The legend of the Hua Po Festival of the Zhuang people

Hua Po Festival is a traditional festival of the Zhuang people. It comes from a beautiful legend. From this festival, we can also discover the Zhuang people’s positive outlook on life, which is reflected in people’s love for life. Below are the legends about the Hua Po Festival that I have collected. Everyone is welcome to read and refer to them!

The Zhuang ethnic minority has many unique traditional festivals, and the Hua Po Festival is one of them. Hua Po Festival is also called Kao Festival or Kao Madonna Festival. Every year on the second day of the second lunar month, the locals hold the Hua Po Festival ceremony. On that day, local people will bring the offerings prepared in advance to Hua Po Temple to worship and pray.

On the same day, women of the same generation in the village will go to the wild to pick flowers. If the flowers picked are white, it means that the flower mother will give her a boy. If you pick red flowers, it means you will give birth to a daughter. In addition to picking flowers and worshiping Hua Po, the local area will also hold a variety of folk activities such as "Hua Po" porridge, setting off lanterns, parades, and gifting flowers on that day, so that everyone can feel the kindness of "Hua Po" and become like "Hua Po" "Po" is a person who accumulates virtue and does good deeds. It can be seen from this festival that Huapo's status in the hearts of local people is quite high. Let’s first talk about the origin of Hua Po Festival.

There is a folk legend among the Zhuang people. The ancestor of the Zhuang people, Liujia, was transformed from flowers, and humans were transformed from the flowers in Liujia Garden. The Huapo in Liujia Garden was in charge of giving peanuts. Fertility and reproduction are the most important things in life. Hua Po is in charge of fertility, and its importance is self-evident. Therefore, local people usually set up Kao temples at the foot of the mountain or in the village to show their respect for Hua Po. Among the Zhuang people, after a man and a woman start a family, they will set up a Hua Po shrine in their home, which is woven from picked wild flowers and flower branches.

After you have children at home, you need to worship Hua Po regularly and pray for her blessing and safety. As can be seen from the above, Hua Po Festival is a celebration for all people, with the key participants being women and children.

Among them, the majority are married women who desire to have children. These women are generally relatively young, fertile, and have an extreme desire to reproduce.

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The third day of the third lunar month is the grandest festival for our Zhuang people. Worshiping ancestors, reuniting families, making friends, almost all major events can be completed in this spring season. To this end, all residents in Guangxi can get an extra two days of leave to return to their hometowns to reunite with relatives and participate in festivals.

March 3rd, as the name suggests, is a festival held on March 3rd of the lunar calendar. Because there are many celebrations of traditional festivals in ethnic minority areas, the activities of such festivals can generally last from one day to more than ten days. In addition to the March 3rd activities in Wuming District of Nanning City, the Hua Po Festival in Yongning District is also very grand. Huapo's culture of praying and expressing gratitude, which has been passed down for more than 200 years, has been passed down through various activities.

Hua Po Festival is a traditional festival in some areas of the Zhuang ethnic group. Legend has it that Kao is the goddess of fertility and the guardian god of children of the Zhuang people. It is said that Liujia, the ancestor of the Zhuang people, was born from flowers and was responsible for giving flowers and children.

There is another legend about Hua Po in Pumiao Town, Yongning District. According to legend, at the pier opposite the Five Saints Palace in Pumiao Town, there was a philanthropic grandmother who often sold porridge to passing merchants. If she met a poor person, she would give porridge for free. After my grandmother passed away, in order to commemorate her, the villagers built a temple and held commemorative activities every year on March 12th of the lunar calendar, gradually forming the unique local Hua Po Festival.

Hua Po gives alms while walking, reminding people not to forget to do more good deeds.

The most attractive aspects of the Hua Po Festival are the Hua Po parade and the consumption of Hua Po porridge. This is the "Hua Po Sending Blessing" car in front of the Hua Po parade. The "Hua Po" is half-sitting holding two bouquets of flowers. On the left and right sides of it are boys and girls standing in the air. The boy is holding a lotus lantern, and the girl is holding a lotus lantern. Then hold the Hua Po porridge bowl in one hand and shake the fan with the word "Fu" in the other hand. The amiable flower lady doesn't mind the children having fun with her.

"Hua Po Porridge" is carefully cooked by collecting rice from each household, and is distributed to passers-by at several fixed locations on the day of Hua Po Festival. It contains the meaning of gathering hundreds of rice, praying for thousands of families, and enjoying a feast for hundreds of families.

There is a popular saying in Pumiao, "If you drink Hua Po porridge, you will be blessed throughout your life." Therefore, the queue for eating porridge is hundreds of meters long. People of all ages, men, women and children hope to drink a bowl of Hua Po porridge and get a dip in Hua Po porridge. blessing. A bowl of light Hua Po porridge is full of warmth, satisfaction, health, gratitude, harmony, auspiciousness, joy and connection. In this Hua Po Festival with a strong folk flavor, villagers and tourists enjoy the porridge.

Bayin Zhuanggu is also an important cultural display activity. The ethnic heritage of Pumiao is relatively complete and systematic. When it comes to our ancestral music skills, most people probably don’t understand it, and I am no exception.

After drinking the steaming Hua Po porridge, I climbed directly to the park next to it to get a panoramic view of the pier. The bronze statue of Avalokitesvara stands on the mountain for people to burn incense and pray for blessings. It can be seen that the residents here are very yearning for a better life, which is quite interesting.

Pujin Academy simultaneously displays related cultural content, including detailed introduction to eight notes, eight note performance costumes, photography exhibitions, etc.

The Baijia Banquet was also the highlight of the day's activities. This year, 168 tables of delicacies were arranged in Xinxing Plaza to entertain ordinary people, volunteers, community workers, and cultural inheritors to enjoy the feast.

The battle for code kings at night was very lively. Guess it, it can be regarded as a specialty of Guangxi. The gameplay is relatively simple. It is a number addition game. When two people reach out to call out the code at the same time (one person can only use one hand), the winner is the number that one of them calls the sum of the fingers of both hands.

The code-guessing people have a good background. For example, "Salmon Chicken" comes from the time when people bought three yellow chickens for only three yuan a pound; for example, "Four Red Zongzi" comes from the ancient rice dumplings made with braised pork, red beans, red glutinous rice, and brown sugar. It alludes to prosperity and prosperity in all seasons, and now Zhuangxiang rice dumplings have evolved into mung bean rice dumplings; "Six Uncles" comes from the story of Lu You's descendants (in the vernacular, Liu has the same pronunciation as Lu).

Folk culture is not a superstitious activity as some people think, but an education of cultural inheritance, gratitude to ancestors and love. In the context of realizing our Chinese dream, cultural and folk activities are more worthy of publicity, participation and attention, and worthy of protection.