On the third day of the third lunar month, people in China have the custom of eating local dishes and boiling eggs. Shepherd's purse Shepherd's purse, also known as ground vegetables and wild vegetables, is a kind of wild vegetables growing in the corner of the field. Although it is a wild vegetable, it is delicious and nutritious. The folk proverb says, "On March 3rd, shepherd's purse is a panacea." "On March 3rd, shepherd's purse boiled eggs." Spring is the season to eat shepherd's purse. Eating shepherd's purse in spring is also a long-standing traditional custom in China. The Book of Songs has a chant of "sweet as water"; Xin Qiji also has a poem that "peaches and plums are full of worries, and spring is at the head of the stream". The following are high-definition pictures and layout of the handwritten newspaper of Zhuang people on March 3, welcome to read!
In the Qing Dynasty, Ye's "Hankou Zhi Zhu Ci" said: "Three or three orders are more important than the kitchen, and the taste is new. Rice meals and eggs are ready, full and fragrant. " The rice meal in this word refers to shepherd's purse, which is not only nutritious, but also can treat many diseases. It is not only a delicious food, but also a panacea. "shepherd's purse, alias shepherd's purse, grass protection, chicken heart vegetables, its roots, flowers, seeds can be used as medicine. In traditional Chinese medicine, shepherd's purse has a wide range of medicinal value and is known as "licorice in vegetables".
Chinese medicine believes that shepherd's purse is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and belongs to liver, spleen and kidney meridians, which has the effects of harmonizing spleen, promoting diuresis, stopping bleeding and improving eyesight. There are many ways to eat shepherd's purse, which can be mixed, fried, stewed, stuffed or made into soup. All of them are attractive in color and delicious in taste, and they are delicious vegetables with the same origin of medicine and food. Boiled eggs with shepherd's purse is the most common way to eat in Hunan. On the third day of March, shepherd's purse will have long stems and flowers, and women will pick them and put them in their hair.
Because the homonym of shepherd's purse is "amassing wealth", according to folklore, on the third day of March, at the time of ancestor worship, people will use the gods and wealth of their ancestors to wash fresh shepherd's purse, tie it into small bundles, add eggs, red dates, balloons and two or three slices of ginger to cook a big pot, and the whole family will eat a bowl and have a good time. It is said that it can remove rheumatism, clear fire, relieve pain in waist and legs, and prevent spring plague.
On March 3, the whole family went out to enjoy apricot flowers.
"Spring blooms in March and apricot blossoms are fragrant". On the third day of March, every family went out for a picnic, and some people set the table in the suburbs. This is the time when the first batch of apricot flowers are in full bloom in spring. There is an old saying that "apricot blossoms are fragrant in March", and there is also a saying that "spring grass is green in one year, and apricot blossoms in ten miles are still fragrant". In fact, as a flower viewing, apricot blossom is not beautiful, but apart from winter jasmine, it is the "first branch of the east wind" that blooms early. People who have been dormant in the city for a winter have also become an activity on March 3. Qingdao is no exception. Apricot blossoms are all over the suburbs of Xiaoshui Village, and there are endless crowds enjoying them in the city.
In ancient times, older girls and kannika nimtragol usually "couldn't get out of the front door or the second door", but they made friends on March 3, so people "saw beautiful women" on March 3. Tang poetry and write:
On March 3rd, the weather was very warm, and many beautiful women took a walk in Chang 'an seaside. Dignified attitude, lofty and quiet nature, plump skin, thin and moderate figure.
Until the mid-1950 s, there were still three days of spring break in schools at that time. In April, on the third day of the third lunar month, the school arranged a spring outing. In the past, the traffic in Laoshan Mountain was inconvenient, and most people went to Danshan for an outing. Mr. Lao She wrote in his article: Spring is coming, and students are busy visiting Danshan.
Danshan area is the hometown of fruits, with apricot and peach trees the most. It was the time when apricot blossoms and peaches were in bloom. Thousands of college and middle school students went to Danshan on the third day of March.
