The customs and people's feelings in Zheng 'an County

Before getting married, the Gelao people invited the matchmaker to propose marriage to the woman's house. After being admitted, they asked the matchmaker to formally accept the "mate selection ceremony" of the woman's family. First of all, the matchmaker and the woman's family agreed on the number of bride price. After the man prepares the gift, he sends it to the woman's house on an auspicious day. The woman's family accepted it without any mistake, and accepted it all. Wine, meat and food were enshrined in front of ancestral shrines and lit to celebrate. The man's family will send someone to the woman's house to inform the wedding date. When the wedding comes, the woman who wants to marry will "cry and marry". The song you sing when you get married is called a crying wedding song.

Gelaozu clothing

Traditional dress multi-tube skirt of Gelao nationality. Men often wear thick double-breasted jackets with no openings in the front and white cloth trousers with loose waist; Women wear plain clothes, coarse cloth, wide and round, partial buttons to cover their hips, waist-tied trousers, lace at the trouser legs, white and neat handkerchiefs on their heads, lace embroidered waist embedded in their chests, belts tied in bows, and embroidered shoes on their feet.

folk custom

In the twelfth lunar month, people in Zheng 'an County began a series of activities, such as killing pigs for the New Year, cooking sweet wine, offering sacrifices to the kitchen gods, removing dust, sending spring stickers, taking a bath and getting new year's goods. On New Year's Eve, after the New Year's Eve dinner is ready, we should offer meals first, that is, to worship our ancestors. After that, when all the family members are here, the whole family, men, women and children, sit around the table in the order of old and young, * * * to celebrate the New Year and have a reunion dinner. After the New Year's Eve, people of all clans in the group invited each other and came to their old graves in droves to burn incense with money paper, incense sticks and firecrackers.