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Marriage has always been the eternal topic of mankind, since the Zhou Dynasty, China has formed a more complete set of marriage customs. Including the two major steps of betrothal and marriage, specifically including the six rites, that is, Na Cai, asking for the name, Na Ji, Na Zheng, please period and kiss welcome. The customs of the six rites vary greatly in different ethnic groups and different places, and with the development of culture and social changes, marriage customs have undergone great changes. Hubei Enshi Lichuan Tujia a pair of young men and women from acquaintance to the whole process of marriage. Whether it is a young love, childhood sweethearts, free love combined marriage, or matchmaker's words of marriage, the Tujia in the marriage customs gradually formed a kind of unwritten rules, that is, to the matchmaker, marriage proposal, over the door, look at the portal, to discuss the gung ask for the birth of a period of time, betrothal words, to meet the marriage, back to the door and so on, a wide range of procedures. In the wedding there are also unique episodes: crying marriage, rituals, open face, wear flower wine, back the bride, welcome the bride, play pro, round room, worship, bed, room, shoes, back to the door, etc., to retain and demonstrate the differences between the Tujia wedding and other ethnic groups.

Proposal of marriage

The young men of the Tujia ethnic group in Enshi, who have their eyes on a certain girl, ask a matchmaker to propose marriage to the girl's family. To propose marriage, the matchmaker must bring a gift, whether it is windy, rainy, or sunny, he must bring his own umbrella, indicating that the matchmaker is willing to be a man of honor. If the woman's family accepts the gift, the marriage will be 80% hopeful. After that, the matchmaker has to go back and forth three times before the woman's family will agree to the marriage, to show their prudent attitude towards the marriage. If the woman's family does not accept the gift, it means that she refuses the marriage proposal, and even the most diligent matchmaker is useless. After the woman agrees to the man's proposal and the two sides agree on the wealth and gifts, she chooses an auspicious day for the betrothal. At the time of betrothal, the man should prepare wine, meat, clothes, poop, etc. as gifts to the woman's home. The woman's family set up a banquet to entertain the male guests and matchmakers, and the daughter's "eight" to the male side, indicating that the two official marriage.

Looking at the door

Crossing the door is an important step in the marriage of a Tujia man and a woman. It is the first time that a prospective bridegroom goes to a woman's home accompanied by a matchmaker, and the woman's home invites the clansmen to help with the "matchmaking" process, whereby they provide their views for the woman's home to use as a reference. After discussion, if the marriage is agreed upon, the matchmaker will ask for the date of the wedding, and after receiving the date, the man will go home to prepare for the wedding. On the day before the wedding, the prospective bridegroom, accompanied by the matchmaker, comes to the woman's home to take her to the man's home. On this day, the man invites his friends and relatives to his home to accompany him, so that the banquet sits until late at night, and after the meal, the prospective aunt burns incense to the ancestors. The next day after breakfast, it is "playing incense table", the female family invited to the incense table to sit down, sit down, the male relatives will be one after another to recognize the family, and give the female family a certain number of gifts, generally one hundred dollars. The girl to be married with the prospective aunt to recognize all of their relatives, known as the change of mouth. In addition, the man's family will also give the woman's family a certain amount of gift money, known as the money, for the preparation of the dowry. After all these things are done, the woman is sent home by firing a cannon, which is the basic content of the crossing of the door. This is the basic element of the marriage. After the marriage, the man and the woman start to communicate with each other as if they were a family.

Engagement

The pig's leg, which is the secret signal for the wedding date, is a good match. Tujia young men and women betrothal period, the girl will generally look carefully at the back of the root and stem brought by the lover, to see inside the pig's legs to pass the message. There is a lot to say about this. Pig legs if the light light swings, indicating that their wedding men have not yet chosen; if the hoof by a blowing hole (Tujia kill New Year's Eve pig, fat pig on the back foot with a sharp knife to cut a small mouth, blowing bulging, to fade), it is implied that the male party to urge (blow) pro to the female party to do a good job in preparation for marriage; if the pig leg with a pig's tail, it is shown that this year's agricultural work is almost busy, after the harvest of the marriage will be the end of the end! If the woman's family is too late for the marriage or can't bear to see her daughter leave, they will cut off the tail on the pig's leg and put it in the return gift, and the man will understand when he sees it.

