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How to get married with a foreign Yi girl

1. How to get married in Yi

Every happy "torch festival" or bustling market, the Yi young men will put on the flower belt sent by their sweethearts and go to look for lovers to play with. Yi young man if who bundled such a flower belt, it shows that the young man has a sweetheart. On both sides of the Red River, after a girl and a young man met and fell in love, the girl would quietly embroider a belt with flowers, butterflies, birds, etc., and give the belt to the girl on a date. After the young man gets the belt, he will return the girl's bracelet, indicating that the two people sincerely love each other.

The Yi believe that clear water can drive away evil, send away demons and bring happiness. Therefore, the Yi must splash water when they get married, in order to be able to withstand this test, in welcoming the bride, the male family to send unmarried lads to pick up the bride, both physically strong, but also smart and capable of both inviting splashing the cold pain, but also able to complete the "snatch" the bride's arduous task, often in the recommendation of the candidate to repeat the consideration of the merit of the selection of the best, and some at all costs! The first time I saw this, I had to go to the hospital to get a prescription for a new baby.

In some places, the Yi people's welcome to the bride is through the "grab" way to complete. In the first night of the "grab", the girls to the young man launched a fierce water war. Girls with splashing, drenching, dunking, shooting and other ways to ferociously attack the young man, so that to "snatch" the young man difficult to fight. So, the clever young man will find a place to store water before dark, quietly dumped part of it to alleviate the "flood" attack.

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After a night of water splashing, when the morning comes, the "bride" will be the first time. The "bride kidnapping" will begin. At this time, the girls embraced the bride, the boys went to "scramble", the girls strict defense, the young man must be nimble and changeable, multiply the loopholes that appear in a flash, snatch the bride to run, and run out of a mile or two of the mountain road before changing to walk. Visible, the bride "snatch" to the in-laws is not easy! But the Yi people believe that the wedding of this splash a grab will drive away the evil spirits and ensure that the future life is not disturbed.

In the Yi wedding ceremony, there are often some athletic activities to help the wedding atmosphere, and the two sides needless to say, must be the male and female families.

The Yi people in Yaoan, Yunnan Province, have a wedding to climb the oil pole competition. Every wedding day, the male family beforehand planted a high and slippery pine pole, peeled off the bark, and wrapped a few oil paper on the pole. Competition, when the bride arrives, by the female brothers or cousins in the selection of a person to climb the oil pole, if the female representatives successfully climbed the oil pole, the male bridegroom to drink a cup of wine, as a congratulation; if the female representatives did not climb, then by the male brothers or cousins to send a person to climb, the method and etiquette and the same above.

In some places, the Yi wedding, but also held a wrestling match. The day before the wedding, the male party sent to the female side of the welcoming team, there must be a wrestling team. After they arrive at the women's side to eat the banquet, the first ceremony is a wrestling match. The wrestler of the woman's family, as the main party, comes out first and says "please," and the man's family then steps out with a wrestler, and the match begins. When the agreed number of wrestlers has finished, the two from the winning family perform a show. It is said that this activity is in honor of a Yi Hercules and the formation.

2. Can the Han Chinese intermarry with the Yi

The Han Chinese can intermarry with the Yi.

The Yi! This is our main minority in Yunnan, and according to the evolution of Yi folk culture, their ancestors lived in stone houses and used stone tools. In Meigu County, it is the revitalization of Yi culture.

Before the liberation, the Yi in that place accounted for 99.7% of the population, and there was no other ethnicity in a hundred people, only 0.

3% of the population felt that, so that place was kept relatively primitive, with a very strict hierarchy. In terms of marriage, Black Yi and White Yi can't intermarry, it's a hierarchical division, so each level can only intermarry with people of that level.

The hierarchy includes the Tusi, the Black Yi, the White Yi, the slaves, the wazi, etc. The wazi are also divided into the Black Yi, the White Yi, and the Black Yi. Wazi also divided into black Yi wazi, white Yi wazi only later, after the liberation, the extensive entry of Chinese culture into Yunnan, Yi and Han intermarried with more people, customs and habits have slowly changed.

Different regions of different branches of the Yi women's socialization of the situation is linked, Yi women's marriage customs are also divided into three types. The first one is in the feudal areas before 1949, where the marriage pattern is closer to that of the Han Chinese, but where intra-ethnic marriages are prevalent and there is no intermarriage with other ethnic groups, and in some cases not even between different branches of the Yi ethnic group.

