Luoyue ancient country, this disappearing ancient capital is actually in Wuming, Guangxi!

Netizens said, "Friends in Guangxi, are there still people who sing folk songs? It doesn't matter whether you have a holiday or not, mainly because you want to join. In the face of this "Guangxi exclusive" happiness, you can feel everyone's envy from the comments.

What is everyone doing after the four-day holiday?

"Singing folk songs", of course!

"Zhuang folk songs" has always been a national feature of Guangxi with a long history. It is said that Zhuang people have been singing since Pangu. People use folk songs to express their lives and express their feelings.

In Wuming, Guangxi, the ancient folk songs developed into "Gewei culture", and the well-known "March 3 of Zhuang Nationality" was spread from here.

Guangxi, full name "Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region". With the word "Zhuang", it means that a large number of Zhuang people have gathered here. Wuming is one of the birthplaces of Zhuang nationality and one of the largest settlements of Zhuang nationality in Guangxi.

Wuming is known as "the hometown of Zhuang nationality in China".

Wuming dialect spoken by local people is considered as the standard pronunciation of Zhuang language. On the 60th anniversary of the founding of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, such a row of signs appeared above the text. They are neither English Pinyin nor Chinese Pinyin, but Zhuang Pinyin.

The development of Zhuang language is not only the language of people's daily communication, but also the language of Wuming folk songs.

The March 3rd "Gewei Activity", which will start in April, is the most complete expression of "Gewei Culture" in the current traditional culture of Wuming.

The word "fair" in "various fairs" means "market". Gewei is where people get together to sing folk songs and sing folk songs to each other, and the crowds surge like a fair.

In 2006, Wuming's "March 3rd Song Festival" was identified as the "One Place, One Festival" project in Nanning.

On 20 10, Wu Ming was officially authorized by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce as the trademark of "March 3rd Song Festival".

On 20 1 1, Wu Ming officially expanded the name of the event "China Zhuang Village Wuming March 3rd Song Festival" to "China Zhuang Village Wuming March 3rd Song Festival and Luoyue Cultural Tourism Festival".

On such a singing and dancing platform, Wuming Zhuang's March 3rd Gewei culture has gone out of Guangxi and been known and understood by more people.

In addition to singing folk songs, there are various traditional folk activities in the local area.

The sacrificial ceremony of "Luo Yue Grandmother King" in Wuming Luobo Temple Fair is an important large-scale activity on March 3rd, and 20 14 was selected into the list of "Representative Folk-custom Projects of Intangible Cultural Heritage" in Guangxi.

On the morning of the second day of March, every household began to prepare sacrifices such as chickens, pigs and fruit bowls, lit incense sticks, and set out to worship Luo Yue's grandmother Wang.

At the appointed time, the team began to cruise with the sound of eight tones and gongs and drums accompanied by dragon and lion dances. Everywhere the parade went, people greeted it with firecrackers and rushed to welcome it. The scene is no less than the Spring Festival.

After the worship of Grandma Wang of Luo Yue, there will be a "fireworks-grabbing" competition when the song will officially start on March 3rd. Fireworks rose into the sky, and contestants from different towns began to fight bravely for them. The game is exciting and enjoyable!

Five-color glutinous rice is a special food of Zhuang nationality. It is made of glutinous rice soaked in four different natural plants, and its steamed color is rich and bright. "Black, red, yellow and purple", plus the white color of glutinous rice itself, is called "five-color glutinous rice".

During the song festival, people use super-large steamer to make glutinous rice.

This steamer can steam 3,389 Jin of five-color glutinous rice, with "33" in front representing March 3rd and "3389" representing the total area of Wuming District-"3,389 square kilometers". It means that Wuming is thriving and I wish Wuming a bumper harvest.

Seeing this, you may ask, the title of the article "Luoyue Ancient Country" did not say. Don't worry, just look down.

As mentioned earlier, the "Luoyue Grandmother King" of Luobo Temple refers to the ancient country of Luoyue, which was an ancient country in the south with Guangxi as the center in Xia, Shang, Zhou and Han Dynasties.

