Another section of leeches of Zhuang Nationality

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: another section of leeches of Zhuang Nationality

Applicant: Hechi City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Item No.: 463

Project No.: Ⅹ - 15

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Type: new item

Applicant: Hechi City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Protection unit: Hechi Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center

Another section is about leeches of Zhuang nationality

Applicant: Hechi City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

This festival is mainly popular in the Hongshui River Basin of Northwest Guangxi. It is named after the Zhuang people's name for frogs. It is said that it is not the Dragon King who is in charge of the wind and rain, but the other goddess of the leech. Zhuang villages along the Hongshui River prayed for good weather, abundant grain, and prosperity of human and livestock by offering sacrifices to other insects. Therefore, whenever the Spring Festival comes, people in Zhuang villages here will spontaneously go to the "additional" Pavilion (SOCIAL Pavilion) to hold a grand and warm "additional" singing party. In general, the festival period starts from the first day of the Lunar New Year and ends on the second day of February. During the festival, people mainly worship Maguai, beat gongs and drums, and gather singing friends from all over the world. We all put on holiday costumes, get together, singing everywhere. The activity procedure generally includes three steps: finding another leech, filial piety and burying another leech. They are performed in the form of dancing another leech and singing another song to celebrate the harvest and pray for good weather in the coming year. The main movements are squatting on both legs, propping up the stick, walking horizontally with broken steps, lifting and stepping on trembling points, etc., which are full of life flavor and humorous.

More than 100 Li Zhuang villages on both sides of the Hongshui River are popular with the festival of "adding another to the word" Ma Chong ". In history, two or three hundred pavilions of" adding another to the word "Ma Chong" have been built. Due to historical reasons, in the 1960s and 1970s, there were very few activities of the festival. Some of the pavilions were destroyed at that time, and few of them are left now.

After the reform and opening up, the activities of the "another" festival of leeches have been resumed in various places. At present, young people are increasingly indifferent to the traditional folk cultural activities. Some inheritors of the activities quit the stage because they are old, and some of them have died one after another, resulting in the failure of inheriting some skills. Relevant departments are taking measures to rescue and protect the related folk activities of Maguai Festival.