Crying for marriage

The Tujia people used to have the marriage custom of crying for marriage, and at that time, the Tujia people regarded the crying for marriage as a measure of a woman's talent and virtue. Therefore, the girls attached great importance to the crying marriage. With the growth of age, youthful awakening and maturity, the heart of the depression and resentment of the gas more and more accumulated, when the wedding tears will be like a river that breaks the embankment, pouring out. Different regions, the content of crying marriage also has its own characteristics, generally have "female cry mother", "mother cry female", "sister cry sister", "sister cry sister ", "scolding the matchmaker" and other parts. Crying marriage time, depending on the family's financial situation, generally seven to twenty days, there are up to a month, "open cry", is in the light song chanting sadness. Later, the divorce period closer, the more sorrowful its words, the more sad its voice, crying dry mouth, hoarse voice, red eyes, such as crazy as crazy. Nowadays, the times have changed, young people aspire to freedom and happiness, marriage and love by their own decisions. Tujia girls get married also do not have to follow the wedding customs of the old times. Although some remote cottage still preserved this custom, but also not happy crying marriage, even if crying, but also tends to cry a three sound five sound, the song mate inserted into the section of the joke, the bride can not help but laugh, which is also considered a "cry". After generations of women's oral creations, constantly enriched processing, some of the content gradually stereotypes, the formation of a long poetic structure of the lyrical poems, the mood is sad and miserable, the language is simple and concise, full of rich flavor of the terroir, often clever use of simile, puns, anthropomorphism, repetition, imitation of the word, comparison, hyperbole and other rhetorical devices, with a very strong humanistic and literary nature.

Banquet

Enshi Tujia people have to do wedding and funeral ceremonies, and the host family will arrange dozens of banquets to entertain friends and relatives who come from far away or from their neighbors. How many tables are arranged for the wedding banquet is the host family beforehand expected to arrange a good, generally less than twenty or thirty tables, as many as seventy or eighty tables. This by the number of guests and the number of gifts received to determine the extent of the owner's love of the breadth of the degree and the ability to deal with the world. Joyful events are generally divided into two categories: red joy and white joy. Marriage, court, soup cake, housewarming, birthday, promotion, etc. is called red wedding; the old man passed away is called white wedding. Red and white wedding specifications and rules are different, each has its own way and rules, many, many, days and nights to say can not be said. The following only take the wedding to do wedding this point to say Enshi Tujia people's customs.

Preparation

Fast to do the wedding three or four days before the time, the male host family began to busy, to plan how many tables to arrange, borrow how many tables and chopsticks, tables and stools, to kill a few pigs (including the family to do the wedding and sent to the woman's home gift letter (gift letter: ham, pig's feet, or pork), to do how many plates of food (plus a soup dish to make up the general number of doubles), the need to find how many people to help! And so on. Then the East borrowed tables and stools, the West borrowed dishes and chopsticks, this family borrowed pots, that family borrowed tea trays, busy and happy. The bride's family is no exception, they have to be busy with dowry, buying electrical appliances and daily necessities, informing friends and relatives and so on. The main banquet for men and women is one day apart, with the women's side at noon on the first day and the men's side at noon on the second day.

Deacon's List

On the first day of the wedding, all the helpers gathered early in the morning from all directions to the master's house, everyone seven hands and feet you do this, he did that, three times after breakfast, began to do the work. Kitchen began to set the board (cut vegetables, vegetables, wash vegetables with), some local rules of the big set the board when you have to seal the red envelope, the amount of red envelopes to be determined by the degree of generosity of the host family. The amount of red envelopes depends on the generosity of the host family. Sealing four red envelopes means four seasons of wealth; sealing six red envelopes means six six big luck; sealing twelve red envelopes means monthly red envelopes; sealing twenty-four red envelopes means double wealth every month. Then it is to dissect fish, roast pig's feet, wash meat, etc. for the next day's formal banquet preparation; rice room of the beginning of the prairie rice (rice into the pot with boiling water half-cooked and then fished up) steamed rice; tea room of the beginning of the package of tea leaves to boil the water to make tea; management of the guest Secretary (each family for a happy event, by a certain reputation in the local and can speak will speak to preside over the help of the affairs, that is to say, when the day's home, we call the management of the guest Secretary, there are also called the chief) began to assign the work of the guest Secretary. (We call him the chief steward.) He starts to assign tasks and draw up a list of helpers. Anyone who comes to help will be arranged by the chief steward, and the host's family will not be in charge on the day of the wedding, but will be arranged by the chief steward.

