Zhuang-March 3

The dragon festival on March 3 of the Zhuang nationality is the first dragon day festival in March of the lunar calendar. the new calendar is usually in early April. before the festival, the village elders inform the villagers to buy sacrifices with the average money of each household. one male from each household takes part in the mountain sacrifice. the chief priest prays to the dragon god. each household picks two branches from the dragon tree and takes them home and inserts them into their own kitchen and grain piles. in order to make good harvest, large families fry hundreds of pounds of oil, can eat more than a month, also give relatives and friends to taste.

On March 3, there will be three days. First, each village will hold a grand dragon sacrifice activity. After that, it will beat gongs and drums, dance lions and dragons, walk through villages and villages, exorcise evil spirits, pray for good weather, and organize large-scale singing and dancing, Zhuang opera and martial arts performances. During the festival, young men and women of the Zhuang nationality also look for friends by singing to each other, touching eggs, throwing hydrangea and giving each other gifts. As a rice-growing nation, the Zhuang nationality attaches great importance to the farming season. "March 3" itself is a festival to convey the farming season. The rituals of "March 3" such as offering sacrifices to dragons, offering sacrifices to ground mothers and scattering official species remind all Zhuang people that after enjoying themselves on "March 3", they must concentrate on production.