Information on Chinese Han Folkways and Customs

1. Lantern Festival

(1) Chinese Han annual festival customs. Contains fertility customs and culture. Popular in Guidong Cenxi, Fuchuan and other counties, has a history of more than a hundred years. It is held on the tenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and all families that had a boy in the previous year are required to hang lanterns at the temple.

(2) lamps with bamboo gabion frame, outside the paste patterned paper, written on the auspicious riddles, inside the point of oil lamps, adding oil day by day. The lanterns are hung by many people, and the temple is naturally formed into a lantern shed.

(3) add a family drinking lanterns on the same day wine, grandparents to the little baby clothes, carriers, toys, friends, relatives, neighbors give clothes and red envelopes to congratulate, *** drink with joy. Lanterns on the sixteenth day of the first month.

2, check the day

(1) Chinese Han marriage customs. Also known as reporting days. Popular in most counties and villages in Guangxi. A step in the engagement of the rural discussion of marriage. Young men and women know each other to understand, report to parents, trust media communication, the man to the woman to send a bride price, and then set the date of marriage.

(2) in the old days, more first please fortune-teller row "eight characters", such as the fate of the match before proceeding. In some places, the parents of both sides will be engaged for their children. Such as the Quanzhou County area, the two sides agreed, the matchmaker on behalf of the male party to send meat and wine clothing to the female party, agreed on a date to accompany the female parents and uncle to the male family meeting, the male party hosted a banquet.

(3) The young man will hold a pot and pour wine, first to the woman's uncle and then to his own uncle, and then the first guest and then the host in order to toast. The two sides agreed on the date of the wedding and the engagement was finalized. After that, men and women send the female side of the gift, bride price, the female side to prepare the dowry, the male side to prepare the furniture, according to the date of the wedding.

3, He Lang song

(1) Chinese Han marriage customs. It is popular in the area of Xing'an County, northeast of Gui. After the ceremony and dinner, friends and relatives surround the bridegroom in the main hall and sing the He Lang song. Improvised words of congratulations, but also playful, witty words. When friends and relatives sing a song, the groom drinks a glass of wine.

(2) Singing until midnight to send the groom into the bridal chamber. Female singers close the door to wait, men and women sing "open door song", as much fun as possible to open the door. After entering the door singing room, from "congratulations to the groom a cup of wine" sung to "ten cups", the groom in turn from 1 to 10 cups of wine (wine can not win by the male singers to drink).

(3) Then sing "Happy Wine", the new couple drink a cup together. Finally, the singers will close the wedding by holding the door and singing the "Door-Holding Song".

4, sitting in the red hall

(1) Chinese Han marriage customs. Popular in the northeast of Gui Quanzhou County area. Young men and women on the eve of marriage in their own homes to sacrifice their ancestors and accept the admonition of their elders. The bride wears a red hanging, accompanied by sisters of the same class, sits in the hall and sings the "Crying for Marriage Song" in a soft voice, remembering her parents' kindness and recounting her sisterly love.

(2) Sisters exhort the bride to honor the elderly, harmony with siblings, praise the groom handsome and hardworking. When the bride told the heart of the unhappy, the sisters persuade and comfort. Singing late into the night clothes to say goodbye and give gifts.

(3) the groom is also accompanied by the same class of brothers sitting in the main hall of their own homes, to accept the elders of the thrifty family, the teachings of the world. Teaching the end of the old man retired from the hall, the boys joked and gagged after the groom, happy late at night before dispersing.

5, the keys

(1) Chinese Han marriage customs. Popular in the northeast of Gui Quanzhou County area. The bride's marriage key, by their younger siblings or nephews in the men and women who are "send the bride" in charge.

(2) before worship, the groom to send the bridegroom to send the seal to discuss the key, in order to worship after the opening of the box, show which the rice money, symbolizing the marriage of the grains, family wealth.

(3) The bridegroom will not accept the package because it is too small, and the groom will add it several times. The bridegroom accepts the sealed package, and the groom begs for the key, and then joyfully pays homage to the bride.