What are the customs of the Zhuang nationality on March 3?

The customs of the Zhuang people on March 3 include: talking about love with songs, making love with hydrangeas, wrapping five-color glutinous rice, grabbing fireworks, punching poles, playing bronze drums and touching eggs.

1, love song

The Song Festival on March 3rd is a good opportunity for young men and women to communicate. Every time, young men and women within dozens of miles of Fiona Fang will gather at the concert. The young man sang against the girl he liked under the guidance of the singer.

Usually, young men take the initiative to sing "sightseeing songs" first, observe and look for opponents, and sing songs that will be invited when they meet the right person. If the woman is interested, she will agree. The young men sang inquiry songs again, and became friends with each other, singing love songs and making love songs. The lyrics are all improvised and blurted out. If the girl thinks that the young talents and talents in front of her are satisfied, she will quietly give the hydrangea in her arms to the right person while others are not paying attention. "He" will return it with handkerchiefs, towels and other items, and then the song will be sweeter, so she will order Qin Jin's good.

Before the duet, Liu Sanjie's idol was carried by everyone for a week. People prayed for her at the song festival on March 3, giving her the talent to sing and blessing everyone. People have finished worshipping the fairy Liu Sanjie, and they are scrambling to open their voices and sing to each other, singing one after another. Men, women and children spent sleepless nights in this concert.

2. Love of hydrangea

Hydrangea in Xu Ge is a handicraft made by girls before the festival. Exquisite craftsmanship, all silk crafts: 12 petals are connected into a sphere, each petal represents a month of the year, embroidered with flowers of that month. Some hydrangeas are made into squares and polygons. Hydrangeas are filled with beans, millet or cottonseed. The balls are connected by ribbons, and the tassels and decorative beads symbolize pure love.

Legend has it that Adi, the son of a poor family, fell in love with Axiu, a girl from the neighboring village in Jiuzhou Ancient Town, Jingxi County. Axiu was attracted by a juvenile delinquent in the town at the fair. He wanted to marry Axiu, and Axiu threatened to kill him. The hooligans bribed the government, sentenced Adi to death, put him in a dungeon, and waited for the fall to ask for punishment. After crying blind, Axiu started sewing hydrangeas for Adi. The needle pierced his hand and blood flowed to the hydrangea. After 998 1 day, the hydrangea was finished.

Axiu paid off the jailer with the money from selling jewelry and the family savings, and met the tortured and bony Adi. Axiu took hydrangea from him and put it around Artie's neck. At this time, a miracle appeared. In a flash, Axiu, Adi and his family disappeared. When they woke up, they were lying at the foot of a beautiful and rich mountain, far from the devil. Later, Axiu and Adi got married, gave birth to a son and a daughter, and lived a happy life with their hardworking hands. This is the origin of hydrangea.

Step 3 pack five-color glutinous rice

Before the festival, every household should prepare colorful glutinous rice and eggs. People collect red bluegrass, yellow rice flowers, maple leaves and wisteria, and soak glutinous rice with the juice of these plants to make red, yellow, black, purple and white glutinous rice. According to legend, this kind of food was handed down after winning the appreciation of fairies; Some people say that this is a sacrifice to the Song fairy Liu Sanjie. After eating this kind of meal, people will be prosperous and healthy. Eggs are objects used by young men and women in Gewei to communicate and convey their feelings.

Zhuang people like brightly colored rice and think it is a symbol of happiness and good luck. In addition to the third day of the third lunar month, people cook five-color glutinous rice on social days, Mid-Autumn Festival and even Chinese New Year. On festive days such as children's full moon and the completion of new homes, five-color rice should also be cooked and distributed to neighbors. The Zhuang people also love maple leaves, believing that maple leaves can "exorcise evil spirits" and bring people good luck and peace.

Therefore, when cooking five-color rice on the third day of the third lunar month, a carefully selected maple leaf will be inserted at the door of every household. Even the dye residue from cooking five-color rice should be scattered on the foot of the wall outside the house to ward off evil spirits and ensure safety.

Step 4 catch the fireworks

On the third day of the third lunar month and after the autumn harvest, folk associations in some minority areas in Guangxi spontaneously organized fireworks grabbing activities. Men, women and children will wear festive costumes and rush to the event site at dawn. The person who wins fireworks is considered to be the most blessed and favored by girls in the coming year.

Eight people from each team took part in the fireworks grab. Players rush into the opponent's battery by breaking through, blocking people, changing direction and sprinting. , and put the fireworks into the music. The rules are similar to western football, so it is called "Oriental football". The traditional "fireworks" is an iron ring, about 5 cm in diameter, wrapped in red cloth or red silk. The competition venue is generally located on the river bank or hillside, and the number of people and teams is not limited. Every shot must be robbed, and the third shot is over.

Step 5 carry a pole

Playing pole dancing is a traditional self-entertainment activity. Every banker is an actor in the hall. Women's movements are light and graceful, while men's movements are powerful. The "theater" that entertains itself places the Zhuang people's desire for a bumper harvest.

The dance forms of the pole are duet, four people wearing flowers, and many people wearing flowers. Dancers are mostly even. The performers hold the pole, around the bench or rice trough, beat the bench rhythmically, and sometimes beat each other's poles. The shoulder pole can be used freely in your hands, or you can knock on the front, back or side. The sound is crisp or heavy, and the sound is different, forming a lively and ups and downs rhythm.

When the poles kept hitting each other, the performers kept spinning among the flowers, which made them more dazzling. Skilled movements can be easily completed in the voice of the pole.

Step 6 play the bronze drum

Some ethnic minorities in Guangxi have always had the habit of beating bronze drums during festivals or sacrifices. This custom has continued to this day. At present, the Zhuang people in Donglan and Tian 'e celebrate the third day of March and the Spring Festival every year, and the Yao people in Du 'an, Bama and Dahua celebrate the holidays. Yao people in Nandan hold funeral sacrifices, while Miao people in Bao Zhong in Nandan celebrate or mourn with gongs and drums during the Spring Festival or holidays.

Tonggu is the most representative cultural relic of Zhuang nationality. It is not only a symbol of power and status, but also used as a tool to convey war signals, bury ancestors and exorcise evil spirits. Zhuang people have the habit of playing bronze drums and singing folk songs at weddings, funerals, moving to new homes and major festivals, and bronze drum culture has become an important part of Zhuang people's lives.

7. Touch eggs

Eggs are things that dye boiled eggs in various colors to convey feelings. The young man took an egg in the song fair to touch the egg in the girl's hand; If the girl doesn't want to, just take the egg and don't touch it. Let the boy touch it if she wants. After the egg cracked, they ate the egg, which sowed the seeds of love. Now touching an egg means "touch, touch good luck".