Qinghai people's customs:
1, Qinghai funeral
Qinghai Han, funeral is a person died, by family members and friends of the deceased held mourning and burial of a series of folk ritual activities. According to the Qinghai people's actual funeral prevail! Funeral is also the same for the Huanghe Han, and maintain the ancient funeral customs.
In the Qinghai Han funeral customs, before and after this matter is divided into: mourning, mourning, obituaries, coffins, mourning, please dead, wake up, condolences, checking the mourning, turn the scriptures, send the dead, up the spirit, the burial and other ceremonies.
2, the wedding
The wedding day early in the morning, the groom with the wedding officiating people with the bridegroom team, ready to go on a high horse, with a bride price, go to the woman's home to marry the bride. The groom carries a large wine jar. The neck of the altar is tied with a white hatha, and there is also a large flat square of water glue hanging on a red silk rope.
This piece of water glue symbolizes the love of the groom and the bride, as this water glue fit, love each other forever. Others, some carrying whole goats, some carrying hatha, etc., come to the woman's house. The master of the woman's house and her friends and relatives, seeing the horsemen welcoming the bride from afar, beat the gongs and drums and blew the conch on the grass in front of the yurt, welcoming the bridegroom.
Dismounting from their horses a few dozen paces away from the yurt, the bridegroom offered a hatta to each of the bride's parents, and then offered hattas to his siblings. When the parents receive the gifts, they give their high blessings to the groom and the bride.
3, folk ditties
Qinghai Han folk ditties are one of the categories of Chinese folk song genres. Generally refers to folk songs and dances popular in towns and cities. After generations of circulation, in the art of more processing, with a balanced structure, rhythmic regularity, delicate tunes, soft and so on. There are a lot of popular names, such as Xiaoqu, Slang, Lane Ballad, Village Small Song, City Customs Small Order, Common Song, Time Tune, Silk Tune, Silk String Singing, and so on.
Expanded Information:
1, temporary stove
In the wedding banquet, all the way relatives and friends will come to the ceremony, when the people will be a lot of people, only in their own stove to cook and burn the tea, then simply can not cope with, generally will build a temporary stove, used to cook tea, cooking broth, do some simple cooking to treat guests. These are prepared before the guests arrive.
2. Toasting
After the guests are seated, the family will take turns to come up to toast, and the Qinghai people must toast with both hands on a saucer holding 4-8 small wine glasses. Guests drink, first with a finger dipped in the cup of wine to the air three points, which is the ancient custom of the first people of ethnic minorities meaning: heaven and earth and people, and then the cup of wine in a drink.
3, gift money
In the wedding, all the guests are not empty-handed, everyone will bring to the new couple's gift of money, usually in the family as a unit, their own family members to give the gift of money in the red envelope and then handed over to the accountant.
4, the bookkeeper
that is, the person who receives the money at the wedding, this person can not be the mother's family or the in-laws, if both families trust the elders can, usually the bookkeeper will be all the guests of the gift of the money in a red ledger, written on the names of the people who took the gift and the amount of gift money, black and white, red paper, clear.
5, the table on the kang
In the guests to the wedding banquet, the location of the seat is also different, all the guests in the elders will sit on the kang, above the table, every dish is the first on the here, to show respect for the elders.
6, full plate
Wedding party to the family of the first dish called "full plate", that is, cold dishes platter. Inside is a cold three silk, outside with cucumber, carrots, pork, lunch meat, etc. covered, and then garnished with eggs and parsley. This dish is also said: the future life encountered a variety of things, but no matter what everyone is a family from now on, to be harmonious.
7. Carrying the needle and thread
This is called "carrying the needle and thread" when the mother's family leaves. On the one hand, it is to ask the in-laws to treat their daughters well in the future; on the other hand, it is to show the bride's dowry to everyone present.
The first one to carry is the chef of the wedding banquet, to hang red to the chef, and then toast, the purpose is to thank the chef for cooking, do not neglect the guests. The second to carry the needle and thread, is the matchmaker, although now are free marriage, but still will symbolically invite a respected old man to fill this role.
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