Yi Wedding Customs
1. Yi Wedding Customs: Worship of the God of Happiness.
On the day of the wedding, the groom needs to build a green shed with branches and other things in the yard of his house. The green shed needs to be decorated inside and outside, wearing red, and the center of the shed should contain the tablet of the Yi Western Gods for worship. At this time of the year everyone will sing and dance together and it is very lively.
II. Yi marriage customs: splashing water.
When the man picks up his relatives, the woman his family will splash water to welcome him. The Yi believe that after splashing water, the girls don't if they marry the man, they don't have to go far away to fetch water. Even in the dry season, they can eat and drink.
Three. Yi wedding custom: drinking tea and sugar water.
After pouring the water, the Yi people need to start the entertainment. They will serve tea to the reception team first, then drink sugar water, which means bitter before sweet. Then set up the drinks and ask the women elders to make some auspicious speeches and put two red ribbons on the groom. After that, you can start the banquet. At the banquet, the groom will make a toast at each table and after all the guests have finished eating, he can take his bride home.
Four. Yi wedding customs: fasting.
Before the wedding, the bride can neither eat nor drink water, because they think drinking water will make them go to the toilet, which is bad and unlucky.
Verb Yi wedding custom: to cry for marriage.
Before the Yi wedding, the bride has to be accompanied by a female companion to cry for marriage. While crying, they sing the Song of Crying Marriage.
Yi marriage taboos
1. It kills on the day of the wedding is not normal. If Zhai kills an animal on the wedding day, there is no bile or the color of the spleen is not the right color, which is different from the usual, and the symbolism is not good.
2. It is forbidden to marry Zhai to kill sheep.
3. Avoid pregnant women coming to and from other people's weddings. If it s a pregnant woman, then it is better not to go to the wedding. Besides Yi, there are other places that forbid pregnant women to attend weddings, and they think it is not good to be happy. Of course, the bigger thing is to consider the health of pregnant women. After all, there are too many people attending the wedding, so this little bump is inevitable.
4. Avoid pregnant women combing the bride's hair. There is a sister in the family to get married, usually a sister-in-law to help clean up, but pregnant can not give her hair combing, sewing dowry.