Yi nationality is the sixth largest minority in China, mainly distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi. According to the sixth national census of 20 10, the population of Yi people is about 8.7 million.
The marriage of Yi people has obvious characteristics, namely, intermarriage within the family, intermarriage outside the family, intermarriage within the class, preferential intermarriage between uncles and aunts and prohibition of intermarriage between uncles and aunts. These characteristics are most prominent in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture.
Yi people's marriage custom-the bride's hunger for water mainly comes from the legend of Yi people's "tiger wife". Its main performance is that the bride should reduce her diet a few days before the wedding, and she is not allowed to eat or drink before marriage.
The custom of building a green shed refers to building a green shed with branches in the middle of the man's yard. At the same time, Yi singers will continue to sing the green shed tune with national characteristics, and then relatives and friends will get together.
When the south goes to the woman's house to celebrate the wedding, it also accepts splashing water from her brothers and sisters and men and women of the same age, which mainly means "celebrating". At the same time, it also means that the bride will get richer and richer after she marries her parents.
Then, the bride's family will entertain the southern wedding team "tea first, then sugar water". The custom of drinking tea and sugar water is mainly called "bitter before sweet", which is also a good blessing to a bunch of new people.
In addition, there are many detailed customs for Yi people to get married, such as dancing with their left feet, bowing and toasting, seeing off relatives and so on. In fact, most of these wedding customs are good wishes for married couples.