New Year's Eve

"New Year's Eve" is called "New Year's Eve" by Zhuang people, and it is the last day of the lunar year. This is the most solemn traditional festival of the year for the Zhuang people in Nanning City. Various New Year preparations begin at the beginning of the month. On New Year's Eve, every family is busy cleaning their courtyards and houses, changing clothes, killing chickens, fishing, frying fried tofu, making rice dumplings, and steaming rice cakes. Before dinner, each family uses pork, chicken, wine, rice, etc. as sacrifices to worship their ancestors and gods; then they burn paper money and set off firecrackers. After the sacrifice, the family reunion dinner began. The dishes are sumptuous and everyone drinks happily to repay the hardships of the year and enjoy family happiness. Moreover, there should be some leftover dishes in this meal to show "more than enough every year."

Monkey Love Festival:

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, every household sends people to bring fruits and foods such as pumpkins, plums, plantains and cooked corn cobs, or to the deep mountains and wild mountains. or place them in the alley, and then hide in a stone crotch, waiting until groups of monkeys gather, watching them eat to their fullest, and then move the big pumpkin into the cave in a lively way. People left quietly. Legend has it that this custom is related to Nong Zhigao's rebellion against the Song Dynasty. Once, Nong Zhigao's troops were trapped in the mountains and relied on digging grass roots and peeling bark to satisfy their hunger. One morning on the fifth day of May, tens of thousands of monkeys suddenly descended from the cliff carrying large pumpkins, and the rebels were saved. Therefore, people set up festivals to repay.

Water Storage Festival:

Hold on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, every household will wash the water storage jars, and then go to the spring, stream or river to pick up the clean water and drain it. Fill it up. People call the water picked up on this day "fairy water" to make longevity wine for the elderly, longevity porridge for children, pickle vegetables, sauerkraut, and fruits. It can also be used for dyeing cloth, making wine, making vinegar, and treating diseases.

Greetings to the Moon God Festival:

August 15. Commonly known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Reunion Festival. On this day, Zhuang people eat moon cakes, steam rice noodles and make cakes, and act like chickens and kill ducks to celebrate the festival. Appreciate, offer sacrifices to, and worship the moon in various ways.

On the first and second day of the lunar month

Every visitor must eat rice dumplings. Zongzi of the Zhuang family is a noble food. There are big and small rice dumplings, the big one weighs one or two kilograms, the small one weighs two or three kilograms, and there is also a kind called "Fengmo" (extra large rice dumpling), which weighs one to twenty kilograms. The main raw material of Zongzi is glutinous rice, but it must have fillings. The stuffing is made of peeled mung beans and half-fat but not lean pork skin mixed with the above sauce. It is placed in the heart of the rice dumpling. After being cooked, its flavor and aroma are unparalleled.

Stove-Sending Festival

December 23rd is the Stove-Sending Festival. Legend has it that the Emperor of Heaven sent the Kitchen King to the human world to take charge of fireworks and monitor people's conduct. Every year on this day, the Kitchen King returns to heaven to report on his duties and the situation in the human world. In order to please the Stove King and make him "say good things from heaven and bring good luck to him", people sacrificed sacrifices and sweet wine to him, praying for the safety of their families and a happy life. At that time, each family will kill a big rooster as a sacrifice, so that it can be used as a mount when the Kitchen King ascends to heaven. On New Year's Eve, we have to offer sacrifices to welcome the return of the Stove King. Therefore, the Zhuang family took advantage of the absence of the Stove King to build new stoves and clean them. After the Stove-Giving Festival, families begin to prepare for the Spring Festival.

Double Ninth Festival

In the past, the Zhuang people in the suburbs had the habit of celebrating the Double Ninth Festival. On the ninth day of September, each family sets up a table to offer sacrifices to ancestors and gods, and then the whole family gathers for dinner to honor the elderly. On this day, some places still have the custom of worshiping and sweeping ancestral graves. For example, among the Zhuang people in Wulian Village, Shuangding, every family goes out with sacrifices to worship their graves in the early morning.

Agricultural Tools Festival

A traditional festival of the Zhuang people in southwest Guangxi. It is held every year on the 29th day of the second lunar month. On that day, each household carried various agricultural production tools processed by themselves to the polder and arranged them in rows, including plow frames, ox yokes, dustpans, dustpans, shoulder poles, hoes, plowshares, rakes, hoe handles, Baskets, bamboo mats, rice baskets, rice buckets and furniture, etc. People are shopping in preparation for spring plowing.

Yabai Festival

The Zhuang people in the Zhening and Suowu areas of Peiai Town, Funing County, Yunnan Province, kill a cow, a pig, Two chickens and forty-eight fish went to Yabai Mountain to pay homage to Yabai, a Zhuang woman (according to legend, she was the mother of Nong Zhigao). On that day, all men, women and children were present, and the ceremony was very solemn. According to legend, Yabai was the leader of a Zhuang village. She led the Zhuang people to fight against the officers and soldiers, but was brutally killed after her failure. They buried her on the top of a high mountain and called the mountain Mount Yabai. Every year on the day Yabai died, the Zhuang people would kill cows and pigs to pay homage to her. This way of offering sacrifices year after year has never been interrupted. Over time, a festival has been formed - Yabai Festival. Traditional festivals of the Zhuang people, customs and habits of the Zhuang people

Gyroscope Festival

In places where the Zhuang people live together in Guangxi, a famous sports event - the Top Festival - is held every year. The time is from two or three days before the New Year's Eve of the old calendar year to the 16th day of the first lunar month of the new year, which lasts for more than half a month. Tops are called "Lejiang" in Zhuang language. They are big or small, light or heavy. Some are as big as a Kawada pomelo, weighing about a pound, and some are as small as a goose egg, and some are two or three taels. To make a top, you must use solid wood with good texture. Its "head" should be smooth. When "beating", use a two or three-foot-long hemp rope to wrap it up in circles until it reaches a place you think is appropriate. Then use the ring finger and little finger of your right hand to hold the end of the hemp rope and quickly pull it toward the ground. Spin, and the top will turn "whirring". A top of good quality, coupled with the skill of spinning it, can take up to seven or eight minutes to spin before falling over. The top-playing competition is even more lively, and the first place winner is honored as the "Gyro King".

It is said that top playing has a history of more than 300 years since its inception.