The ancient country of Luoyue has created rich and splendid cultures, such as rice culture, cotton textile culture, dragon boat culture, bronze drum culture, Huashan mural culture, sun culture, dragon mother culture, stone pillar worship culture and so on. These cultures have had a great and far-reaching impact on Chinese civilization, Southeast Asian culture and even world civilization.

So where is this ancient country?

According to the research of experts from the National Nature Reserve Administration, the center and the earliest capital of Luoyue culture is now Wuming, Guangxi, while the southern foot of Daming Mountain in China is the important birthplace of Baiyue nationality-"Luoyue" and the earliest capital of Luoyue ancient country.

Daming Mountain is the ancestral mountain of Guluoyue people. Its strong name is "Ba (bā) Yes", which also means Zushan and Shengshan. Legend has it that the mountain range of Daming Mountain is the embodiment of the "special excavation" of the Zhuang nationality. One of the mountains looks like a tomb from a distance, and the dragon mother is buried there.

There is a Tian Ping scenic spot on Daming Mountain, where there are eight mysterious grasslands. They are in a straight line, perpendicular to the Tropic of Cancer. These eight meadows are engraved with strange symbols, which are like paintings but not paintings, like words but not words, and the locals don't know what they mean. Therefore, the Zhuang people call it "Xu Xian", saying that it is a place where immortals meet.

Later, after textual research, Xu Xian may be the place where Guluoyue people climbed to the top of the mountain to worship heaven and earth. These grasslands form a huge sacrificial complex, where we can accurately observe the scene without sunshine and determine the exact time of the year of return.

Speaking of graves and sacrifices, don't be afraid. Daming Mountain has beautiful mountains and rivers, overlapping peaks and beautiful scenery. It is named after "the sky is high and the clouds are light after the rain", also known as "the mountains are green and the water is green".

In addition to Tian Ping Scenic Area, there are 10,000 mu of Rhododendron Corridor in Wang Bing Mountain Scenic Area, the wonders of flowing clouds and waterfalls on Fei Ying Peak, and the beautiful scenery of Tianhu as a mirror. ...

Due to its special geographical location and complex ecological environment, Daming Mountain provides a rich food source for the reproduction of wild animals.

Daming Mountain is not only the only way for migratory birds to stop migrating, but also the national second-class protected animals: langur, leopard and so on.

In particular, langurs inhabit Daming Mountain at an altitude of 1500m, which is rare in Guangxi and has high scientific research value.

Besides "Xu Ge" and "Xu Xian", Wuming also has a "ghost market", which is called "Xufang" in Zhuang language.

The story of "ghost market" in Luo Yue is widely circulated in Zhuang areas, saying that after death, the soul must return to the ancestral home-Luwo.

Legend has it that after the soul enters the "Ghost Expo", it first drinks the fountain of forgetting and forgets the friendship between people. Then cross the 10 copper bridge and worship the 12 palace, and you can "settle down" in Guishi.

Because of this story, whenever there is a little phosphorescence in the graveyard in the middle of the night, the old man will say that it is a ghost to light a lamp to drive out the ghost market.

The "deer nest" in the story now refers to the deer nest, radish, wharf and other towns at the foot of Daming Mountain in Wuming. This area was once the burial place of ancient Luo in Lingnan Pit.

The first activity of founding ceremony, the ancient country of Luoyue, was to offer sacrifices to the spirits who died for their country on the seventh day of July. Most of these ghosts died when they were young.

On Tanabata, the mage extradited these ghosts to the ghost market to celebrate Tanabata. During this period, Luo Houren sang "Song of Filial Piety" and "Song of Going to the Temple", telling the touching story of Qixi lovers holding a ghost market with mobile games and expressing their eternal affection.

"Luwo Ghost City" is not only a cultural relic of founding ceremony, an ancient country of Luoyue, but also a memory of the descendants of Luoyue.

In the long river of history, the continuous development of the city inherits people's beautiful longing for their homes.

Wuming, once named "Wuming Tianxia" because the governor of Guangxi advocated martial arts, is now spreading Zhuang folk song culture, and the city is also thriving on the remains of Luoyue culture.

Wuming has more beautiful scenery, delicious food and interesting folk activities, waiting for you to come here to play, taste and experience.