Yunnan wedding customs process

Yunnan wedding customs process is divided into compulsion, meet the bride, shoot three arrows, open face. Compulsion: when both parents agree to marriage, the male family to send bride price to the female family, the female family to accept and jewelry and other items will be displayed in front of the ancestors, to cups of wine to each other, and then jiao sacrifice, said the two families formally engaged to become in-laws. Welcome the bride: the wedding day, the male family to prepare the wedding sedan chair wedding car, the bridegroom and his father rate of the family relatives, drummers, ceremonies, etc. to meet the bride. Before the departure of the "bright sedan chair", and the number of people to welcome the new team must be an odd number, in order to come back plus the bride in pairs, in order to show good luck.

Yunnan wedding customs process is divided into compulsion, welcome the bride, shoot three arrows, open face.

1, change compulsion: when both parents agreed to the marriage, the male family to send bride price to the female family, the female family to accept and will be hand jewelry and other objects in front of the ancestor bit Chen, to the cup of wine each other change, and then jiao sacrifice, said the two families formally engaged in marriage to become in-laws.

2, meet the bride: wedding day, the male family prepared sedan chair wedding car, the groom and the father of the rate of the family relatives, drummers, ceremonies, etc. to meet the bride. Before the departure of the "bright sedan chair", and the number of welcoming team must be an odd number, in order to come back plus the bride in pairs, for good luck.

3, shoot three arrows: when the bride is not yet out of the sedan chair, the groom in the courtyard to shoot three arrows. The groom put on the bow, shoot one to the sky. The MC sang: "A shot to the sky wolf!" Shoot one at the ground, and the master of ceremonies sings, "Two shots at the earth's demons!" Shoot one at the front of the sedan chair, and the master of ceremonies sings, "Three shots at the Red Fury!" The arrow used is the one without a turner.

4, open face: after the worship of heaven and earth after the bride needs to open face. By other women with new tweezers and five-color silk thread for the bride to pull out the hair on the face, while open the forehead hair and sideburns, in order to mark the woman has been married.