1, dancing spring cattle

In some areas of western Guangxi, chicken dances and spring cattle dances handed down from generation to generation have added a festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival. The young man who jumped the chicken carried two cockfights made of wood and papaya and went to every household in the village to knock gongs to pay New Year's greetings.

Dancing chickens and singing auspicious and humorous songs make the host's family smile. Give red envelopes to the chicken jumpers in the New Year, pull a few chicken feathers from the "cockfighting" and put them in their own chicken cages to pray for the prosperity of the six animals.

It's more interesting to jump spring cattle. "Spring Cattle" is skillfully woven with bamboo pieces. Cow's head and horn are pasted with paper towels and painted with cow's eyes. The body of a cow is black cloth or gray cloth. Cattle dancers beat gongs and drums to perform in the village. Two people got into the bottom of the cloth, one was holding a bull's head in front, the other was bending over and swinging his tail behind, followed by a man with a plow frame.

In addition, some people beat gongs and drums to lead the singing of Spring Cattle. Wherever they go, there are songs and laughter. After the dance, I went to the village and went to the village next door, from the first day to the Lantern Festival. The people who jumped the spring cattle brought the farmers the joy of the festival, and at the same time pinned their hopes for a bumper harvest and peace.

2. Carry a pole to celebrate the New Year

Every year from New Year's Eve to the fifteenth day of the first month, all parts of Zhuang people will hear the light and pleasant sound of "Deng Deng Da, Deng Deng Da, Deng Da Du Da".

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.

The pole-carrying activities in the festival are even more lively. With long bamboo tubes and gongs and drums on the field, onlookers sang songs from time to time. The atmosphere of the festival is particularly warm.

In the crowd carrying pole, you can find old people with gray hair and childish children. Some families are carrying poles, and some mothers and children are carrying poles in the same field. The whole pole-carrying activity was full of joyful laughter.

Step 3 hit the road

The villagers' legs were sore and their shoulders were tired, so they put down their burdens and started carrying poles, and soon the fatigue disappeared in the sound of the poles. The bump on the pole on the way to the fair began impromptu and broke up. Picking a load is indeed a light cultural and sports activity of Zhuang nationality.

The dance vocabulary of "carrying a load" contains rich farming culture, and dance modeling is closely related to farming labor. The performances include: harrowing fields, transplanting rice seedlings, scooping water and plowing fields, harvesting and threshing, and tasting new rice. The life and labor characteristics of artistic images are extremely prominent. It is firmly rooted in the soil of a strong family and will last forever.

Festival form

Although the Spring Festival of Zhuang nationality is influenced by the Spring Festival of Han nationality, the form and content of its activities have their own characteristics. Before the Song Dynasty, festivals in all parts of Zhuang nationality were determined according to the cycle of agricultural production. Since the Ming Dynasty, most areas have gradually adopted the Lunar Festival. The activities of the Zhuang people to welcome the New Year are roughly the same as those of the Han people. From the first day to the fifteenth day, on the fifteenth day, every household eats "Mother Zongzi" (extra-large Zongzi) specially prepared for their ancestors, which means that the New Year holiday is over.

In some areas, the Chinese New Year is extended to the end of the month. A small sacrifice made of Pulsatilla or wormwood mixed with glutinous rice (commonly known as "Alba") is the end of the annual celebration, and some festivals are postponed to the second day of February. Therefore, the whole first month is usually regarded as the Spring Festival celebration period, which is called "Celebrating the First Month" and "Eating the First Month". The Zhuang language "the first month" is synonymous with the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival begins in the early morning of the first day of the month and lasts until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day, with the first day to the fifth day being the most lively. From the second day of junior high school, relatives began to communicate with each other to pay New Year greetings. The gifts they brought were mainly zongzi, rice cakes, pork and other things, which lasted for several days. The host family only accepts half of the gifts brought by visitors, and keeps half of them or puts them on new year's goods for them to take back.

After the fifth day, the visits between relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings gradually decreased, and families began to plan the preparations for that year. On the Lantern Festival, every family kills chickens to prepare meat, worships ancestors, and prays for good weather, long life and prosperity of six livestock. The Spring Festival is over.

Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhuang Spring Festival