Danshan is a traditional designated tourist area. From Danshan to Shaoshan, both mountains have flower viewing pavilions for tourists to rest. Almost all apricot and peach trees are planted in this area. Seen from the mountain, the pink one is apricot blossom, the red one is peach blossom, and the green one is wheat seedling, which is like a tapestry of the earth and a good natural picture scroll. Walking between peaches and apricots from the ground, the peach branches in Qingdao are very short, touching their heads and laughing everywhere. The young girl took off her cotton-padded clothes to show her youthful demeanor. It's really "two ways" and "peach blossoms set each other off in red", and spring scenery is in Danshan.
When I was in middle school, my friends and I went for an outing in Danshan by bike from the city. When you go, turn to Danshan along Sixi and cross Cangkou. At noon, I had lunch in fahai temple. In the afternoon, I passed through China, South Korea and Shandong, which was unforgettable.
One year, the actors of the movie When the Grapes Harvest lived in fahai temple. Many stars, including Yu Yang, Zhang Ping and Li Wanhe, were surrounded by fans, and the Qingdao No.1 Middle School Art Troupe went to get together with them. Troupe companies in No.1 Middle School, such as Han Lanfang and Pan Xia, later became movie stars.
In Qingdao, on March 3rd, there was a temple fair on Mount Zhang Er in Jimo and Guandi Temple on Mount Zhang Er. On this basis, a temple fair was formed. There are various vendors, snacks and cultural performances at the temple fair, which is the most crowded among the "three major temple fairs" in Jimo. There are many folk handicrafts here, and the seven-grade bamboo birdcage for sale is a specialty, which is famous all over the country. Zhang Ershan Temple Fair began in the early Ming Dynasty and has a history of nearly 700 years.
Further Reading: Zhuang Fairy Tales-Digging Graves Specially
According to legend, in ancient times, there was an old woman who had no children and later saved an injured snake. The little snake refused to leave after being injured, so the old woman said to the little snake that people are different from animals. We have no tail. If you want to be with me, you must abandon your tail. Later, the old woman cut a small piece of the snake's tail, and the snake's tail became shorter, so people called the snake "Tecai", which means male in Zhuang language and short tail in Zhuang language, so people called the old woman "Maocai", which is the mother of Zhuang language. From then on, Michaelis raised him as his son. Now there is a related custom of Zhuang nationality, that is, pulling a few hairs from the tail of a newly bought chicken and duckling, which means to get rid of the wildness of an animal like this old woman and become a member of the human family. In fact, this custom and legend reflects the ancient memory of ancient humans domesticating animals from the wild to their homes. Tailless also reflects the evolution of human beings from primitive people to civilized people.
Later, the old woman died of old age. After the neighbors put the old woman in the grave, they said to the little snake, dig, dig She has always regarded you as her own. When she leaves, see how you can be filial to her. Little snake seemed to understand people's words and blinked. Suddenly, there was a strong wind, and a gust of wind swept the old woman's coffin and little snake to the highest peak of Daming Mountain. At that time, it was around March 3, and then on March 3 every year, there would be extreme weather, heavy rain or hail in Daming Mountain area, and local people thought it was specially dug to visit his mother.
