Hani wedding
The wedding ceremony of Hani nationality was completely decrypted, and the groom greeted the bride accompanied by cousins and peers. When you arrive at the bride's house, you must see your in-laws and get their consent before you can marry the bride. The bride cried when she left home, which is the custom of crying for marriage. The bride wants to marry three days before her wedding, which shows that the deeper her feelings for her parents and family are. Accompanied by younger siblings and relatives and friends, the bride cried all the way to the entrance of the groom's village before sending a letter to bid farewell, while the team carrying the dowry was sent to the man's house. Dowry usually includes cabinets, clothes, bedding, farm tools, etc. And glutinous rice and piles of glutinous rice Baba dyed red, yellow and white. In the dowry, there must be a hemp fiber given to the bride by my uncle, a basket, a bracelet and a strap given to the bride by my brother. These things should be seen clearly along the road to show their wealth and splendor. The sound of suona continued all the way, and firecrackers were set off every time I went to the village. No matter what the weather is like, the bride should take a flower umbrella. In Honghe area, the man will invite a couple of parents and children to marry the bride at noon. The bride's family treats the married people, relatives and friends, village elders and singers warmly. At the wedding, the guests attending the wedding should hand over three small shells in public as proof of marriage. At this time, the singer began to sing the old, solemn and melancholy Hani (wedding song). In the song, the well-dressed bride, accompanied by her female companion, leaves her family with flowers and a bamboo basket full of clothes or handkerchiefs and cries sadly. After leaving the bride's house, the bridesmaids will be whipped by the girls and boys in the village. Only allowed to fight, not allowed to fight back, until the village. By this time, the bride had led a group of young men to wait halfway. When she saw the arrival of the bride, she immediately lit three loose flames and discharged them in the left, middle and right directions of the road. At the same time, insert a golden bamboo on the left and right sides of the road, and tie a white silk strip between the two golden bamboos on the road. When the bride comes over, crosses the torch and breaks the white line, it means that she officially becomes a member of her husband's family, and the groom can marry the bride home. Hani people in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture welcome their relatives by getting married: the man's family sends a matchmaker, brother or cousin to the woman's house to bring back the bride. The groom went to the woman's house, but the bride was hidden by her companion. The married couple racked their brains to discuss countermeasures, kept consulting with the woman's family and tried their best to find the bride. By all means, through layers of checkpoints, the bride finally found the bride. After many twists and turns, the woman's family agreed to take the bride away. On the way back to the man's house, all married people should sing loudly to celebrate the bride. After the Hani people in Mojiang marry the bride, they should ask the wizard to bless the bride and groom and exorcise ghosts. After the ceremony, the bride can enter the man's house. When entering the door, the groom stands high on the door and lets the bride pass under it, indicating that women should listen to men; When crossing the threshold, the bride should put her right foot in front and her left foot behind, so that her children and grandchildren can have enough to eat and prosper in the future. After the bride enters the room, she must first kowtow to the kitchen god and the ancestor god with a pig's head. The first meal should be accompanied by the bride's mother-in-law, and no one else can attend. Around the Red River, when the bride arrives at her husband's house, she kowtows to the ancestral hall first, then bows to the elders at the wedding reception, and then eats a bowl of rice delivered by the groom himself, indicating that she will never change her mind. In Xishuangbanna, before entering the village, the mother-in-law should dress the bride in a white dress at the entrance of the village. At the door of Party A's house, the married sister of the man cut three hairs and washed the hands and feet of the bride before entering the door. At the wedding reception, the bride and groom should eat the right front legs of the rooster and the pig first, and then propose a toast to the guests one by one. At this time, the old man who can sing Hani tune wishes the bride to have a daughter at the first birth and a son at the second birth, and encourages the husband and wife to live in harmony and grow old together. At the end of the wedding, the older unmarried people in the village were forced to eat pig tails. In Mojiang and Honghe areas, it is forbidden for the bride and groom to share the same room on their wedding night. It is said that sharing a room will produce short-term love. Accompanied by an escort, the bride goes to the bridal chamber to see her off and talk, or make trouble in the bridal chamber, or invite the bride and groom to perform a program. On this night, the bride and groom will distribute eggs, brown sugar, candy and cigarettes to the guests to show their happiness. Guests, regardless of gender and age, should participate in singing and dancing, enjoy themselves and stay up all night. When the bride arrives at the man's house, she will hold a certain ceremony to show that she has become a full member of the man's house and village. For the Hani people in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, the bride will take part in the ceremony of chopping wood and burning fire on the second day of the wedding. In Mojiang and other places, the bride will go to the river or the gutter to fetch water when the cock crows the next day, and cook with the water she has picked. The newlyweds also plant a melon in the field, which symbolizes the future happiness and prosperity of their children. Around the Red River and Yuanjiang River, on the second day, when the bride crows and carries water everywhere, she will sprinkle a handful of rice into the well or river, indicating that she has become a person who drinks this well and river. After the wedding, you usually go back to the door. Bypassing the Red River, the bride went back to the house with the people who saw her off the next day, brought back glutinous rice Baba and other food for her family, neighbors, relatives and friends to taste, and then returned to her husband's house in the afternoon. In Mojiang and other areas, the bride returns to her hometown on the second day of marriage and stays with her parents for a long time. Only when her husband calls when the farm is busy can she stay with her husband's family for a few days and live with her husband's family after giving birth to her first child. In Xishuangbanna, less than three months after their marriage, the bride came to her house accompanied by her father-in-law and uncle to bring gifts to her family. When she came back, her family also gave her presents. The Hani nationality still retains the custom of the man visiting the woman's house. This kind of door-to-door wedding is relatively simple: an elderly person acts as a matchmaker and brings a bottle of wine to the woman's house at dusk on the selected day. The man carried a hat and quilt with him, and the woman killed a chicken to entertain the matchmaker for a meal, and the wedding was completed. When young Hani men and women get married and have their first child, they usually live independently with their parents, but there are also many families with harmonious relationships, but there are also many large families with three or four generations living under the same roof. In the Hani family relationship, the elders are respected, and the younger generation respects and listens to the elders. In the family, the relationship between husband and wife is harmonious and there are few divorces. If divorced, a simple ceremony should be held; Hosted by the middleman, the man cut off a piece of wood, cut three small mouths on each side, then broke the wood in half and took a piece as a voucher. Some places want to eat the last divorce meal, and put a piece of wood in the middle of the table when eating, indicating that they will sever their relationship from now on.