The title of the list of helpers has its own name depending on the event. For example: the marriage of the whole wine is called "heavenly match to help the deacon list", the marriage of the whole wine is called "out of the pavilion to help the deacon list", the birth of a child to play the three Chao whole wine is called "to get jang (or called soup cake) to help the deacon list The wine for moving to a new house is called "the list of helpers for the completion of the Huatang", the wine for longevity is called "the list of helpers for the birthday", and the wine for studying is called "the list of helpers for the list of students". The whole birthday wine is called "birthday help list", the whole school wine is called "successful list help list", and the night of the dead is called "big event help list". Then in accordance with the order of the four classes and eight rooms to write a list of all the helpers and things to do, which is a certain amount of attention, the general order from right to left in red is: the general manager, the support guest, the ritual room, pick up the room, the kitchen, the dining room, the teahouse, the smoke room, the wine room, the wood room, the executive basin, add rice, pouring tea, adjusting the seat, holding wood, water and electricity, sound, fire, miscellaneous, and so on. Deacon single written, posted in the hall under the right window, in order from right to left, the left side should be just aligned with the door square, easy to help people find their own work, but also easy to support the Guest Division to arrange work. The family is a little more sophisticated, but also in the columns on the sticker couplets, red with red paper to write, white with white paper to write the joy.

Ceremony

The day before the wedding is the woman's "flower round wine", meaning the meaning of flowers and the moon, wishing the woman a happy marriage. On this day, the woman will be all the dowry out, placed in the hall inside, wipe clean, tied and punched. Friends and relatives come to congratulate and send congratulatory gifts, and the closest relatives will also send a quilt cover, while the bride is groomed and dressed. "The bride's face is opened, the head is put on, flowers are put on, and the face is opened by an aunt, an uncle, or a sister-in-law.

After breakfast, the bridegroom's family was sent to the bride's home by the management of the Division of the gift of the personnel. Over the gift, that is, to the bride's home to send gifts, the general gift is a gift letter, with the gift (with the gift letter together with other gifts, such as noodles, sugar, side dishes, etc.) and clothing, gifts, and so on. In some places, the rules of the larger female party to the male party to send five "one": 10,000 yuan, one hundred pounds of meat, one hundred pounds of rice, one hundred pounds of noodles, one hundred pounds of wine. Over the gift procession by the matchmaker matchmaker, gift money is also kept by them. To the bride's home near the door of the house, the matchmaker will light a small string of firecrackers, indicating that the gift of the team has arrived, to remind the female side of the management of the Division of the guest ready to receive the guest.

When the bride's family hears the firecrackers, the manager of the house also lights a string of firecrackers to indicate that he is ready to enter the house. After the team arrived at the bride's home, first of all, the gifts will be brought in the hall, so that the bride's house of management of the Division in accordance with the list of gifts one by one inventory, and then the matchmaker will be the gift of money (generally the money into a certain shape, such as fan, round, semi-circular, double happiness, congratulations, the newlyweds, the shape of the wedding, and the words of the wedding ceremony with a frame, so that the first is beautiful, the second is conspicuous, and the third is the insurance.) Handed over to the bride's family chief, after the explanation, before entering the compartment to rest.

Welcome the bride

On the morning of the official wedding day, the day dawns, the bride-welcoming brigade set off under the leadership of Mr. Bing Bing. The procession consists of the following people: Mr. Baobin (the man who leads the procession to the woman's home), Mr. Baxian (the man who plays the suona and the gongs and drums), the bridegroom's closest relatives, such as sisters, aunts, and aunts, the bridegroom, and the dowry bearers who carry the dowry with ropes and sliding poles (of varying lengths of wood or bamboo). (With the development of the times and the convenience of transportation, the dowry is now usually carried in a car, and the rules have changed slightly.)

