Customs of people getting married in Tongren, Guizhou?

The people of Tongren, Guizhou Province have many special customs for marriage. The main points are as follows: First, the song sits on the moon. Young men to determine the object through the "song sitting on the moon", and then in accordance with the past elders of the main marriage system, through the process of marriage, engagement, engagement, and finally choose an auspicious day to hold a wedding wedding.

Secondly, the bride enters the door on time according to the chosen auspicious time. On the night of the wedding, the bridegroom's family asked the bridegroom's wife to pick up the bride, and the bride invited "Shang Ga" (Dong language, i.e., singers) and a number of accompanying sisters to go to the bridegroom's home with the bridegroom's wife. The bride enters the door on time according to the chosen auspicious time.

Third, to worship the ancestors. When the bride enters the house, she picks up a handful of glutinous rice, which is hung with a silver necklace on the outside of the doorway, lifts her left foot over the doorway and enters the hall, puts the glutinous rice under the shrine, and then sits on the bench near the center pillar, with the "shanggas" and the accompanying sisters on the left and right, and then she makes offerings to her ancestors.

Fourth, the day does not enter the bridal chamber. The bride does not worship with the groom, nor does she go to the bridal chamber, nor does she stay with the groom overnight, but instead sings pipa songs and wine songs with the male singers invited by the groom, together with the "Shang Ga" and the accompanying sisters, until dawn. The next day, the groom and his companions to send the bride and "Shang Ga" and the accompanying girls back to her mother's home (Dong language called "turn excellent"), so the wedding is considered to be the end.

Fifth, do not fall into the husband's home "to the excellent" after the bride that is living in the mother's home. In the past to live in the mother's home for more than three years, now at least one year. The reason why the bride "does not fall husband's home", one is to report the parents of the grace of upbringing; the second is not able to give up the companions, but also to return to the Hall of the month and companions as a companion until the companions have an object to leave, and this time the bride can only be to the groom's parents to live.