Miao marriage customs and habits, Miao wedding customs five parts

In the vast area of the Hmong region, young boys and girls, whether it is an independent marriage life, arranged marriage, what are the Hmong wedding customs and traditions? Or aunts and uncles cousin marriage, all must implement the following wedding customs program flow. Wedding customs program process is complicated, etiquette knowledge is more, a ring ring, very focus on. The key is to ask for relatives, search for relatives, betrothal, ask for the geng, the wedding five etiquette knowledge program flow. Especially, the wedding day, the bride and groom are not the same room, there is no three bye six kow ritual. Miao wedding customs and habits are how?

One is to ask for marriage, the Hmong language called "the Shashasuke". There are two kinds of cases: one is the male mother and father to look after a daughter or want to marry with a woman as friends and relatives, to solicit men willing to ask the matchmaker to go to the advice. The second is that the man has been in love with a woman for a long time and told his mother and father that he is suitable to ask the matchmaker to go to the woman's home to make the marriage a comprehensive one. Matchmaker, Hmong said "Le Lang" or "hook head", sex _ unlimited, generally familiar with the knowledge of the etiquette of married life, can speak eloquent, eloquent.

What are the customs and traditions of Miao marriage? Authorized by the male entrusted, the matchmaker with a pot of white wine, sugar seal rushed to the female home, after polite conversation will gradually enter the theme of style, elaboration of their own daily tasks, praising the advantages of men, Qixing to get applicable. Women's parents to daughter is still young, poor family, difficult to covet vanity reasons, politely refused. This kind of three times, see the male perseverance, but also basically figure out the male family property, the party nodded in favor.

The second is the search for relatives, the Hmong language called "early scribble help". Gifts are: a rooster, a hen, a cut of raw pork, a can or a pot of pure grain wine. Choose an auspicious day, the man and his father to bring gifts with the matchmaker rushed to the woman's home, the woman's entire family ushered in the house, the gift to make way for the * * * to talk about family life. Before the feast, women for customers to bring foot washing water, or after the meal to wash water, first to the elderly, then to the men. Men rinsing end, or set ancient coins in the basin, or immediately submit the money to the women, called cleansing or foot washing money, so the time for a number of lace figure or Koyo copper coins, now is the number of banknotes without or the number of pickups, the total number of dollars is not clearly defined.

Arranged marriages, on the other hand, are not, and the situation of women showing _ is very rare. When the banquet, the man for the future in-laws pouring wine and food, the main seat courtesy polite and joyful. Women's home to prepare a pair of pants or a section of fabric to the future aunt, but also economic development of the rich home to prepare gifts for each guest. Guests return to the _ depending on the distance traveled, there are the same day back, but most of the next day after breakfast back.

Third is the betrothal, known in Hmong as "Boga-support". The total number of gifts can be based on each other's family economic situation clear. Generally:Half side of raw pork, pure grain wine 15 ~ 25 pounds, bracelets, necklaces, diamond ring each one, clothes and pants 3 ~ 5 sets, _ a pair of candles, incense and paper three cones. The staff involved in the marriage ceremony, the ceremony groom for the boy and the girl on both sides of the family concerned about the role. Women's extended family relatives and friends to go ahead to congratulate and help. Before the feast, incense and paper need to be burned to the ancestors and gods, each other, the courtesy of the groom must have some praise. Meat family felt 31 sent in

Male Gift Lang:Today's betrothal day, today's happy days. The master's family is extraordinarily happy, the master's family is extraordinarily favorite. Brewing soft wine brewing to invite the four sides of friends and relatives to drink a cup of wine, steaming flavorful white rice to invite the eight pots and pans of friends to eat a full meal. We all hope that on the day of welcoming the bride, though poor, we will still have food and wine on the feast. The four sides of the friends and relatives, when the time must come to gather; four sides of the friends ah, when the time to find to appreciate a face. .....

Female Gift:You pick meat in bamboo baskets, you pickle altars filled with wine, you pick meat to threaten to ventilate, you pick wine to ventilate to put the word out. You're picking rice, full of baskets, full of buckets; you're picking meat, a whole piece, a whole side; you're picking wine, full of altars, full of urns. The meat that we tipped off, we want to send to all of our friends and family; the wine that we threatened, we want to send to all of our honored guests. You do it in a colorful way, O you do it in an enviable way. ....

Rituals are mostly seen praising each other, according to each other Lirang a song and a song, the atmosphere of a hall of great joy will lead to the climax of a climax of a climax of a climax of a climax of a climax of a climax. After the meal, the guests can return the same day, or the next day after breakfast. Women's families depending on the total number of male guests, including matchmakers, ritual Lang, each presented a pair of pants or a section of fabric, the family is rich, the gift to the future aunt is the whole body - the body with a gift.

The fourth is to ask for geng, the Hmong language called "the brake when the help". That is, men ask for women's birthday records, and thus ask the fortune-teller to measure the day of marriage, and even accurate to the time when women enter the door of the man. The man needs to raise a wedding gift of 3,000 to 5,500 yuan (30 kwan-yangs in the olden days) and send it to the woman's parents through a matchmaker. After the woman's parents accept the wedding gift, they usually postpone the wedding on the pretext that the girl has not obeyed them, and then, after continuous negotiations, they choose an auspicious day to tell the matchmaker about the girl's birthdate and birthmarks. The man was informed, of course, happy, and asked the old man to choose a good day to get married, and reported to the female parents, so that they are fully prepared to meet the bride.

