Daur etiquette and customs

Daur is a very ceremonial people. Daur people have the traditional virtues of respect for the elderly and the wise, the poor and the young, hospitality, courtesy, justice, generosity, humility and mutual understanding.

Respect for the elderly and elderly etiquette in food, family life, walking, *** and other occasions. When eating, the elderly first move chopsticks, the younger generation can eat. In terms of residence, the west house is the best, and the south kang of the west house is the place where the old people sit and lie down. In the temporary reunion, children do not parents 7 days, daughter-in-law do not 3 days, young people in the village do not elders 15 days, the younger generation should be to the old man, the elders to perform the bowing ceremony (Sainkha Sobei, the same as the Manchu people's invitation to the peace), step forward with the left leg, the hands on the knee palm, curved the right leg, look at the other side, forward bending. Spring Festival and participate in the wedding and funeral ceremonies, to the elderly kowtow salute. When the old man is about to go out for a long trip, his children will prepare all the goods for him, set up a good car or prepare a good horse. When they come back, they will go out to welcome them, greet them, let them enter the house, sit down, and give them cigarettes and tea (or water) from their daughters-in-law. Guests at home, the elders, the elderly should be invited, loaded cigarettes, tea. Young people go out to visit, see the old man regardless of whether they know each other or not to ask for peace. When you meet an elderly person, you should make way for him or her. When an elderly person is talking with his or her elders, the younger generation is not allowed to interrupt him or her casually. Send visiting guests, to let the elders go first, the hostess sent to the door, the host sent to the courtyard outside the door.

To deal with the family's major events, the first to seek the views of the elderly. Family, neighborhood or village disputes, the old people to mediate, both sides are willing to obey. Eating to the elderly first, conditions as much as possible to let the elderly eat, wear, live comfortably. There should be young people to drive the car. The wine table, according to the generation age ranking, in order to pour wine, father and son different seats.

When people of the same generation meet, they greet the older ones, toast each other, and ask if they are safe and how their families are doing. When men, women and children enter a room, it is important that the elderly and women go first. Brothers and sisters-in-law, neighbors to maintain peace and harmony, humility and mutual concessions, enthusiasm to help each other.

Participating in various ***, ceremonies, to be neatly dressed, civilized behavior. In the case of relatives, friends, neighbors to do red and white, to send gifts. Who is in an accidental disaster and difficulties, to greet, comfort, sponsorship. No close relatives of widows and orphans, sick and disabled people to be cared for.

The Daur ethnic group is known for its hospitality. Whenever guests and friends come, let the west bed, smoke, offer tea, ask for warmth, and then wine and rice hospitality. When the guests leave, the hosts often present their own tobacco and local specialties as a token of their appreciation.

In every New Year's festival, kill pigs and cows, competing to invite friends and relatives village neighbors, get together. The Daur ethnic group popular saying: "Who in the world has seen the back of their own house out of the people? "So for those who ask for food and lodging, regardless of whether they know each other or not, they are warmly received. The above mentioned style of hospitality is still the same today.

In the Daur etiquette, the gift of tobacco occupies an important position. They are good at growing tobacco, and are generally addicted to smoking. The ceremony is divided into one-way ceremony and two-way ceremony. For the elders to honor the smoke is generally a one-way gift, and peers to invite each other, loaded with cigarettes for the two-way gift. Guests to the home, although the wine, milk tea hospitality, but also the smoke ceremony. Even if the guests in the mouth with a pouch, but also to ask him to change into their own smoke, before leaving, but also to send the guests a handful of cigarettes, in order to show respect.