Gewei Festival is a traditional festival of Zhuang nationality, and Gewei Festival on March 3rd is a traditional festival of Zhuang nationality. Zhuang people call it "Wobu Po" or "Wopo Po", which originally meant to sing in the fields outside the country, so it is also called "Gewei Festival". In memory of Sanjie Liu, it is also called "Song Fairy Club". On March 3rd, there were 1,000 or 2,000 people in the small song fair in Zhuang village and tens of thousands in the big song fair. On Ge Wei Festival, every household will cook five-color glutinous rice, dye eggs, and girls will make hydrangeas. Boys and girls will put on holiday costumes, with men holding gifts and women holding hydrangeas, and go to the opposite side in droves to celebrate Gewei Festival.
What activities are there in the Song Fair Festival?
Match the song with the song.
The main activity of the Gewei Festival is the duet competition. Before the competition begins, people should respect Sister Liu first. They marched around carrying the statue of Sanjie Liu, praying that Sanjie Liu would bless the success of the song on March 3, and everyone would like this song. Then, young men and women dressed in national costumes lined up and began to sing. Yes, all the songs are folk songs. The tunes of Zhuang folk songs have a strong local flavor, and the lyrics are very rich, including love, history, farming, living customs, astronomy and geography. The form of duet is mainly male and female duet, and later chorus and disc singing have been developed. Male and female duets have certain procedures and singing methods: first sing the invitation song, then sing the question song, praise song, first love song, deep love song, and finally sing the farewell song. There are also many forms of duet, such as solo, duet and multi-voice lead singer. Apart from some traditional folk songs, most of the folk songs of Errenzhuan are improvised by singers. They sing colorful and exciting folk songs in the form of guessing and asking questions by touching the scene and using metaphors. Singing activities are also a good opportunity for young Zhuang men and women to make friends. Young men first take the initiative to sing sightseeing songs and find opponents. If you meet the right person, start singing meet-up songs and invitation songs. If the woman is interested, take the song. The young men then sang inquiry songs, and after being friendly with each other, they entered the stage of singing and making love songs. Folk songs have become the red line connecting the hearts of young men and women.
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In some areas of Guangxi, there is also a special form of duet, called "returning the ball". Generally speaking, this kind of song meeting is based on the village. First, one party gives colored balls made of silk thread and feathers to the other. The two sides agreed that after half a year or a year, the party who received the ball would return it and hold a grand folk song competition.
When the appointed date arrives, the receiver will set the table and prepare to catch the ball. After singing the song, the player who returns the ball can't win, so the colored ball won't go back, so we have to make an appointment and fight another day.
Twist silk
During Ge Wei Festival. Young men and women will also hold interesting hydrangea throwing activities. Throwing hydrangea, also known as "flying", is said to have a history of 1000 years. Making hydrangea fully embodies the exquisite craftsmanship of Zhuang girls. Traditional hydrangea is an octagonal round bag with a diameter of about 6 cm sewn with colored silk, which is filled with rice, soybeans, mung beans or sand and weighs about 3 liang. There are more than 10 silk spikes with a length of 10 cm at the bottom. The top is tied with a rope about 60 cm long, and the end of the rope is tied with a small cloth ball called a ribbon. Hydrangeas are large and small, with different shapes, such as round, square, diamond, duck or fish. Each of these handicrafts symbolizing love is very delicate and lovely. When throwing hydrangeas, young men and women stood in the open space on both sides of the stage and threw them at each other. The party who can't catch the hydrangea will be punished for singing folk songs or performing programs. Unmarried Zhuang girls usually judge each other's character and talent while singing. If they think the young man in front of them is good, they will throw the hydrangea at the right person when others are not paying attention. If the other person likes it, they will tie handkerchiefs, towels and other gifts to hydrangeas and throw them back to the woman. Then through the establishment of feelings for songs, mutual recognition of Qin Jin's good.
Five-color glutinous rice
During the Gewei Festival on March 3, every household eats five-color glutinous rice and wishes a bumper harvest. Five-color glutinous rice is made by soaking glutinous rice in the juice of plants such as red bluegrass, yellow rice flower, maple leaf and wisteria, and then making it into five colors: red, yellow, black, purple and white. It is said that this kind of food has always been loved by fairies, and some people say that it is used to worship Liu Sanjie, a fairy in the Song Dynasty. The banker's children are healthy and prosperous after eating five-color glutinous rice.
There is also a popular traditional activity called fireworks grabbing at the Song Fair Festival on March 3rd in Zhuang nationality. People will set off fireworks in the air during festivals. It is said that people who can grab fireworks will be happy and lucky all their lives, so people compete for fireworks. In addition to these traditional programs, some interesting contents, such as cockfighting and fighting thrush, have also been added to the festival, gradually becoming very attractive activities in the festival.
Brief introduction of Zhuang nationality
Zhuang nationality, formerly known as "Bo people" and "Zhuang language", is the most populous minority among the 56 ethnic groups in China, and also a literati nationality with a long history in Guangxi. As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, the ancestors of Zhuang nationality were two important branches of Baiyue nationality south of the Yangtze River, known as Xi 'ou and Luoyue. Some historical books are collectively called Ouluo and Tong, which is the beginning of the name of Zhuang nationality. It first appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty and generally refers to people who were recruited as war generals and lived in northern Guangxi. The rulers of Ming and Qing dynasties carried out the policy of ethnic discrimination, and changed "bumping into people" to "bumping into people", and there were other nicknames such as "depending on people" and "being very human". According to historical records, at that time, "bumping people" had spread all over Guangxi. During the period of the Republic of China, progressive scholars who opposed ethnic discrimination proposed to rename "Aotu" as "Tong" or "Tong", which was uniformly called "Tong" after the founding of New China. 1965, according to the proposal of Premier Zhou Enlai, the "Bo" was renamed as "Zhuang", which means strong, prosperous, healthy and developed.
Guangxi Zhuang population160,000, accounting for 33.2% of the total population of the whole autonomous region. Mainly distributed in Nanning, Baise, Hechi, Liuzhou and other places in western Guangxi, and a few in Guilin, Qinzhou, Guigang and Hezhou. Zhuang people are open-minded, good at learning and easy to accept the advanced culture of other nationalities. Zhuang language belongs to Zhuang-Dai branch of Zhuang-Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family, which is divided into northern dialect and southern dialect.
Most of Zhuang's houses are brick-wood structures, among which the semi-stilt building, commonly known as "Diaojiaolou", is the most distinctive, and Dong and Yao nationalities are also distributed. The "diaojiao building" is mostly two floors, with people living upstairs, usually three to five rooms; The lower level raises livestock or piles up sundries. Some have attics and ancillary buildings. Most of them are near mountains and rivers, facing the fields, and some villages are connected with each other, becoming a whole and magnificent.