"March 3" of Buyi Nationality

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: "March 3" of Buyi Nationality

Applicant: Wangmo County, Guizhou Province

Project No.: 1202

Project No.: Ⅹ - 127

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Guizhou Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Wangmo County, Guizhou Province

Protection unit: cultural center of Wangmo county culture, sports, tourism, radio, film and Television Bureau

Brief introduction of "March 3" of Buyi Nationality:

Applicant: Wangmo County, Guizhou Province

"March 3" of Wangmo Buyi people is the most grand festival in the local year. If the festival day falls on Sunday, there will be a landscape of empty streets in the small county. People go to the mountains to worship the mountain god and their ancestors. This shows the status of "March 3" in Buyi Nationality.

On the day of "March 3", each family prepared dozens of Jin of meat and wine. The glutinous rice became a burden. They went to the mountain to worship their ancestors. In the afternoon, they invited relatives and friends. After dinner, men and women sang to each other.

On the eve of the festival, every Buyi family prepares five color meals, and girls also prepare hydrangeas. The villagers collected yellow rice flower, maple leaf and purple Fanteng, and soaked the glutinous rice with the juice of these plants to make red, yellow, black, purple and white colored rice. The juice of these plants only dyed the best color during the Qingming Festival in March of the lunar calendar. Buyi people believe that after eating this kind of rice, people will be prosperous and healthy. Hydrangea ball is a keepsake used by young men and women in "March 3" to convey their love. The silk crafts made by girls before the festival are all exquisite. Twelve petals are connected into a ball shape, and each petal represents a certain month of the year, with flowers embroidered on it. Some hydrangeas are square and polygonal, symbolizing pure love.

In folk song duet, young men usually take the initiative to sing "tour song" first, observe and test each other, and when they meet the right person, they will sing "meet song" and "invitation song". If she wants to, she agrees. The young men sang "song of inquiry" again, and they became friendly with each other, singing "song of love" and "song of love". The lyrics are improvised, blurted out and pasted with emotion and scenery. Singing is a red line, which leads two hearts. If the girl feels satisfied with the young man and song talent in front of her, she stealthily gives the embroidered ball in her arms to her lover while others don't pay attention to it. "He" returns it with handkerchief, towel and other things, and then the singing is sweeter, so she orders Qin Jinzhi.