After climbing over mountains and hills, we finally arrived at the bride's house. Still the same rules as the ceremony, a string of firecrackers beforehand, wait until the woman's home firecrackers echoed, to welcome the bride's team will pass through the hall into the compartment rest. Mr. Bao-Bing will negotiate with the chief manager of the woman's family, exchanging opinions, courtesies, and matters that need attention. After a short break, the bridegroom will start tying the Xingjia (dowry), and after tying it, they will carry it to the outside of the diba and put it away. The heaviest and most difficult to lift the closet in the first place, and then in order is the cupboard, small closet, cabinets, boxes, desks, washstand, bed frame ...... last is the fire pit, chairs, etc., each a small row of racks on the help of a bed cover, passers-by can be accompanied by trousseau from the bride (sound: PEILIAN) (dowry, dowry) how much was covered! Passers-by can see from the bride's trousseau (PEILIAN)（嫁妆、陪嫁）how many covers there are, whether the bride's family is solid, whether the trousseau is good or not, and whether it is the envy of other girls.

Beginning of the seat, the other guests of the bride's family will not sit in the first round, if there are extra seats are also allowed to sit. This is because this round must be arranged first for those who welcome the bride, pass the rites, and send off the bride, who eat breakfast so that they can be on their way, because the groom's family will not start the seating until they have returned home.

Fairing the bride

After the banquet, they were ready to send the bride. The chief of the housekeeper's office shouted, "Listen up, friends and relatives, the auspicious time has come, the eight immortal gongs and drums please play music, fireworks, firecrackers, firecrackers, the welcoming girl to get ready for the new bride to get on the sedan chair. Let's start the marriage! Take your places."

The dowry bearers come to the side of their claimed dowry, and the procession of welcoming the bride arranges itself in the order of bringing the guests, passing the rite of passage, the Eight Immortals, receiving the bride, the groom, the bride, sending off the bride (the bride's closest female relative), and pressing the sedan chair waifu (the bride's closest male relative and younger than her own, responsible for taking the account of the structure and the key of the box, so that she can get a generous red packet), and prepares to set off.

First of all, the bridegroom stood in the hall waiting for the bride, the eight immortal masters stood outside the door at the eaves of the specially arranged eight immortal table, puffed up his cheeks and blowing and poignant, hypnotic "out of the door tune", playing the gongs and drums of the vigorously beat the "hair pro song". In the bleak music, has been crying is a tearful bride by their own brother and sister-in-law or brother slowly back boudoir, no brother and sister-in-law by uncles, aunts, cousins, etc., parents can not back. Through the hall, put down in the hall, so that the bride stood beforehand placed in the hall on a square bucket, step on a pair of footprints, called: "step on the bucket". The bride "stepped on the bucket" means that the wealth also left the bride's family, blessing the bride's family year after year of abundance of grain. Then the bride's family tube Guest Division lit sunflower stalks or incense bark made of torches, thrown to the bride before and after, sprinkled with sparks all over the house, heralding the bride's future prospects brilliant. The bride, on the other hand, throws the two chopsticks prepared in advance to the front and back of her body, blessing her siblings and herself with a life of abundance and food.

This time the bride on the right open chest, big sleeves and big swing "dew coat", under the eight skirt, called "dew skirt", head wrapped in green silk handkerchiefs, Zhu Hua silver jewelry, Luang Pei jingdang, by people to help in the hall to cry and worship some, say goodbye to the ancestors, farewell to the parents, and then The bride started on foot. The bride made three deep bows to the incense (the heaven and earth, the ruler, the parents, and the teacher) in the center of the hall, and shouted, "Dad, Mom, I'm leaving!" The bride is then carried by her brother and sister-in-law out the front door. On the back of the bride's feet should be bent backward, as high as possible, do not hooked to the threshold, otherwise the bride's family will think that the bride will be good luck hooked away, from now on will be unlucky, which gives the feeling of inauspicious.

