Song Fairy Liu Sanjie and March 3rd

Zhuang children love singing, and men and women learn to sing folk songs from childhood. In rural areas, whether it is farming in the fields, chopping wood on the mountains, weddings and funerals, festivals or social love between young men and women, folk songs are used to express family affection. In some places, even conversations and quarrels between family members are sometimes endorsed by songs. Singing has almost become an indispensable part of Zhuang people's life.

There are many beautiful and touching legends about the origin of the Zhuang people's March 3rd Song Festival.

In ancient times, there was a couple, both famous singers, who often sang folk songs to express their affection for each other. However, due to the shackles of feudal ethics, they could not get married, so they died in despair. People sang in memory of the couple on March 3rd.

On the other hand, in the Zhuang inhabited area in the Tang Dynasty, there was a singer named? Sister Liu? . She is very clever. She often praises labor and love with folk songs and exposes the sins of the rich, who hate and fear her. On the third day of March one year, when Sanjie Liu was chopping wood on the mountain, the rich sent someone to cut off the vines, causing her to fall off the cliff and die. In memory of the singer, later generations gathered to sing on the day of Liu Sanjie's death. Singing for three days and three nights, the song fair was formed in this way.

Dragon Mother Luo Yue and March 3rd

Zhuang nationality is a descendant of Guluo Yue people. Wuming, located at the southern foot of Daming Mountain, is said to be the earliest capital of Luoyue country. The ancestors of the Zhuang nationality thrived here and created a splendid Luoyue history and culture.

There is a Luobo Town in Wuming County, and the Luobo Temple in Luobo Town is the first Dragon Mother Temple in the world. According to historical records, as early as the Neolithic age, Luoyue people were called by historians? Luo Yueshui? During the Xia and Shang Dynasties, Luoyue people established Luoyue State and created a splendid Luoyue culture. Because the earliest ancestral home of Luoyue people is under Daming Mountain in Nanning, the descendants of Luoyue people are called Daming Mountain? Although? , meaning Zushan. Before the Han Dynasty, almost every tributary of the Xijiang River basin in the upper reaches of the Pearl River had a ancestral temple of Luoyue's grandmother Wang, named after Wuming Temple. Luobo Temple? Or? Pumiao? . Later, Luobo God in Xingye County was named after Emperor Nan Han? Mrs. Dragon Mother? Since then, the Luobu Temple in Xijiang Valley has been renamed Longmu Temple.

Luoyue people were the first people who lived in Luoyue and planted rice with birds as totems. Legend has it that a bird accidentally dropped the rice in its mouth into the soil, and as a result, ears of rice grew in the soil, benefiting the north and south of the river. As a result, a group of people who take birds as totems and grow rice developed their lives along the north, south and east of Wuming River, Youjiang River and Yujiang River, with Daming Mountain as the central area.

In order to commemorate this great ancestor, people will hold ancestor worship activities on the third day of the third lunar month when Luo Yue's grandmother Wang was born. After general festivals, traditional entertainment activities such as singing operas, grabbing fireworks and singing folk songs can begin. Therefore, ancestor worship is the most important activity in Xu Ge.

Luoyue people are called? Yapu? Or? Laopu? Therefore, whenever you leave Zushan, you should sacrifice to your grandmother, invite her to review the military forces and take her to a newly opened home to set up a temple. This classical sacrificial dance later became an exorcism and blessing ceremony held by Zhuang, Luo Yue descendants and other ethnic groups at Gewei Temple Fair, which was called? Patrol Yapu? Dancing or something? Dragon mother points soldiers? Dance.

? Dragon mother points soldiers? This folk custom has a far-reaching influence in Lingnan, and many geomantic treasures are called? Dragon mother points soldiers? . Unfortunately, this precious cultural heritage has only been circulated in a few mountain villages in Wuming County due to years of wind and rain, and it has become history? Living fossil? . In 2005, Max Loehr Dianbing Dance was discovered by cultural investigation experts organized by Daming Mountain Administration in Yuquan Village, Luo Xu Town, Wuming County, which aroused widespread concern in academic circles. Religious and cultural experts from China Academy of Social Sciences and Minzu University of China praised it as one of the most artistic dances of ethnic and religious sacrifice in China.

With the support of Nanning Municipal People's Committee, literary and art experts from Guangxi Luoyue Cultural Research Association systematically arranged and innovated the ancient Luoyue point soldier dance. The innovative "Luoyue Dianbing Dance" refines three classic scenes in Gudelo Yuebing Dance, namely, inviting grandmother, being dressed by grandmother, and being ordered by grandmother, which reproduces the gorgeous national customs of the Yue people in Gudelo and shows the national spirit of the Yue people in Gudelo who are fearless and enterprising.

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