Self-combing form

Self-grooming girls are women of marriageable age. She wears her hair in a bun to show that she will never marry, which is also called "combing up". Self-grooming is a unique marriage custom in the Pearl River Delta, which prevailed in the early Qing Dynasty and lasted until the early Revolution of 1911, centering on Shunde, Nanhai and Panyu. According to the old custom, when a woman gets married, she must braid her hair on her head and comb it in a bun to show that she is no longer a girl. If a girl who decorates herself doesn't get married, she should choose a good day, and through a certain ceremony, put her argument in a bun in front of her relatives and friends to show that she will no longer courtship.

According to the old custom, a self-grooming girl can't be old in her parents' home for a hundred years, in order to solve her final destination in life (such as where is the funeral? Where do you put the spirit tablet after death? Who worships sacrifices and so on. ), some self-dressed women nominally marry a dead man, commonly known as "marrying a ghost" or "marrying a god", and the funeral can be held at the man's house, and the descendants of the man's house offer sacrifices. Some nominally married a man, but they stayed away from their husbands all their lives, preferring to give money to their husbands to "take concubinage". I still belong to the "main room" and put the spirit tablet in my husband's house after my death, so as not to become a "lonely soul without a owner". It's called "keeping innocent". Some people deal with nuns or fasting halls (commonly known as "aunt's house") and donate some money before they die, so that they can have a place to live when they are old. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the silk industry was hit hard. Self-grooming girls, who are helpless in life, have flowed into cities and squeezed into the ranks of maids known as the "Men in Black Team". Many of them have become "aunts combing their hair" in the streets, and more have become "housekeepers" of the rich in Hong Kong, Macao and Xiguan, Guangzhou, and ended their limited lives under humiliation and humiliation.