Origin:
According to historical records, the March 3rd of the Zhuang nationality comes from the sacrifice to the Northern Emperor Zhenwu God, and the March 3rd of the Zhuang nationality is the inheritance of the ancient Shangsi Festival in China. Nowadays, the "March 3rd Festival" is gradually fading in the Central Plains. The Zhuang people have infiltrated the culture with national characteristics into the March 3rd Festival in the history, which makes the March 3rd of the Zhuang people continue to be passed down in the national culture.
In ancient China, there was a record of "March 3rd, Shangsi Festival". In the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu described the customs of the Tang Dynasty in the poem "Two Ways": "There are many tourists in on the third day of the Third-month in the freshening weather and Chang 'an waterfront. Song described the scene of Guilin at 3 o'clock in March today in "March 3 in Guangxi": "The customs of the early old days are flourishing, and the whole city is boiling with Jiangqu".
Customs:
There are altars in the ancestral hall for pigs, cattle, sheep, and five-colored glutinous rice, and teachers and Taoist classes are invited to serve the ancestors "Yapu". Banners sent by villages are hung around the altar. Before the sacrifice, the master will set up an altar or mourning hall and light incense sticks. At the beginning of the ceremony, the host who presided over the sacrifice wore a robe.
Wearing a hat and tie, a law enforcer (teeth and altar wood) opened the altar to ask God in the process of chanting, singing and dancing. In the middle of the ceremony, the two boys wore red and black wooden masks respectively, and performed double stick dance and double ribbon dance with two-ring sticks (that is, exorcism sticks). Then the boys performed with other teachers and prayed for a bumper harvest.
Cultural characteristics:
The March 3 of Zhuang nationality has the characteristics of history, inheritance, mass, extensiveness, richness, systematicness, inclusiveness and innovation. March 3rd of Wuming Zhuang nationality is a traditional cultural form of Zhuang nationality, which has certain political, economic, geographical, religious and aesthetic factors and conditions.
Under the cultural phenomenon (including marriage culture), it has become a spiritual bond connecting this nation. The third day of March of the Zhuang nationality embodies the belief concept, cultural psychology, aesthetic concept and life pursuit of the Zhuang people, and reflects the traditional cultural characteristics and historical lifestyle of the Zhuang nationality in an all-round way.