The beautiful and rich Zhuang township is known as the "Song Sea". Especially on the grand "March 3rd", dozens of young men and women in Fiona Fang happily put on holiday costumes to attend, ranging from hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands. Suddenly, a sea of people, loud songs, became a sea of songs.
March 3rd is a traditional festival of Zhuang nationality, and Errenzhuan is a big activity on March 3rd, so it is also called "Song Club" or "Song Club".
Xu Ge is a traditional folk cultural activity of Zhuang nationality, and also a place for young men and women to socialize. In Zhuang language, it is called "Wharton" and "Woyan", which means "playing in the wild". Because this kind of activity sings for each other, the ancients called it "Dunwei".
In the long-term development process, the song fair of Zhuang nationality has left many touching legends. One of the most popular stories is the story of "singing to choose a husband". Legend has it that in the past, the daughter of an old Zhuang singer was very beautiful and good at singing folk songs. The old man wants to choose a young man with outstanding singing skills as his husband. Young singers from all over the world came here one after another, and Seg proposed. Since then, regular SEG meetings have been formed.
However, according to ancient documents, Xu Ge was popular as early as the Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhou Qufei's "A Generation Beyond the Ridge" recorded that the Zhuang people were "full of harmony and sadness, ... all wrote their own stories on occasions and refused to follow the trend, among which there were many excellent people." What I'm talking about here is a song meeting for young men and women. In the Ming dynasty, the song festival developed again and was held in a fixed place on a regular basis.
Zhuang people have large and small song parties, which are different from place to place. However, the third day of the third lunar month is the most grand. Set up a colorful shed, a singing platform, throw a colorful ball and choose a good couple, which is unique. At the concert, young men and women in each village, in groups of three or five, found young people from other villages and sang folk songs collectively. Usually young men take the initiative to sing "sightseeing songs" to observe and find their opponents; With the right person, they will sing "Meeting Song" and "Invitation Song"; If the woman agrees, she will sing "Ask Song". When understanding each other, sing "love songs" and "love songs"; When they parted, they sang a "Farewell Song", and the lyrics were sung along with the compilation, which was apt and touching. Young men and women have established certain feelings after contacting songs, and they will meet again at the next concert.
At the Expo, besides singing, there are also colorful game activities. There are wonderful throwing hydrangeas, interesting touching red eggs, lively fireworks, and Zhuang opera performances that the masses love.
March 3rd of the Zhuang nationality constitutes the traditional festival "March 3rd Song Festival" of the Zhuang nationality, also known as March Song Festival. Guangxi is known as the "sea of songs", and the Zhuang people hold regular folk song gatherings every year, especially on the third day of the third lunar month.
On this day, every household will cook colorful glutinous rice and dye eggs red to celebrate festivals, some of which will last for two or three days. There are specific venues for local song concerts. Generally, it is a slope. Some people use bamboo and cloth to build a karaoke room to receive singers from other villages. The participants are mainly unmarried young men and women, and the elderly and children just come for fun. Around the song fair, vendors gather! Thousands of men, women and children came from dozens of miles away in Fiona Fang to attend a larger concert, with a sea of people, singing one after another and being very lively.
Famous song concerts include Panyang River in Bama, Mianshan in Du 'an, Qiao Ye in Tian Yang, Yang Yan in Tiandong, Xia Jian in Yishan and Yufeng Mountain in Liuzhou. People go to song parties to compete and enjoy songs; Young men and women sing, and if they love each other, they will give each other tokens as tokens of love. In addition, there are recreational activities such as throwing hydrangeas, touching eggs and performing Zhuang opera. Throwing hydrangeas can also be exquisite! Hydrangea is round, with flowers and birds, kapok, beans, rice and other crops in it. There are colored cloth belts at the four corners, which are used for wrestling. Men and women are divided into two equal pairs. Men and women are separated by a certain distance, and one person on each side, that is, the leader, inserts a high pole in the middle as the height standard of pitching.
When throwing the ball, the female head first holds the hydrangea, sings a folk song and throws the ball. If the man can catch it, the man wins, otherwise the woman wins. Whoever wins will kick the opponent out, and then the winner will serve. Every time you serve, you must sing folk songs first, and so on, until one side is "completely annihilated."
At this time, the winning side chased the losing side, grabbed each other's headscarves and handkerchiefs and chased each other for fun. If a girl has a crush on a young man, she throws a hydrangea on purpose and the man takes it away. If there is love, she will take it as a gift.
