Is it good for chickens and rabbits to get married? Hua county's special marriage customs.

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Hua county is located in the eastern part of Guanzhong Plain, where the people are well-off, the folk customs are simple, and the traditional marriage customs are very distinctive.

In Hua County, marriage was the fate of parents and the words of matchmakers, so "early marriage" was very popular. When the child reaches the age of 12, the parents are engaged. The local boy is called "daughter-in-law" and the girl is called "looking for the host family". Boys and girls who are engaged can't go back on their word when they grow up. Nowadays, with the progress, "early marriage" is becoming less and less. Free love and matchmaker introduction are the main ways for young people in hua county to get married, and the engagement ceremony is greatly simplified. However, the traditional marriage customs in Huaxian County are very distinctive and complicated, and a couple has to go through many procedures from engagement to marriage.

Engagement:

Matchmaker acts as matchmaker on auspicious day.

Before engagement, both men and women should invite a matchmaker to bridge the gap and play a coordinating role. If both parties agree to get married, they should first pull clothes, that is, the man pulls four or six clothes for the woman, as well as shoes, socks, bags, scarves and wool. Then choose an auspicious day to get engaged. The auspicious days for hua county's engagement and marriage are: Wednesday, Saturday and September. There is no need to look at them, and there are also dates chosen by both men and women in birthdays. In addition, China traditional festivals such as New Year's Day, May Day, November Day and Spring Festival are also good days for engagement and marriage. When engaged, parents, matchmakers and important relatives of both parties should attend, and the man's family should hold a rich banquet, commonly known as "wedding banquet" or "gift giving".

The engagement ceremony was very grand. The man will kill pigs and sheep, invite cooks to make banquets and set up tents to entertain guests. Important relatives, friends and godparents of both sides will bring gifts to the banquet to celebrate. Generally, there are five or six tables, and at least dozens of tables. Noodles are perfect, which means "perfect", and the staple food is minced meat noodles, which means "the marriage is long and long". After dinner, the man's matchmaker should give the clothes, gifts and cash gifts prepared by the man for the woman to the woman's matchmaker. The cash donated can be roughly divided into "Renyi Pro" in 240 yuan, "Pu Pro" in 360 yuan, and the above "Sky-high Pro". In addition, the man should prepare a four-color gift for the woman. Four-color gifts include watches, scarves, bicycles, and umbrellas (meaning that the man protects the woman from the wind and rain). The woman should also give the man four-color gifts in return, which generally include shoes, socks, hats and handkerchiefs. Now people's living conditions are good. Four-color gifts include houses, cars, platinum and gold jewelry, different amounts of cash and so on. After the ceremony, if both parties have no opinions, the engagement ceremony will be completed. Since then, in traditional festivals in China, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival, unmarried men and women should give gifts to each other. The man's gift is more important than the woman's. When the woman comes to the man's house for a farewell ceremony, the man's house should be warmly treated.

Choosing an auspicious day means choosing a wedding day, commonly known as "wedding day". Generally, the man chooses an auspicious day and lets the matchmaker discuss it with the woman's family. After obtaining the consent, determine the wedding date. Please also ask Mr. Wang to calculate the auspicious day, which depends on the "good month" and "bad month" of men and women. There is a song "Good Moon" in marriage: "May 7th welcomes chickens and rabbits, February 28th welcomes tigers and monkeys, March 9th welcomes snakes and pigs, April 7th welcomes dragons and dogs, cattle and sheep five, ten, one and six, rats and horses." Now this bad habit has gradually decreased. Some people set the dates on Wednesday, Saturday and September, and some arrange them on holidays such as May Day, November Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival.

After setting a good day, the woman's parents will prepare a dowry for her daughter, including six to eight to ten quilts and daily necessities. The man's family will decorate the new house for the couple and have a double happiness, stick grilles. Window grilles are cut with red paper, including dragons and phoenixes, mandarin ducks playing in water, magpies climbing branches, auspicious celebrations and so on.