Then the bride is carried out of the gate, and given a pair of embroidered shoes brought by her in-laws, at which point she can land on both feet.

The bride on the road, whether sunny or rainy days, the groom should be prepared by a flower umbrella, called "dew umbrella", the bride came to the gate outside the bridegroom rushed to hand the umbrella to the bride to play on.

All things being equal, all we need is an east wind.

At this time, Mr. Chief Firecracker lit a string of firecrackers, and then said in a loud voice: "Green hills, green water long, the friendship of relatives unforgettable; the mountain road is curved, the grass is always green, far away from the noble guests to leave." It means that it is time to start sending off the guests. Mr. Takebin also responded by lighting a string of firecrackers, "The sky is very wide, the land is very broad, the relatives' future days are long; the mountains are always green, the water is always flowing, the disturbed noble relatives will leave at once." One is an expression of gratitude, and the other is a signal to depart.

At this moment, suona, gongs and drums, firecrackers, firecrackers, firecrackers, lift the line of marriage immediately lift the line of marriage run, began to abide by the rules, so that the closet in the forefront, such as back over the bride's home, on the "Eight Immortals across the sea to show their skills", everyone will be scrambling to grab in front of the front of the mother, otherwise it will be ridiculed as a "send a bride to the guest". The excitement is simply not comparable to the excitement of being a "bridegroom".

Theatrical kisses

On the way to the wedding, wherever encountered across the river, across the bridge, carry the line of marriage will stop, the line of marriage across the middle of the road, do not allow the bride to go through, the purpose of the bride to give the smoke and send sunflowers, sticky rice cakes, red envelopes. When the bride to everyone loaded with cigarettes and after the point then everyone ran forward like a swarm of bees, and so on to the next goal of everyone and the same way, continue to make a mess, so week after week, often have to make a big half-day to be able to get home.

Waiting until the groom's home, the more lively and fancy program began. Those who are not married to the hairy young people or children, they make every effort to tease the bride and groom, often make the bride and groom can not laugh and cry, the day of the celebration and can not be angry, so I had to cry with a smile face to be. What to push the mill, playing flower face, carrying a sedan chair, hanging signs, biting apples, cone buttocks, stand stool, sit unicycle, back thatched shit board, wearing a high hat, etc., as long as the bride and groom can be kindly whole, so that everyone is happy, what tricks they will make it out.

Wai Tang

The round relatives of the bridegroom's closest relatives and the couple's original pair of elderly people are alive. They are responsible for making the bed for the bride and groom, lighting the candles, and changing the shoes. When the bride arrives at the door of the house, the family members rush to take out a pair of red candles and light them, then take out two pairs of thousand-layer-soled cloth shoes for the new couple to change into, and come back with their old shoes. And such shoes can only be worn once, and later they will be pressed under the pig trough of the family until they rot away.

When the gang of young men had had enough, the people in the circle of relatives quickly went to change the shoes for the newcomers. After stepping on the hall shoes, in a piece of treasure cover (the groom's closest friends and relatives to congratulate the groom on the wedding of the bride price and so on, there are long-hanging firecrackers, lanterns, blankets, etc., blankets affixed with the number of RMB spelled out in words or written on red paper) bombing in the popping sound, a pair of newcomers in a pair of golden children's traction in the other pair of golden children thrown in the flowers, slowly into the hall, the bride! Before stepping through the door of the in-laws' house, she should step on the big threshold with her foot to show that she has come to the in-laws' house. The ceremony is held in front of the ancestral shrine of the groom's family.

Preparing to pay homage (At this time, as usual, the ceremonial table in the hall should suspend its work for a while, because the woman sends the red packet for letting the hall, and there is no reason not to let it.) According to the order of male left and female right, men and women stand in front of the tablets in the hall, the newcomers in the worship of heaven and earth, worship of ancestors, parents, husband and wife, after worship, the bride and groom both immediately run into the cave first.

