What are the differences between the wedding customs of Yao nationality and Han nationality?

Yao is one of the oldest ethnic groups in China, belonging to Yao branch of Miao Yao language family, Miao branch of Miao Yao language family and Dong branch of Zhuang and Dong language family. Yao is one of the "Jiuli" in the ancient East, the most widely distributed ethnic group in southern China and one of the oldest ethnic groups in China. Legend has it that Yao is the daughter of Pan Hu and the descendant of Yincui gorge.

The main form of Yao marriage is to marry a daughter, and the second is to recruit a husband to adopt a son in law. Before the founding of New China, Yao people generally did not intermarry with other nationalities. Their marriage is generally established by young men and women through festival singing or other means, and they are free to fall in love and get the consent of their parents before getting married. After the founding of New China, all ethnic groups lived in equality and harmony, eliminated ethnic barriers and gradually intermarried with foreigners.

The wedding of Yao nationality has always been ancient and mysterious, which not only has a lot of legends, but also has a profound national culture. Because it is located in the jungle area on the border between China and Vietnam, it is little influenced by foreign cultures, and it still retains its own traditional and original national culture. Among them, the traditional wedding of Yao nationality is a unique landscape. 20 14, 1 1, The Marriage Custom of Yao Nationality was approved by the State Council and included in the fourth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.

For example, in the Yao family, parents got engaged for their children very early. Before getting engaged, they should ask the priest to take a marriage certificate to compare the lives of men and women, and only those who can match can get engaged. Yao's wedding will last for three days and nights: on the first day, the groom's house will go to the bride's house to hold a farewell ceremony; The next day, the bride's family sent her to the man's house, but she couldn't enter the house until the ceremony was held in the middle of the night. On the third night, after the bride and groom bid farewell, a ceremony of "shelling the new couple" was held. Many friends of the groom 10 lit firecrackers and bombarded the couple indiscriminately. After the "bombardment of newcomers", the ceremony of meeting the bride was over. It was not until dawn that the man's family paid a deposit to the woman's family and held a banquet to bid farewell to her relatives. Only couples can enter the bridal chamber for their honeymoon.