Marriage customs of Han nationality in Hunan;
In the old society, there were various ceremonies such as matchmaking, blind date, birthday change, birthday fixing, door-to-door, picking up the bride, entering the bedroom and returning to the door. Write a letter to a child, and the matchmaker will give it to the other party, calling it Geng or Geng. If Geng gets married successfully, they will give each other tokens, which is called fixed Geng. When the man gives cloth, the woman gives a pair of cloth shoes, sock soles and insoles. Choose a lucky wedding, call it a door, ask for a bride price and a dowry. Worship in the hall, salute as a gift, enter the bridal chamber, there is the custom of sex, sex in different forms. Weeping marriage is also popular in western Hunan and southern Hunan. One or two days before marriage, even half a month before marriage, I began to sing wedding songs.
In Jiahe County in the south of Hunan Province, it has developed into a complete set of songs and dances with the bride, including songs about weddings, crying for the bride, complaining about the mother, cursing the media, leaving, farewell, shooting, playing, the bitterness of the matchmaker, the bride of children and so on. Take the form of sitting, singing, chorus and Long song. And 0755-singing and dancing. Among ethnic minorities, young men and women are richer and more colorful than Han people in terms of spouse selection, engagement and marriage, and many of them still maintain primitive and simple characteristics.
Young people of ethnic minorities often get to know each other and find objects on their way to festivals or fairs. On April 8th and June 6th, Miao people sing in autumn, while Dong people play catch-ao in the mountains, which is an excellent opportunity for young men and women to get together and make friends. Miao people in western Hunan still have the wind of jumping on the moon. Under the cool mountain, boys and girls are singing and dancing at the top of the forest. Like-minded people, though strangers, can get engaged.
The engagement of some ethnic minority young men and women also has a special flavor. The pledge of the Yao people's engagement in Longhui is an oiled paper umbrella, and the woman's family intends to hang 12 triangular silk pieces tied with colored cloth and silk thread around the supporting bones of the paper umbrella; Huaihua Dong people stab chicken to make love. On a moonlit night, young men and women met their partners. The man pricked the cock and dropped the chicken blood into the wine. The two sides drank wine and vowed to unite forever.
The wedding of ethnic minorities has its own set of etiquette, which is cheerful, warm and full of fun. At the wedding of Miao people in Xiangxi, we should wash our faces. When the bride walks up to her husband. One day, the old man came to a family and brought a basin of clear water with a silver bracelet in it. The bride and her husband washed their faces with this basin of clean water. It is said that after washing a friendly face, the family can live in harmony.
Weeping marriage in Hunan wedding customs;
Crying is a custom in some places in Hunan Province, especially in Chenzhou, Yongzhou and Hengyang.
When you get married, you cry not only for the married girl, but also for the mother and daughter and the married girl. You cry, I cry, and my face is full of tears. If people who don't know how to get married see this scene, they think they have suffered misfortune and cry sadly.
The content and steps of crying are complicated and varied, such as crying parents, crying uncles and aunts, crying brothers and sisters, crying grandparents and so on. If you watch it at the scene, it is estimated that you will cry with it. The scene is quite shocking. There are some ceremonies on the night before the wedding, such as opening faces, combing hair, and offering sacrifices to ancestors. As the content of crying marriage.
In the evening, the crying marriage reached its climax. Married girls, together with married girls, cried one after another, almost all night, according to the wedding et.
After 1949, the custom of crying marriage gradually disappeared. However, this custom is still maintained in some remote places.