Very early in the morning of the Spring Festival, all Zhuang
women go to small streams to fetch fresh water for their families and also pick
up stones resembling domestic animals, which they put into the pigsties and
cowsheds to express their wish that all the domestic animals will thrive. Then,
they use the fresh water to boil tea for their families. The village women also
drink the so-called lingli water before they go fetched by a recognized smart
and capable young woman of the village is believed to be able to make them all
smarter. Unmarried girls appear most serious about this ritual.
Also on the first day of the Spring Festival, to the
accompaniment of gongs, young villager perform the fighting cock dance, using
two cocks made of wood and papaya. The dancers visit every family in the
village, offering festive congratulations and singing humorous songs. Happily,
each family pulls a few feathers from the cocks and places them in their own
chicken coops, again expressing their wishes that the domestic animals will
thrive in the new year. In the Spring Ox show, a joyous crowd,
beating gongs and drums and singing special ox songs, surrounds a meticulously
made ox. While the ox dances, one person holds the ox head and another
one sway the ox tail, while the third person holds the plough and drives the
ox.
旅行生活只因你的驻足而精彩（中国China）
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