I. Hainan wedding bride price to send what?
Hainan people get married to hire, although it has its own unique customs, but carefully combed up is not complicated. Generally include the need to prepare the following categories of items:
1. bride price
Bride price, Guangdong is known as the wedding lishui, Hainan is known as the red envelope. Mainly the male family to the female side of the purchase of dowry, wedding goods with the specific amount of no limit, generally according to the requirements of the female side of the family and the male side of the family's economic strength. More than 90,000, 100,000, less 20,000, 30,000, show their sincerity on it. After all, marrying a daughter is not selling a daughter, the amount of bride price is not the most important!
2. Suckling Pig
Many places have the custom of preparing pork for the wedding bride price, Hainan is the same. But there is a difference, Hainan wedding bride price to prepare the pork is not a pig, but suckling pig, and if a whole head. Engagement day, slaughtered with a large plate loaded, and affixed with the word "blessing", with other bride price together to send to the woman's home.
3. Cake
The marriage of a woman is a happy event. In Hainan, it is necessary to go from house to house to send cakes to receive the blessing of the crowd. And this cake, generally if the male family to send over, sent by the female family. They are some pasta with auspicious symbols, generally include:
(1) rice cake
Nian Gao means "good luck" is a kind of celebratory cake, usually eaten in the wedding, New Year and other celebratory occasions.
(2) open mouth smile
Hainan area of a homemade small crispy cakes. Made of flour, eggs, deep-fried, crispy and delicious, is a favorite snacks, but also a gift of Hainan wedding bride price must be a gift cake.
(3) bread
In Hainan, the bread has a "fast hair", "rich", "health" and other symbols, is a kind of celebration cake. It is also because of its good meaning, so it has become a Hainan wedding bride price cake must-have.
(4) fried pile
Guangdong, Hainan region are more prevalent in a kind of sesame seed dough, is also deep-fried food, but the outside is crispy inside soft, very delicious. It has the meaning of "sweet life" and "happiness".
Two. Hainan marriage customs
1. marriage proposal
Men and women in love mature, both families agreed, but had to ask a matchmaker in the form of gifts to the door of the marriage proposal, the matchmaker most of the middle-aged women, can speak will say, the mouth of the horse powerful, and have to have a blessed look. But often the man's parents personally to the door to propose marriage, even the matchmaker's red envelope is also saved. The first door to door, the woman hosted a meal most avoid eating raw hairy things, worried about the wedding fly away.
2. fixed fate
The parents of both sides have reached a **** knowledge, willing to marry their children. Choose an auspicious day, the matchmaker to the female side to ask for the birth date, and to give a red envelope to the female side, is considered to be the pressure of life, this process is called "to life". After receiving the female birth date, the male will also be their own children's birth date written out on red paper, with the main female birth date together in the box, please fortune-telling and fortune-telling. During this period change to change to run around to pass the letter, are operated by the matchmaker, counting together is called fate.
3. Ask the relatives
Men's parents for their sons to gather daughter-in-law, they called the matchmaker to bring gifts to the woman's home to ''ask the relatives", mainly to seek the views of women's parents this year to finish the marriage or not. Generally agree, if there are places to consider the brother or sister of the marriage to be carried out in accordance with, of course, there are also family white or mention red, a year should not marry two women. But most places are also in accordance with the ''that mu field has water plowing that mu", especially with the body taboo woman not to mention. If the woman's parents agree, the daughter's birthdate written in advance of the red paper, from the rice bowl out to the living room intentionally thrown on the ground, so that the matchmaker to pick up, commonly known as ''picking up the life''. After that, the matchmaker went to the woman's house for the second time to report the date, informing the date of ''sending cloth" or ''completion of marriage,''.
