Oriental culture and art

Every year on the third day of the third lunar month, Li compatriots in various counties and cities will hold traditional grand activities on March 3. If tourists catch up with this time to visit this oriental city, they will be able to experience the happiness and joy of Li compatriots and add great fun to tourism. The grand event on March 3 was originally a traditional folk festival for unmarried young men and women of Li nationality to pursue love and happiness, and married people no longer participated. But today, with the development of the times, March 3 has become a grand gathering for Li compatriots to carry out mass cultural and sports activities. Li Men, women, children, party and government cadres and other ethnic groups generally participated. On March 3rd, Li people bought new clothes, brewed sweet wine and prepared sweet glutinous rice as early as the beginning of the year. At the dawn of the third day of March, Li men, women and children put on their festive costumes. The boys and girls played a very striking role. They went to the meeting in droves, singing and dancing all the way. The square of the venue is very lively. The activities on March 3 always last until the evening, and bonfires are lit in the square. Push the event to a climax.

Bhutto, director of Guangdong National Song and Dance Troupe, created the Li dance "March 3rd". He once performed at the World Youth Party and won a festival award. Since then, the March 3rd Gala of Li Cell has become world-famous.

There are many different opinions about the birthplace of the March 3rd celebration. The most important thing is that the beauty pageant on March 3rd originated in the eastern city of Exianling, and was named after a sad love story of "Russian mother and Agui".

The Wedding of Cologne

The "Long Ge people" in Dongfang City mainly live in the south bank of the lower reaches of Changhua River in the north of the east, concentrated in Xinjie, Sanjia and Sigeng towns. The dialect spoken by Long Ge people, also known as "village dialect" and "Mo dialect", is a special language including Chinese, Miao, Lebanese and Vietnamese, which is regarded by academic circles as one of the typical "newly discovered languages" in modern China. Some scholars have made a special investigation and study on Long Ge dialect. This article will not give a detailed description here, but only make some statements about some living customs of Long Ge people, so that more netizens can understand the customs of this oriental city.

Generally speaking, the marriage process of Cologne people is divided into several fixed procedures, which can be divided into six stages: matchmaking → birthday celebration → auspicious date → marriage → seeing off relatives → returning to one's parents' home. Let's take a look at how these six procedures are specifically done. Matchmaking means that when the man has a girl, he asks the matchmaker (usually made by an older woman) to send wine, meat and rice to the woman's house for oral matchmaking. It is accepted by the woman's immediate family, then discussed within the family, and finally answered by the matchmaker. Life call is also called "red paper wedding", that is, if the woman agrees to get married, the woman's birthday is wrapped in red paper and sent to the man's house by the matchmaker, and then the elders of the man's house send the man's and the woman's birthdays to the fortune teller to see if the two can get along. If the dates of birth are the same, you can decide to get married. The so-called auspicious day means that after the families of both men and women discuss and agree to get married, they ask the fortune teller to choose an auspicious day for the wedding. On the selected auspicious day of the zodiac, the man's family will send a stone of rice and two jars of wine to the woman's family. The woman's family will get married immediately after receiving the bride price from the man's family. The wedding will not be held until the next day. In the process of crying marriage, the first thing to do is to worship. The worship ceremony is as follows: first, to worship the "god card" of ancestors, second, to worship grandparents, and third, to worship parents. After three worships, the bride took the flower towel she knitted and began to cry to her elders in turn. Most of what she said when she was crying was made up by herself, mostly to express her gratitude to her parents for their kindness and filial piety, so as to express her gratitude and farewell to her parents. When it is time to go out, the bride will continue to bow down in the back room of the car to express her homesickness.

When the car drove out of the bride's house, the bride's brother blocked the car and refused to leave. He read some words that he hoped his sister would go home to visit relatives as soon as possible to express his farewell to his sister. After the bride got on the bus, there was a matchmaker, and the bride's aunt and one or two close friends sat in the front of the car. Other people who greet the bride and see her off can only go with the team. Along the way, the wedding team beat drums, ate suona, set off firecrackers and sang folk songs. The scene is very lively. When the wedding procession returned to the gate of the groom's compound, it paused for a moment, and the Taoist priest came to propose a toast to Che Yu. Toast is usually similar to wishing the newlyweds harmony and friendship and a long life together. Later, accompanied by the matchmaker and others, the bride went straight into the room to worship. Worship is divided into three times, one for ancestors, two for ancestors and three for parents, and then the bride and groom swear to heaven hand in hand. After taking the oath, the groom was busy washing dishes and wiping tables for friends and relatives of Hershey to show diligence and win the favor of everyone. So far, the wedding has come to an end.

The night after the wedding, the bride takes her aunt or aunt and girlfriend back to her family. The next morning, the bride's relatives took the dowry to send her back to her husband's house. This process is called "getting married". After the new daughter-in-law arrived at her husband's house, she held a special ceremony. Dao Gong, who presided over the ceremony, gave his daughter-in-law's name, date of birth and life fate to her father-in-law's family, hoping that the ancestors would bless the newlyweds to grow old together and be happy. After that, the new wife and girlfriend washed the tables and chairs together and took care of the housework. On the wedding night, the bride should help her in-laws wash their feet with warm water at the end of the washbasin to show filial piety. On the third day after marriage, the newlyweds prepare good wine, meat, rice and vegetables, take them back to their parents' home and express their condolences to their relatives and friends, so that they can know the groom before returning to their in-laws' home to start their formal husband and wife life that day. At this point, the whole marriage process is over.