What are the general knowledge of Dong civilization etiquette?

The custom of inviting people to eat soup is popular in the northern Dong region. Usually or on New Year's Day, no matter whose family kills a pig, we have to invite our brothers or neighbors to taste it, which is called "eating soup", and the sick or the elderly who can't move easily have to use a bowl to send a bowl.

Eat poly feast to eat poly feast (also known as a meal), is the focus of the Dong hospitality. When a family has guests and it is not possible for them to go to every house for dinner, they will hold a feast to entertain them. The feast is usually centered on a spacious and clean house, and each family sends an adult man to represent it (if it is a female guest, it will be organized by the women), and offers the best food, wine and glutinous rice from his own family to get together to accompany the guests. At the beginning of the gathering, the elders will first hold up the wine cup and make a welcome speech. At the banquet, it is usually necessary to drink the "spinning wine" and change the cups of wine. That is, each person drinks from the neighbor's glass, once for each side. Wine to half-full, the head of the host poured two cups of wine, and guests to drink cups, and then according to the order of the young and old or class size and guests to drink "cup wine". Eat food should also eat "turn dish". Each family's dishes are passed down from one person to another so that everyone can taste them. Seats scattered, to their own family brought dishes were eaten up as a pride. The Dong people eat gathering feasts, as small as a family of a few brothers, as large as a family, or even a whole walled village. If the guest has been in the village as a leader for everyone to do good, and then returned here, then he became the whole village **** with the guests, the gathering is held in the whole village as a unit. At that time, the whole village each family sent an adult to participate.

The long seat in Hunan channel and Guangxi Sanjiang, Longsheng area, where large-scale drinking banquets are like to set up a long seat, that is, the board connected to the open, both sides of the sitting people, dishes according to the person divided into strings, and set up a number of bowls of public **** dishes vegetable soup to wine. Men drink wine on the table, self-food skewers of meat; women eat public food, the skewers of meat is given to bring home. This is a local custom unique to the Dong ethnic minority. Guests take the host's share of the skewered meat home to the family to eat, meaning that their family members have eaten the host's happy wine and meat, to express the same congratulations. In the case of white happiness, it means that although they did not come to the mourning, they ate the skewered meat of the bereaved family, which is also a kind of remembrance and mourning for the deceased.

The Dong family came to the guests, usually to take out the best bitter wine and pickled for many years of sour fish, sour meat and a variety of pickled vegetables for hospitality, and thus there is a "bitter wine, sour tea" to treat the guests said. When the Dong folk use chickens and ducks to treat their guests, the first thing the host should do is to honor the guests with the chicken head, duck head, or chicken claws and duck flippers. Guests should take it with both hands, or turn to the elders on the table, to show mutual respect between the host and the guest, to treat with sincerity.

To the Dong family guests, eating pickled fish, the host will be a pile of pickled fish into the guest bowl, but the guests had better not eat all, stay 1, 2 pieces, to show that "have eaten have surplus. On the day of birth, wedding and funeral, there are different sizes of banquets.

Marriage rituals of the Dong ethnic minority wedding customs are very simple and simple, elegant and interesting. For thousands of years, according to the song to choose a spouse, the song as a gift is the traditional custom of the Dong people. Strange wedding customs, it is a long time to find flavor.

Meeting gifts: Dong lovers meet gifts, do not need a lot or very expensive items, to be a lot of songs. Both sides before meeting to prepare a lot of emotional songs, by walking relatives to the village to make friends and find objects. The songs that should be prepared are Knocking Song, Love Song, Sitting Night Song, Eighteen Songs, Sixty Songs. When young guests come to the village, the girls will invite groups of singing partners to sing songs, and the elderly and children will come to listen to the songs. The Dong people don't want guests to bring any gifts, just songs. The people often sing: "Don't want to ask for a mountain song, but a song for 10 quintals of white rice". Which one of them wants to carry a load of rice, and can't sing? Guests must show song talent, singing won the Walled City girls after the student, the host will be very happy to get up in the middle of the night to burn tea and snacks, the next day more hospitality. The girls in the village will be chosen by you. If you come to go Zhai will not sing, the host will give you face, give you a light meal, not only taunted, the young people will also send you a song: will not blow firewood Mo uphill, will not take a bath Mo crossing the river, the temple of the bodhisattva does not speak, back to the nunnery knocking wooden fish.

The betrothal ceremony, the Dong ethnic youth through the Zhai, made a lover, and then the two sides secretly about a good place to meet, in order to song to pass the love, according to the song to choose a spouse. Couples sing from sunrise to sunset, from sunset to sunrise. They make a mountain vow and book their lifelong affairs in front of each other. "The mountain beams are high with a roof, the streams are long with a source. We'll be well and good until we grow old, husband and wife loving for a hundred years." The girl removes her earrings or collar or bracelet and presents the beloved thing to the latter. The latter takes off a piece of intimate clothing on the spot and presents it to the girl. The name of the mutual gift is: pouring colors.

Take the gift: Dong people as long as the two sides voluntarily betrothed, about a good date, the male side as long as the quan glutinous rice poi, two pig legs, a quan of the harvest handle, you can go to pick up the marriage. The woman's family never ask for gifts from the man. But the most important thing is to choose a few good singers, to use a lot of songs to cope with the girl's family's "Kwan Kin Ritual"

Kwan Kin Ritual: "Kwan Kin has three meanings. The first is to show that the girl's companions and relatives can't bear to see the girl get married. The second is to create a lively atmosphere for the happy event through the "Kwan Kiss". The main thing is that the girls want to see the groom's wisdom. The girls saw from afar that the bridegroom came, they quickly closed the pavilion door, not allowed to take the bridegroom into the village, "interrogation". At this time the girls sang "Panmen" song, such as: "Brother your surname is Wu or Yang, the world **** a few oceans? How many provinces are there in China? Hunan city has a few Yang?" The groom and the bridegroom must accurately answer ...... answer the right girls before opening the door, wrong answer to continue to interrogate. Opened the pavilion door and closed the door of the hall, then named the groom to answer. Such as: "What bird call to rice planting? What is the season of yellow grain? What season is the cow bathing? Which month and which day is Chongyang?" The groom must answer, "The grains are yellow on the 15th of August, the birds are singing to lay rice seedlings, the cows take a bath on the 5th of May, and the 9th of September is Chung Yeung." If the answer is not right, no matter picking gold and silver can not enter the house, the bridegroom shut out the door. If the bridegroom can quickly align off the kiss song, is to give the bride's family the greatest face, people will praise the girl married a good groom.