4. Sending Cloth
Sending cloth is a ceremony to inform the woman or her relatives of the date of the wedding. It is carried by the matchmaker on two burdens, but of course, in today's society, it is sent by automobile. On this day, the male party to prepare gifts: a pair of pig's feet, two knots of red thread, two boxes of marriage fat, a number of cloth, four boxes of cookies, and most importantly, the RMB, usually in five dry to 20,000, at this time, may be the woman's side of the money back to the male side of the lesser amount of money. This day, is the women's most addictive time, the women's side of the neighborhood or left neighbor right door or relatives of the women with the noon to eat Hainan powder, almost half of the lane and all the relatives of the women came to eat Hainan powder, there is no banquet, there is no need to spend money on food, the women can be while eating powder, while chatting, talking, laughing and joking, absolutely no men's business, each family ate and then pack a big bowl to go home, the scene is very lively and extraordinary.
5. bed
Bed, local wedding customs pay great attention to this ceremony, and passed down from generation to generation, along with the direction of the new bed, the direction of the bed relationship can live in harmony, peace and prosperity, the key to the smooth birth of children. Bed generally in the day before the wedding, according to choose the day Mr. bride and groom's birthdays and eight characters to choose the time to be placed in the village, three generations of the same family, the home of the male population of a pair of old couples to install the bed. In fact, the location and direction of the new bed has been set by the "Mr. Day" with the compass, beforehand, has called three or two men with the strength to place it properly. Bed time to arrive, the bed up, in the four bed feet each pad a piece of red paper, the top of the ancient money and spread auspicious leaves, the figure of wealth and good luck. Afterwards, the old couple lights a pair of kerosene-filled lamps in the room for the man to signify the groom's ''addition to the family''. Then the two old men leave the room, lock the door, and give the master the key tied with a red thread. The master of the second morning and then give the key to the bride's mother, the bride's mother the next evening after the bride to meet back to the bride's mother to open, the master to give the two old auspicious red envelopes. The bed ceremony is completed.
6. welcome the bride
Welcome the bride this day, the groom to the hair salon haircut, after that, go home and put on new clothes, and strive to dress up handsome, the image of a new look, in order to row broad, today are dozens of sedan team to welcome the bride, and the last one is 2400 sedan, with the dowry, to welcome the bride the number of vehicles for the single digit. On the way to meet the bride, all the way to the firecrackers. After welcoming the family caravan arrived at the female side, the female side point firecrackers to meet, the groom draped in a gorgeous red blanket, in the matchmaker's guide down to the door of the female side, the female side of the little brother or cousin to come to the tea or cigarette, and then, the groom to give every mouthful of tea to the little brother of two hundred dollars of the red packet, likewise, the cigarette is two hundred dollars of the red packet. Of course, the woman's parents can not confiscate the red packets of the younger brothers. If the woman is a foreigner, that is, in the neighborhood hotel room as a woman to welcome the place. Women's banquets generally at noon, during the period, but also to pay homage to ancestors and other activities. If there is a body taboo of the bride to be along the auxiliary many mats out of the house, until the bride car. In the afternoon to meet the bridegroom caravan back to the bridegroom's home, by the matchmaker to open the door locks of the new room, the bride into the new room, and the bride to be pre-arranged in the direction of the chair to sit down, commonly known as "'sit down". The bride's room to call the children to sit, the boys sit on the bride's bed, and by the male parents or relatives to send tea to drink before getting up, and then held several ceremonies. (1) worship (2) wedding banquet toast (3) mother new official to receive the lamp (4) the new room (5) do "ten friends".
7. Returning to the bride's home, squatting room corner
Early in the morning of the second day of the wedding, the bride's brother or sister will go to the bride's home to pick up the bride to go back to the bride's home until the evening, the groom will go to the bride's home to pick up the bride back. On the third day, the bride can not go out all day, commonly known as "squatting room corner", this day, the bride's good friends will come to chat with the bride, and those who have not seen the bride, curious will come to see the bride today, anyway, today the bride is going to be the exhibits.
Prepare to get married in Hainan new people, if you do not know Hainan wedding customs and bride price to send what may refer to this article, with the elders at home to discuss, I wish you have a romantic and festive wedding, with the love of their lives.