Get married:

Crown prostitute "cries and marries" and leaves home

Marriage, commonly known as marrying a daughter-in-law, is a traditional wedding, which is very grand, exquisite and complicated. First of all, please invite the wedding person (commonly known as the deacon) and the person who receives the gift (commonly known as the gift pen) the day before the wedding; Write couplets on the gate and bridal chamber door; Invite the best man and bridesmaid (commonly known as the best man); Ask a chef; Please ask relatives and friends who do chores (commonly known as running around). Their tasks are to borrow furniture, build sheds, buy things, boil water, entertain guests and so on. Inviting bands (commonly known as turtles or artists); There are two kinds of sedan chairs: sedan chairs, dividend sedan chairs and green sedan chairs. The top of the sedan chair is conical, engraved with "Kirin pine nuts" and hung with red hydrangeas at four corners, consisting of four people. After that, the sedan chair has gradually disappeared. In the 1950s, people usually took trolleys, in the 1960s, they took bicycles, in the 1970s, they took trucks, and now they usually take cars.

At the wedding ceremony, the man's house is called "picking up the daughter-in-law" and the woman's house is called "sending her daughter". On the morning of the wedding, the bride was dressed by the bridesmaid (commonly known as the comb girl) and dressed in a red silk dress waiting to be married. The groom is wearing a robe (blue satin), a hat and red flowers, accompanied by his uncle, aunt, best man, sedan chair, musicians and so on. Riding a horse full of flowers, carrying a "crested corolla", a parasol, lotus seeds (meaning to be connected by flesh and blood) and the bride's maid of honor put on a crown, Hong Xiuxie and red hijab for the bride, and with the help of the maid of honor, bid farewell to the ancestral temple and parents, brothers and sisters. At this moment, the bride is reluctant to part with tears, which is very touching, commonly known as "crying marriage" or "crying sedan chair". Finally, with the music playing, the brothers carried the sedan chair, and the younger brothers and sisters carried the sedan chair. With the sound of firecrackers, the sedan chair starts, musicians play in front, then the groom rides in front of the sedan chair, and finally the guests of the bride's family line up in a long line, commonly known as "wedding banquet". At this time, the villagers in the bride village will stop the sedan chair and ask for wedding candy or red envelopes, commonly known as sedan chairs. The scene is very lively.

Fireworks should be set off when sedan chairs cross bridges and intersections; If two sedan chairs meet on the way (commonly known as collision), they should exchange handkerchiefs to make way, indicating that they will not disturb each other and both sides will be safe; If the coffin is lost, you must change lanes, or cover the sedan chair with red cloth and move on in the sound of gunfire. As the wedding procession is approaching, the guns will be fired and the in-laws will go out to meet them. The mother-in-law spread a red blanket on the bench, and the bride got off the sedan chair and sat on the blanket. At this time, firecrackers were ringing and jubilant.

Gifts, commonly known as "salute". On the wedding day, relatives and friends should salute, and uncles, aunts, godparents and godmothers should perform four kinds of heavy gifts, such as steaming a pair of tigers, steamed buns, lucky money, covering the groom with a red quilt cover (commonly known as skin red), and some people only pay cash, commonly known as "dry gifts".

Meet the bride:

"Gaomantou Cuisine" —— A Wonderful Flower in hua county Rural Wedding Custom

Visiting the church, commonly known as "worshipping heaven and earth", is the highlight of the whole wedding. By the deacons in robes and hats, the bride and groom worship the heavens and the earth, the high hall and the husband and wife. The bride and groom worship heaven and earth with incense, candles, offerings and memorial tablets of "heaven, earth, monarch, relatives and teachers"; There are "Mogao Pots" on the left and right sides of the table, which is a wedding custom in hua county. "Mogao Pan" is a noodle style erected on both sides of the wedding hall, which is generally presented by the groom's immediate family. Its center is a column made of tall reeds or bamboo, the column is wrapped in red paper, red chopsticks are inserted around the red line, and various noodles are tied into nine to eleven layers. The noodles inserted are "Ruyi Ping An Bao Zi", which symbolizes the early birth of the couple and their children. There is a saying that "Qing Ji has an extra steamed bun" to express wealth and happiness, and its shape is dependent on chickens and fish; There is a "Fuxi Linmen Steamed Bread" to celebrate the happiness of the wedding, which is shaped like a flying bat; There is a "shoulder-pole hook steamed bread" to show good marriage, and its shape is connected by clouds. The cylindrical steamed stuffed bun is filled with Pisces from bottom to top, and there are auspicious animal cakes such as Pisces * * *, Pisces * * sheep head, fishtail phoenix, dragon and phoenix. And the higher floor is filled with rich dolls symbolizing the reproduction of life. A "high steamed bread dish" weighs about 50 kilograms, commonly known as four buckets of wheat. From a distance, "Gao Bao Zi Cai" seems to be a beautifully carved Chinese watch, resplendent and magnificent, which makes the wedding very grand and particularly warm, and has become a great spectacle in the rural wedding customs in hua county.

