Yi wedding etiquette

Yi nationality is the most populous and widely distributed among the 56 ethnic groups in China. Yi people's marriage customs are diverse and unique. Let's take a look at the marriage customs of the Yi people.

? What are the wedding customs of Yi people?

Marriage custom of Yi nationality in Panxian county

When getting married, what is the man's name in Yi language? Where's grandma? , the woman's name? Amou and? . The man's family should organize two? What did you say?/Sorry? (The groom's brother-in-law or cousin), the groom's brother or nephew (Lama, bride), and several other young people as companions, carrying gifts, wine, meat, rice (unlimited quantity), the bride's clothes and sacrifices to the ancestors. Before departure, the lamas will lead the horse to the main hall, and the groom will feed the horse with a plate of food three times around the fire pit before going out. After going out, the groom will personally get on the horse and walk out of the distance, give the horse to the team that picks up the bride and then turn back (the groom does not pick up the bride).

As they approached the door of the woman's house, the girls stood on both sides, carrying water in clean pots and sprinkling water on the players who took care of their relatives with green bamboo leaves to welcome them. Two? What did you say?/Sorry? When entering the threshold, the bride splashed water with her newly bought wedding basin, which means that I was splashed when you entered the door. ? What did you say?/Sorry? Kowtow to your ancestors three times after entering the door. During this period, no one is allowed to make trouble, otherwise it is disrespectful to our ancestors. At this time, you should pack up your trip, give up your seat and obey the arrangement of the person in charge.

After dinner, the person in charge will arrange for the elders to gather in the main room and take their seats. What did you say?/Sorry? With divorce wine? Wood vomits? Show respect to the elders and introduce them one by one according to the bride's address to the elders. Lamar kowtowed to every elder. At this time, the bride and girls outside the house have already sung the song of drinking? What is the punishment? . Its content is to tell me that I am about to leave this home and I am reluctant to part with my family. Girls also scold? What did you say?/Sorry? We grew up together and have deep feelings. Today, you will separate us. How cruel it is to express different feelings about it. Then comfort the bride, wish the future will be better and happier, and at the same time * * * dance and sing together, and enjoy singing and entertainment until late at night.

The next day, according to the scheduled time, the old man who belongs to the right fate and good luck was asked to dress up and prepare to leave, and the person in charge arranged to accompany him. The groom's father lit candles in front of his ancestors' graves and provided wine, rice and vegetables. , and then arrange the guests to eat, and then arrange the farewell. When the bride goes out, she kowtows to her ancestors' graves, says goodbye to her ancestors, and then says goodbye and salutes to all the elders seated. Her brother carried her out, rode her horse in front of the door, embarked on a journey and gave it to the bride's hand (two brides? What did you say?/Sorry? I kowtowed in front of the hall before the groom went out and waited on the road.

The bride's organized farewell party was also escorted. Is the person who sent the bride to the farewell party an uncle? Ernie Da Die or uncle? Omo？ Brother or younger brother? Huh? Aunt alone? Amumu? , bridesmaid? A Mu measures? Several people (aunt must ride a horse). To the man's house, the master and? Bimo? Arrange to return to the West God at the entrance of the village? Color building? Consciousness is to return the evil spirits on the road. The specific way is to pull up a door with two leafy bamboos, hang some barbed cloth of different colors on it, burn some fragrant paper, drink some wine, and use a chicken or an egg. Bimo? Say some spells and retreat. Only the bride's people and horses can pass through the bamboo gate, and the rest are detoured.

Enter the door: walk to the door. What did you say?/Sorry? One took the bride off the horse, put it on the other's back and helped her in. The first step is to step on a bowl and a wooden spoon placed at the foot of the door, which means that after the bowl and spoon are stepped on, the bride will gradually forget her homesickness, concentrate on building this new family and carry it into the bridal chamber, and then the bridesmaid (the groom's uncle, aunt or uncle, aunt) will help her find a fruit tree or evergreen tree outside the house to worship the sky and raise the top handkerchief. Specific practice: put a table at the foot of the tree, light candles and incense lamps, put half a pig's head and wine prepared by parents, and the bride kneels facing the east. Bimo? After reading the words, lift the hijab over your head with the scale hook. This means that after worshipping heaven and earth, the cooperation between a couple is like the intersection of the sun and the moon, lasting forever. After that, the bridesmaids took the bride back to the main room, and the groom, accompanied by the best man, paid homage to their ancestors. After the bride and groom bowed to their elders, they were sent to the bridal chamber. After the ceremony, the person in charge arranged to open the table.

