The bride is obviously a happy event, why there is "crying marriage" custom?

We all know that the bride to get married is obviously a happy event, crying marriage it is actually a local custom, is the former feudal society left behind, may be really crying before, and now is because of with the parents of the reluctance to give up.

Crying marriage it, it is a traditional marriage customs of the Tujia people. Daughters are not required to cry when they get married, generally from the bride to get married half a month or a month before the beginning of that will be, some even the first three months has been unveiled in the prelude to the marriage of the weeping marriage to get married the night before the next day on the sedan chair, the weeping marriage to reach a climax, weeping, gongs and drums, firecrackers, the scene is extremely shocking.

The custom of crying for marriage came mainly from a kind of confinement in the feudal society of that time, and the marriage of men and women in that time was arranged by their parents. In the beginning, crying marriage was an expression of unwillingness to the feudal wedding system. Now that marriage is free, the custom of crying marriage still exists, mainly because of the difficulty of severing family ties, the essence of the meaning of crying marriage is actually changed. It is important to realize that parents have unparalleled affection for their daughters and have worked hard to bring them up to adulthood, the pain and suffering involved, the flavor of which can be imagined. Similarly, the daughter to marry, to form a new family, to leave the homeland, leave the parents, from now on to stand alone, take up new family responsibilities, that kind of confusion, that kind of reluctance to give up on their parents, is also understandable. Crying marriage, parents and the bride are in tears, touching.

One person crying sings the meaning of the main crying parents of the nurturing grace, crying is the thought of both parents. "I'm leaving my parents today, and I'm saddened by the tears in my heart". Two people crying and singing for the sisters to sing and cry, friends and relatives to accompany the bride to cry. Crying reunion is also called sister crying, is a unique form of Tujia crying marriage, by nine unmarried girls with the bride one crying, crying marriage content is mostly crying sisterhood, brother and sister-in-law Zhixian, the love of the homeland and so on