Will Guizhou have a holiday on March 3rd in 2021? How many days will Guizhou have a holiday on March 3rd?
There are currently no relevant holiday regulations.
Guizhou Buyi people worship the mountain god:
"March 3" was originally the day when the Buyi people worshiped the mountain god. Legend has it that the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the three kings and gods. On this day, he will release all kinds of locusts and grasshoppers to damage the crops, so people will sweep the village and worship the gods to ask for mercy from the mountain gods. In the past, the Buyi people closed the village within a few days after sweeping the village to drive out ghosts, and outsiders were not allowed to enter the village, otherwise That is to say, it is considered that the village was destroyed and the village was cleaned, and the villagers must pay for the village to be cleaned again and apologize to the villagers. With the continuous changes of the times, "March 3" has changed from a sacrificial festival in the past to a festival for men and women to socialize. On March 3rd, young men and women dressed in festive costumes happily participated in a large-scale mountain tour, singing and making friends. The singers show their talents here, and most of the lyrics are improvised. Sometimes they can sing continuously for three days and three nights.
Most of the folk songs are love songs. Young men and women express their feelings, express their love and confide their feelings through love songs, and take the opportunity to show their intelligence and wit to win the favor of the opposite sex. It is said that whoever sings most beautifully will be given a golden voice if he impresses the singing fairy in the sky. From then on, wherever he worked, there was the singing of the golden voice. As long as the pests heard the singing of the golden voice, they would not dare to harm the crops. Therefore, "March 3" is also called "Song Fairy Festival".
During the festival, in addition to young people’s mountain tours, antiphonal singing, and socializing activities, there is also the custom of eating glutinous rice with flowers and boiled red eggs. Some villages still offer sacrifices to the mountain gods, offering sheep as sacrifices; some villages offer sacrifices to the water gods and dragon ponds, offering pigs or chickens to the gods. The village elders did not forget to use the occasion of the sacrifice to teach the villagers to protect public facilities such as forests, longtans, wells, roads, etc., and at the same time educate the younger generations to abide by the village regulations and civil covenants. March 3rd is also a good day for young men and women in Buyi to fall in love. On this day, the boys played bamboo leaves and played the huqin, while the girls sang Buyi folk songs and carried out activities such as "catching up with the watch" and "waving the whistle".
Onion baskets of the Dong people in Guizhou serve as matchmakers on the third day of March:
On the first day of March, housewives in the village are busy preparing new clothes for their children and husbands, grinding tofu, and preparing Wine and food, it’s good to entertain guests when the holidays come.
The second day of March is the day when the girl sends the basket to her lover. After breakfast that day, the girls invited each other to catch fish and shrimps with baskets on their backs and shoes off. After helping each other, each person caught half a basket of carp and shrimp, and then each gave the basket as a gift to his beloved lover. When the lover gets this basket gift, he pours out the fish and shrimps and cooks vegetables and food on the slope with his boyfriends, then has a picnic and shares the joy of love. This custom of "giving baskets" is called "Haisu" in the local Dong language.
On the third day of March, the festival activities reach their climax. The girl carried a basket and went to various vegetable gardens to get half-blue green onions and a few garlic seedlings. She washed them white and clean by the dragon pond at the foot of the village, then put on a wide-brimmed short-skirt and lace-trimmed trousers, tied They wear colorful flower-embroidered aprons, put on round-top embroidered shoes, wear silver hoops, silver necklaces and silver flowers, and carry green onion baskets, and go together to the slopes near Moga Tree and Jintang Cave. The young people waited in groups by the mountain road.
The girls came over, and the young men asked the girls for baskets. The mountains and hills were full of people watching. If the loved one doesn't come to ask for a basket, and the girl doesn't give it to him, the nearby onlookers will make sarcastic sounds of "boo"
"Boo", which disappoints the young people who have no luck and cheers for the girl who is dedicated to love.
When the girls saw their loved ones coming to ask for swallows, they happily gave them to them, and the onlookers praised them with "oohoo" and "oohoo" sounds. After the lover gets the basket, he will make an appointment with his lover on a date, usually on March 8 or June 6, to meet on the slope to return the basket. At this time, the basket usually contains fabrics, candies, or silk threads for the beloved sister. This custom of "asking for a basket" is called "Xiechen" in Baojing Dong language, which means "onion basket as matchmaker".