Return: Stay for two nights. On the third morning, the host invited parents and elders to sit down in the main room, and the bride gave the shoes to the elders. One is to show their needlework skills, the other is to give them a gift, and the elders also give them some money as a gift to bless them. After breakfast, when the farewell party comes home, the groom's family will send a large piece of pork (it must be the first half of a pig with its head attached to its front foot), which means to entertain the folks who have worked hard for this marriage, and the groom will take his relatives there. The next day, the bride's parents (one of them) personally sent her daughter back with the groom, stayed for a few days, entrusted her daughter to the family and went back. The whole marriage procedure was over and the couple started their new life.

Yi people's wedding customs

Yi people are very polite, especially in marriage. Therefore, on the first day of marriage, the man should ask someone to send a certain amount of food to the woman's house. If it is a long journey, it should be delivered in advance. The next day, relatives, friends and neighbors went to both men's and women's homes to help clean the courtyard, spread loose wool and prepare food and utensils for the banquet. The wedding of the Yi people will last for three days. On the first day, the groom will hold ceremonies to worship the heavens, ancestors, parents, uncles and relatives. During the ceremony, the groom will send fruits and food to relatives and friends, and relatives and friends will return gold and silver jewelry, money, clothes and other things to congratulate them. The next day, the groom goes to the bride's house to marry her, and the round-trip time depends on the distance.

Before departure, a ceremony will be held to worship the ancestors, and then six horses will be prepared to greet the bride in the sound of gongs and drums. When he arrived at the woman's home, under the leadership of an elder, he put his clothes in front of the woman's ancestral temple, and then asked Guan to chant Buddhist scriptures, leading the groom to worship heaven and earth, ancestors and parents himself. Then, the bride's parents tie a red ribbon on the groom's right hand, and then hold a banquet to entertain the wedding guests. After the banquet, the groom is led by the matchmaker to pay homage to the bride's uncle, uncle and other elders, and receive the bride after receiving the dowry. At this time, the bride covered her face with red silk and wore a mirror on her chest. Her brother carried her out of the door and got on the horse, and then she set off firecrackers to send the team back. In some places, because the Yi people have a long way to meet the bride, they carry the clothes and appliances prepared by the man to the woman's house, and the woman's parents invite the singer to sing at night? Wedding songs? Or? Farewell song? If the singer sings the same thing, if the singer sings wrong, the married person will take things out to play with the singer. Instead of giving them to the bride and groom, he smiled and put them in his bag, which belongs to the married person. However, the singer couldn't get out when she sang correctly, and she was fooled by the singer and hit the first three times with a dustpan. In the song, people burst into laughter because of singing mistakes, which was full of festive atmosphere.

The wedding procession has just entered the village, and someone is already waiting at the man's door. Oil-tight or elder reading? When two colorful clouds are combined, the bride and groom get off the horse? Some places also invite singers to sing words like "farewell greetings"? Wedding songs? . After the bride and groom entered the house, they worshipped the gods and rushed into the house to open the door. It is said that whoever opens the door first will be the future owner. Then in the bridal chamber, we will worship our ancestors and bed, drink a cup of honey sweet tea, and offer sugar or tea to our parents.

In addition to the vegetable rice processed from pig, mutton and other foods, there is also a unique dish prepared for guests at the wedding of the Yi people in Nanjian area, which is called "? Jump vegetables? . This? Jump vegetables? Is that people sit in eight seats and say, serve? In the sound, with the loud ringing of tubas, trumpets and gongs and drums, I saw pairs of people serving food, some carrying a tray full of dishes, and some carrying a tray full of dishes on their heads, jumping out of the kitchen step by step with cheerful steps and presenting dishes. From time to time, people in the world change their dancing styles. Some use their heads, some carry more than a dozen bowls of tea with their bare hands, and some use their arms to lift their feet and step on them, offering meals while jumping. People are amazed and admire this acrobatics and dance? Jumping? . After the banquet, the relatives and friends of both men and women sit down to eat according to their seniority, with the bride and groom, the accompanying assistant minister and the cousin each taking a seat. The lai on the table is connected in series with red lines. The bride and groom must prepare knives and scissors to use, otherwise they will suffer losses everywhere and make people laugh. At night, there will be a family celebration. Among the Yi people in Dongshanzhai, Weishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County, there is a custom that beggars make trouble in new houses on their wedding night, that is, three young men pack five and one young woman packs one; One person pretends to be an unmarried girl, teasing each other and making fun of each other, and then from Lushengtun Road, he takes young men and women and friends to play songs all night. Therefore, on the wedding night, the bride sleeps with her lesbian. On the third day, the bride pays a New Year call to her guests. First, she gives face washing water and candy to her guests and friends. Then, she rewards relatives and friends who accompany her husband, accompany her mother and help each other, as well as singers, and gives them gifts and candy. After breakfast, go back to the door and return the same day. If it's a long way, walk around the house and spend the night at your mother's house. After three days, husband and wife can share a room. In some places, after marriage, the bride does not leave her husband's house until she has it. Hi? Later, at the man's repeated request, he left his husband's family and started his husband's life.