Three. Hainan Miao wedding customs which
In Hainan Province, the Miao people in the circulation of an ancient song, there is such a lyrics "reach out to the brother bites a seal, the more bite the more see sister love deep, green hills are not old traces of survival, see the teeth marks such as seeing people."" Biting hands" is a unique way of expressing the love of young Miao men and women in Hainan.
Every holiday, especially on the third day of the third month, in the betel nut tree, mango forest, creeks and streams, hillside meadows, young men and women sing beautiful and beautiful songs, express their ideals, interests and wishes, seek their own sweetheart. Afterwards, the young men take up their bows and arrows and harpoons and go to the rivers and streams to catch fish, and the girls bake cones of rice and cook fish by the side of the streams, and do not disperse until the sun goes down. If a young man loves his favorite girl, he will use his mouth bow, nose pipe, and leaves to blow a melodious tune at night, and come to the girl's "Long Boudoir" (the hut where the young woman lives) to sing the door-opening song outside. If the girl does not sing the closed door song, will open the door to come out, together to the grass or bamboo forest lit bonfires to sing and dance, mutual expression of love and affection. At this time, the girl listened to the young man's courtship, will shyly pull up the young man's hand bite, if the bite is very light, and very polite, the young man will understand that the girl is to express the refusal or imply that they have a love interest; if the girl bites very heavy, and even bites the blood mark, it means that the girl is very much in love with him, and is willing to accept the love of the young man.
"Bite the hand" after love, they will each take out the most beloved hand letter, such as rings, earrings, bamboo hats, waist basket and other gifts, given to each other as a love object, to show that lifelong companionship.
Four. Hainan "military language" area marriage customs
Hainan Island, speak "military language" area is wider, including Sanya City, Changjiang, Danzhou, Dongfang, Linhao high counties and cities in parts of the region, the population of more than half a million people. Their marriage customs are unique and interesting.
As the saying goes: "empty talk is no proof, the deed is proof". In the old days, these regions used to "write the book of life" as a contract between young men and women. "Parents' orders, the words of the matchmaker." It was the way men and women were married. Boys grow up to twelve, three years old, parents will ask the matchmaker to say marriage, to the family as the basic conditions for the selection of a spouse, to the five features of the right, good needle, reasonable, filial piety and respect for parents as the main content of the choice. Matchmakers to the woman's home, the topic of the groom's outstanding talent, moral character, family wealth, generosity, beauty and happiness, etc., three times to set up, so that the woman's parents pleased with each other.
Then both parents take the child's "book of life" to the fortune-teller, if the two sides of the "eight characters" can be combined with the red paper and life. The man will have to choose a good day, prepare gifts, accompanied by the matchmaker male parents sent to the woman's home, set up two tables of wine to celebrate.
After the engagement, generally to the age of seventeen, eight years old to be married, by the matchmaker to seek the views of the woman's family, if there is no objection, the man will choose the date of the wedding, prepared meat and wine and rice and other gifts sent to the woman's home, the gift more than in the three days before the wedding. Marriage, the woman felt that they want to get married, in order to thank their parents for raising the grace, generally have to cry marriage, the content of which have certain rules, the main content is not to forget the grace of parental upbringing, brother and sister of the brother and sister of the love of the hand and foot, but also the girl's attachment to the family. This real crying, tears and tears, like a song of grief.
When you get married, the bride and groom should not only wear brand new clothes, even the face and hair should be trimmed a bit to show that the old to welcome the new, the desire for a new life. On the wedding day by the boy and girl each one to the groom comb hair, and read the congratulatory message said: "a comb comb down hair light; two comb comb down into a pair of double." ...... After reading, the in-laws present at the wedding shouted goodbye, and then set off firecrackers. These military language area is generally married in an oxcart, to welcome the bride of the oxcart to be decorated, with wooden strips tied up the arch frame, the frame covered with red blankets, frame canopy, the car behind the hanging of a meter sieve, pasted on the "Hei Hei" word, pulling the car of the cattle general requirements of the red yellow oxen, the horns of the oxen pasted on the red paper, the person driving the car to be used to "good life" cousins or cousins, "the life of a good". "cousins or cousins, oxcart sitting with the bride and groom, another ox country sit with the bride and groom.
