Liu Sanjie - the goddess of wisdom of the Zhuang people

The story of Liu Sanjie

Liu Sanjie is a Zhuang character of folklore, an ancient folk legend singer, intelligent and astute, singing like a spring, beautiful and moving, and has the reputation of "song immortal". People love Liu Sanjie incomparably, there are many stories and records about her, and they commemorate her every year on march 3 as a festival.

According to legend, in the Tang Dynasty, on the shore of the Tiandong on the border between Luocheng and Yizhou, there was a beautiful small mountain village (now Landi Village, Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County). There is a Zhuang girl named Liu Sanjie in the village, her parents died since she was a child, and she was raised by her brother Liu Er, who made a living from collecting firewood and fishing, and relied on each other for their lives.

The third sister is not only industrious and clever, but also the skillful hand of spinning and weaving is praised by everyone, and she looks like a hibiscus in the water, and her appearance is outstanding. Especially good at singing mountain songs, her mountain songs are famous, so singers from near and far often gather in her village to compete with her to sing and learn songs.

Liu Sanjie often used mountain songs to sing the voices and grievances of the poor, so she violated the interests of the local tycoons and inferior gentry. The local rich man Mo Huairen coveted his beauty and wanted to take it as a concubine, but she refused and ridiculed her, and he held a grudge. Mo tried to ban songs, and was refuted by Liu Sanjie with mountain songs, and invited three Xiucai to sing with Liu Sanjie, and was made ugly by Liu Sanjie and so on, and returned with a big defeat. Mo Huairen was angry and ashamed, and did not hesitate to spend his family wealth to collude with the government, gritting his teeth and putting Liu Sanjie to death.

In order to avoid poisonous hands, the third sister and her brother, with the help of the villagers, took advantage of the darkness to take a bamboo raft, followed the Tianhe River down the Longjiang River, and then entered the Liujiang River, and then came to Liuzhou to live in the small cave at the eastern foot of Liyu Peak on the edge of Xiaolongtan Village.

It is said that after coming to Liuzhou, the third sister's loyal and honest brother Liu Er had a lingering palpitation in his heart, and he was afraid that the third sister would sing again and provoke right and wrong, so he tried every means to stop it.

One day, he finally came up with a way to retrieve a round and thick pebble from the river and throw it to the third sister, saying: "Third sister, use your handkerchief horn to drill a hole in the middle of the stone, and pass the handkerchief through!" If you can't wear it, you're not allowed to go out and sing! Then Tie Qing added word by word with his face: "It is no joke to say one thing for brother." The third sister, who was still smiling sweetly, looked at her brother's face full of sullenness, where did she dare to argue on the basis of reason as usual, picked up the stone thrown in front of her, and secretly wondered: "I am not a god, how can the handkerchief horn be worn?" She subconsciously tried it on and sang: Brother is mad, take a stone to wear for her sister; how can a soft cloth wear a stone? Unless the mortal sister becomes a god!

"Whether you are a mortal or a god, you will never change your brother's words!" The brother seemed to have eaten the scales- the heart of the iron. I thought: This trick is enough, is it still difficult for you? Who expected that the third sister's poignant and gentle song went straight up to Xiao Han and reached the ears of the Seven Fairies of the Heavenly Palace. The Seven Fairies were very moved, afraid that the third sister would continue to be lost, so she cast a spell, took a hairpin from her hair and threw her sleeve at the stone in the hands of Liu Sanjie in the mortal world, without bias or distortion, and pierced the stone through a round hole. The third sister inadvertently saw the handkerchief through the stone, and her heart was secretly happy, opening her sweet throat: Oh... Wear it, Rou Nengke just has a happy heart, the song is like a gushing willow river, and it flows forever and ever!

Since then, Liu Sanjie's singing has returned to the top of Yufeng Mountain and the treetops, and the people who have come to learn songs have continued. Later, the third sister's tracks in Liuzhou were detected by Mo Huairen. He also used heavy money to buy the official palace, and sent a large number of officers and soldiers to surround Liyufeng, threatening to capture and kill the third sister. When the villagers in Xiaolongtan Village and nearby heard the news, they rushed to the village with hoes and sticks in their hands to fight with the officers and soldiers to save the third sister. The third sister could not bear to make the villagers bleed and be implicated, and resolutely jumped from the mountain into the small dragon pond...

