This is the heaviest festival. After the sumptuous dinner on New Year's Eve, people will keep watch around the fireplace. When the time comes, people immediately burn incense and candles and offer sacrifices on the altar. The children set off firecrackers. In many places, Zhuang women will immediately take buckets or bamboo tubes to springs and rivers to draw new water for good luck.
2. Gyroscope part
In places where Zhuang people live in compact communities in Guangxi, a famous sports activity-Gyro Festival is held every year. The time lasts for more than half a month from two or three days before New Year's Eve to the 16th day of the first month. Gyroscope, called Lejiang in Zhuang language, is big and small, light and heavy. Some are as big as Hetian pomelo and weigh about a catty, some are as small as goose eggs, and some are 232.
3. Dragon Festival
This is a traditional festival of the Zhuang people in Funing County, Yunnan Province and Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture nearby. Longduan (Zhuang language, meaning to drive the dam) is a transliteration of Zhuang language, which means to meet in a wide and flat place. The Dragon Boat Festival begins on March 25th of the lunar calendar and lasts for three days.
Step 4 eat a festival
It is a special festival for the Zhuang people in Longzhou County and Pingxiang City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Eating Zhuang language means celebrating. During the festival, people dance lions, play dragon lanterns, sing and dance, which is very lively.
5. Bai Ya Festival
The Zhuang people in Zhenning and Suowu, Bao 'ai Town, Funing County, Yunnan Province, kill one cow, two pigs and forty-eight fish every April, and go to Bai Ya Mountain to offer a drink to the Zhuang woman Bai Ya (the legend is that Nong Gaozhi's mother). On that day, men, women and children were present, and the etiquette was very grand.
6. March 3rd
This is a song festival of Tomb-Sweeping Day and Zhuang nationality. Tomb-Sweeping Day was influenced by the Han nationality. However, some strong people sweep graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day on March 13, 14 and 26, which is very different from Han nationality. Strong people attach great importance to offering sacrifices to sweep graves, so the whole family will go out and bring colorful boards, meat, incense and paper banners to worship the ancestral graves.
7. Cattle Soul Festival
On the eighth day of April every year, it is the festival of cattle soul, also called the festival of taking off the yoke. In the eyes of the strong, cows are sacred objects in the sky, not ordinary animals on the ground. On the eighth day of April every year, Niu Wangmo falls from the sky to protect cattle from death. Because it is a festival for cows, people and cows stop working on this day. Outside the cowshed, offerings are arranged, incense sticks are lit to offer sacrifices to Niu Wangmo, and people also sing folk songs to celebrate Niu's birthday.
8. Mowang Festival
The second day of June every year is King's Day, which commemorates Mo Yi, a Zhuang hero who dared to resist the feudal emperor. June 2 is a small sacrifice every year, and a big sacrifice every six years. The small sacrifice is to kill chickens and ducks and burn incense, asking him to bless the strong family. The big sacrifice is very grand, and a grand ceremony will be held at King's Temple in Mo Yi.
9. Mid-Autumn Festival
July 14 to 16 is the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as Ghost Festival. This is a big festival for the strong, second only to the Spring Festival. There has been a festive atmosphere since the seventh day of July.
10, first frost festival
It is a festival to commemorate the heroine, Cen Yuyin, who fought against foreign aggression. It has a history of more than 360 years. In the early morning of sunset, people gathered in Yuyin Temple with Ciba, glutinous rice, meat and incense. There are performers, folk singers, lion dancers and so on.