Frost Festival is a festival established for a heroine and has a history of hundreds of years. This festival is popular in Daxin County. On this day, people will gather at Yuyin Temple in the early morning to worship with glutinous rice cakes, new year rice, meat, incense candles, etc. In the Qing Dynasty, not only the common people had to go to worship, state officials also had to wear official uniforms and lead people to worship.
The Frost Descent Festival is held during the "Frost Descent" period around October 23 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The festival lasts for three days and is divided into "first descent", "main descent" and "final descent". On the day of the first fall, according to tradition, the main purpose is to worship cattle. On this day, cattle are allowed to rest and do not have to plow the fields. People have been busy making rice dumplings, glutinous rice cakes, and killing chickens and ducks since the morning to entertain relatives or friends from all over the country.
On the morning of Zhengsheng, there are mainly God-worshiping activities. People will first bring glutinous rice cakes, meat, incense candles and other sacrifices to the Yamo Temple to worship and burn incense. Then some people are responsible for dressing up as soldiers, holding flags, beating gongs and drums, and carrying the portrait of Yamo in the way of the lion. Come out and cruise. In the Frost Descent Festival of the Zhuang people, the most noteworthy thing is the unique sneaker dance of the Zhuang people.
According to legend, the sneaker dance originated during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. When the Zhuang heroine Mrs. Wa and the Guangxi wolf soldiers went to Zhejiang to fight against the Japanese pirates, she trained the soldiers with a three-person race with tied legs, so that they would understand strict military discipline. , we need to work together, and later this interesting movement evolved. The creation of the Zhuang Frost Festival is also related to the local production pattern of the year. It can be regarded as a regional culture and a national culture unique to the Zhuang people. It carries the Zhuang chieftain culture and the historical memory of the anti-invasion struggle.