Fifth is the completion of the marriage, the Hmong language called "when the help". At that time, men based on the total number of female dowry objects organization of the picker, under the leadership of the matchmaker, with the "official spring" 3 ~ 4 people picking the flower edge of the wine, pork, rice, etc. went straight to the female home to meet the bride. The "Kuanchun" is usually a young man whose father and mother are still alive or who is in harmony with his wife. The next morning on an auspicious day, the women's home there is a marriage ceremony: in the main house or "rammed fruit" in front of the ancestor's tablets on the incense and paper to show worship, to the front door side of the incense to split the relatives, the top of the new umbrella to hand over to the bride.

Thinking of the moment will be separated from the family into their family members, the bride can not help but tears, a small amount of money or money to the gate gap, ready for the use of future relatives to pay homage to the family's ancestors to show their piety. Later, by the brother or brother back out of the door, or sedan chair or on foot, converging people surging team of receiving relatives. There are 30~-50 female family welcoming staff, with as many as 100, among whom there are female elders (fathers don't welcome relatives), brothers and sisters-in-law, sisters, relatives and friends. If the sedan chair, need to prepare two sedan chair, in which one for the introduction of the bride to ride with.

Introducing the bride's sedan chair in front of the direction, the bride's sedan chair followed by the later is the festive Ying Ying welcome team. Whether sitting in a sedan chair or on foot, the bride's older brother are holding a lantern or small lanterns with the front, because small lanterns, lanterns with the meaning of avoiding evil spirits and light up the future. Before sailing should eat breakfast, during which the female sisters with pots and pans of ash rubbing the peach blossom edge of the wine people, the Miao language called "Ba-support", in order to vent the anger of the sisters were married.

"Ba-suke" was painted face like a cat but can not be angry and cleaning, with the welcome team back, all the way back to the others to guide the playful, fierce increase a lot of fun. Return to the male home, before you can tap water to wash clean. The road if you meet the other bride team, you have to fight to stand up in the air, or let each other bride to exchange bracelets, indicating mutual loss; if you meet with a horseback rider, the other side is actively down the yard to let the seat.

The team arrived at the male home gate or dam, the old man hosted the ceremony to welcome the bride. The old man burns incense and paper, catching the rooster chanting incantations, leading the bride to the door border umbrella, into the home around the fire circle, the bride in the "rammed cloth" to take a seat, please welcome the staff into the home one after another. Generally, the bride from the side door into the home, the groom's family of all staff must escape, to be the bride to eat a ceremonial meal before they can meet. What are the wedding customs and traditions of the Miao people?

Welcoming guests usually stay one to two nights and enjoy a reception with specialties. Marrying daughter-in-law that night, the guests flocked, very prosperous, the feast on some people sing out to persuade the rice song, then two, three places .... Welcome party young people boys and girls for welcome party young people boys and girls, add rice intentionally fill rice bowl, singing in favor of the other side, causing a question and answer, come and go freely singing trend. It is not easy to sing the singer is usually very poor, people are upright laughs.

After the meal, the boys and girls who sang in the autumn are gathered around the fire, and gradually sang all night long in Danda, which is a common practice and is heard by many people, and constitutes a scenic part of daily life in the Miao countryside. When singing to send out the night into the dawn, each other singers actively looking for the chorus, suggesting that the host family big happy event is complete. The host family will show their gratitude by draping red flowers on the singers' heads.

At this time, China's east is slightly white, the morning quietly. Wedding banquet also has two procedures flow, one is the bride by people push to the river representative of the land to pick a little water to go home, so that the housewife personally renew the water people tank, on behalf of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law get along with each other, home prosperity. The second is to organize the ceremony to pay the bride, the Miao language called "pour help". At that time, the male family will be the bride with the wedding objects and will be rewarded to welcome the bride's gifts to the party all display design in the stone row table.

What are the wedding customs of the Miao people? The groom's father and mother, uncles and welcome the female mother, uncle mother, uncles and brothers to sit down in the host and guest, listening to the male singer recite pay for the family song, speak pay for the family words,..... Drinking wine should be spoken to the drinking root, and marrying a daughter-in-law should be talked about with true feelings. Listen to me sing an ancient song, listen to me recount the root cause of the marriage. An iron clamp, ah, to have a yang and yin double-sided; a house, yo, to have a boy and a girl **** happy. Chickens should be two **** a cage, before they can be withdrawn to fill the court and the yard; pigs should be two **** a trough, before they can be withdrawn to fill the pen and the circle.

Ducks need two to guard the pond at the door; fish need a pair to flourish the deep valley next to the house. Orioles need two, to sing the forest in front of the village; Yang sparrows need a pair, to live steadily next to the house deep in the mountains, _ phoenix need two, to be able to emerald green high branches of Wuzhu palms ...." _Yong also involves the ancestors migrated Xiangjiang River, moved to the Northwest, opened up the territory, living and reproducing the sad history of the time and its outside the family name of the joint marriage, happy to tie the traditional style of the core concept.

What are the Miao wedding customs? On the day of consummation, the bride and groom are not the same room, are not three worship six kowtow ritual. After the casual group, young couples choose auspicious days with a small number of gifts to call back to the female maternal family, two or three days later at the same time rotating, and gradually step into the long couple's trip.