Qiyao marriage custom: bury an egg and choose a husband.

In some Yao areas of China, a unique traditional marriage custom is still followed-burying an egg and choosing a husband.

When young Yao men and women reach the age of marriage, the girl's parents will choose an auspicious day, choose ten symmetrical eggs, cook them and mark them with rose ink pen. After dark, go up the mountain and find a hidden place to bury the eggs. The young men who came to propose to me scrambled up the hill to look for it. Whoever finds the most eggs will be chosen as the son-in-law by the girl's parents. On the day of looking for eggs, students of S.H.I.E.L.E.L.D. who proposed marriage from all directions, dressed in festive costumes, rushed to the top of the slope where the eggs were buried, raking grass and digging holes to find the buried eggs. I hope I am lucky and get happy love.

Nowadays, with the progress of society, the marriage custom of burying eggs of Yao nationality has also been partially improved, enriching new and interesting contents. Because young men and women have direct contact and love in long-term life and production, love arises. When parents boiled eggs to mark them, the girl with calculation secretly visited, memorized the numbers and quietly gave four or five marked eggs to her lover. On the day of looking for eggs, the young man pretended to go up the mountain to look for eggs. After looking for it for a while, he was the first to shout that he had found the egg. Hearing this, other fellow travelers thought they were unlucky and walked away. The young man who won the "victory" smeared the eggs with dirt, dressed up and took the girl to recognize her parents-in-law.