What does Yulin pay attention to about engagement and marriage?

Marriage between men and women in Yulin area is mostly the life of parents and the words of matchmakers. Young men and women choose their spouses and pay attention to the right match. Find out the color of Truman, that is, whether the other family or I have a history of body odor; Second, find out the popularity, that is, the character of the other party and its family; Third, find out the birth dates of both men and women, that is, year, month, day and hour, to see if they are consistent.

Men and women must meet before they get engaged, which is called blind date locally. Most of the blind date objects are at the Expo, or watching each other or talking about the situation. After the blind date, the woman has to look after the house, that is, go to the man's house to see how it is. The man's house entertains the woman, and the woman eats all kinds of food, and the marriage is close. If she doesn't eat all kinds of food, she is likely to fail.

After seeing each other and seeing the house, if both men and women are willing to get married, they will get engaged. This is called engagement. Engagement ceremonies vary from place to place. Dingbian county should choose the drinking time (commonly known as changing cups or pulling bottles). In Suide, Mizhi, Qingjian, Zizhou, Hengshan, Jingbian and other places, the man will prepare four-color water gifts (rice, wine, meat and fruit stuffing) and some jewelry gifts. On auspicious days, the introducer, the director and the uncle will hold a banquet to entertain the woman and her relatives. The ceremony was held at the man's home in the area of Zizhou Laojuntang. When engaged, both men and women can give gifts to each other, commonly known as handing the handle as a token of love. Nowadays, new ceremonies are popular in both urban and rural areas, where guests are entertained with cigarettes, wine and candy, and love stories are introduced, which is called engagement.

One month after the engagement, the man gave the woman hairpin jewelry, wine, meat and other food, called wearing earrings. The woman returned a pair of shoes made by the girl herself, called stable shoes. The words "Bing Di" are embroidered on the insole, and are linked with auspicious patterns such as "Wan", which means that the tree of marriage is towering, deep-rooted, steady and unwavering.

After the wedding date is set, the wedding must be held. The local people think the wedding banquet is very attractive. An attractive team consisting of two attractive mother-in-law and three or five men (attractive men must be singular) is carrying 65,438+00 large make-up steamed buns (including "children's steamed buns" and "mother's parting cakes") and the bride's new clothes. They want to drink a bowl of red bean millet porridge, fire three shots and blow with suona as the leader. The feast held by the woman's family attracted people. The two sides confessed to the bride price: there are four fish steamed with flour in the bride's dowry, including two big fish and two small fish, which symbolizes more good luck and celebration, and also means that there are small wealth in big wealth. Noodles fish are also tied together with red lines, called "tied noodles fish", to congratulate the newlyweds on loving each other and growing old together. There are also two aunts who give people away, and the men who give people away are twice as many as those who recruit people. Then the gun rang three times and the bride set off.

When the wedding procession came back, it was the suona procession, blowing and beating, then attracting aunts and men, with the bride in the middle, and finally sending them away. When the wedding team returned to the man's village, the walking speed slowed down, and the drummer or the victory order or the parade were very happy.

On the loess plateau in northern Shaanxi, the red and green costumes of the wedding procession are very attractive, and from a distance, they are as gorgeous as the rosy clouds on the horizon. If you can meet the wedding team, call it glad you came!