Marriage etiquette is not consistent across the board. Chuxiong Muding, Wuding, Yongren and other counties of young men and women are free to marry, but no matter free love or parents, there are matchmaking, betrothal, bridegrooming, back to the door and other procedures.

The Yi people do not have a full-time matchmaker, and both men and women can act as such. The matchmaker carries sugar and wine to the woman's home to propose marriage, and after agreeing to hold the betrothal ceremony, that is, "to eat booking wine".

The man and the matchmaker brought wine and some jewelry (essential bracelets and a red cloth) to the woman's home, the woman's home to invite their elders and relatives to discuss the wedding date, bride price, the size of the wedding feast, the number of people to welcome the relatives and other matters. Since the date of "eat booking wine", men and women shall not arbitrarily back out.

When the bride was married, according to the rules to be sent by the man to the woman's home to marry. After receiving the bride, on the way to the groom's home, where the need to cross the bridge, over the mountains, across the river, climb the slope, the bride is accompanied by the groom on his back.

Along the way, meet the bride, send the young men and women playing the three-stringed, Yueqin, blowing the suona, piccolo, singing the back of the bride song, dance, joyful, lively bride sent to the bridegroom's home. Shiping and other counties in the dam area, as well as Jiangcheng, Yuanjiang, Eshan, Weishan and other counties, marriage is subject to "parental order, the words of the matchmaker.

"Jiangcheng County, most of the Yi people in their own ethnicity within the intermarriage, but not strictly prohibited with the Han, Hani and other foreigners intermarriage. On the first two days of the wedding, the bride is accompanied by a female escort around the clock, and then returns to her mother's home early in the morning on the third day.

After a month in the bride's home, the in-laws invited to pick up, there are still several female companions to come to live with. After three days, they returned to their mother's house and stayed there for another month.

Until the third time to take back, the couple can only live together.

There are some women who are not happy with the arranged marriages, and they tend to stay in their mother's house for a long time.

The Weishan Yi boy was eight or nine years old, his parents will give him a fixed marriage, called "drinking wine"; drink "fixed wine" after both parents have become "in-laws", has been promised to the girl began to call the male parents "father, mother", when the son grew to eighteen or nineteen years of age, his parents will be given to them to complete the marriage. Despite the fact that in some areas, the marriage of young Yi men and women was arranged by their parents, the Yi in many areas enjoyed considerable social freedom before marriage, and compared with the Han Chinese, the Yi women were bound by few feudal rites and rituals.

During festivals, weddings and funerals, young men and women tend to take advantage of these opportunities to sing and dance, drink and smoke, start to know each other, fall in love with each other, and send tokens of affection, and many of them also report to their parents and then become family members. The second type is the pre-1949 slavery society in the small Liangshan Yi region, the marriage pattern also reflects the characteristics of slavery.

Before 1949, the Xiaoliangshan Yi strictly practiced endogamy, endogamy and exogamy. Intra-ethnic marriage means that marriages are contracted within their own ethnic group, and they cannot intermarry with other ethnic groups; exogamy means that intermarriages are strictly prohibited within the same family branch, and marriages can only take place outside the family branch; and hierarchical endogamy is the most basic feature of the marriage of the Xiaoliangshan Yi people.

In the Yi slavery society, all members of the society are divided into four classes, namely, Black Yi, Qu Nuo, Ajia, and Gluttony, according to the factors of bloodline and the conditions of economic possession and personal rights. The Black Yi are hereditary nobles; the Qu Nuo are subordinate people in the slave society; the Aga are married to the master and live in the master's jurisdiction, and undertake the field labor for the master as a slave; and the Gluttony is a single slave who lives in the master's house.

The endogamous marriage system strictly stipulated that the Black Yi nobles could only intermarry within their own ranks, and marriage with the ruled ranks was strictly prohibited. Even if the very rich and handsome and talented QuNuo young man, but also shall not intermarry with the nobles, such as noblewomen and low-grade men fall in love and have sex, according to the custom must be both executed.

Usually, noble women were ordered to hang themselves, and non-noble men were to be burned to death, and the bones of their hands were broken, which was said to make them unable to be transformed into human beings in their later life. It is an open secret that black Yi men and women of low rank are not penalized, but their descendants cannot enter the ranks of the nobility, which is actually a means to ensure the purity of the black Yi noble lineage.

According to the old rules, the Qu'nuo class can't marry with the lower class, but this restriction is far less strict than that of the Black Yi class. In addition, in the Xiaoliangshan Yi ethnic group, there is also the practice of not marrying aunts and uncles and giving priority to the marriage of aunts and uncles.

