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What is the wedding custom in Guilin?

China's marriage customs are profound and varied, but they all highlight the expectation of a happy, healthy and harmonious life. In Guilin culture, the marriage customs in Guilin basically represent those in Jiangnan. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, more than 10 businessmen from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places entered Guangxi to do business, which made Guilin's wedding customs have strong Jiangnan characteristics. In addition, because Zhuang people are in the majority, there are also Zhuang marriage customs. So what kind of wedding customs in Guilin combine so many characteristics?

First, new people are forbidden to go to the toilet.

In feudal times, China thought that the toilet was the dirtiest place. Newcomers had gods on their heads, so it would be bad for the gods to enter the toilet, so they were forbidden to go to the toilet. But people are in a hurry, and they still have to go when it is time to go. During the "Three Worshipments", you saw the woman wearing a "red veil", the man walking in front, pulling the woman wearing a "red silk" and entering the "bridal chamber"-of course, the present "pepper room". Do you know what it used to mean? That is the "reappearance" and performance of "robbing marriage". The "red hijab" was a sack worn on the head at that time; "HongLing" is a rope that binds people; Before tying, you must stun the woman. The stun tool is a small wooden stick that lifts the "red hijab". In ancient times, "grabbing marriage" was mostly painful, but today it has evolved into a kind of "sweetness".

Second, women should embroider when they get married.

Embroidery marriage custom is a systematic custom, and embroidery in marriage custom is the materialized form of custom thought. It carries people's good wishes for blessing, having children and exorcism. Embroidery patterns incorporate many characteristics of water town culture. These auspicious patterns reflect the vivid local history, and are also a set of art forms to show the history of our nation. Dongjiang Street near Lijiang River is almost "every family has an embroidered shed and every family has an embroidered mother". Guilin people always look at the embroidery of the other girl when choosing a spouse through the media, so as to know whether the girl is smart.

These embroideries are not the reflection of girls' personality in marriage customs, but the materialized form of traditional customs and ideas, which are indispensable. Yuanyang pattern is widely used in wedding embroidery and is usually considered as a symbol of husband and wife's loyalty.

The most conspicuous quilt cover on wedding occasions in water towns is the most attractive because the dowry is displayed at the woman's house on the wedding day, so it is called "display quilt cover". Silk embroidered quilts range from eight to twenty. Look at the embroidery patterns with different background colors to form different patterns. The red curtain just above the new bed is embroidered with the pattern of magpies climbing plum branches, and two lively magpies are chirping happily on the plum branches, which means "beaming, opening the door and seeing happiness".

At the wedding, the bride wears "walking shoes" and "etiquette shoes" and "Qi Mei shoes for longevity" composed of bats, peach blossoms, water chestnuts and plum blossoms to wish the newlyweds "longevity" and "Qi Mei", as well as "Jade Hall with wealth" composed of magnolia, begonia, hibiscus and osmanthus flowers. Flower shoes with patterns such as "phoenix wearing peony" and "plum blossom and bamboo chrysanthemum" worn after marriage symbolize wealth, purity and chastity.

Third, embroidered shoes in marriage customs.

Embroidered shoes in wedding customs have simple pattern design, bright colors and exquisite embroidery. Embroidered shoes in rural areas are unique in shape, like boats and passepartout. In addition to practical value, their patterns represent people's simple and beautiful wishes and flash the wisdom and artistic talent of women in water towns.

Fourth, after the "artillery fire"

A marriage custom of Zhuang nationality. On the wedding day, the bride must be baptized with "guns and fire" before she can enter the house. In this wedding custom, before the bride comes to the groom's house, she should stop for a while and prepare to "charge" into the door, because there are seven or eight "artillery" teams composed of young men at the door, hall and bridal chamber, holding a string of firecrackers in their hands, waiting for the bride to come over. When the bride was approaching the door, the "gunman" lit firecrackers to form a "fire wall" to stop the bride from approaching. If you are a timid bride, you have to retreat to the door and wait for the second "charge". The "gunmen" also summed up the experience of victory and prepared for the second "blocking". It can be said that the bride can't enter the door without two or three "charges". The onlookers, three floors inside and three floors outside, are very lively. After a hard struggle, the bride jumped over the door and came to the bridal chamber. This is the last sad hurdle, because the "gunner" has to put a "gun". At this time, the clever bridesmaids and bridesmaids "scouted around" and jumped into the bridal chamber with the bride in their arms when the "gunfire" was sparse. Suddenly, cheers thundered, congratulating the bride on "winning the flag".