To celebrate the great quality of digging filial piety, people dug a temple for the old woman. In order to show respect, people call it "Dapo Temple" or "Laopo Temple" in Zhuang language, and "Dragon Mother Temple" in Chinese. The local Zhuang people also began to worship snakes, and stayed away from them, avoiding killing and eating them. With the cultural spread and influence of Luoyue nationality, the ancestor of Zhuang nationality, the shape of snake was later integrated into the shape of totem dragon in China, so Tedig later became the incarnation of dragon and was upgraded to the original dragon, so Tedig was also called tail-digging dragon. Daming Mountain has become a natural giant sacred grave and a belief in the hearts of Zhuang people in ancient times. I believe that when people die, the soul will fly back to Daming Mountain. Therefore, Daming Mountain is also considered as the tomb of ancestors and has become a sacred mountain in the myths and legends of Zhuang and Dong languages. Therefore, the Zhuang people in Daming Mountain area are the real "descendants of dragons". Therefore, Mi Fei Dig was honored as the Dragon Mother, and all the temples dedicated to it were facing Daming Mountain. Then it is the traditional time for Zhuang people to sweep graves on March 3. On the first day of March, people will pick maple branches and put them in the cracks of doors and windows. On the third day of March, they will make colorful glutinous rice to worship their ancestors and the Dragon Mother Temple. Five-colored glutinous rice is a necessary sacrifice for the Zhuang people to worship their ancestors on March 3. There are four legends about the origin of the five-color glutinous rice on March 3: First, it originated from the small snake in the legend of Zhuang nationality. Small snakes have five colors: black, red, yellow, purple and white. Therefore, in order to commemorate the filial piety of this little snake, people dyed glutinous rice into five colors with maple leaves and other plants on March 3, and formed five colors with white glutinous rice. The second is to commemorate the strong man Wei. After Wei was persecuted to death by the landlord, Zhuang people often took glutinous rice to worship his grave. One day, during the memorial service, there was a sudden storm and thunder rumbling, and the juices of all kinds of plants on the grave fell into the glutinous rice, which was dyed colorful. Wei broke through the ground and became a dragon. Third, there is a filial young man who takes care of him with his disabled old mother on his back every day when he goes up the mountain to get firewood. But the monkeys on the mountain always take away the rice balls that the young man prepared for his mother. In order not to let his mother starve, the young man tried to dye the rice ball with maple leaves, but the rice ball was never taken away by the monkey. Later, people dyed rice balls with various plants. Fourth, a young couple heard all kinds of grains in the laundry list complaining that all kinds of plants have beautiful flowers and clothes to wear, and the color of rice is monotonous and ugly, so they picked all kinds of plants on March 3 and cooked glutinous rice to please the god of grains and reap a bumper harvest every year. Judging from these four legends, their themes are feeling the achievements of ancestors, honoring parents and praying for a bumper harvest. These themes are the important contents of ancestor worship of Zhuang people, so five-color glutinous rice is an indispensable sacrifice in ancestor worship on March 3.
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During the festival, fireworks, bullfighting, Touma, singing duet and stepping on the hall are held, which is also called "Fireworks Festival" to make yellow glutinous rice.
According to Dong Jia's legend, in ancient times, Dong Jia's original territory always took flowering of tung trees as the transplanting festival. But one year, the tung trees didn't bloom, so they missed the farming season and had to flee to Beijing. In order to draw lessons from the past, people play lusheng and sing songs, visit relatives and friends, and remind each other that the Dong people are busy with farming, which is also called the "Fireworks Festival" than holding fireworks, bullfighting, Touma, singing duets, stepping on churches and other activities on festivals.
Dong people celebrate five days on the third day of March. On the first day of the third lunar month, every household began to prepare.
On the second day of junior high school, the girls invited each other to catch fish and shrimp by the river, and the boys prepared to have a picnic on the slope.
Early in the morning of the third day, the girls dressed up, put on exquisite bamboo baskets, picked onions and garlic from the vegetable garden, and washed them with water by the spring. They lined up in a long line, standing on the path by the water, shyly waving baskets, quietly looking at the hillside, waiting for their lovers to ask for it. At this time, the hillside was already full of people, including the girl's family, watching which young man took the basket. A group of young people in neat blue double-breasted jackets walked one by one along the path by the water's edge amid people's well-meaning laughter. At this time, the boys ask the right person for a basket in public, and the winner will be praised by a "oh-oh". Boys can quietly make an agreement with girls to return the basket. Young people who can't find the basket will be laughed at by onlookers, then sing to each other on the hillside next to the village and continue to search for bosom friends with their songs until dawn. At noon that day, people gathered in the center of the village to sing and dance crazily.
There will be a big masquerade ball on March 4th. On the afternoon of the fifth day, a farewell ceremony will be held for the guests from neighboring villages who come to watch.
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