V. Hainan Li marriage etiquette
Li folk young men and women through marriage, about marriage or by the matchmaker set up, the male family chose the day, sent male and female relatives of three to five people to form a marriage representative, and bring clothes and skirts, two silver dollars, as well as betel nut and tobacco, such as bride price, go to the woman's home to discuss the marriage. The woman's family hosts a banquet, during which the two sides discuss the bride price, the parents' labor expenses, the gifts for the relatives, and the quantities of betel nut, tobacco, wine, and meat. If the woman's family agrees to get married, she will accept the bride-price sent by the man's family and agree on a date for the wedding. If the woman's family does not agree to the marriage, the bride price sent will be returned.
The bride price varies from region to region. In the past, the bride's value in the area of the Haimu system for a gong or a cow, silver yuan 30 to 50 pieces. Today, more yuan, ranging from 8,000 to 10,000 yuan. Interesting bride price pronouns, such as a cow called 1 pumpkin, 30 silver dollars called 3 fish scales, 50 yuan bills called five leaves. Other Li District to money and goods as bride price, such as Baoting, Lingshui, Sanya and other places, the male family to send cash to the female family 2000 yuan, betel nut 120, 120 pounds of pork, 120 pounds of wine, 20 pounds of tobacco and so on. Baisha, Changjiang, Ledong, Dongfang and other places in Li District, bride price heavy, the male family in addition to the female family to send the customary rules of the bride price, but also have to send parents to raise their children labor costs (in the past for the 8 silver dollars, today is the TV), as well as the bride's dowry. Only the Qiongzhong Li area to maintain the routine. Now the Li district marriage processing, folk first put betel nut betrothal, after the government civil affairs department for marriage registration procedures.
Before the wedding, the man's family to do three things: one to the female family to send a bride price, the second preparations for the wedding goods, the third mobilized relatives for the groom to build a new house. The woman's family also has to do two things: the first is to prepare the food and wine to entertain the receiving team; the second is to organize the village women to participate in the bride's procession. After the fall harvest and before the Spring Festival, it is the peak period for the Li people to get married.
Marriage ceremonies are grand and wedding programs are interesting, but they vary from place to place. Marriages are generally characterized by such procedures as receiving the bride, welcoming the bride, drinking blessed wine, teasing the bride, singing songs, picking up water, sending the bride away, closing the banquet, informing the bride, inviting the wife, and rules for the daughter-in-law.
Receiving the bride: On the morning of the wedding, the male family sent three to five men and women to the female family to undertake to receive the bride. Male commonly known as "rooster", is responsible for contact; female is responsible for accompanying the bride. When receiving the bride, the female family hosted a banquet, invited the folk music band to play. Sisters of the bride to convene relatives and friends and village women to participate in the bride to send the team, the more the number of brides the higher the status of the bride, as few as twenty or thirty people, more than a hundred people. Wedding customs: three days before the bride to get married to be clean, please make up and dress up, plucking face sweat hair, trim eyebrows. Bride dressed in gaudy dress, head scarf, wearing earrings, neck wear silver collar, jade bead ring, chest hanging silver plate, silver bell, bead chain, waist tie silver chain, silver bell, hand bracelets, rings, feet wearing silver ring. The bride in the area of the mu system, but also hang delicate small waist basket and wear glittering mica flake straw hats.
The bride left her parents' home, escorted by the escort, the male family to meet the bride personnel to lead the way, walking in front of the procession, there are bands blowing and playing, the scene is very lively. Prevailing bride did not see the groom did not show the wedding custom, Baoting, Lingshui area of the bride, with an umbrella to cover her face; the bride in the area of the system, with a straw hat to cover her face, and pretended to cry and scolded her mother's family to send her to a distant place. If she does not cry or curse, people will say she "misses her husband" and is not filial to her parents. In the Nankai area of Baisha County, the bride is pulled by four accompanying brides to the four corners of the red felt, and the bride hides in it. The Li brides in Qiongzhong County and the coastal areas are veiled and do not show their faces, and they choose to be accompanied by young men and women who were born in the same year as the bride and groom, and whose figures and appearance are similar to those of the bride and groom. Sai dialect area Li, led by the groom to the bridegroom's home to pick up the bride back.
