Help: Are there any specific customs and requirements for Bai people to marry their daughters?

The bride of the Bai people has to cry all the way to the man's house when she gets married. The bride will be carried by the groom into the bridal chamber, and will eat a cup of wine with chili noodles. Eating chili pepper noodles means kissing, white head to old age.

Sword Lake Bai wedding

Living in Jianchuan County Lake around the Bai people, has a unique customs. The weddings here are grand, warm and quite charming.

Bai young men and women get married, there are certain rituals and complete wedding form. The wedding period is generally three days, the first day of the male part of the wedding supplies and a table of "eight bowls" feast sent to the woman's home to show concern for the bride; the second day of the wedding is the culmination of the period of the entire wedding; the third day is the "back door", is the end of the wedding.

The wedding day, according to traditional customs, the groom and the boys must ride on a high horse to marry, the bride must also take the sedan chair in order to get married, this custom has now been greatly changed. This is due to the economic development of the Bai region and the improvement of living standards in recent years.

The bride married back, according to the traditional customs of the Bai people held a wedding ceremony, commonly known as "worship". "Worship", according to the male side of the pre-drafted "worship" list, by the bride and groom of the family in the long leaning one by one worship, not to be missed. Afterwards, the bride will present gifts to her family. According to custom, the bride's gifts to her family must be her own hand-stitched pillows and cloth shoes. During the meal, the bride and groom are expected to accompany their friends and guests. At this time, the guests can give the newlyweds some puzzles or let them perform programs, and the hall is filled with cheers and laughter.

In the evening, the groom's family once again invited all the village elders and elders, drinking, sipping tea, eating wedding candies, the courtyard talking and laughing, very lively. Children are often not willing to be lonely, find a gap in the cave burning chili powder, desperately fan the smoke. So, with the sound of laughter and coughing, the cave sent out packets of candy, cookies, melon seeds ......

"Back to the door" on this day, the bride early to go back to her mother's home. To the evening, the husband's family and sent a sister-in-law, the introduction to take back the bride, the bride must then cry to leave her mother's home. The bride's cry generally according to the Bai women's unique cry, the sound of the sobbing euphemistic grief touching, pouring out the parents and siblings of the grace of the hard to give up the love.

Interestingly, "back to the door" on this day, the groom should also invite a dozen friends and relatives to go to the woman's home, but not the different sister-in-laws, the introduction of people together with the peer, and do not have to go to contact the bride. According to the traditional customs of the Bai people, the groom and his friends and relatives can hide things at the feast hosted by the bride's family, the bride's family also intentionally put an extra pair of chopsticks on the dining table for the groom to hide back, meaning: your family added a person to bring a pair of chopsticks back! When the groom and others are hiding things, it is the most lively moment in the bride's house. In the hall, the clever answers and secret pairs are very interesting, adding a unique and festive atmosphere to the wedding day. Friends and relatives who have hidden things back to the man's home, you can hide things to the bride to exchange a gift. This custom in addition to the wedding day to add a strong national character, but also for the bride in the future in the new environment to lay a good foundation for life.

Bai wedding someone has outlined, in the Dali area to participate in the Bai family wedding, not only can taste the Bai famous specialty foods, delicacies, see the colorful ethnic costumes, but also to experience a rare and interesting unique ethnic customs.

Bai marriage monogamy. In the past, marriages were arranged by the parents, and the man had to pay an expensive bride price and spend a lot of money on the wedding. Now with the development of the times there are great improvements, but still retains the traditional ancient customs and traditions.

Men and women who have fallen in love freely or were introduced to each other, after the betrothal to determine the relationship, when the marriage is held, the man should be in the day of the wedding (i.e., before the wedding day), ask people to build a good color shed. And in the marriage of the day before the night before the day, to invite the township will be singing in the village theater to sing opera (commonly known as the bench opera, that is, a person playing the zither, a few people play different roles to sing the people or ask people to sing with congratulations congratulatory words blowing blowing cavity (i.e., accompanied by oboe), Dabenxian and other tunes. People eat, drink and savor the fruits and tea set out by the host. Wine, while singing, until the middle of the night, people present, regardless of young and old, male and female, tasting a bowl of round snacks, to show in advance to celebrate the reunion.