The Yi proverb says: "If there is a shortage of food, the sweet and the bitter can't be eaten together; if there is a shortage of clothes, the goatskin and sheepskin can't be worn together; if there is a shortage of spouses, the brother and sister can't be married." The siblings mentioned here not only refer to siblings, but also include aunt and cousin siblings.

In the conception of the Yi people in Xiaoliangshan, the relationship of relatives should be based on the relationship of the mother. Aunt is equal to mother, aunt's cousin is equal to sibling, the difference is only that they do not live in the same family, so intermarriage is strictly prohibited.

On the contrary, for the aunt cousins, they enjoy the priority of marriage, such as Yi proverbs: "Aunt's daughter, needless to say, is the uncle's daughter-in-law," "Aunt's daughter, uncle's daughter, no effort." According to custom, the daughter of the aunt's family wants to marry someone else, must obtain the promise of the uncle's family, and vice versa for the daughter of the uncle's family.

The conclusion of the marriage, generally men and women at the age of 10 years or so, that is, the parents make the decision to choose a spouse. The man invited a matchmaker, and asked the Bima (priests) fortune-telling, or "look at the pig's guts" betrothal (that is, after the pig was killed, take the gall bladder, pancreas to see the good and bad luck) to the pig's gall bladder, yellow, pancreas.

3. Yi girls eighteen must be married

Yi men and women's marriage: "girl room" is a unique custom of the Chuxiong Yi. When a girl reaches the age of 16, her parents will build another small grass building for her and let her spend the night in it alone, while young men who have reached the age of 20 can climb up to the grass building of their beloved girls at night to talk about love. They are together to blow scorn, to the tune, tell each other love feelings. Even if there are several pairs of young men and women at the same time, everyone is not bound. Once the love is mature, men and women as long as the consent of parents can be married, both parents generally do not interfere with the choice of sons and daughters.

The wedding of the Yi people in Xiaoliangshan, Yunnan Province, is quite chic. When they get married, the men have to prepare horses and carry gifts of wine, cloth, meat, and raised noodles to welcome the bride. The female village girls, can make all the skills to welcome the guests splash water, catching desperately play music. Send the bride to all men, the bride to the door of the male party to the sun goes down before entering the door. Before entering the door, by a person holding a wooden bowl containing mutton, raised handle and wine, in the bride's head around a circle, to show that life after marriage is rich. Then, the bride by the cousins back into the house.

4. Yi people get married are those customs

China's many ethnic groups, the wedding customs of various ethnic groups are also colorful, especially the Liangshan Yi wedding customs.

Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, the largest Yi Autonomous Prefecture in China, is located in the southwest of Sichuan Province, starting from the Dadu River in the north, the Jinsha River in the south, Zhaotong in the east of Yunnan Province, and Ganzi Prefecture in the west; the autonomous prefecture governs 17 counties and cities, with an area of more than 60,000 square kilometers, and a population of more than 4 million. Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of the main ethnic groups - Yi, calling themselves "Nuosu", "Nisu", "Nasu", "toms shoes", "Sani" and so on.

Its wedding customs are extremely special and interesting. Engagement Engagement, the Yi language is called "I let wood".

The two sides formally outlawed the main sign of marriage, the Yi proverb: "ancestral spirits can play, the wedding can not play", once the betrothal ceremony, the two sides will not be allowed to regret the marriage contract. The betrothal ceremony to splash water, wipe pot smoke, kill pigs and slaughter sheep.

When the male messenger to come, the woman's family will call to the neighboring women, hiding a bucket, a basin of water, and in the hands of a good black smudge pot smoke, waiting for the arrival of the guests. When the betrothal guests came, women from all directions peaked crowded to the guests to splash water, wipe pot smoke, the guests must show courage, tenacity, with clothes or rub er watt masked head, to face the "storm" bravely forward, broke through a line of defense girls, stormed into the house, the girls will be in hot pursuit of the tail into the house splashing, the guests splashed one by one like a fall, like a fall, like a fall. The guests splashed one by one like a soup chicken, a white face all turned into a black face.

When splashing water and wiping pots and pans, guests can't be angry, and guests and hosts can attack each other. After splashing water and wiping pots and pans, the guests were given wine and roasted meat (in Yi language, it is called "shefu zhe").

The master with both hands to respectfully put the wooden plate containing roast meat and wine cups to one of the guests, the guests also stretched out their hands to accept, first thirsty wine and then taste the roast meat. The wine in the cup can be drunk, but the meat on the plate cannot be eaten.

Because can drink is a good man, can eat meat is a bear. When the guest has drunk the wine and tasted the roast meat, he takes out money from his bag and puts it in the wooden plate.