In particular, the Song of Forage, written by Nakano describing the marriage customs in Huaxian County, was sung by the wedding deacon.

Welcome to the sedan chair: "The sedan chair is in front of the door, on both sides of the host and guest, welcoming the lady with drums and music, and celebrating the family dinner with firecrackers. Lu' an Feng Ming is happy, Lantian is planted with beautiful jade, and it is auspicious to live in happiness. A good daughter is matched with a good husband. "

The words of the sedan chair: "One sprinkle gold, two sprinkle silver, and three sprinkle newcomers into the door." The deacon sprinkled red confetti while reading.

Words for entering the temple: "The scenery of the flower room is splendid, colorful clouds are auspicious, and the qingluan dance has been going on for thousands of years, and the husband and wife sang together in Shichang."

Worship words: "One worships the heavens, the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars, and the other worships the ancestors of Gaotang."

The words of husband and wife worship: "The weaver girl in the sky will be a cowherd, a talented person and a beautiful woman. Now that the two families are married, people are thriving. "

Xie Yi's words: "Farewell: drivers of carts, helpers of women, confidants, spectators, recipients of gifts, congratulations from all directions, mats, blankets, digging holes in nests, chopping vegetables, kneading dough, burning pots to collect firewood and smashing charcoal, picking onions and peeling garlic, carrying water and rolling donkeys to grind noodles and sweeping the floor." Goodbye and finish your work.

Entering the bridal chamber, after the ceremony, a couple, accompanied by the best man and bridesmaid, entered the bridal chamber and toasted each other. Later, the bride touched out four kinds of dried fruits placed in the four corners of the kang by the groom's family: walnuts, red dates, peanuts and chestnuts, which meant seeing red and having a baby early. At this time, the bride's younger brother asked the groom for a red envelope in the name of hanging door curtains and curtains, which made a lively joke. When changing a bowl of rice, the person who carries the plate can ask the bride for a red seal.

After entertaining guests, playing house and returning home, marriage is accompanied.

Banquet, commonly known as "hospitality" or "seating". There are usually two meals, one of which is a plate of nine dishes (four cold dishes and five hot dishes) plus steamed buns. The second meal, a plate of four or six cold dishes, drink first, serve while drinking, and punch in to order food is very pleasant. After drinking, serve a plate of nine-dish steamed buns. There is tea before and after meals.

The order of seats is different from that of seats. Generally, the bride's family (commonly known as the bride's family) takes a seat first, and her parents-in-law, uncles and aunts are seated. After the banquet begins, the bride and groom will propose a toast to each guest, and the main relatives will return gifts or cash gifts when they receive the wine. This kind of gift is commonly known as "recognizing relatives", and the gifts and gifts given are commonly known as "meeting gifts". In the evening, the elders will continue to eat media seats, which are very particular, usually the immediate elders of the bride and groom and the matchmakers of both sides. There are fruits, snacks, dried fruits, steamed bowls and so on.

Playing with the house is commonly known as "disturbing the new house" or "playing with the wife". While the elders were eating the media seats, colleagues began to make trouble in the new house. Most of them are young men and little wives. They come up with all kinds of programs for the bride and groom to perform to show the sweetness of the couple. No matter how funny they are, the bride and groom must obey and not show impatience. Its content is rich and colorful, including eating apples, fishing, biting candy, lighting cigarettes, elegant tongue twisters, riddles, singing and so on. The whole noisy room has the significance of premarital education, communicating love and wishing good luck. After the completion of the new house, people left one after another and the wedding was over.

Huimen is the closing ceremony of the wedding. On the third day after marriage, if it is postponed for one day, the bride and groom will bring twelve buns, tobacco and alcohol and other gifts back to their parents' home, which is called "returning home". Parents-in-law should hold a banquet, and son-in-law should kowtow to parents-in-law and clan elders. The bride's sister-in-law and sisters will play with her new son-in-law until dusk, but they must get back to the groom's house before dark that day and can't spend the night at their parents' house. Ten days after marriage, her family will take her back to live for ten days, commonly known as "staying for ten days." From then on, the bride and groom began their married life.

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Editor: huazhou literature and history data set

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