Sitting on the bed

When entering the bridal chamber, the couple will scramble to occupy the bed, and it is said that whoever sits on the bed first means whoever will be in charge in the future. The rule of "sitting on the bed" is that the man is on the left and the woman is on the right, with the center as the boundary. The girl with a plan often sit on the line, but the groom is not willing to show weakness, try to squeeze the bride to the line outside, the two sides do not give way, crowded, if the fake as real. If the groom violently uncovered the bride's head scarf, the bride can not help but a smile, sitting on the bed will then declare the end, very funny.

This time, the bridegroom can only stand at a distance to watch, according to the rules are not allowed to talk, move around. Waiting for the bride and groom on the bed to sit down, the management of the Secretary and only then blow a string of firecrackers to welcome the bridegroom into the house. At this time, a group of children to solicit the time to ask for red envelopes, pouring water to wash their faces, pouring tea, handful of fire, as long as you do the same, the bride will seal a red envelope. Even some children do not do anything, but also cheeky to the bride to ask for a red envelope, the bride will also give.

Sitting

As the saying goes, "A thousand soldiers have a head, and ten thousand troops have a master." The seating began, and the head custodian yelled from the gate, "All those who are helping, please take your places, the seating will begin soon." The helpers stopped entertaining at once and thundered. Men, women and children who came from all directions to eat wine, scrambling to sit on the Eight Immortals table, did not sit at the table also had to wait for the next round. As long as people know the rules, they do not sit on the upper eight seats (the side of the hall). Then on the wine on the wine, loaded with cigarettes loaded with cigarettes, dishes served dishes, add rice to add rice, pouring tea to pour tea, wash the bowl to wash the bowl. Each table seven bowls of eight dishes a bowl of soup, *** counted together sixteen dishes, the first round of eight tables or ten tables will soon be open, the courtyard up and down everywhere filled with the aroma of meat and wine mixed with the charming aroma of women.

A round of eating, the next round of guests scrambling to sit at each table eight people consciously, which is called the flowing seat. Beyond the scope of the boss will bring countless troubles. A round of general arrangement of even number of tables, eight tables or ten tables, that depends on the number of guests. Never arrange an odd number of tables, that would be unlucky.

Seats, send relatives will come to the smoke, sugar, sunflower seeds, poop and so on one by one distributed to the seated guests, guests have to receive dishes, but also loaded poop, sunflower seeds sugar, the host family also arranged to have loaded cigarettes, coupled with send relatives also loaded with cigarettes, it is really busy, but also the face of the hot ear sound, happy very much.

All you can hear in the courtyard is the sound of mingling, guessing and ordering. The floor was littered with bottles, fish spikes, bones and cigarette butts. When the third round is over, the guest manager will put a small red slip of paper on one of the tables to the right, meaning the seat where the bridegroom sits, and no other guests will sit at those tables if they see the red slip.

Anyone who sits at the table, as long as there is experience, will be able to judge some situations. For example, out of the dishes on the table first must be cold dishes, dishes of good and bad is the first bad after good, wait until the soup bowl appeared, it means that the dishes have been out of the end; whenever you hear a small series of firecrackers ringing, it must be the kitchen out of the dishes; to be able to eat early in a crowded meal, you have to be the first to fish a pair of chopsticks, and so on.

Now the mountain people's vision is gradually liberalized, follow the example of the mountains, many places appeared in the convenience of the service team. All the tableware is readily available, no longer like in the past to have a wedding, the host family to be busy for three or four days to borrow borrow borrow borrow. With the development of society and historical changes, the Tujia water table is also constantly updating, changing generations.

Housekeeping

The Tujia wedding night has the custom of housekeeping. There are three days in the newcomer's room without any size, no matter whether it is the old life or the small life can participate in this activity. First, the bride and groom in the cave, the sky just dark and embarrassed to sleep, must be accompanied by someone to talk to the lively. Secondly, there is an old saying that "a thousand pieces of gold can buy a smile". This world love to mess with women may be a common disease of men, in the new room to tease the new girl, say some interesting words, to win the beauty of a smile, in order to feast your eyes, think it is also a kind of fun. Third, the new girl with a delicious, such as peanuts, walnuts, sunflower chestnuts, etc., knocking point to eat a meal can also be a mouthful.

