What are the general customs of a traditional African wedding? And what is the traditional African wedding attire?

African wedding customs: the bride before the wedding hair and broom and marriage.

African people's customs are simple, the bride to come up with braids, covered with a veil, as a cover timid and skillful; participate in the wedding hosts, guests and observers must wear traditional African robes. According to African custom, the couple should cross the broom decorated with flowers to symbolize the transition to a new stage of life. During the wedding, the African people will use drums and kuga dance ceremony, and pour wine on the ground, dedicated to the gods.

The Karo people, located in the Ethiopian hinterland, are very poor in terms of material wealth. In order to find a good family, the Karo women, when they reach puberty, they have to cut some slits in their front body and abdomen with a razor blade, and after that, they insert a large number of bamboo sticks into the wounds and make them take on a certain pattern. According to the men of the Karo tribe, after this is done, it is a great temptation to the men. The Swahili live in the Lhamo region of Kenya. In order to make the bride more beautiful, the bride in a few days before the wedding, in addition to hair, neck below the body parts of the body hair shaved clean; then, after a massage on the bride's body was smeared with cocoa oil and perfume from sandalwood; the bride's limbs should also be in the henna juice in the dip, and then by the female relatives to her body to draw some patterns. There is a tribe in Africa, in the wedding, the groom with a long rope tied to the bride's left foot, and then with the family members of the bride "pull" over, while the bride's family members will work together to pull in the opposite direction, to prevent the other side of the bride to "snatch" away, tug of war! The bride must cry loudly as the "race" progresses. Of course, the bride's family must intentionally "lose" the "match" in order to make the marriage go smoothly. ◆ Weightlifting Weddings In the villages of the former Yugoslavia, in the province of Ivna, there is still an old wedding custom, where the bride must marry a groom who can lift his own weight. The bride must marry a groom who can lift his own weight, and the groom must also be able to lift a dumbbell equal to the bride's weight during the wedding. ◆Archery Wedding Archery weddings are popular in the mountainous regions of northeastern Dominican Republic, where young men are skilled archers. On the wedding day, the bride's head is inserted into a high leaf ring made of leaves, and the groom must open his bow and shoot arrows at a distance of 80 meters from the bride to break or shoot down the leaf ring. ◆Fire-kissing WeddingThe wedding ceremony of the Indian Gangda?6?1 Progas is very solemn. At the wedding, a lighted fire shines all around. When the fire burns most strongly, the bride picks up the burning piece of wood and presses it to the cheek of her beloved groom, if the groom does not move to endure and does not make a sound, then the grand marriage ceremony is over, and the two people can live together. If the groom can not endure the pain, once called out, the wedding was blown, the two young people broke up, each go their own way, never see each other. African wedding dress: pattern color contrast is generally strong, there are symmetrical habits.

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