Dowry gift: Dong family married women, dowry is very simple. The woman's family does not ask the man for any dowry fee, not accompanied by boxes and cages and closets, the man does not require the woman to have any dowry. The bride only carry a woven flower basket with floral patterns. The basket is filled with the girl's hand-embroidered Dong Mian, brocade belt and hand-woven clothes, cloth. The bride's family only accompanied by a beautiful textile car, brand-new loom, dyeing tank, hoe, sickle and other production tools, as well as rapeseed, cereal seeds ...... bride do not carry, do not carry, accompanied by a female companion to walk to the in-laws. On the way to meet at the same time married girl, take the initiative to give each other a beautifully embroidered strap, said to congratulate each other auspicious and happy, early birth.

Companion gift: whether marrying a daughter or marrying a daughter-in-law, the cottage relatives and friends, neighbors are to receive guests. The family that hosted the wedding did not kill pigs or slaughter sheep. Relatives and friends do not send money and goods, but each family to accompany the guests, served to the cured meat, cured chicken ...... some served to the Dong Wo rice wine, glutinous rice, very sumptuous. The host can not spend a lot of money to do a happy event, showing the Dong people unity and love, hospitality, a person has something to do, we help the style.

Washing ceremony: the bride received into the in-laws, the evening walled young people to perform the washing ceremony (Han called the cave). After the bride and groom into the cave, the descendants to come to the bride to eat tea. After the students to eat tea to the bride to say flattering words, such as: "the first month with a pair, August birth of your son ......" "the children's uncle to eat tea", "the children's uncle smoking" to be Uncle of the children eat tea", "children's uncle smoking", to the bride to light a cigarette. After eating tea, the latter will have to wash the bride's face, to give the latter a hand to wash the face. Of course, the bride will not be so honest to the latter to wash her face, she sometimes has a black pot of soot hidden in her hands, to the latter to make a big face, making everyone laugh. After washing the bride's face, everyone is happy to leave.

Welcoming ceremony people to the Dong village to do guests often encounter an unusual way to welcome the road. Hosts or in the village door, or in the street, or in the road, or under the drum tower, or in the wind and rain bridge, or in front of the home barricades, blocking the way of the guests. Behind the barricade, is led by the old man of the village dressed in the Dong costume of the boys and girls. They stand one by one in horizontal rows, and the guests have to sing songs with the girls if they want to pass through the barricades and the wall of people. Each of them also holds a big bowl of home brewed rice wine, so if you don't sing or drink, you won't be able to get through.

Blocking the road is especially prevalent in the Dong ethnic area, when a young man from one village goes to another village as a guest, he often encounters the girls from the main village at the intersection, in front of the village gate to tie leaves and grasses to ropes, blocking the way. Sometimes also placed spinning wheel, cloth machine, bamboo basket, chicken coop and other obstacles. The main village girls lined up in the back, set up a song formation. They first sing the road blocking song, the song put forward guests can not enter the village of various reasons. The boys will sing a song to open the road, to overturn the excuses of the girls to block the road. Inside and outside the roadblock, the girls sing and answer each other, and the bystanders keep singing and cheering.

The following is a set of Dong young men and women singing to each other.

The girls sang that we are jealous of the village, jealous of the village, jealous of the door you do not want to come.

Believe it or not, you go to heaven and ask the Jade Emperor, let him write a paper to, if he is willing to change the jinzhai of the sky, we will open the door to the village.

The boys sang that you are not jealous of the fortress, and that you should open the gate.

We have asked the Jade Emperor, he told us to make our own arrangements, he doesn't care about earthly matters, he can't write earthly words.

The girls also sang that we are not afraid of the fortress, last night the fortress was under the cat's nose.

No one is allowed to enter the city, so I will go back today and come back tomorrow.

The boys are also saying that you are not jealous of the village, and that there will be no cats in this month.

If the cat is really born, you are lucky, do not have to be afraid of most of the open the door of the fortress.

The lads of the open road sing again, but also still can not enter the village door, because the girls will also use the song to raise a variety of questions, they must give a clever singing answer, and finally must use the song to ask the girls to withdraw one by one on the road barricades, and also have to drink through the girls to send on the rice wine to enter the village door. This roadblocking activity is often two cottage young men and women to interact or to marry the bride when carried out. Blocking the road song lyrics often with funny and love content, through the blocking of the road to the song of the two cottage young men and women from strangers to get to know each other, to understand each other, for each other to further interaction laid the foundation. Encountered wedding hosts generally enter the home must pass through the alleyway set up barricades, in the barricade rope tied to the grass markers, rope below the table with a bowl of rice wine, and fish, meat, glutinous rice and dyed red colored eggs. After singing the roadblock song, the guests through the barricades, the girls in the guests chest hang two symbols of good luck and good luck of the eggs, and drink the festive rice wine, then they clamped to the Dong unique salted fish and colorful glutinous rice, straight stuffed people's mouths bulging words before you are willing to give up, so that the guests go to the new room to see the bride.