called "March 3" or "sacrifice to the local silkworm". In order to protect the crops and strive for a good harvest, the Buyi people in this area use fried Baogu flowers as offerings on the third day of March every year. They go to the nearby hillside in groups to worship the God of heaven and the silkworm of earth, and pray for the God's blessing. They don't ask the silkworm to kill the seedlings in the field and make the grain prosperous. At the end of the festival, people walked along the ridges of the fields, sang folk songs and scattered Baogu flowers into the fields.
In the northern Bawanghe area, because of the low temperature, the maple leaves were still small and could not be colored. March 13 was the 'maple leaf Festival'. On this day, people go for a spring outing in the mountains. Children pick young maple leaves to make them into balls, while women pick some young maple leaves to put in their hair bun. In addition, every family dyed the glutinous rice into various colors to make glutinous rice. Young people go to the hillside to blow wood leaves and sing folk songs. If you meet a satisfactory opponent, you will be invited to Buyi village in the evening and sing songs all night. At parting, the host gave the singers glutinous rice and chicken leg wrapped in banana leaves as a holiday gift. The customs of March 3
7. She nationality
March 3 is Millet's birthday. Every family eats black rice. It is said that among the She people, March 3 is a major festival comparable to the Spring Festival. On this day, every family slaughtered animals and sacrificed to their ancestors. Many families often choose this day for their wedding. Black rice is eaten in festivals. When night falls, a bonfire will be held, competing to sing.
It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, Lei Wanxing, a hero of She nationality, led the people of all nationalities to revolt and was trapped on the mountain in a battle. Because there was no food and grass, the whole army of the rebel army was about to be destroyed. They ate a kind of wild fruit called 'wurenzi' to satisfy their hunger. They persisted for a few months. On March 3 of the next year, they rushed out of the encirclement and turned defeat into victory. In memory of these heroes, she people will eat 'black rice' on the third day of March every year. Spring ploughing is around March 3, so eating black rice also means praying for a good harvest.
8. Li Nationality
March 3 is the traditional outing festival of Li nationality. It is said that during the flood period, Tianfei and Guanyin brothers and sisters drifted in Wuzhi Mountain Area and survived. In order to carry on the family line, the younger sister's face was tattooed so that the elder brother could not recognize it. She married her husband and wife, gave birth to children, cultivated by slash and burn, and made Wuzhishan rich. Since then, on the third of March every year, Li youths have brought bamboo tube rice and flower umbrellas to Wuzhi Mountain to welcome the spring.
On the third of March, Li compatriots from all villages gather in the wilderness, carrying Shanlan rice wine and bamboo tube rice. They hold powder shooting, archery competitions, singing songs and dancing bamboo pole dances between middle-aged and old Li men and women. At that time, we can also see the unique way of love between young men and women in pairs.
9. Tujia Nationality
Tujia's third of March is Tujia's Valentine's day. On the third day of March, the elder brother and younger sister of Tujia people got together to marry each other through folk songs.
The traditional egg festival of Tu nationality is held on March 3, 8 and 18 of the third lunar month, which varies from place to place. At that time, sacrificial rites will be held in the temple to ask the master to recite scriptures and dance the God dance to eliminate disasters and ensure the prosperity of human beings and livestock. The participants also carried a lot of cooked eggs with them. One was to eat them by themselves, and the other was to knock and play with each other.
Other ethnic groups such as Shui, Mulao and Maonan all have their own traditional festival customs on March 3. Here we will not introduce them one by one. If you are interested, you can search for them.