(A) Lantern Festival

Chinese Han yearly festival customs. Contains fertility customs and culture. Popular in Guidong Cenxi, Fuchuan and other counties, has a history of more than a hundred years. Time for the first ten days of the first month of the lunar calendar, where the previous year to add a boy's family, to the community temple to hang lanterns. Lights 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.

Hanging lanterns of many people, the temple naturally formed lantern shed. The family drink lantern wine on the same day, grandparents to the little baby clothes, carriers, toys, friends, relatives, neighbors gift clothes and red envelopes to congratulate, *** drink with the joy. Lanterns on the sixteenth day of the first month.

(2) check the day

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, reported to their parents, trust the media to communicate, the man to the woman to send the bride price, and then set the date of marriage.

In the old days, more first please fortune-teller row "eight characters", such as the fate of the match before proceeding. In some places, both parents will be engaged for their children. Such as the Quanzhou County area, the two sides after the agreement.

Matchmaker on behalf of the male party to send meat and wine clothing to the female party, the date agreed to accompany the female parents and uncle to the male family meeting, the male party hosted a banquet. The young man will hold a pot of wine and pour it to the woman's uncle first and then to his own uncle, and then to the guest first and then to the host in order to toast the wine.

The two sides agreed on a date for the wedding, and the engagement was finalized. Afterwards, men and women sent women's gifts, bride price, women's dowry preparation, men's furniture preparation, the wedding will be held on schedule. If the woman urged the wedding, will do a pair of glutinous rice poi (commonly known as "reunion poi") sent to the male family, the man understood the spirit, hospitality and invited neighbors to accompany the guests. Generally respect the woman's initiative to advance the wedding date.

(C) He Lang song

Chinese Han marriage customs. Popular in the northeast of Gui Xing'an County area. After the ceremony and dinner, friends and relatives surround the groom in the main hall and sing a song of congratulations. There are also jokes and witticisms.

Family and friends sing a song, the groom drink a cup of wine. Sing until midnight, send the groom into the cave. Female singers closed the door to wait, men and women singing "open the 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 strength is not winners can be a male singer on behalf of drink).

Then sing "Happy Wine", the new couple drink a cup together. At the end of the ceremony, the singer closes the door and sings the "Door Closing Song" to end the wedding.

(4) Sitting in the Red Hall

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 receive the admonition of their elders. The bride wears a red hanging decorations, accompanied by sisters from the same class, sitting in the hall, singing the "crying marriage song" in a soft voice, remembering the parents' kindness, and recounting the love of sisters.

Sisters urge the bride to honor the elderly, and harmony with siblings after the door, praise the groom handsome and hardworking. When the bride complained about the unhappy heart, the sisters persuade and comfort. Singing late into the night clothes to say goodbye and give gifts.

The groom is also accompanied by the same class of brothers sitting in the main hall of their own homes, to accept the elders thrifty family, the teaching of the world. At the end of the teaching, the old man retired from the hall, the boys joked and joked and chased the bridegroom, and the fun dispersed late at night.

(E) key

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

Before the ceremony, the groom to send the bridegroom to send a sealed package to discuss the key, so that after the ceremony to open the box, show which the rice money, symbolizing the marriage of the grains, family wealth. The groom adds to the packet several times after the bridegroom has refused to accept it. The bridegroom accepts the sealed package, the bridegroom to ask for the key, joyfully and the bride to pay homage.

(F) look at the house

Chinese Han wedding customs, one of the important procedures in rural marriage. Also known as looking at the door, checking the house. Popular in most counties and villages in Guangxi. At that time, the woman and the two girls called "with the aunt" in more than 10 friends and relatives, accompanied by men and women to visit the home (there are women themselves do not go).

The man hosted a banquet. Matchmakers introduce the two sides of the marriage to get acquainted. The woman's friends and relatives on behalf of the request for gifts, the man is usually accepted at that time, and give all the guests "traveling money".

The next day, the two sides through the matchmaker to discuss. In some places, it is also allowed to enter the man's room to rummage through boxes and boxes to check the real situation, and then through the matchmaker to discuss the marriage.

(7) Black room bride kidnapping

Chinese Han marriage customs. It is popular in the area of He County in Guidong. In the lower course of the mountainous areas, the bride after two days and two nights of crying marriage, the day of the door early in the morning with the female companions with the hidden black room. Men and women to welcome the arrival of the marriage team, the bride's older brother (or cousins) and pro-Wei in the male youth broke into the door.

The female companions threw sand and waved bamboo sticks to resist. The robbers try to drag the female companions out of the door to remove the disturbance. If two robbers lose, the number increases to four or even more than 10, until the bride is forced to carry out the door.

Then two (or four) women in the men's wedding party take turns carrying the bride to the groom's home. In the competition for the bride, the man gave the woman to wipe the pot smoke ink, the woman tore the man's clothes, so that the ancient legacy of the marriage robbery evolved into a young men and women's jokes and playfulness.

(10) worship colorful language

Chinese Han marriage customs. Popular in most counties and villages in Guangxi. An important program in the wedding. Often by the groom's uncle to light a pair of candles on the table, and say colorful words of congratulations and prayers.

For example, in the He County area of Guidong, commonly used colorful words: "Dragon alone light light, high light Huatang, husband and wife and life, happiness and fortune into a double", "hand in hand with the bonus zhangji, congratulations on nephews marrying the bride, luanfenghuang and song and add fortune, husband and wife and harmony for a hundred years long." After the words of congratulations, the bride and groom worship heaven and earth, ancestors, and to worship the marriage.

Chinese Han Chinese annual festival custom. It is popular in the area of Guiyang, northeast of Gui. When the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Local folklore, is the night of the weaving girl will meet with the cowherd, during the day she dresses up, rouge powder scattered all over the sky, so the name.

Then the women took out the clothes and boxes sun exposure, and pots of water, water, put a few grass to show that a hundred medicines, outdoor sun temperature, called "sunshine perfume". It is said that wearing a "fragrant day" sun-dried clothes, washed "perfume" can prevent plague, promote health, and can make couples more harmonious and loving, as if the cowherd and the weaving maiden. Folk have "July incense, sun cage box" of the proverb.

Expanded Information

China's Han people are the world's largest ancient ethnic group, because of its long history and developed culture, so the local customs are colorful and rich.

Chinese Han culture is rich and colorful, in the historical process of its formation and development, open and open-minded, eclectic, forming the Qilu, Central Plains, Yanzhao, Guanzhong, BaShu, JingChu, WuYue, LingNan, DianQian, Fujian-Taiwan, SongLiao, HuiJiangan, etc., each with its own distinctive regional culture, which reflects the plurality of the Han culture and colorful, and so on.

The Chinese Han people are an ancient agricultural people, since ancient times, the agricultural population has always accounted for more than 80% of the total population, agricultural customs have a long history. Since ancient times, the Han Chinese have regarded agriculture as their primary occupation. As early as the Warring States period, Han Fei put forward the idea of "taking agriculture as the basis".

He said, "The reason why the warehouse endowment is solid is that the basic business of plowing and farming is also." Han Fei Zi - Gui Envoy Chapter. Under the influence of the idea of agriculture, the Chinese Han society has formed the principle of "men plowing and eating, women weaving and clothing" (Shangjunshu - The Book of Strategies).

"Men plowing and women weaving" can be said to be a typical picture of Chinese Han society. It is only in modern times, especially after liberation, that it has changed considerably

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