Yao men and women get married why is said to be "marrying a woman and marrying a man"

Yao wedding ceremony has always been ancient, mysterious, not only has a lot of legendary color, saddle bottom, is Jinping Miao Yao Dai Autonomous County of a remote mountain township, bordering the Vietnamese socialist **** and the country, with a very long Yao wedding customs border line. And because it is located in the national-level Jinping Watershed Nature Reserve, the boundless primitive forest scenery is picturesque, with rolling peaks, strange and charming. Ma'andi Township is a multi-ethnic settlement township, where Yao, Hani, Yi and other ethnic minorities live. Due to its location in the jungle along the Sino-Vietnamese border and poor transportation, the ethnic minorities here have been subjected to very little impact from foreign cultures, and have retained their own traditional and original ethnic cultures. Among them, the traditional wedding of the Yao people is a unique sight.

Climbing

The Chashan Yao, who live here in the Dayao Mountains, are a subgroup of the Yao people, meaning those who live on the mountains. In order to seek love, the young men of Chashan Yao have been popularizing the custom of "climbing the stairs", which is a unique ethnic flavor. The villages of Chashan Yao are generally located on the mountains and alongside the water, large and centralized, and their residences are all two-story wooden buildings. The facade and the part of the hanging tower are carved with dragons and phoenixes, painted with oil and colors, like a sedan chair hanging in the mountains. The quiet tower is a place for adult girls to socialize.

Into the door of the hanging floor building, you will find the Yao compatriots living in the Dayao Mountains in Guangxi, by the influence of the region where they live, in the marriage of the basic to maintain the traditional customs. Here live the Chashan Yao in the Dayao Mountains.

The Yao Autonomous County is the earliest Yao Autonomous County in China, and is known as the "Home of the Yao People of the World" because of the five clans of Yao that converge in its territory: the Pan Yao, the Flowering Blue Yao, the Tea Mountain Yao, the Shanzi Yao, and the Au Yao. The late famous sociologist Mr. Fei Xiaotong once said, "The Yao people in Dayao Mountain have more branches and the most typical folklore in the country.

At present, there are two ethnic hotspots in the world for human research, among which is the Yao. The world Yao research center is in China, and the Chinese Yao research center is in Jinxiu."

The Yao people have formed a deep, simple, colorful Yao culture and customs in their lives. Yao marriage rituals cover the richness of the Yao people. Most of the PanYao marriage after the fall harvest, before the Spring Festival, divided into "marrying the girl" and "marrying the groom" two kinds. Before the formal wedding, it is necessary to go through the process of choosing a spouse, proposing a marriage and getting engaged. The wedding banquet consists of three meals for the "main wine" and six meals for the "side wine" (breakfast and snacks). On the morning of the fourth day of the pro-guests leave, the male family sent a "nipple gift" (also known as small source of gift), that is: to send the parents-in-law of each leg of eight to nine kilograms of pork, other pork four to five kilograms. The fourth or fifth day, the couple back to the door to live a night, the same back to the round room.