Welcoming the bride: The bridegroom's party arrives at the village entrance of the man's home in the evening and holds a ceremony to welcome the bride. Oya (the male old man who presides over the ceremony), dressed in ceremonial attire and holding a sharp knife, spreads a banana leaf in the center of the intersection into the village, puts an egg on it, faces the bridegroom's party, and reads the words of praying for peace (translated from the Lai language): "Heaven's ghosts, earth's ghosts and evil souls are not allowed to block the road to the gate of the fortress; the sharp knife cuts down the egg to see the big red color, and the mowed leaves are off the market to open the gate of the fortress. Fire is fired to drive away the evils, and torches light the way to guide the relatives; the wedding is a happy event for everyone, and the bride and groom will be happy forever". After Oya prayed, he cut open the eggs with a sharp knife, lit the fire, and the men standing on both sides of the intersection fired powder guns towards the sky, announcing that the bridal party had entered the village safely. At this moment, the bride and the bridal party cross the fire at the intersection before entering the village. At that time, the groom's parents meet the bride and the bridegroom's party in front of the house. The bridegroom's sisters carry the bride's luggage into the house and seat the bridesmaids. Qiongzhong Wanling, Hongdao, Heping and other areas of Li wedding customs, the bride into the male family, the bridegroom's parents stand in front of the house, the male left and female right hand raised, so that the bride walked into the door with her head down, meaning the in-laws to protect the daughter-in-law. Male family also organized a folk band to play "welcome" music.
Drinking Blessed Wine: The wedding banquet is divided into guest and master seats, the main seat of the banquet placed a 60-centimeter-high wine jar, inserted two drinking bamboo tubes, commonly known as "Blessed Wine". To drink the wine, a ceremony is held in the Qiji dialect and Baisharun dialect of the Haimu region, in which tribal oyas (male elders) pay homage to the ancestors, announce the names of the bride and groom to the ancestors, and pray to the ancestors to give the new couple a family and children. Afterwards, the bride and groom, accompanied by their mothers***, drink the blessed wine, during which the men and women set off a fervor of inviting wine and singing songs. In other areas, Li weddings are practiced in which the newlyweds worship their ancestors and use bowls*** to drink the blessed wine. Kamo dialect area of the Li wedding, the male family invited to send relatives to eat, to put money under each rice bowl, the number of two to ten dollars ranging.
The wedding is a unique and interesting program. The form of the bride's teasing the Li District customs are different. Wuzhishan area wedding, send the bride team girls, with straw hats or umbrellas to cover the face, the young man always can not see the girl's face. The young man had to use smoke to smoke their faces, finally see the true face of Mount Lushan. Kamo dialect area Li wedding, the bride to eat, during the groom's family members by the rice bit by bit into the bowl, requiring the bride and accompany the bride to eat only one grain of rice per mouth, the crowd watching, making the bride and accompany the bride dare not eat a big mouthful of food, starving through the wedding night. Ledongha dialect wedding, to the bride and groom **** drink a bowl of wine, to drink, and not allowed to spit out. If the bowl is lifted up and a drop of wine falls, the bowl of wine has to be drunk again. Therefore, the new couple in order to drink the bowl of wine, drinking action more complex, causing the crowd of men and women to laugh.
