A Study On The Customs And Culture Of The Zhuang’s Ci’na Festival In Xiangdu Town,Tiandeng County,Guangxi

Ci’na Festival is popular in Xiangdu Town,tiandeng,Guangxi,and it is a traditional festival for the local Zhuang people to celebrate the harvest.This paper mainly uses the research methods of field investigation,literature analysis,deep description,etc.,based on the analysis of the living environment of Xiangdu Town Zhuang’s Ci’na Festival,systematically investigates the custom culture of Xiangdu Town Zhuang’s Ci’na Festival,and interprets the cultural connotation of Ci’na Festival from the perspective of custom activities,analyzes the value function of Ci’na Festival,and explores the inheritance and development of Ci’na Festival.In the long course of development,the Zhuang ethnic group’s Ci’na Festival has formed a unique organizational system,time system and position system,which provide a guarantee for the preparation and operation of Ci’na Festival.In recent years,the Ci’na Festival has been preserved and even sublimated in modern life,and the custom activities have become more and more colorful.The intangible cultural connotation of the Zhuang Ci’na Festiva is embedded in the customs and activities.First of all,the Zhuang people were born according to "Na",and the name,time,theme,ceremony and diet of the Zhuang people’s Ci’na Festival showed distinct cultural characteristics of "Na".Secondly,Celebrate and pray for a bumper harvest are the theme of the festival.The customs and activities of the festival,such as offering sacrifices to the gods,entertaining people,and exhibitions of harvest crops,show the joy and great attention of the Zhuang collective to agricultural harvest.At the same time,the Zhuang people hope to continue their prosperity through ritual prayers,primitive witchcraft and reasonable rest.The Ci’na Festival also contains the Zhuang people’s hope for a safe,healthy and long life in their homes.Exorcism rituals,the use of barnacles,eating seasonal food and keeping the environment clean are the four common means of exorcism in the Ci’na Festival,which reflects the local knowledge of Zhuang epidemic prevention in Xiangdu Town.The custom culture of Ci’na Festival also reflects the Zhuang people’s survival wisdom of respecting nature and adapting to the weather and their pursuit of interpersonal harmony.The custom culture of Ci’na Festival has the functions of inheritance and enlightenment,identification and integration,and meeting the entertainment needs,venting needs and safety needs of villagers in Xiangdu Town.In the process of inheritance and development,the custom culture of Ci’na Festival is faced with the difficulties of insufficient exploration and presentation of cultural connotation,lack of cultural consciousness of cultural holders,large festival expenses and single source of funds.This paper also discusses the countermeasures to deepen the villagers’ understanding of the cultural connotation of Ci’na Festival,enhance the inheritance consciousness of the cultural holders of Ci’na Festival,and support the development of festival activities by increasing sources of income and reducing expenditure,so as to realize the inheritance and good development of Ci’na Festival custom culture.