The custom of Chaoshan people marrying their daughters

Although the customs vary from place to place, the more consistent expressions and ceremonies are: marriage proposal, engagement, hiring people, inviting guests, and welcoming relatives, commonly known as "six gifts." It is also summarized as "four rituals": writing, inviting, sending, hiring and marrying.

1, asking the media to propose marriage and betrothal.

Proposal, marriage and engagement are Wen Ding in the Four Rites, and engagement is also called engagement, engagement and engagement.

2. Hire and choose auspicious days to handle dowry.

"betrothal", also known as "betrothal", is a relatively grand etiquette, and there are strict regulations on the types of marriage documents and bride price. Invitation is also called "choosing a date", "sending an appointment" and "keeping an appointment".

The ceremony of marrying the bride is grand.

The last ceremony is the "wedding ceremony", with many procedures and a grand ceremony.

In addition to the above ceremonies, on the third day of their wedding, the bride will also hold ceremonies such as "digging wells", "pounding rice heads" and "stirring rice". At the end of twelve days or four months, a ceremony of "mothering"-"going home" will be held. First, two "back measures", the bride comes back when cooking, and "three back measures" can spend the night at her parents' house.

Extended information: Dietary customs and nutritional views of Yuezi in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province

1, eat motherwort to expel lochia

Mothers after delivery in Chaoshan usually eat motherwort to drain lochia. But in fact, eating motherwort may have adverse reactions to the kidney and reproductive system, especially the liver function of newborns is still immature. Therefore, it is not recommended for mothers to eliminate lochia by eating Chinese patent medicines such as motherwort, which may have side effects.

Step 2 drink sweet wine to warm up

Warm sweet wine is thought to warm Chaoshan mothers after childbirth. Sweet wine is generally made of glutinous rice, red dates, medlar, black beans, dried longan and other ingredients. Some people drink hairy chicken wine. Conditional pregnant women will drink liqueur once a day.

However, liqueur contains alcohol, which will reduce the production of breast milk and reduce the amount of milk that babies eat. Alcohol can also enter breast milk, which has a negative impact on the health of babies. Therefore, lactating mothers should be careful to drink alcoholic beverages such as liqueur.

3, drink brown sugar glutinous rice porridge blood.

In Chaoshan, it is normal to drink brown sugar and glutinous rice porridge, because brown sugar is considered to enrich blood. Compared with white sugar, brown sugar does contain more iron, but because the iron in brown sugar is non-heme iron, the absorption rate is very low.

Therefore, it is best to choose animal foods such as red meat, animal blood and animal liver to supplement iron, which not only has high iron content and high absorption rate, but also can avoid the problem of excessive sugar intake caused by eating more brown sugar.

4, eat a lot of animal food

Chaoshan people believe that women have to walk in front of the ghost king almost once after giving birth, and they are weak and need to eat more "nutritious" food to make up for it, so they will eat a lot of animal foods, such as pig's belly, pig's kidney, pig's feet, lean meat, donkey-hide gelatin, fish and eggs.

For example, after a Chaoshan woman gives birth to a child, her home will be full of eggs sent by relatives and friends, because according to the "old example" (custom), eggs are very nutritious, and the more you eat, the better. So pregnant women must eat eggs every day.

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