March 3 of She nationality

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: March 3 of She nationality

Applicant: Jingning She Autonomous County, Zhejiang Province

Project No.: 980

Project No.: Ⅹ - 73

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Jingning She Autonomous County, Zhejiang Province

Protection unit: Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center of Jingning She Autonomous County

A brief introduction to March 3 of She Nationality:

Applicant: Jingning She Autonomous County, Zhejiang Province

The third day of the third lunar month is the traditional festival of the She people, and the She people attach equal importance to it as the Spring Festival. Jingning County in Zhejiang Province is the only she Autonomous County in China. The custom of March 3 of She people is spread here.

On the third of March every year, every household in she Township slaughters animals to sacrifice their ancestors. In addition, she people also choose this day as the day for men and women to make love and marry. It is said that the she uprising army of the Tang Dynasty was defeated and retreated into the mountains. Due to the lack of food and grass, they ate a kind of black wild fruit called "Wu Ren" to satisfy their hunger. The army was so powerful that they rushed out of the encirclement on the third day of March. Since then, on March 3 every year, she people have to pick the leaves of Wu Ren to boil the juice and mix them with rice to cook. As a memento, making and eating Wu fan has become an important activity on March 3. After nightfall, she people will hold a bonfire Song Festival, where they will sing to each other, perform traditional song and dance, dragon lantern dance, lion dance, fish lantern dance, torch dance, etc., and hold traditional she sports.

The third of March of She nationality is an important link to maintain the unity of She people and plays an important role in strengthening the unity of she and Han nationalities. She people have no written language, so they are required to sing in she language when they sing songs on March 3, which objectively plays a role in protecting she language. During the festival, all men, women and children of She nationality wear national costumes, which is also conducive to the protection and inheritance of national costumes.

Chinese PinYin : She Zu San Yue San