Source: Economic Daily
Sing mountain songs
Sing this side and that side and
Mountain songs are like spring rivers
Not afraid of the dangerous bays and many bays...
The lunar calendar "March 3rd" is not only an important festival for the Zhuang people in Guangxi, but also an important festival for han, Yao, Miao, Dong, Mulao, Maonan and other ethnic groups. The People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region decided that from 2014 onwards, during the "March 3rd of the Zhuang Nationality" period every year, the whole region will take a two-day holiday, and organize and guide the whole society to carry out mass activities with strong ethnic and local characteristics. In that year, the whole district enjoyed the two-day "March 3" holiday on April 2 and April 3 for the first time. Since then, after the weekend recess or connected with the Qingming holiday, the whole district has a unique small long holiday of 4 to 6 days. Today, "March 3 of the Zhuang Nationality" has become a charming cultural tourism brand in Guangxi.
Looking forward to it, looking forward to it, spring is coming. The land of Eight Gui, the sun is shining, everything is revived, and vitality and hope are sprouting everywhere. In Guangxi, the annual "March 3rd of the Zhuang Nationality" will become the most wonderful interpretation on the big stage of spring. This year's "Zhuang March 3" overlaps with the Qingming Festival holiday, and after the rest, the "two festivals" in Guangxi will be closed from April 4 to 8. Guangxi people have been unable to hold back their hearts and have already made careful preparations for the holiday season.
56 flowers of 56 nationalities, 56 ethnic brothers and sisters are a family, in the motherland of the "Zhuangxiang March 3", is a celebration belonging to the whole nation, is Guangxi, is also everyone's festival. The people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi sincerely invited guests from all over the world to celebrate the "Third of March" in Zhuangxiang.
This year's "Zhuang March 3, Eight Gui Carnival" will last for one month from March 25 to April 25. The event will closely focus on the theme of the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, highlight the joyful, peaceful and festive activities, including "Zhuang March 3 • Gui Feng Zhuang Yun", "Zhuang March 3 • Meet in Guangxi", "Zhuang March 3 • National Sports Show", "Zhuang March 3 · e Network Tesco" and "Zhuang March 3 • Harmony in Eight Gui" five major plate activities. According to preliminary statistics, there will be 37 major activities to be carried out at the autonomous region level, and about 900 activities organized by 14 districted cities in the region.
On the morning of April 4, the main venue activity of the 2019 "Zhuang March 3, Eight Gui Carnival" was held in the Guangxi Museum of Nationalities. The solemn brass drum blessing ceremony kicked off the main event and theatrical performance, sending peace and good wishes to every wishful guest. During the "March 3rd" holiday, people here can enjoy the fun of eating, drinking, playing, enjoying and shopping, and enjoy the happiness of eyes, ears and mouths. The organizers specially organized traditional art projects such as folk song phalanx, Zhuang folk hammer dance, horse bone hu and so on, mobilized Zhuang, Miao, Yao, Dong, Mu Lao, Mu Lao and other ethnic groups to create a "March 3" festival scene of each ethnic group, and launched 7 Guangxi traditional rice noodles in the food gallery, showing the breathtaking traditional handicraft skills of the Guangxi nationalities.
During the "March 3rd of zhuang nationality", Guangxi carefully prepared for tourists inside and outside the region Guilin landscape culture experience tour, Beibu Bay leisure vacation tour, Bama longevity health leisure tour, Sino-Vietnamese border customs tour, Northwest Guizhou ethnic minority style tour, left and right river red tour, around the Dayao Mountain historical and cultural ecological tour, Guidong Lingnan scenery and cultural tour and other special tourism route products. In addition to sightseeing tours, cultural festivals are the highlight of "March 3".
Guangxi cities have carefully prepared a variety of special cultural tourism festivals.
Bose
The main ethnic group of Baise is the Zhuang ethnic group, in addition to the Han, Yao, Miao, Yi, Mulao, Hui 6 ethnic groups. Tianyang dares to zhuangshan Buluotuo culture, Napo black-clad Zhuang culture are well-known at home and abroad, so Baise is also known as "Zhuangxiang". Every year on the third of March, all parts of Baise solemnly hold celebration activities, mountain song festivals, Zhuang opera exhibitions, special food exhibitions, etc. for the masses to provide a cultural feast integrating national culture, mass sports, custom tourism, and characteristic consumption.
guest
The guest is a multi-ethnic harmonious city with the Zhuang ethnic group as the main body, inhabited by 12 ethnic groups, including han, Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong, Maonan, Hui, Mulao, Jing, Yi, Shui and Gelao, mainly Zhuang. Every year on the third of March, the guests are crowded with tourists from all directions, and folk activities, sports competitions, literary and artistic performances and other activities make tourists feast their eyes.
Hezhou
The Hezhou area is also a multi-ethnic area with strong ethnic minority customs. The Yao people's "Panwang Festival", "Valentine's Day", "Oil Tea" and "Long Encouragement"; the Zhuang people's "March 3rd", "Temple Fair", "Cannon Period", "Dancing Fire Cat"; and the Miao People's "Lusheng Tatang Dance" are all folk activities that cannot be missed.
