Young men and women through labor and production, festivals, participate in weddings, celebrate the harvest, social gatherings, business contacts and string of girls and other activities, know each other, and produce the heart of love, you can look for opportunities to sing with each other. Such as meeting on the trail, meeting by the zip line, laboring in the four rooms, chopping wood in the dense forest, you can turn your back, hand on the ear, and throw a song to the person you adore. When the other party hears it, they will sing back. This is a back and forth, mutual questions and answers, the distance between the feelings of the two people will be drawn closer and closer.
The next day after breakfast, the woman's family formed a lively send-off team, carrying, carrying the dowry, by the bride's uncle carrying the bride, in the firecrackers and the sound of musket fire away from the woman's home. At this time, the bride said she could not bear to part with her parents and sisters, to ceremoniously cry, but the crying generally does not last long, the guests sang (send off song). It can be said that the bride is in the song and crying on the road.
To the door of the man's home, from the bamboo building to the courtyard, gathered everywhere the man to welcome the bride. People stood on both sides of the street and greeted the bride with grand ceremonies, welcoming the guests who sent the bride.
The bride into the men's home after the bamboo building, the women's home to send the marriage team out of the seven or eight strong young men, they jumped around the men's home fire (stomping dance) to symbolically check the bride to live in the bamboo building is solid. After the dance, the bride people into the house to sit.
At this time, the old man sitting around the fire while drinking, while singing the Lisu (start-up song), to sing to educate the newcomers not to forget the history of the nation, not forgetting the kindness of the ancestors start-up difficulties. Then, the singers from the man's family and the woman's family start to sing to each other. Sometimes individuals sing in pairs, sometimes a lead singer, from the chorus, only to hear the song bursts, one after another, and interspersed with bursts of laughter, the festive atmosphere rendered very thick. Singers sing with their right hand on the shoulder of the partner, the left hand on the lower part of the ear, with the beat of the tune of a left and a right swing, sung by the tune of bright and lively, beautiful and smooth melody. Wedding day, the woman's family to send people in the man's home by the hospitality, in addition to the wine as much as possible to enjoy, the man's family is also a set of people to come over to toast, persuade, resulting in a number of senders into a drunken man. The more drunk the bridegroom is, the more the man's family feels happy, and will even become a beautiful story.
The next morning, the people returned to send relatives, the male party to entrust them with some meat and wine to the female parents, in view of the wedding day of the newlyweds do not room, so the second night before the newcomers with the room, we should ask an old man in the fireside wine for the newlyweds blessing: "all the world's insects, fish, birds and beasts are pairs of pairs, I hope that you couples grow old together." A few days after the wedding to more than ten days, the groom accompanied the bride back to the door.
Back to the door, the groom should bring to the pork, Baogu Poop, tripod and other things to the father-in-law's home, at the same time to help in the father-in-law's home to do more than ten days of work to return hand in hand. When returning, the mother will give her daughter, who has been a bride, a chicken, a pot and a sickle, etc., to bless the new couple's family with good luck and happiness. The Lisu people had a cradle marriage in history, the custom of interlocking marriage and robbing marriage, but now has basically disappeared.