Some people say that there was a pair of lovers in ancient times, both famous singers, who often sang folk songs to express their 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. It is also said that in the Tang Dynasty, there was a singing fairy named "Third Sister Liu" in Zhuang nationality.
She is clever, and often praises labor and love with folk songs, exposing the sins of the rich, who hate and fear her. Therefore, on the third day of March of one year, when Liu Sanjie was chopping wood on the mountain, the rich 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. One singing lasted for three days and three nights, and the song fair was formed.
These legends are difficult to verify now, but it is recorded in the book "Taiping Universe" written by Song people: "When the strong people are ripe in the valley, they choose a day to worship the gods, and men and women will make songs at a grand gathering." This shows that the song fair was also very prosperous at that time. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the development of Zhuang folk songs was particularly prominent, and the song fair became a place for cultural entertainment and romance between men and women, and there was a game of throwing hydrangeas.
After the woman threw the hydrangea to her beloved man, they both withdrew from the singing field and gave each other tokens of love. By the Qing Dynasty, a large-scale activity was formed in which thousands of people participated. At present, according to preliminary statistics, among the 642 song fairs in the whole region, 96 take March 3rd as the song fair day, accounting for 14%.
It is distributed in 22 places in Donglan, 20 places in Wuming County, 0/9 places in Du 'an/KLOC, 7 places in Xincheng, 6 places in Mashan and Longzhou, and 5 places in Bama. There are few in western Guangxi, only two in Jingxi County.
The traditional famous song fairs on March 3rd include Wuming County, Nayang, Ningwu and Xiaolu, Sanka 'ao in Donglan, Yongzhou in Mashan, Panyang River in Bama, Huadong in Jingxi, Mianshan and Jifa in Du 'an, Rongshui Sanfang on March 3rd, Sanfeng in Xincheng, Xiajian in Yishan and Yufeng Mountain in Liuzhou.