What are the Traditional Customs of Indonesian Wedding

Indonesians choose the best time for their wedding to be held after the crops have been harvested. Before the wedding, the bride and groom go to a nearby mosque to worship and exchange the betrothal gift (cash) on the spot. On the day of the wedding, the bride wears a kabaya dress and the groom wears a knife around his waist. The wedding ceremony takes place at the woman's house. The groom, accompanied by friends and relatives to the woman's home, the woman's home in front of the door just sprinkled with water, and there are many raw eggs on the wet ground, the groom step by step slippery from the wet ground, will be a raw egg stepped on and crushed. When the groom walked through the wetlands, into the door of the home before the bride came forward, with a brand new cloth will be a pair of wet shoes of the groom wiped clean, in order to express the willingness to be a lifelong partner, the same sweet **** bitter. Finally, the bride and groom both enter the house, sitting together indoors on a new seat, **** eat a meal. At this point, the room full of guests to congratulate, drums and music outside the house, the wedding ceremony reached a climax.

The evening of the day, the woman's family to set up a wedding banquet to entertain guests. Each guest is given a meal, which is served by the host until he or she has had enough.

The marriage of young men and women of the Dayak ethnic group living on Kalimantan Island involves two weddings in accordance with religious beliefs and traditional customs. According to local custom, young women can only get married when they are at least 16 years old and young men when they are at least 20 years old.

Adult men are free to fall in love and choose their partners. If a young man falls in love with a young woman, he can go to the woman's home to ask for her hand in marriage, or he can tell his parents, who will visit his "in-laws" at home. Once both parents agree, the man's parents commission the oldest person in the family to go to the woman's home to betroth her, and the elder brings two copies of each of the gongs, swords, blankets, necklaces, etc., to the woman's home, and agrees on a date for the wedding to take place. Preparations for the wedding are then made, mainly by pounding glutinous rice and frying it in lard so that it can be used for entertaining guests at the wedding. Pounding and stir-frying of glutinous rice is carried out in the evening by young men and women who will become husband and wife.

On the day of the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom sit on a gong in their ethnic dress while eight butchers kill a mouthful of fat pig, sprinkle the pig's blood on wood shavings and place a sword on top. The village elders held the right hands of the bride and groom and the wood shavings stained with pig's blood, and prayed and blessed their marriage, chanting, "Merciful God, please grant happiness to this couple, so that they may have a good harvest and fill the tunnels with grain every year. Fulfill all the requests they make on the path of life!" The religious ceremony ends, followed by the traditional customary wedding.

The religious ceremony ends, followed by a wedding with traditional customs. Traditional customary weddings are solemn and passionate. The Dayak girls wear ethnic robes decorated with jewelry and openings in the back and plain hats woven from rattan, while the men, with feathers from rare birds, dance lightly. As a sign of respect for their guests, the hosts also invite them to a group dance. The host also prepares a sumptuous feast to entertain those who attend the wedding ceremony. When the guests leave by boat, the host pours water on them in a lively atmosphere, turning them into "drenched chickens" as a sign of auspicious blessings.

Many Sumatran residents choose to hold their weddings at midnight. The parents, relatives and friends of the bride and groom color their hands and feet with a red liquid extracted from a plant and dress them in wedding attire, then escort the groom to the bride's home, where they deliver generous gifts. Elders from the bride's family keep throwing red rice, flower petals and coins into the crowd to show their welcome to the groom. After the groom has bowed to his in-laws, he is led by the bridesmaid to the front of the new house. The door of the bride's room is closed, and the bridegroom calls the bride's name affectionately and says that he has brought her favorite gifts and repeatedly promises to be considerate of her, love her, and be faithful to her after the wedding, and it is only after a lot of begging that the bride opens the door. When the time comes, the bride's mother removes the veil from her head and hands it over to the groom's mother, indicating that the marriage is firmly established. At this point, the groom looks happily at the bride and gently steps on the bride's right toe, who immediately bends down to salute the bride, and the groom returns the salute at the same time. Bride and groom face to face after the salute, turn around, back to back, a moment of effort and then turn around, face to face again. Repeatedly back and forth three times, indicating that the couple will have everything they want after marriage.

Then, under the watchful eyes of both parents, the bride and groom exchanged wedding rings with each other and both walked out of the bridal chamber to receive the blessing of the crowd. Both sides of the family of the elderly to the newlyweds head body perfume, some onlookers of young men and women also spray each other play. In the melodious music, the wedding participants jumped up the beautiful national dance, so that the whole wedding atmosphere cheerful, lively scene.

