How do Fuan people do weddings?

Fuan weddings are divided into Han and She? The Han Chinese are almost the same as the outside

She is a bit colorful, basically as follows,

1, Legend has it that the ancestors of the She tribe were the third princess of Emperor Gaoxin married to the king of Zhongyong, and gave birth to three men and one woman migrated to Guangdong Phoenix Mountain life. Therefore, the She people worship the phoenix, the main hall of the wedding are "Phoenix to this" four words, the bride should also be dressed like a phoenix, wearing a phoenix crown, wearing a phoenix dress.

The bride in phoenix costume

2, She bride in the marriage before, according to traditional wedding customs to cry for three days and three nights in the mother's home, said it is difficult to leave the mother and father, grateful for many years of nurturing grace. Bride to comb "phoenix head" before, but also to cry to death, means not only to leave the mother's home, and goodbye to the girl's good times.

Crying marriage

3, the bride sedan chair was surrounded by friends and relatives to the male family. After a burst of gongs and drums and the sound of firecrackers, the bridesmaids bring out sacrificial offerings and sacrifices, and pay homage to the ancestors in front of the hall, while the bride sings the Panwang song (ancestor worship song) in the sedan chair.

Ancestor worship

4. The bride has two bridesmaids, one is an unmarried girl and the other is an aunt. The younger one is the main companion and the older one is the chaperone, but the chaperone often plays the main role, and some of the rituals are presided over by her in order not to lose the traditional rules.

Double bridesmaids

5, the bride and groom to pay homage to the custom of men kneeling women do not kneel. Legend has it that the She ancestor Zhongyong Wang defeated the invasion of Fan Wang, Gaoxin Emperor recruited him as an extra horse harnessed by the side of a team, in the holding of the wedding of the Princess and his wedding, the Princess to pay homage to the free kneeling, so this custom has been continued to this day.

Men kneeling women do not kneel

6, before the wedding banquet into the table, there are clean rituals ceremony. This is by the village of unmarried young men to dance the wedding banquet tables, stools, cups and bowls, "wipe" again, dancing and singing, the atmosphere is cheerful, said the groom clean to welcome guests.

Cleaning rituals dance

7,? She wedding "into the cave" is very special, at the beginning of the wedding banquet, the bride will be in the cave. By the uncle out of the Valley of exorcism, which puts scissors, oil lamps, grain and other things, the bride slowly into the cave holding it. The groom is required to entertain the guests in the outer hall.

The bride into the bridal chamber

8, the bride into the bridal chamber, to sit and keep a day and a night, that is, the wedding day can not be with the groom in the same room, the groom should be in the banquet all night, this is to show that the groom has the intention to retain guests, hospitality, the bride guarded a day and a night, it will be able to with the husband a hundred years.

Keep the cave

9, the groom's table of the banquet is very special, he asked the village unmarried young men 9 at the same table, drinking, eating dishes are all standardized action, how the groom, they are also how, completely groom's actions.

Jiazhi wine

10, in the whole process of the wedding, the bride is not out to give the guests a toast. To be before the end of the banquet, is also the last wine dishes, the bride only brought out with red dates, rock sugar, peanuts soaked sweet tea to toast the guests seated. After the guests finish this tea, they put the red packet (wine gift) into the cup and give it to the bride.

Toasting sweet tea