Unique marriage and love customs of the Yi people in Nanjian

The man fell in love with anonymous (including secret love between men and women), and the man invited the matchmaker to the woman's house to openly ask for relatives. It usually takes three times. The first time I went, I mainly proposed to the woman's parents and asked for the woman's zodiac sign you were looking for. Eight characters? ), just in case? Get married? ; The second visit was to inform the couple? Get married? Situation, and asked the woman's family to perform; Three times, mainly to discuss? Engaged? It matters a lot. Every time the man goes to the woman's house to ask for relatives, he must bring gifts (usually four-color gifts such as wine, sugar, noodles and tea, and everything must be even). In the process of finding relatives, whether a woman agrees to get married often has certain hints: if the woman entertains the man with egg pickle soup, she will return all the gift money after the first visit, indicating that marriage is hopeless; If after the second visit, the woman treats the south with vegetable soup and returns half of the gift money (or nearly half of the gift money), then this marriage has basically been agreed.

In the marriage custom of Yi people, toasting is very solemn. On the day of offering wine, the man will go to the woman's house to worship his ancestors; The woman invited her elders and important relatives to dinner at home. Under the leadership of the woman's parents, the man recognized the elders of her relatives one by one in the name of the woman before the case of her ancestors. After the wine is offered, it is publicly shown to the public that this marriage is a foregone conclusion, and the woman's parents publicly recognize the man who proposed? Son in law. After this ceremony, the marriage is settled, and the parties shall not have any more ideas, and others shall not interfere.

Letters and telegrams mainly inform the woman of the wedding date and give her a certain amount of bride price money to prepare for the wedding.

The man must prepare horses for the bride and groom to ride and transport the bride's dowry (now it has been changed to a vehicle). The groom must worship before the wedding procession leaves? Play? Every family of the Yi people in Nanjian has a pine branch with three branches as a symbol? Play? Oh, my God, according to ancient books? Play? Write more as? Hey? According to the test, Play? Two words? Hey? , so commonly known as? Play? Is it Yi people? Tiger? A form of totem, found in marriage customs? What is this play? God of marriage? )。 When you marry a bride, you must play colorful flags, gong, trumpet and suona, and the way back and forth must be guided by a trumpeter. At the wedding, men and women are arranged in odd numbers, in pairs. When the bride arrives at the front of the man's house, she will hold a "back to XiShen" ceremony, that is, put a high table at the gate with a big tray with a pig's head, a pig's tail and some cakes, grain, salt, tea and other things, then put a liter or a bucket full of food, and then put a small scale and a red blanket. Guan? Recite some prayers and lead the bride and groom to kowtow to the table three times (three times for the first time, six times for the second time and three times for the third time). Then, the bride and groom can enter the door. In the evening, most of the "singing" activities are held in the groom's yard. Singers and guests from all directions sang together and stayed up all night to express their congratulations on the wedding.

The wedding banquet of the Yi people in Nanjian is often based on? Jump vegetables? Add fun. The Yi family held a wedding, with both sides of the table facing the kitchen, leaving a road in the middle for guests to sit around. ? Jump vegetables? At first, only a few gongs were heard, and the tuba and suona rang in unison. Under the command of the presiding officer, two experts in vegetable jumping came out of the kitchen one after another. They have trays on their heads, rice spoons in their mouths and three to five trays in their hands. The tray was full of dishes, and they stepped on the music one by one, slowly walked into the room and placed it in the high and low music. The arrangement of dishes also has strong national characteristics. On the wedding night, put it in a circle and put it in a plum blossom shape the next morning. At the wedding banquet, the trumpeter is not allowed to sit at the same table with the guests, but must eat alone.

The ceremony to meet the bride and relatives was held the morning after the wedding. That is, presided over by the host, in front of the ancestral case in the first room, accompanied by the joy of drummers playing. Both the bride and groom should pay tribute to the elders and main relatives of the man's family. When bowing down, the bride and groom should present two cups of wedding wine and a candy to the worshippers, and the worshippers should also give the bride and groom a certain amount of kowtow money.

Back to the door? Back to the door? You must select the latest double date. The bride and groom return to the bride's house with wedding candy, wedding wine and other gifts. Then pay homage to the parents and relatives of our old people. After dinner, the bride and groom should return to the man's house before sunset.