Why do Tujia girls in Zhangjiajie want to marry in tears?

When Tujia people marry their daughters, they sing "Weeping Wedding Songs". Peng Tanqiu, a Tujia poet in Qing Dynasty, said: "The song of ten sisters, love their relatives, hurt their parting, be full of sorrow and follow with tears, is a legacy of bamboo branches." There is a crying wedding poem in the ancient Zhuzhi Ci: Yao Tao is a good season, and it is infinite to say goodbye. Crying mother crying sister-in-law crying sister, affectionate cotton wrapped in tears. It seems incredible to celebrate a happy marriage by crying and sacrifice the dead relatives by singing and dancing, but it fully embodies the unique temperament and cultural consciousness of Tujia people.

Tujia girls stopped going out to work ten and a half days before they got married. First, a square table and ten bowls of tea were placed in the boudoir of the diaojiao building. Nine women in the neighborhood were invited to sit around in turn, and they began to cry for the wedding song. The bride is in the middle, called "banquet", the woman on the right is "banquet" and the woman on the left is "banquet". The bride began to talk, answer questions and take turns crying day and night. There are rules for crying: mother and daughter cry, aunts and nephews cry, sisters cry, uncles and nephews cry, aunts and nephews cry and scold the matchmaker ... three to five days, some ten days and a half months. The main contents include recalling the deep affection between mother and daughter, telling the pain of parting, thanking for the kindness of raising, asking brothers and sisters-in-law to take care of their elderly parents and teaching women to be human.

Weeping wedding songs are usually improvised. When you see your mother crying, you will see your aunt crying. Crying has a tune, cadence, a cry, sad and moving. This is a very difficult art of combining crying and singing.