March third. What festivals do Buyi people celebrate?

March 3rd is a common traditional festival of Buyi people, commonly known as "March 3rd". Different living areas have different sources of festivals and activities. Legend has it that there was a plowman in ancient times who found that many silkworms died after spring sowing every year. After repeated observation, he thought that the ground silkworm was a "heavenly horse" put on earth by the gods. In order to prevent the young mu from being destroyed by pests, he sacrificed the handle in many ways, but it didn't work. Later, when he was sowing in spring, he fried corn flowers and fed them to the ground silkworm. As a result, he saved the seedlings. The news soon spread to Buyi families far and near.

Since then, in order to protect crops and strive for a bumper harvest, Buyi people in this area sacrifice "God and Ground Silkworm" to the nearby hillside on the third day of each year in groups of three, so as to prevent the Ground Silkworm from killing the seedlings in the field and let the crops harvest. After the sacrifice, people walked along the ridge and sang folk songs, and scattered corn flowers in the fields. People think that offering sacrifices to ground silkworms can not only confuse them, but also seal their mouths, which can protect the seedlings in the field from pests. Later, March 3rd was designated as the "Song Festival". Buyi people in the southern suburbs of Guiyang call "March 3" "Fairy Song Festival". The content of the festival is basically the same as that in Xinchengbao Township, Wudang District, but they pray for the gods to avoid disaster by singing. On this day, young men and women went up the mountain to sing. It is said that whoever sings the best song will give you a golden voice. No matter where you work, you will hear the golden voice singing, and pests will not dare to hurt crops when they hear this sound.

March 3rd of Buyi people in Badahe River, Luoping, Yunnan Province is a festival for young men and women to exchange songs. On this day, men, women and children came to the river to listen to young people singing folk songs and watch children rowing bamboo rafts and pulling water guns. Some people also make flowers and glutinous rice for their children and distribute them around and in the village; Others put eggs and all kinds of food in small cloth pockets for teenagers who play and take part in competitions. Young Buyi men and women in Luoping niujie will hold a grand tour, singing and making friends in these three days. Dozens of teenagers from all ethnic groups in Fiona Fang will also come to Maba mountainside to participate in and watch this traditional song exchange activity. Singers can show their talents in such occasions. With their talent of improvising poetry and singing, they can sing with their opponents for three days and nights or even longer. Many young men and women have established love relationships through these activities.

March 3rd is called "Three Bowl Roots" in Buyi language, and it is the most solemn song festival of Buyi people. According to the custom, Buyi girls will rest for three days from the third day of the third lunar month. In these days, they will make delicious glutinous rice and dye it in five colors, and then they will come to the concert hall in droves to sing folk songs with their partners. Children are still young and don't understand amorous feelings. Generally, they only take red eggs and small waterwheels to play in the river. On this day, the village often kills chickens and sheep to sacrifice to mountain gods and water gods, in order to achieve good weather, national prosperity and people's safety.

When men and women sing for the first time, they usually sing together. Girls often take tests at first, and they sing, "Sister threw the flower bowl into the sky, and it landed in the middle of the sea. I have the intention of picking up the flower bowl, but I don't want you to play at the seaside. " If both men and women are interested, they will appoint a time and place to sing separately. At this time, perhaps young people will sing: "flowers connect trees and roots, keys connect doors, keys only connect a lock, and little brothers only connect sisters." The girl will cleverly confess: "Pick a tree at the door of my sister's house, ten people pass by and nine people shake it, others can't shake it, and Xiao Lang shakes it." In the Buyi cottage, many unmarried young men and women met and fell in love through songs, and finally decided to be lifelong.