Anhui boys do ten-year-old braid-cutting ceremony is how the

Red sedan chair appeared on the road in the city, see the public stop and look. Yesterday at noon, the reporter saw such a festive team on Zhongshan South Road, four bearers wearing yellow clothes and red pants, carrying the sedan chair quickly forward, followed by a few oboe hand (pictured). This is the traditional wedding ceremony to receive the bride, or which has another name? The reporter went up to inquire, only to know that the sedan chair is sitting in a 6-year-old boy, is about to go to the Yangtze River to release.

"The child's braid is cut and tied to the back of the fish, put in the river." Chen Dongmei, the owner of the big sedan chair, said the family's child is 6 years old this year, and will soon go to elementary school, so it is necessary to cut the back of the head to stay on the pigtails for 6 years, "the saying is called 'cut the tail of the dragon', cut the pigtails with the fish and put it into the river, it is to bless the child's life and safety ". The boy's mother, Ms. Li is Fuyang, she told reporters, in accordance with the customs of his hometown, to give the child to do a "braid-cutting ceremony", so she found the sedan chair team through the wedding company, so that the child sat in the sedan chair to the Yangtze River side of the release.

"Now willing to sit in a large sedan chair can be more people." Chen Dongmei, who has been in the sedan chair business for three or four years, said that in addition to celebrating children's weddings, sedan chairs are mostly used in traditional Chinese weddings. "Now the man to pick up the bride are using a sedan, may be a few minutes of time, even if it is more luxurious sedan, it is difficult to make people have a festive feeling." Chen Dongmei said that many young people are now beginning to favor traditional weddings, especially girls, who like to take the sedan chair, an ancient way of receiving the bride. "To be carried home in an eight-carried sedan chair and to walk around the streets in a frenzy is also a wonderful reminder of life."

"Depending on the price, the formation is different, and some sedan chairs are followed by matchmakers, big-headed dolls, dry boats, mussel spirits, and waist drums and suona." Chen Dongmei said, the sedan chair team to go within 3 kilometers in general, the road is too long to go, but no matter how long the road, the most important thing is to go round, that is, from going out to go home to go around a circle, and to go from the lively place, the sedan chair can not go back. Chen Dongmei told reporters that with the return of traditional folklore, wedding sitting sedan chair is now more and more people, "This year's order is particularly large, and now have been scheduled for next March.