The money in the plate, is "I let then" (betrothal gift), usually singular, but more "nine" number, such as nine thousand nine hundred yuan, nineteen thousand nine hundred yuan, and so on. "Nine" in the Yi language for "ancient", "ancient" for a long time, the meaning of solid.

Therefore, the Liangshan Yi people like the number nine. In addition, the Yi wedding is also very much like the custom is considered inauspicious "four", such as the bride price is 40,000, betrothal four o'clock to go, etc., because the "four" in the Yi language for the "er".

"Er" for the meaning of want, that is, the man is really want the woman, and will treat her well in the future, as long as she has her whole life. Engagement ceremony, but also set the date of marriage, the date of marriage in general by the male determination, but to listen to the views of the female side, mainly to see the two sides of the genus and do not and, to ask the Bimo calculations.

Pre-wedding The Yi people to relieve the hands of shame, (especially between the opposite sex), the woman is married to the marriage, to send the marriage is a man, and the road is generally farther, in order to avoid the road and the wedding in the father and the brother of the wedding in full view of the request to relieve the hands of the wedding a few days before the wedding, the bride should be fasted, eat only one or two eggs a day, drink a few mouthfuls of water, or eat a small slice of buckwheat pancakes, and the day of the marriage, but also prohibit water. Yi customs, the bride is believed to reduce the time the longer the food, the more it seems to understand the etiquette, perseverance.

In addition, the Department of pipe you really want to marry or do not want to marry, we must show sadness and sadness look, a marriage will be better when it comes to crying. If a girl looks happy and carefree before her marriage and does not know how to eat and drink, then she will be laughed at and criticized.

Welcome the bride The night before the wedding, the man's family sent two smart and brave people as the "line wood", with gifts and the bride's wedding clothes and gifts to the bride's home, stating the intention of the marriage proposal. The female village girls are stored water to wait, set up obstacles everywhere, to them splashing water, wiping pot smoke, until the two of them are not like people ghosts are not like ghosts to be willing to give up.

In the evening, the bride's sisters came to accompany the bride to cry, female companions also accompanied by crying and song, especially in the parents to say goodbye to the woman to marry the bitter, crying Chen words, poignant and moving, hard to let go, which gave rise to the "crying marriage song", "to play" (stay), "spell matchmaking song" and so on a number of popular songs. Early the next morning, the female family invited a woman with many children and are healthy for the bride combing, dress, combing the head is put on earrings, headdress, hood, with a new dress color skirt.

When the rooster crows, the bride is crowded to sit under the fruit tree in front of the house. They are holding tree strips and water pots, ready to come to the bride to touch the bride to carry out some beatings.

At this time, the male party sent a representative of the elves, surrounded by others and under the cover, in the fight does not return the hand, scolding the commission to find ways to touch the bride. As long as they touch the bride's head color cover, the bride will be considered the in-laws, then stop the "war of defense", everyone surrounded by the bride began to go.

The bride's relatives and neighbors, as few as more than ten, as many as dozens of hundreds. The local language area to send all men, no women, since ancient times have been so.

Shi Chia, Enuo dialect area, there are a small number of women involved in the bride. Liangshan Yi people send relatives generally walk, only the bride or send relatives of the old-timers can ride a horse, it can be said that the trekking, all the way to the wind and dust.

Along the way to live in the bride's nieces and nephews if they know the bride to pass by, are to be received on the road, to the bride to the oil fried rice, to the bride's toast. This is a kind of etiquette, a kind of wish, a kind of affection.

Welcome to the bride is very special, but also play a wedding drama, but this time not in the woman's home, but on the way. Robbing the wedding with a performance component, it is lively, festive, peaceful, is a form of expression of the Yi people married.

On this day, the bride dressed up, the bride's family will send her halfway, the male family is halfway to the bride, the female family and relatives and friends in the back of the symbolic catch up, at this time, the marriage is also a marriage to marry the handover ceremony. This is a kind of respect for the woman, but also an ancient form of marriage of the Yi people.

Wedding Banquet The bridegroom's family arrived near the groom's home will stop to rest, the groom's side of the men, women and children came to meet. The man's family will send a man who can speak the language with a little money and cigarettes, wine, a little salt, a sheepskin, to the guests, toasting cigarettes, toasting, and then, to send the bridegroom's side of the team sent a few strong young men to the groom's home, "grabbing meat to eat", these young men swaggering to the groom's home in front of the door, walked to the person in charge of distributing the meat in front of the station, the male side. The man's side.