March, the Third

March, the third of the lunar calendar is a traditional festival of the Zhuang Ethnic Group. On this day the Zhuang people happily hold a big singing fair, pay their respects to their forefathers and entertain the relatives and friends with five-color sticky rice and red eggs.

Early in the morning of that day, with joy and expectation, hundreds of people, wearing splendid attire and carrying their red eggs and five-color sticky rice come from counties and towns from near and far to attend the folk song fair. In groups of 3-5 males or females from different villages, the young people antiphonally sing the folk songs throughout the whole night until dawn. During this time, those boys and girls who have found their ideal dating partners through the antiphonal singing will slip away together in pairs for private whispers and mutual expressions of adoration and love. During the folk song fair, there are some other interesting entertainments, such as young ladies tossing a special embroidered ball to their admirers, the game of capturing the firecracker (see No.11) and the performance of the a lion and dragon.

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