The third day of the third lunar month is an important festival every year, especially in Guangxi, where there are two days of holidays. So what are the customs and activities on the third lunar month? Let's take a look at the traditional customs and activities on March 3!
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March 3rd Traditional Custom Activities
March 3rd Custom Activities in Guangxi
What to Eat on March 3rd
● March 3rd Traditional Custom Activities 1. Zhuang Nationality: Thousands of people welcome guests to Gexu Bamboo Dance
"March 3rd" is the most important national festival of Zhuang nationality. On the third day of March, Zhuang men and women will gather on the hillside to sing folk songs, and carry out a series of cultural and sports activities with national characteristics, such as grabbing fireworks, playing bronze drums and throwing hydrangeas. Wuming is a Zhuang township in China and one of the cradles of Zhuang culture. On March 3rd every year, the "March 3rd" Song Fair and Luoyue Cultural Tourism Festival will be held locally. Generally, the song fair begins with singing folk songs, showing the humanistic customs of Luoyue ethnic group who can sing and dance. Thousands of people dance bamboo pole, and each square has the characteristics of Zhuang nationality. People hold five-color glutinous rice and wine in Zhuang nationality, carry hoes for work and hold delicate dustpans in their hands.
2. Grab the "fireworks" to show the national charm, "sing songs and sit with your sister" and write romance
"March 3rd" is not only a festival of Zhuang people, but also celebrated by ethnic minorities such as Dong, Miao and Yao, and folk activities are also colorful. In Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, the annual "Fireworks Festival" on March 3 attracts tourists from all corners of the country to explore and experience, and also shows the deep affection of ethnic integration.
3. In addition to grabbing fireworks, Sanjiang Dong people's traditional way of dating young men and women also adds a lot of romance to the festival of March 3rd.
4. The Yao nationality plays the top in the friendship cave of Yaoxiang folk songs
5. In Xigupotun, Yayao Township, Rong 'an County, a folk song duet is held every "March 3rd", and all folk song lovers from the whole town come here to participate in the annual folk song duet.
6. in dongzhong town, Fangcheng district, the highlight of March 3 is "turning up the top and singing".
7. On March 3rd, the Ruigu sounded and shook, making the mountain road bend eighteen times. Zhuang and Yao get together and get together through the festive party?
8. The "chopping block" gyro competition in Dongzhong integrates physical fitness and entertainment. Nowadays, as a traditional national sports competition, the "chopping block" gyro has appeared in various stages and stadiums, and is loved by more and more foreigners.
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● Custom activities on March 3rd in Guangxi 1. Sacrifice to ancestors
In some places, the third day of March is mainly a sacrifice. Some people in their clubs send out sacrificial supplies to worship ancestral graves. Their ceremonies mainly include: weeding and adding soil, trimming the cemetery, burning incense to go to the grave, offering sacrifices, bowing down and toasting, burning money, setting off firecrackers, and praying for ancestors to bless their families' happiness and well-being. After the worship, everyone will get together for dinner. This kind of dinner is very harmonious and can increase their sense of identity and family.
2. Five-color glutinous rice
Before the "March 3rd" festival begins, every household will select high-quality glutinous rice, soak it in the juice of different herbs, dye it and steam it, which is the five-color glutinous rice. Five-color glutinous rice not only symbolizes bumper harvests, happiness and auspiciousness, but also represents five directions of yin and yang, five elements, east, west, north and south. It is used to worship ancestors and pray for family safety and bumper crops in a year. In addition, March and April every year is the time when the human body is coldest, and the five-color glutinous rice has the effect of driving away cold and evil spirits. Whether adults or children, eating some five-color glutinous rice properly is conducive to driving away the chill in the body.
3. Crash eggs
During the festival, every household selects eggs, and after cooking, they are colored with various pigments, most of which are mainly red, because red represents a good sign of prosperity. Children will hang eggs on their bodies. When they go out to play, when they meet the same partners who hang eggs, they can play the game of "crashing eggs". The one without cracks will be the winner. In the folk, the person who successfully crashes eggs means hitting a good color.
4. Hydrangea to convey feelings
The hydrangea in Gexu is a handicraft made by girls before the festival. The production process is exquisite, and all of them are silk handicrafts: twelve petals are connected into a spherical shape, and each petal represents a certain month of the year, embroidered with flowers of that month. Some hydrangeas are made into squares and polygons. The hydrangea is filled with bean millet or cottonseed. The ball is connected with a ribbon, falling silk ears and decorative beads, symbolizing pure love.
5. Dance the bamboo pole
Two big bamboo poles are laid flat on the ground. Outside the two big bamboo poles, two people are paired, holding the small bamboo pole face to face, sliding back and forth along the big bamboo pole, and the dancers jump in the gap where the two poles slide and collide. The dance moves are lively and cheerful, imitating the form of ants, turtledoves, leopards and thrushes. The bamboo pole dance is generally divided into four links: meeting in the mountains, crossing the river by bridge, falling in love and carrying the bride home. Each link reveals the sincere feelings of Miao young men and women and is full of many original aesthetic elements, which are simple and natural.