In the wedding ceremony on Java, a "cure" for the groom has been prevalent since ancient times. Wedding held in the woman's home, lasted seven days, in this festive days, the so-called "rule" groom, not to let the groom to suffer or give the groom what problem, but to perform a kind of "rule" groom dance, and the dance joined the local folk A popular boxing called "Binchak" some of the movements.

The groom, accompanied by friends, relatives and neighbors, goes to the woman's house for the wedding, where a few strong, agile and skilled young men carry a rooster as a symbol of the groom. When this party came near the woman's house, several young men, chosen by the woman's family from among her relatives and neighbors for their quick hands and nimble movements, blocked their way, and the persons on both sides took up their positions and confronted each other. The representatives of the bride's side dance while withdrawing rice and corn kernels on the ground to show the wealth of the bride's family. When the other side is careless, a young man rushes forward and touches the rooster's head with his hand. The "bridegroom's representative" holding the rooster tries his best to defend the rooster by blocking the attack with his empty hand. If the two sides hold each other's hands for too long and the attacker fails to win, the person holding the rooster intentionally reveals a flaw, giving the other side the opportunity to touch the rooster's head, which means that he or she has touched the groom's head. At this point, the two sides end their confrontation, shake hands, and happily attend the grand wedding banquet set up by the bride's family.

Most of the inhabitants of Bali are Hindu, and the weddings of the island's inhabitants retain Hindu rituals. There are two main wedding customs that are prevalent in Bali: the proposal followed by the wedding and the elopement followed by the wedding. If a young man wants a woman as his wife, the young man's father carries a basket of betel nut to the woman's home to propose marriage, and the woman's father receives him, and when he understands the other party's intention, he indicates to the guest that he can consider the other party's request. After a few days, the man's father brings betel nut and coconut wine to the woman's home, in order to find out the other party's attitude. If the other party agrees, the two sides then agree on a date for the wedding to take place.

When a young man and woman fall in love and are opposed by the woman's parents, the young man asks the girl to run away from home and "elope" to another region, where she hides in the home of one of the man's relatives. When the woman's father realized that his daughter had gone missing, he struck a gong and searched from village to village. A few days later, the young man wrote to the woman's parents and brothers, explaining their love for each other and asking them to agree to their marriage. The man's parents also commissioned someone to bring gifts to the woman's home to ask for forgiveness and apologize. The woman's parents usually give their consent with no alternative, as it is their daughter's own beloved one. The woman's family begins to organize the wedding, and when the lovers return home they are married according to traditional customs.

On the day of the wedding, the groom is surrounded by friends and relatives who come to the bride's home, and the couple, accompanied by friends and relatives from both sides, go to the village temple to celebrate the wedding. The bride and groom sat cross-legged in front of a monk who presided over the wedding. The monk's hand shook a brass bell, reciting Buddhist scriptures, and then handed the bride and groom a coconut and eggs, which the bride and groom took and smashed to pieces, and picked up the pieces and threw them outside the temple. Then the bride and groom step out of the temple door, walk around a pile of fire in the square outside the temple and then re-enter the temple and kneel in front of the monks. The monk sprinkles holy water on them and wishes them happiness in marriage. After sprinkling the holy water, the monks take out a box of rice and let the bride and groom feed in public, which is called the wedding meal. After eating the wedding meal, the bride and groom from the hands of the monks received two coconut seedlings, accompanied by both parents, planted in the designated place outside the temple. This is the end of the wedding ceremony. This ceremony usually takes more than ten hours and is called a "marathon" wedding. After the wedding ceremony in the temple, friends and relatives from both sides come to the man's house for a wedding banquet.

On Gbarnga Island, every year after the villagers finish their farming, they hold a wedding ceremony, and it is held jointly by several neighboring villages, on a weekend night at the end of August or the beginning of September every year, and the location is rotated every year, and over time, the practice of holding a collective wedding ceremony has become a custom on the island. As society progresses, the group weddings on Gbarnga are becoming more and more lively and colorful.

On the day of the wedding, the townspeople invited a band from the city to play beautiful music, and the crowd sang and danced in a joyful and lively atmosphere. Local governors, county governors, district governors and other administrators1 came to congratulate the couple on the news, wishing them mutual respect and love and a long life together. State television reporters also went to cover the wedding scene into a television news, broadcast in the country, for the new couple to leave a lifetime of unforgettable memories.