1, 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.
2. Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival on July 14th of the lunar calendar, also known as Ghost Festival and Ancestor Festival, is the biggest festival after the Spring Festival, and its main content is to worship ancestors and ghosts.
On this day, every household will kill chickens and ducks (in the past, it was forbidden to sacrifice chickens, but only ducks or geese, especially ducks, so this festival was even called "Duck Festival"), steamed cakes will be made into steamed buns, and colored paper will be cut into underwear for the four seasons.
3. "March 3" Song Festival
There are several regular folk song gatherings of Zhuang nationality every year, among which "March 3rd" is the most grand. Its early history can be traced back to the clan and tribe period, which originated from the religious activities of ancestors offering sacrifices to gods and praying for a bumper harvest. Later, it gradually evolved into a social activity in which young men and women regularly gathered in Yuanye to "express their feelings through songs" and "choose their spouses through songs", and later developed into a mass amusement festival.
4. Spring and Autumn Social Day
Social Day Festival, also known as Land Birthday, is an ancient traditional festival, which is divided into Spring Club and Autumn Club. In ancient times, the festival of social day was determined according to the calendar of cadres and branches. Later, due to the change of calendar, festivals were decided by the lunar calendar.
5. Spring Festival
The Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year, is the beginning of a year and a traditional "festival". The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on the sky, and people are based on their ancestors. It is also the opposite to pray for the ancestors who worship the sky. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.