6. Talk about love with songs
The March 3rd Song Fair is a good opportunity for young men and women to communicate. Every song fair, young men and women within dozens of miles of Fiona Fang gather at the song fair to perform duets. Usually, young men take the initiative to sing "sightseeing songs" first, observe and find opponents, and when they meet the right person, they sing the songs of meeting and inviting. If the woman is interested, she will agree. Young men sing inquiry songs again, and they have friendship with each other, singing love songs and making love songs. The lyrics are all improvised and blurted out. If the girl thinks that the young talents and talents in front of her are all satisfied, she will quietly give the hydrangea in her arms to the right person while others are not paying attention, and "he" will return it with items such as handkerchiefs and towels, and then the song will be sweeter, so she will order Qin Jin's good.
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● What to eat on March 3rd?
Eating on March 3rd in the lunar calendar is a traditional custom of local people in Beihai, Guangxi. We mix leaves and rice and grind them into powder, and then make pieces of shredded chicken vine noodles. The shredded chicken vine soup made from this noodles is fragrant and sweet, and it is a special snack that local people like. According to legend, the third day of the third lunar month is the birthday of Xuanyuan Huangdi, the humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation, and Beihai people commemorate this great man.
2 boiled eggs with shepherd's purse
A 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 among Chinese people. On this day, the Han people have the custom of eating local vegetables and boiling eggs. It is said that rheumatism can be removed, fire can be cleared away, waist and legs are not painful, and spring plague can also be prevented.
3 Five-color glutinous rice
Black, red, yellow, white and purple-Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional food in Zhuang area, which is named after its various colors, also known as "black rice". The Zhuang family regards the five-color glutinous rice as a symbol of good luck and good harvest.
4 Hao Zi Ba
Eating Hao Zi Ba on March 3rd is related to traditional customs. The third day of March is called "Shangsi Festival" in ancient times and "Ghost Festival" among the people. Legend has it that on this day, people's souls are easily confused by wandering ghosts. Simple and honest villagers believe that people must eat this kind of wormwood with game to "snap" (stick) their souls and not be invaded by evil, so that people can be healthy and not get sick. This beautiful wish has been passed down from generation to generation, which has made this thousand-year-old custom continue to this day and evolved into a local custom of praying for Kangtai.
5 pancakes
Eating pancakes on the third day of the third lunar month is one of the traditional customs of Tongan people. After Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan Province, his son Zheng Jing inherited his father's footsteps, continued to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and sent troops to attack southern Fujian many times, which caused heavy casualties among the people due to the stubborn resistance of the Qing army. Under Zheng Jun's counterattack, the Qing army surrendered, and Zheng Jun entered the city. While welcoming Zheng Jun, the people made pancakes to offer sacrifices to relatives and friends who died. Later, people used pancakes to worship their ancestors on the third day of the third lunar month.
6 Spring Cake
On the third day of March and the fourth day of last week, there is also a food custom, that is, eating "Spring Cake", making noodles into thin cakes, cooking eggs, peeling them and mashing them. Some people also add garlic paste and roll up pancakes to eat. In some places, it is warm early, and scallions are already available, so they are eaten with spring cakes.
7 mugwort zanba
Around the Qingming Festival, mugwort grows luxuriantly and is the most tender season. As the third day of the lunar calendar is close to Tomb-Sweeping Day, mugwort zanba has become a must-eat food on the third day of March.
8 black rice
In She nationality, every family cooks black rice, and the whole family has a meal as a gift to relatives and friends to celebrate the "Black Rice Festival". Legend has it that Lei Wanxing, a hero of the She nationality in the Tang Dynasty, led a rebel army to fight against the encirclement and suppression of the government troops, and his military power was greatly boosted by the fruit of black barnyard grass. On March 3, he broke through successfully, and Lien Chan won even victories. To commemorate this event, she people eat black rice and gather to sing songs on March 3 every year. On the third day of the third lunar month, Wuzhou also has the custom of eating black rice.
9 Zhuang Zongzi
Ningming Zhuang Zongzi is a kind of big zongzi cooked with glutinous rice and pork, which is a traditional food specially made by the Zhuang people on March 3rd. Zhuangjia Zongzi originated in the Song Dynasty and is called "Feng Mo". It's an extra-large zongba. On New Year's Eve, the girls fished the cooked "Feng Mo" out of the iron pot for the first month.
11 chrysanthemum flowers
Every year on the third day of the third lunar month, there is a custom of eating chrysanthemum flowers in Taihu County and Qianshan, Anqing. Chrysanthemum morifolium, also known as Daqu grass, is a clear dish, a cold dish, and a shabu dish, with tiny head-shaped flowers in April and May. It grows in Yuan Ye, Tiankan and roadside in Central China, East China, South China and Southwest China. In spring, you can pick tender stems and leaves, wash them, mix them into glutinous rice noodles, steam them or fry them for eating. Southwest provinces are called "Qingming Ba".
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