Just as Liu Sanjie jumped, the wind suddenly blew wildly, and the sky was dark. With a red light, a large golden carp rushed out of the small dragon pond, drove the third sister and flew into the sky. Liu Sanjie rode the fish to heaven in this way and became a song immortal in the Heavenly Palace. And her mountain song is still sung by people for generations. In order to commemorate her singing in Liuzhou, people have sculpted a stone statue of her in the Three Sister Rocks of Liyu Peak, which has been enshrined.

Historical evidence

According to the records of Luocheng County, Guangxi, Liu Sanjie was originally born in 618 in Lan indigo Village (now Lan indigo Village, Sizhao Town, Sizhao Town, Luocheng Mulam Autonomous County) in Tianhe County (present-day Sizhao Town, Luocheng Mulam Autonomous County), where there is also the site of her former residence, and the genealogy of the Liu surname in that village is also recorded. Xiali is very close to the county seat of Luocheng, Liu Sanjie often goes to Luocheng to sing mountain songs, in the middle of the apse of the Duoji Temple in the northwest of Luocheng County before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the statue of Liu Sanjie is enshrined, called "Three Sisters Song Hall" Tourists often sing there, so there is Dongmen (Luocheng County Station) fun and fun, which is unique in China.

In 1958, the creative team of "Liu Sanjie's Color Tune Drama" went deep into the folk style and determined that Liu Sanjie was a native of Luocheng. Luocheng County has two natural stones, 'Three Sisters Wangxiang' and 'Xiucai Kanbang', and these two large stones can be seen by walking more than 20 kilometers of country roads in the direction of Huaiqun Town in the county seat.

It is understood that these two large stones located in Jianjiang Village, Huaiqun Town, have been erected since ancient times, and because of their image, they have been named "Three Sisters Wangxiang" and "Xiucai Kanbang" by the locals. The two mountains where the two large stones are located stand opposite each other, about 200 meters away, and the "Third Sister" and "Xiucai" are far away. "Three Sisters Looking at the Countryside" can clearly see that it is a girl wearing a Zhuang headdress, carrying a back, slightly raising her head, through the layers of green mountains, looking at the turquoise rice fields, babbling streams, emerald bamboo... On the opposite hill, a mountain seems to have been split off to form a natural cliff, with a large rock standing on the side. Looking up from the foot of the mountain, it seems that a Xiucai is standing at the top of the mountain, looking up, as if carefully checking whether he is "on the list", the ribbon on Xiucai's hat is blown by the mountain wind, from which it can be concluded that Liu Sanjie's hometown is in Luocheng.

Song Fairy Festival----- "March 3"

The third day of the first lunar month of the year is the largest song and song day in the Zhuang area, also known as the "Song Immortal Festival", which is said to be a folk commemorative festival formed to commemorate Liu Sanjie. In 1984, the people's government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region officially designated this day as the national festival of the Zhuang people, the "March 3" Song Festival.

On this day every year, Nanning City, the capital of the autonomous region, and other places hold a grand song festival. During the festival, in addition to the traditional singing activities, a variety of cultural and sports entertainment activities such as grabbing fireworks, throwing hydrangea balls, touching easter eggs and performing grand plays, dancing dragons, ringing poems, screening movies, performing martial arts and acrobatics are also held. In addition, various commercial trade, investment negotiations and other activities have gradually increased, forming a new trend of "cultural stage, economic singing". At that time, Lingnan Zhuangxiang will gather guests from all over the world, singing like the sea and people like a tide. The incessant loud singing voice carries people's thoughts about the song immortal Liu Sanjie and the longing and yearning for a harvest, love, and a happy and beautiful life.

Some people may ask, Liu Sanjie is a song immortal, how did she become a goddess of wisdom again? Please come and see her lyrics.

