The marriage of the Shui nationality follows the traditional customs, and abides by the principle of not marrying in the same family and marrying in a different surname. "Parents' orders and matchmakers' words" are still the mainstream of young men and women's marriage in Shui nationality areas.

Fish is the totem worship of aquarium. In marriage customs, fish often appears as a symbol and a sacred object. When concluding the engagement, when the matchmaker was asked to propose marriage in Libo and Jiuqian, the man's mother quietly put the wrapped dried fish at the bottom of the bamboo basket with gifts. When the woman's mother receives the gift, she first checks whether there is dried fish at the bottom of the basket. If you agree to get married, accept gifts and dried fish.

Step 2 prescribe diet

Shui people are vegetarians, and they only avoid the greasy meat of livestock and animals, not aquatic fish and shrimp, but give fish as the most precious sacrifice and delicious food to their guests. Being a vegetarian is not only a mourning for the deceased and an expression of respect and sympathy for the filial family, but also an important symbol of maintaining clan feelings and enhancing and strengthening clan cohesion.

Therefore, flour is mixed with vegetable oil to make aquatic models of fish, shrimp, mussels and crabs for sacrifice. Some live fish are sacrificed to graves, and some fish eggs are scattered in new graves to seal the soil.

3. Funeral

The main characteristics of the funeral customs of Shui nationality are: numerous taboos, thick burial, long sacrifice and long sacrifice. The funeral of Shui nationality embodies the cultural connotation of ancestor worship, deity worship and nature worship.

Funeral and mourning activities, such as playing Lu Na, dancing, singing, performing lanterns, playing with dragons and lions, making various paper flags and umbrellas, etc. Objectively, it has become an important activity of folk crafts, cultural exchanges, men's and women's exchanges, gatherings and entertainment.

4. Language appellation

In daily communication, people follow the virtue of respecting the elderly. Daughters-in-law in the village, who meet their grandparents, are generally called men and women, and those who meet their parents are generally called parents. After getting married and having children, they used to call their children XXX's parents.

5, hospitality etiquette

Shui people emphasize wine, tobacco and tea. They should try their best to entertain the guests when they arrive. General guests leave meat dishes, important relatives and friends kill chickens and ducks for entertainment, and VIPs kill pigs for entertainment. After sitting down, dip a drop of wine on the table with chopsticks, which means to worship your ancestors first and then enjoy it. It is an important etiquette to respect guests with chicken and duck heads.

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