River pond
Hechi is the hometown of Liu Sanjie, a Singer of the Zhuang ethnic group, inhabited by 8 ethnic groups such as Zhuang, Han, Yao, Mulao, Maonan, Miao, and Dongshui, and is one of the areas with the largest concentration of ethnic minorities in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Brass drum performances, Zhuang special cuisine, singing mountain songs - hechi's "March 3" activities are not only colorful, but also very local. The third sister's hometown, waiting for you to come hi.
Nanning
Nanning is a city with the Zhuang ethnic group as the main body and a multi-ethnic concentration. Every year during the "March 3rd" period, Wuming District, Shanglin County, Mashan County and other places in Nanning and major scenic spots will hold grand celebrations. Among them, Wuming District held the "Zhuang March 3" Songwei and Luoyue Cultural Tourism Festival from April 6 to 8, and this year's Songwei will set up an "intangible cultural heritage" food street to create a "mobile cultural" landscape and let tourists have a deeper understanding of the long history of wuming Zhuang intangible cultural heritage.
Liuzhou
Liuzhou is a multi-ethnic area where the Zhuang and Dong ethnic groups are the oldest indigenous ethnic groups in Liuzhou, with 2 ethnic minority autonomous counties: Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County and Rongshui Miao Autonomous County. Here is a strong ethnic customs, ethnic festivals, every year during the "March 3" period, mountain song competition, Lusheng performance, hundred family banquet and other activities, have attracted many domestic and foreign tourists.
Guilin
Guilin has more than a dozen ethnic minorities such as Zhuang, Yao, Hui, Miao, etc., and the simple folk customs and unique culture, such as farming, festivals, costumes, food and living, marriage and funeral, architecture, language and writing, religious beliefs, etc., constitute a rich and colorful folk customs picture. "March 3" small long holiday, while enjoying the landscape of Guilin, you can experience the unique ethnic customs of Guilin. From April 3rd to April 5th, the 2019 Zhuang March 3th National Sports And Ethnic Song Festival series of activities were held simultaneously on the same stage in Guilin, with the main venue set up in Guilin Central Square, and 3 sub-venues in Guilin Taohuawan Tourist Resort (Lujia Village, Miaomenmen Village, Lujia to "Reed Flute Three Villages" along the river trail), Dongxi Lane Historical and Cultural Block, and Zunshen Temple Night Market, with a total of 71 activities.
Chongzuo
There are 28 ethnic groups living in Chongzuo, and the ethnic minority population accounts for 89.8% of the total population, which is the birthplace of the Zhuang Luoyue culture, and the traditional culture of the ethnic group is preserved intact. In recent years, Chongzuo City has held the Chongzuo Huashan International Cultural Tourism Festival during the "March 3rd of the Zhuang Nationality", with colorful activities, showing the most beautiful scenery, the most authentic style and the most special customs of Chongzuo.
In addition to playing, friends who like shopping can also pay attention to the "Zhuang March 3 · e network Happy Shopping" section, the Autonomous Region Department of Commerce has been from March 25 to April 25, with the theme of "building a magnificent Guangxi shared e-commerce feast", in Beijing, Liuzhou, Guilin, Fangchenggang, Chongzuo and other cities and counties to carry out a series of e-commerce festival activities, continue to create "Guangxi specialties marketing the whole country" high-quality special product brand, to create Guangxi version of the "Double Eleven".
We also learned from the Autonomous Region Sports Bureau that in 2019, Guangxi will continue to hold a series of activities of "Zhuang March 3 • National Sports Show", which will be held in cities and counties (cities, districts) in the region from March 25 to April 25. According to reports, the 2019 Guangxi "March 3, National Sports Show" series of activities and contents mainly include the main venue of the autonomous region activities performances (synchronized jump rope, figure skating, synchronized hedgehog, synchronized bicycles, banana dragons, gyroscopes and other projects), the opening ceremony, sports star support activities (athletics, gymnastics, badminton, table tennis, Go, chess and other projects), sports stars into the grassroots activities and badminton, table tennis, Go, chess sports star challenges, national fireworks, board shoe racing, high-foot racing, Lion King Tournament, Pearl Ball, Crossbow shooting and other project invitational competitions, gyroscope, solo bamboo drift, three-person basketball and other project competitions and fitness and bodybuilding competitions, and interspersed with a number of sports experience interactive activities, sporting goods exhibition and sales activities, Guitai sports exchange activities, fitness and health special food activities, sports culture display activities, covering food, clothing, housing and travel and other aspects.
According to the Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the 2019 "Zhuang March 3, Meet in Guangxi" joint promotion activity has been held in the whole region from March 25 to April 30. During the event, Guangxi launched a number of preferential policies for tourists in the region and surrounding provinces and regions, such as scenic spot ticket discounts, self-driving tour discounts, tourism route discounts, tourism charter incentives, and tourism special train charter car incentives.
During the event, tourists from 9 provinces and regions of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou can enjoy a 50% discount on the listing price of all A-class tourist attractions in Guangxi with their resident ID cards, Hong Kong and Macao tourists with the "Mainland Pass for Hong Kong and Macao Residents", and taiwan tourists with the "Mainland Travel Permit for Taiwan Residents".
From 0:00 on April 1, 2019 to 24:00 on April 8, 2019, take a small passenger car with 7 seats or less of license plates in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and implement a 50% discount on vehicle tolls when passing through expressways in Guangxi (except for direct transit vehicles).
In addition, Guangxi has also launched a series of preferential promotions, hoping to attract more tourists to Guangxi and share the big party of the national family. (Economic Daily reporter Tong Zheng)