The next day, that is, the day of the first day, from the morning onwards will begin to set up banquets for guests, when the guests began to taste the fruit wine, wine and food dishes when the bridegroom in the company of a companion, stepping on the suona playing the "dragon on the sky" music, table by table to the guests to toast to wine, toast to the Lei, and the tribute to the law to kneel on a two-handed tray to wine, Lei ( only a plate or a bowl of tea), and to the guest, and to the guests, and to the guests, and to the guests, and to the guests, and to the guests, and to the guests, and to the guests, and to the guests. Only a plate or a bowl of tea) a toast. When welcoming the bridegroom, some places the groom does not go to meet the bridegroom, accompanied by the bridegroom, accompanied by the woman in the matchmaker led by the sound of suona to meet the bride. In front of the woman's house, the suona player should play "Bees Crossing the River", "Big Swinging Procession", "Welcoming Tune" and other joyful and enthusiastic music 6 times, and the woman's house will be opened by a number of older male and female relatives. The woman's family will only be greeted by a few elderly male and female relatives who will come out to welcome the new people into the door. However, it is interesting to note that in some places, the people welcoming the bride were just about to step into the door when they were stopped by a few old people in the woman's family, with a few pairs of couplets (i.e., couplets) or a few unexpected questions and other phrases such as: "Where are you from?" "What did you bump into on the way?" "What did you see on the way? "What did you run into on the way?" Let the matchmaker or groom to answer, people call this custom "road test". This question and answer not only to be flexible, but also to pay attention to the decision, the answer and have fun, seem very learned. If which party does not react at once; often cause a burst of bright and full of joy, joy, pleasant laughter. Some places to meet the bridegroom must go, the same encounter "road test", people say "test aunt" or "test groom".

Welcoming people into the door, the woman's family by four or six young boys one by one to give them a bitter tea, sweet tea, sugar tea. Then the matchmaker (or groom) to the female parents, brother and sister-in-law, elders worship, toast, the female parents to the coal people children draped in a red color. At this time the new bride (bride) to cry loudly, people call this cry "cry marriage". Generally is the first cry parents, after crying brother and sister-in-law, younger siblings, elders, female companion, this cry not only while crying, and while the section into a section of the cry singing parents to raise the idea, brother and sister-in-law. Siblings of love, friendship, care and love of elders, the future of their own do not know how to live, etc., if encountered in-laws and sister-in-laws to take advantage of this time to also take the opportunity to cry, with the tune of crying and singing out of their own hearts, and then go out with the bridegroom's people. On the way to the groom's home, some places the bride is sitting in a sedan chair or riding a horse, in the cheerful, exciting oboe music on the road.

Welcome the wedding party has not yet returned to the man's home, there have been elders of the man's family at the door to meet. As soon as people enter the door, the new bride will be in the bridesmaids and male female elders flanked upstairs for grooming. In the bride grooming, in the downstairs from the stairway to the new room must pass through, has been waiting for people ready to point to the bride, it is said that the bride's custom is to dip into the joy and handed down. To be dressed up as a bride, ready to enter the bridal chamber before, only to see two 10-year-old boy holding a torch lit with pine pine, in the joy of people in the sound of joy, from the stairway to the bridal chamber, followed by the new daughter-in-law in the two bridesmaids surrounded by people scrambling to pinch the bride's moves and laughter in stride into the bridal chamber. Bridal chamber door on a saddle, hanging on the door with a sieve, inside a mirror, mirror and placed on a bow, the bow has a side-by-side spread to the front of the three arrows. These auspicious objects are to congratulate the couple on the future life of hard work, courage. Symbol of happiness. A few moments after the new daughter-in-law into the bridal chamber, will begin to hold worship of heaven and earth, worship parents ceremony. In some places, the ceremony of worshiping heaven and earth and parents is held before entering the bridal chamber. Some places a pair of newcomers into the bridal chamber, the funny thing is that the two are coincidentally scrambling to sit on the pillow, it is said that who first sat on the pillow, who will be in charge in the future, but this is just for the fun of adding a point of joy, often female first male, that also practiced and in line with the traditional custom of the man outside, the woman is the head of the house. However, at this time I do not know who is in the pot of warm and symbolize the prosperity of the charcoal fire in the good reason for the spicy noodles played a miraculous effect, spicy straight choking the bride and groom tears, choking from time to time to eliminate the nose, yawns, teasing people out into the cave people laughing endlessly, so that the cave overflowing with a unique atmosphere of joy. After a burst of laughter, choking over the spicy flavor, couples drink cup wine, to show respect for each other, forever, love, love, white head. At night in some places, the new daughter-in-law by the female elders two and bridesmaids and the male family elders of women landed together to eat "fine witch seat" (i.e., the bride's seat). After the mat is dispersed, in some places, in a burst of joyful sound of spraying na, began to hold "in addition to worship" (i.e., worship) ceremony, "in addition to worship" is by the new daughter-in-law to worship the male elders, to be worshiped by her a person will get her hand-processed production of cloth shoes a pair of shoes, the upper generation took over the shoes, how much to give her a few dollars or a few dollars. The upper generation will receive the shoes and give her a few dollars or a small gift. Finally, the bride's next generation of people, neighborhood children worship the bride, each will get a happy money or a gift. At this time, the old man smiling, the little one heart blossomed, onlookers often in the sound of the suona burst out a burst of joyful laughter; so that the wedding added a lot of joy and a hot atmosphere. After the end of the "except worship", young people will be crowded into the bridal chamber, while tasting the fruit brought by the new daughter-in-law from her mother's family, while in the sound of laughter began to carry out the fun activities in the bridal chamber.

The next day, the man's family to send the god of joy, the woman's family to pick up the bride and groom back to the door, usually the same day to return, the distance is in the mother's home to stay overnight, and thus, the wedding is over.