Generally the groom's old cousins and old classmates and the village girls and boys want to come to the cave room lively. Branch Guest Division understands the mood of young people, they will agree to their requests, but the room to pay attention to a few points, one is to talk about laughing and joking to be elegant, is now a civilized society, not too nasty, the wording should be appropriate, to have fun. Secondly, the gentleman's mouth is not hands, into the new room do not casually rummage through the box. Want to knock the new girl's stuff to eat, you must rely on eloquence, said the love of the heart, the host family willingly come up with something to eat only fragrant.

Haunting the bridal chamber when the leader will walk and say: "joyful, haunted, both feet into the new room, a visit to the groom Gong, the second to see the new girl." "Heavenly and earthly, worship the bride and the groom, the family will be prosperous, and they will grow old together like lovebirds." "Waves, water, worship spring moon and sunrise, the Yangtze River and Yellow River basin is wide, but not as long as the love of buddies." After that, a large group of girls and boys to see the hot with into the cave. In addition to the newcomer's bed everyone is embarrassed to sit, can sit are full, most people stand. Bride and groom with a smile on their faces sitting on the newcomer's bed in order to be quiet.

Turkish custom is to haunt the room after the people into the cave, want to drink cigarettes, tea, or want to knock the new nobility of things to eat to rely on eloquence, drink cigarettes to say smoke, tea to say tea, want to eat sunflower, walnuts, peanuts, chestnuts, etc. to say a son, ugly, Yin, Mao.

The caveman's pattern, a variety of specific processes will not be recounted.

Nearing the end, the leader will say: "buddies and sisters do not have a long time to fool around, a thousand gold is difficult to an all-night, auspicious occasion good cannons, you and I will not be a light bulb." "Haunted room haunted most of the night, bless the bride early sitting month, buddies also do not call much thanks, playing three dynasty when again as a guest." The leader of the said take the lead to get up out of the cave, the leader of the goat a move, the crowd like wearing pantyhose in a giggle along with the leader of the one after another out of the new room.

Drinking tea and putting on shoes

The morning after the ceremony, the "out of worship" was held. In the hall, the elders of the clan relatives sit around a rectangular table made of several tables, with a tea pot in front of each of them. Bride one by one to see the elders of the clan relatives, the elders said some blessings auspicious words, the bride will one by one to the elders to pour tea, tea, tea after they will drink tea red packets in the tea pot, how much varies. After the tea is finished, the shoes will be put on. The bride will be made from her mother's family cloth shoes one by one distributed to the elders, the elders will once again take out to send money to the bride.

When having breakfast, the bride and groom will load cigarettes and grab melon seeds for all the guests at the table, meet with all the relatives and friends, and say blessings to each other.

Sending off the family members

After breakfast, it is time for the family members to leave. At the sound of a string of firecrackers lit by the groom, the bridegroom leaves the house, carrying the bridegroom's luggage behind him. There is an interesting rule here: when the bridegroom retrieves the basket from the groom, the bridegroom can only pick it up from behind with his back hand, and cannot look back at the groom, or else he will be ridiculed by all the guests at the groom's house. After receiving

the rattan, the bridegroom will continue to walk forward, and the groom will continue to follow until the bridegroom drops a red packet, then the groom will turn around and return. If the groom wants more red packets, he continues on.

Returning to the door

Third day after the wedding (seven days for those who traveled too far), the bride and her son-in-law will return to her mother's home to save her family, called "back to the door". "Back to the door" is the bride's parents back to the province, the groom to meet the parents-in-law of the rituals. Therefore, the groom should be to the parents-in-law to send a generous gift, such as sugar, cigarettes, alcohol, side dishes and so on, of which two dozen pounds of a pig's leg is essential. "Back to the door", the bride to walk in front, the groom walked behind; return home is the opposite, and can not look back.

"Returning home" must be done on the same day, and there is no accommodation in the mother's house. Even girls who have been married for many years will never be put in the same room with their husbands-in-law when they return to their mother's home, which is a taboo among the Tujia.

To the "back door" return, as the Tujia people revered in the mind of the life of the ceremony ------- wedding rituals to this draws a successful conclusion, from now on the couple began a new life.