What are the folk customs in Nanning?

1, Dragon Boat Race:

Dragon boat race is also called dragon boat race. Nanning has the habit of dragon boat race on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. In the twenty-third year of the Republic of China, the Republic of China Daily in Nanning recorded that it was an old habit to take a dragon boat race once a year in the middle reaches of the Yongjiang River.

2. Fireworks:

On March 3rd every year, at the Folk Song Festival, Nanning is called a city with colorful skirts by Chen Yunhe. Participants are composed of strong men from all villages and compete with each other.

The so-called fireworks are iron rings with a diameter of about 5 cm and wrapped in red cloth. Putting fireworks on a launcher full of gunpowder and then shooting them into the sky with a bang is called oriental football.

3, board shoes dance:

According to legend, shoe dance originated in the Ming Dynasty. During Jiajing period, Lady Vashi, a Zhuang heroine, led Guangxi Langbing to Zhejiang to fight against the Japanese pirates. She trained Lang Bing with the method of three-person leg-wrestling competition, which made the military discipline strict and in step with each other, and later evolved into this interesting sport.

4, the lion on the golden hill:

Lion climbing Jinshan is a unique skill of Zhuang nationality, including high platform lion dance, double lion ball competition, lion plum blossom, overpass crossing, knife-tip lion climbing Jinshan and so on.

5, polishing autumn:

Without rain and crops, people fell into terror and despair. The two brothers came up with an idea: make a millstone out of wood, throw it into the sky and ask God for mercy.

It took them 15 days and nights to grind autumn, and finally they touched the sky. It rained, but the two brothers died of overwork. In order to commemorate them, future generations polished autumn in festivals.

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