Shangsha folk custom

Shangsha Village is located in the southwest of Futian District, bordering Xinzhou Village in the east and Xiasha Village in the west. It is adjacent to Binhai Avenue in the north and Shenzhen Bay in the south. It belongs to Shatou Sub-district Office. The existing area is 0.38 square kilometers and the permanent population is 370, 1.430. Shangsha Village was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 800 years. All the aborigines in the village are surnamed Huang. The ancestor of Shangshahuang originated in Jiangxia, Hubei Province, and is called "Jiangxiahuang". At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to avoid the war, the descendants of Jiangxia Huang moved to Gushi, Henan Province as a whole. Around the Tang Dynasty, one branch, Huang's grandfather, led his family to move to Shaowu, Fujian. Huang has three wives and twenty-one sons. In his later years, in order to preserve his family business, Huang ordered each of the three rooms to keep one eldest son, and the other sons went out to make their own living. During the Southern Song Dynasty, his descendant Jintang came to Shangsha to open up wasteland and build a village through Jiangxi. Yellow River originated in Hubei, passed through Henan to Fujian, from Jiangxi to Guangdong, and finally settled in coastal Shangsha. They have lived in every place for a long time and inevitably absorbed the customs and habits of various places. Therefore, in the wedding customs of the Huang family in Shangsha, not only the traditional customs of the Central Plains, such as the bride getting married in a sedan chair, but also the customs of Hakkas, such as singing a "crying wedding song" when the girl gets married, especially in Nanyue's long-term life of hundreds of years, it has been integrated into the local customs of Nanyue, and finally formed a unique and interesting wedding custom of Shangsha people.

Marrying a man and a woman is a life-long event. Before modern times, marriage between men and women was the fate of parents and the words of matchmakers. The bride and groom are strangers, just like passers-by A girl who wants to leave her parents and family and marry a stranger is reluctant to part with her family and uncertain about the future. The whole wedding custom in Shangsha Village is a reflection of this mentality.

When the girls in Shangsha Village reach the age of marriage, they will go to Majia to learn to sing "Crying Wedding Songs". Some girls have to live in a "hemp house". The so-called "hemp house" is the home of the elderly widow in the village. If you are married, you can't sing, or you can't sing well, that's very shameful.

Six to 12 days before marriage, the family should choose an auspicious day to build an attic at home, then build a wooden ladder, let the bride climb to the attic along the wooden ladder, and then take the wooden ladder away, so that the bride can never get down again before marriage. Accompanied by her unmarried sisters, she has been living in the attic. This ceremony is called "going to court" and is the first ceremony of the wedding. In the attic, the bride will sing farewell songs to her ancestors, parents, brothers and sisters, as well as domestic poultry and livestock such as chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs, and even mosquitoes, flies and insects. All relatives and friends who come to visit and congratulate will sing farewell songs. In order to express my reluctant feelings for my family and relatives.

On the morning of the wedding, the seven stars were still blinking in the sky. After seeing the bride off, she went to the attic to dress the bride, and called it "Shangtou". While dressing, the bride sang "Song of the Head": "Don't tie the cotton rope too tightly until I relax my fingers and smile; (It means that it will be more comfortable to tie the hair with a rope that is not too tight), and the teeth will be combed to the end, not knotted and then combed; (meaning to grow old together, don't stumble and remarry halfway), wearing a golden crown and colorful phoenix, five raindrops reflect jade. . . . . . "