Zhuang nationality. March 3 is a festival for many ethnic minorities, but the Zhuang people call it a song festival. Also known as "March Song Fair", it is an annual traditional song festival of Zhuang nationality.

Legend:

There are many beautiful and moving legends about the origin of Gewei Festival among Zhuang people.

Legend 1

Say, there was a pair of lovers in ancient times, both famous singers.

Often sing folk songs to express mutual affection.

However, due to the shackles of feudal ethics, they could not be married, so they both died in despair.

People sang in memory of the couple on the third day of March.

Legend 2

It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, there was a singing fairy named "Third Sister Liu" in Zhuang nationality.

She is clever and good at singing and dancing. She often praises labor and love with folk songs and exposes the sins of the rich. Rich people can't beat her, and they hate and fear her.

Therefore, on the third day of March of one year, while Sanjie Liu was chopping wood on the mountain, the rich man sent someone to cut off the vine, causing her to fall off a cliff and die.

In order to commemorate the singer, later generations gathered to sing on the day of Liu Sanjie's death, and the song festival was formed for three days and three nights.

Later, it was adapted into movies, stage plays and other forms, which made it widely circulated.

Traditional customs:

Every song festival, the girls and boys of Zhuang nationality form a party, and the singers stand on the stage and sing folk songs to each other according to certain procedures and singing methods.

Most folk songs are based on guessing and questioning, and now they are composed and sung, and finally they have to sing separate songs.

On this day of Song Festival, every household cooks colorful glutinous rice and dyes colored eggs to celebrate the festival.

Song Festival usually lasts for two or three days at a time, and it is located in an open space not far from the village. Bamboo and cloth are used to build a song shed to receive singers from other villages.

The duet is mainly composed of unmarried young men and women, but the elderly and children come to watch and entertain. There are one or two thousand people in small festivals, and tens of thousands of people in large festivals.

Next to the Song Festival, vendors gather and people's trade is active. The people nearby provide accommodation and food for those who come to catch the Song Festival, and they are warmly received whether they know each other or not.

A large song festival, Fiona Fang dozens of young men and women came to participate in, a sea of people, singing one after another, really lively.

Pangang River in Bama, Mianshan Mountain in Du 'an, Qiaoye in Tian Yang, Xiajian in Yishan, Yufeng Mountain in Liuzhou, etc., are all historically large song festivals.

People go to the concert hall to compete and enjoy songs; Young men and women sing songs, and if they are congenial to each other, they give each other tokens as a token of their love.

In addition, there are interesting activities such as throwing hydrangeas and touching eggs.

Throwing hydrangeas is mainly for entertainment and also as a token of love. When a girl takes a fancy to a young man, she throws the hydrangea to him.

Touching eggs is for mutual fun, and it is also a promise.