The Song Festival is not only a grand gathering of national culture, but also a grand gathering of national economic exchanges. In order to carry forward the national culture, the people's government of the autonomous region organized 1984 "March 3rd" song meeting, and singers from all over Guangxi gathered in Nanning, as well as brothers, compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao and foreign friends from all over the country. 1985 The People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region designated "March 3rd" as a culture and art festival.
My hometown is in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a place where ethnic minorities gather. There are many customs here. I'd like to introduce the "March 3 Ge Wei Festival". In China, "March 3rd" is a traditional festival for the Han nationality and many ethnic minorities. According to legend, March 3rd is the emperor's birthday. China has had "On February 2nd, the dragon looked up; I was born in Xuanyuan on March 3rd. After Wei and Jin Dynasties, Shangsi Festival was changed to March 3rd, which was used by later generations and became a festival for Han people to drink tea by the water and have a spring outing in the suburbs. But now, March 3 in every country appears in different forms. According to legend, the third day of March of Zhuang nationality is a festival to commemorate the singer Liu Sanjie of Zhuang nationality, so it is also called the Song Fairy Festival.
As we all know, folk songs are the characteristics of Zhuang nationality. There are several fixed folk song gatherings of Zhuang nationality every year, such as 15th day of the first month, 3rd day of March, 8th day of April and 15th day of August, among which 3rd day of March is the most grand. On this day, every household will cook colorful glutinous rice, color eggs and celebrate festivals. Songs usually last for two or three days at a time and are located in an open space not far from the village. Bamboo and cloth were used to build a singing studio to receive singers from other villages. Duets are mainly composed of unmarried young men and women, but old people and children come to watch and entertain. There are one or two thousand people in the small song fair and tens of thousands in the big one. Set up a song shed and hold a song meeting, where young men and women sing, touch eggs, throw hydrangeas and talk about love. Most Zhuang people sweep graves on March 3, and usually steam five-color glutinous rice on March 3.
Zhuang folk songs, also known as Zhuang folk songs, refer to folk songs sung by Zhuang people in Zhuang language. Zhuang songs can be traced back to the cry of hunting in Zhuang primitive society. Although Shout is not a song, it undoubtedly gave birth to the seeds of Zhuang folk songs. The true meaning of Zhuang songs should start from the productive labor and sacrificial activities in the primitive society of Zhuang nationality, which can be seen from the customs and habits of ethnic minorities now. The ancient songs of Zhuang nationality in Guangxi go to the market and hydrangea have been passed down to this day. Zhuang nationality is famous for its "good songs", while Zhuang township is famous for its "sea of songs". Zhuang people are good at expressing their lives and feelings with folk songs. Zhuang folk songs have a long history. The Zhuang people have been singing since Pangu's creation. Almost everyone can sing very well, which is close to the point of "talking with songs"
Throwing hydrangeas at the Song Fair Festival is mainly for entertainment, but also as a token of love. The girl took a fancy to a young man and threw the hydrangea to him. However, it is not a thing of the last century or two that the Zhuang people play hydrangea and take pleasure in throwing hydrangea. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Fu's Xi Man Cong Xiao described the activities of throwing hydrangeas in the Song Dynasty: "At the local folk festivals for several days, men and women in the wild were divided into two friends, each with colorful new beans and millet, and they were called Phelan." Zhou Qufei also said in "Answering the Generation Beyond the Ridge": "On the third day of March, men and women got together and lived in a row, tied a ball with five colors and threw it along with the song, which was called flying nylon. When men and women succeed, women get married and men get married. " The so-called flying nylon is the hydrangea today.
In Zhou Qufei's "A Generation Beyond the Ridge" in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Zhuang people "sang in harmony, full of sadness ... they all wrote their own stories on the occasion and refused to attack, including excellent people." There is also a record in the Song Dynasty's Taiping Universe: "A strong man is familiar with the valley and chooses a day to worship the gods. Men and women will sing songs at the grand event." This shows that the song fair at that time was quite prosperous. According to the Survey of Counties in Guangxi compiled by 1934, there were as many as 26 counties in Guangxi at that time, almost all over Guangxi.
Nowadays, in our family, although we don't celebrate festivals in the form of singing folk songs, we still cook five-color glutinous rice, dye eggs and so on. Such an activity with national characteristics will be an eternal classic.