"March 3rd" Song Fair is a traditional singing festival of Zhuang nationality, which has been enduring for thousands of years, showing tenacious vitality and extraordinary artistic creativity. According to the survey, there are 640 Gewei spots in Guangxi.
Zhuang people love singing, and Zhuang township is known as the "sea of songs". Liu Sanjie, known as the "singing fairy", is a typical representative of Zhuang folk singers. During the slack season, holidays, weddings, funerals and weddings, all regions of the Zhuang nationality hold duet activities, which the Zhuang people call "Gexu". Especially on the third day of March every year, hundreds of young men and women in Fiona Fang are dressed in festive costumes and gather together to sing folk songs, ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands, making the beautiful Zhuang village a sea of songs.
"Gewei" not only has songs, but also has various activities, and it is also a place for entertainment and social love between young men and women. On the "March 3rd" Song Festival, Zhuang people hold activities with rich national characteristics every year, such as setting up a colorful shed, setting up a singing platform, throwing hydrangeas, touching red eggs, choosing a spouse and setting off fireworks. With the progress of the times, the "March 3rd" Song Fair has also added many elements of the times. Wuming County is a county under the jurisdiction of Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The county seat is 37 kilometers away from Nanning, with an area of 3,366 square kilometers and a population of 648,000, of which the Zhuang population accounts for about 87%, which is an important birthplace of Zhuang culture. Since 1985, every year on the third day of the third lunar month, Wuming County has held a "March 3" song fair.
According to the handwritten Collection of Folk Songs by Mr. Su Dingchong, a singer in Matou Town, Wuming County, the types of folk songs that spread in Wuming include opening songs, duet songs, courtship songs, parting songs, comparison songs, story songs (also known as Long song), "Man's World" songs (that is, songs about Pangu's epoch-making), Kanyu songs, communication songs, diaoguan songs and two and a half mountain songs. In addition, there are fans' songs, satirical songs, songs of entering the house, wedding celebrations, and songs praising the full moon wine.