Miao marriage custom: Don't meet before marriage in Tang Dynasty.

Although there are many ethnic minorities in our country, the customs of each ethnic minority are different, so they will have different customs when they get married. So now let's take a look at the customs of Miao people's marriage and what kind of marriage is important.

Marriage custom of Miao nationality

Speaking of Miao marriage customs, there is a famous quot girl room quot system in Chuxiong and other places in Yunnan to choose a good couple. There are also marriages arranged by parents, usually arranged by relatives and friends. Miao women never leave their husbands after marriage, especially in southeastern Guizhou. In some areas, Miao people still have some customs, such as "returning girls", "changing houses" and "marrying and having children". About 250,000 Miao people live in the southwest of Guizhou Province. Their wedding etiquette is warm, solemn, humorous, full of romance and mystery, and unique. Miao people who speak different dialects have the same traditional wedding etiquette, but each has its own characteristics. Generally speaking, marriage proposal, engagement, giving gifts, receiving relatives, seeing off, getting started, visiting the church and returning to the door are all ceremonies. Miao people are relatively strict in marriage etiquette.

Do not meet before marriage

When young Miao men and women look at each other and are ready to get married, their parents choose an auspicious day for them to get married. But men and women can not meet before marriage, commonly known as "not meeting before marriage", the house where the man gave the bride price to the woman the day before the wedding. In these wedding ceremonies, there is a big and thick glutinous rice Baba, which is made of 25 to 30 pounds of glutinous rice flour and is as big as a dustpan. It means that after marriage, the bride and groom will be round and round, have no worries about food and clothing, and cherish each other until they are old.

Miaode wedding dress

Miao's clothes are very distinctive, and it is conceivable that Miao's wedding dress is certainly not inferior. Miao wedding dress is the residence where the patterns on Miao costumes come from Miao scenery, which embodies the elegant aesthetic taste of Miao people. Miao bridegroom's wedding dresses are left-draped, double-draped and left-draped, of which double-draped is the most common. Miao bridegroom's wedding dress is usually big feet trousers with wide legs. Miao people's wedding dress is a pleated skirt, with a large collar with silver pieces and flowers, overlapping black dresses or thin lace tops, embroidered satin or embroidered aprons.