Cultural tradition of Zhuang nationality

There are several regular folk song gatherings of Zhuang nationality every year, among which "March 3rd" is the most grand.

Zhuang nationality has always been famous for its energetic songs. Zhuang folk songs are rich in form and content, with two or three sentences, three or four sentences and even more. Seven words and waist rhyme are popular. There are songs, wedding songs, new house congratulations songs, life songs, farming songs, current political songs, historical songs and so on. Zhuang songs are characterized by being good at touching the scene, comparing people with things, and singing vivid and touching lyrics in the form of guessing questions.

Zhuang people have a tradition of meeting regularly and singing in a fixed place. This particular collective singing place is called "Xu Ge". It originated from the religious activities in which ancestors offered sacrifices to gods and prayed for a bumper harvest, and then gradually evolved into a social activity in which young men and women met regularly to express their feelings and choose their spouses by songs, and then developed into a mass entertainment festival.

Every polder day, men, women and children from dozens of miles away gather here to enjoy their own national carnival. 1984, the people's government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region officially designated the third day of the third lunar month as the national festival of the Zhuang nationality-"March 3" Song Festival.

2. Cattle Soul Festival

The "Cow Soul Festival" is also called "Cow King Festival" and "Seedling Opening Festival". Most of them are carried out on the second day after spring ploughing, and some areas are fixed on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, because it is said that this day is the birthday of Niu Wang. Legend has it that the ox king turned out to be a god, and he was ordered by the jade emperor to come down to help people farm.

People appreciated his contribution, so they offered sacrifices to the ox soul on his birthday. On this day, every household should wash and dress the cows, trim the cowshed, bring a basket of five-colored glutinous rice and a bunch of fresh grass to the cowshed to sacrifice the cow's soul, and then give half of the grain and fresh grass to each farm cow.

3. Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival on the 14th day of the seventh lunar month, also known as Ghost Festival and Ancestor Festival, is the biggest festival after the Spring Festival, and its main content is ancestor worship and ghost worship. On this day, every household will kill chickens, ducks, steamed cakes and steamed buns, and cut them into four seasons underwear with colored paper for sacrifice. During the day, I worship my ancestors at home, and at night I will go to the hillside and riverside for a wild sacrifice, burn incense and candles, burn paper clothes, and pray for wild ghosts not to make trouble.

4. Gyro joint

In places where Zhuang people live in compact communities in Guangxi, a famous sports activity-Gyro Festival is held every year. The time lasts for more than half a month from two or three days before New Year's Eve to the 16th day of the first month.

Gyroscope, called "Le Jiang" in Zhuang language, is big and small, light and heavy. Some are as big as Hetian pomelo and weigh about a catty, some are as small as goose eggs, and some are 232. You must choose good quality hardwood to make a gyro. Its head should be smooth.

When you "hit", use two or three feet of hemp rope to wrap it around several times until you feel fit, then hold the end of the hemp rope with the ring finger and little finger of your right hand and spin it to the ground quickly, and the gyro will "whir". It is said that it has been more than 300 years since the rise of gyro play.

5, eat a festival

Chili Festival is a special festival for Zhuang people in Longzhou County and Pingxiang City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. "Eating" means "celebrating" in Zhuang language. Zhuang people have a tradition of celebrating the Spring Festival.

However, on the occasion of the Spring Festival of 1894, French invaders invaded our border. In order to attack the invaders, young people went to the battlefield to kill the enemy bravely and defend their homeland. On the thirtieth day of the first month, the soldiers who went to war returned home in triumph. The villagers killed chickens and slaughtered sheep, made glutinous rice cakes, warmly entertained them and celebrated the victory together to make up for the Spring Festival.

Since then, eating knots have gradually formed. During the festival, people dance lions, play dragon lanterns, sing and dance, which is very lively.

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