The movie "Liu Sanjie" is a complete collection of lyrics

Liu Sanjie: There are flowers and mountains at the top of the mountain, and there are water bridges at the bottom of the bridge; there are uneven things in the heart, and the mountain songs are like fire out of the chest; there are uneven things in the heart, and the mountain songs are like fire out of the chest; the mountain songs are like spring water, and the deep mountains and old forests are everywhere; if there are still people to block, break through the long causeway to bubble Kyushu; if there are still people to block, break through the long causeway to bubble Kyushu; tiger dead tiger bones are in the deep mountains, dragon dead dragon scales are in the deep pool; tiger bones are in the deep mountains, dragon dead dragon scales are in the deep pool; singing is not afraid of the head landing, and singing on the temple of The King of Yan for three years; Now the world is really difficult, like a water boat on the beach. Singing mountain songs with courage and courage, passing through one beach after another; the rich man Diao raised his killing knife in the middle of the night, and I was not dead, but I wanted to sing, and the big river that sang was rippling. The waves are gushing, the fish and shrimp in the river are coming, the rapid water beachhead sings a word, the wind and waves are calm and leisurely.

First encounter with Li Laohan and Ah Niu

Old Man Li: With the vines at your feet and the green bamboo poles in your hand, which family is the fairy girl?

Liu Sanjie: Not a fairy family, not a god, I am a woodcutter in the mountains. Only because he was born to love singing, it is difficult to settle down in all directions.

Li Laohan: Why did the girl who cut firewood fall to the river?

Liu Sanjie: I am not afraid of the high stone cliffs on the mountain, and it is good to cut the trees by climbing the green vines; the rich man comes to cut the vines short, and I fall on the rock cliffs and drift along the water.

Li Laohan: Although the fishing boat is small and can be safe, the old man is not a stranger; the tiger hurts people again, and the old man knocks on its teeth.

Liu Sanjie (heart singing): It's really like a stupid bird that doesn't make a sound and suddenly becomes a water dragon; shouting across the cabin, the five-foot man's face is also red.

Ah Niu: The little carp does not swallow the hook, shakes its head and tails in the middle reaches of the river; knowing that my guest is coming, jumps out of the water and touches the bow of the boat. Bees cross the ridge for the flowers to blossom Bees cross the ridge for the flowers to blossom, the waves in the clear pond to attract fish, and the heart will come to Liu Sanjie, and the singers from all directions come all the way. The four-way singer will sing, which pipe boat comes is the road comes, the boat comes to break a few poles, and the road comes to grind a few pairs of shoes.

The third sister sang with the villagers

Liu Sanjie: Thank you very much, thank you to the villagers from all over the world. I don't have a good tea today, only mountain songs to honor my relatives.

Folks: Mountain songs are good, like hot tea warming the heart. There are thousands of us in the world, only the mountain song belongs to the poor.

Liu Sanjie: Don't talk about poverty, mountain songs can fill the sea. Heaven can drive away the dark clouds, and the earth can urge the grain to be born.

Folks: Good singing, the third sister opened the Sai Hong Bell. The song is also like a steel knife, no wonder all four sides are famous.

Liu Sanjie: Make fun of a lot, thrush make fun of the little Yang Sparrow. I was a young bird who learned to sing, and the fluffy duck first went down the river.

The housekeeper of Mofu came to invite Li Laohan Li Laohan: No debt to rent rice, no debt, no relatives and no reason. My house is not a temple of wealth, and the rich man will come with incense.

Mo Butler threatened Li Laohan Liu Sanjie: There are all kinds of strange things in the world, toast not to eat and eat fine wine. Tigers in the mountains have all seen it, are you afraid of this dog.

Liu Sanjie scolded Mo Huairen Liu Sanjie: He eats oil without planting sesame seeds, and he wears silk if he does not plant mulberry fields. He drank all the blood and sweat of the poor, and he was the head of the bandits on earth.

Tea Picking Song In March, partridges swim all over the mountains, and in April the river flows everywhere. The tea picking girl tea mountain walked, and the tea song flew to the white cloud head. The hare in the grass swept over the slope, and the tree head thrush left the nest. Carp in the river jump out of the water to listen to the sisters' tea picking songs. Tea picking sisters on the tea mountain, a layer of white clouds and a layer of heaven; full of camellia trees planted by hand, hard to get tea full of garden yo yo yo. In the spring, tea picking tea buds, quickly take advantage of the time to pinch the tea, the wind blows the tea tree fragrance for thousands of miles, and the jasmine flowers in the garden are yo yo yo. The tea picking girl is busy all the time, getting up early to pick tea and planting seedlings in the evening. Pick tea in the morning to top the dew, and plant seedlings in the evening with the moon.

These lyrics are improvisational, courteous, humble, endless, and do not reflect the wisdom of the vast number of working people?