Qiongzhong Qi dialect wedding, in the bridal chamber, light an oil lamp, placed two chairs against the light, meaning that the figure of those sitting in front of the shadow of the latter, will be bullied later. Therefore, into the bridal chamber, the bride is afraid of being bullied by her husband after marriage, often desperate to grab the chair in front. At weddings in the Meifu dialect of Dongfang City, a woman from the female family carries a "pavilion" (a net bag containing two tube skirts) for the bride as a symbol of baggage, and when she arrives at the door of the male family's house, a man from the male family snatches it away and dumps a pot of pork over the head of the old woman, claiming that it is due to her as a reward. At this moment, those who are quick in their movements lift up the corner of their clothes to hold the pork. Those who are slow to move will be drenched in broth all over the body and get nothing, making the crowd laugh. For weddings in the Heimu system, the man's family steams dried glutinous rice, while the girl of the woman's family is responsible for pounding the glutinous rice balls with a wooden mortar.
The young men always try to grab the glutinous rice balls, if you are not paying attention, often by the girl with a wooden pestle and mortar hit the head and hands, some were caught, will be subjected to the girl with glutinous rice balls sticking all over the hair, three days can not be washed clean. Weddings in the Baisha Run dialect are not "teasing the mother" but "teasing the man", reflecting the legacy of women's rights. When the bridal party arrives at the man's house, the bride and her companion, who can speak and argue, first check the food on the table. If there is raw rice and no pork in the food, the man's family is considered to have lowered the bride's status, and the maid of honor will speak out to criticize, and even pour the meal on the floor. In this regard, the male family had to endure the pain and redo the meal.
Song: Li wedding custom song throughout the wedding, the wedding is the Li folk oral literature exchange event. In the wedding banquet, the old man to the song to pull the words, the middle-aged song to the song song, the youth to the song to cast love, the bride and groom to the song to show love.
Cooking rice, picking water: the wedding to the next morning, the groom's mother to take the new daughter-in-law to see the family original rice bowl, and instructions to put rice in the pot. After the rice is cooked, the bride gives the rice in a bowl to the parents of the male family to eat. The groom's sister takes her new sister-in-law to the river to fetch water for the family. The water is boiled and given to the parents of the man's family to wash their faces.
Giving away the bride: there are two main forms, Ha, Qi, Run, Sai dialect, the wedding is held at night, the next day to send the bride team back. Weddings are held at night, meaning that the sun goes down at night, birds return to their nests and people return home, and the girl is married off back to her husband's family. In the Mev dialect, weddings are held during the day and the bridal party is sent back in the evening of the same day. Weddings are held in the daytime, and it is believed that the bride will not recognize her husband or her family when the wedding is held in the daytime. When the bridal party leaves the man's house, the gifts they bring back are a pair of jars filled with wine, a row of pork or beef, a quart of glutinous rice balls, and items such as betel nuts and tobacco. When the bride is given away, the guests and hosts toast and sing farewells to each other.
The closing banquet: After the wedding, the man's family holds a closing banquet, commonly known as "wedding wine," to thank friends and relatives who donated money and goods and helped during the wedding. At the closing banquet, the newlyweds will listen to the teachings of their friends and relatives. For example, the newlyweds are asked to be thrifty and diligent, and to love each other until they grow old. The man's family has a lot of friends and relatives, a few days after the wedding, there are still people to pay their respects. Therefore, some of the closing banquet up to three days and three nights.
Return to the door: after the wedding, the bride in-laws live for a period of time, they go back to the bride's home to inform the parents of life in the male family, as well as the husband's good or bad for his wife. The new bride goes back to her mother's home with gifts such as a small jar of rice wine, a small basket of glutinous rice balls and things like betel nut and tobacco. She stays at her mother's house for a few days and waits for her husband to take her back. If the newlyweds are not in good terms, the bride can resist the marriage.
Inviting Wife: The first time a new bride returns to her mother's home, the husband goes to the woman's home to invite his wife home. When inviting the wife, the son-in-law to the house of the parents-in-law to pay attention to human courtesy, behavior should be in line with the etiquette, to know the size of the woman's family of each person's honorifics, but also to be able to drink and sing. At the banquet of the female family, the girls in the female village are often pestered to drink and sing. Son-in-law in the invitation to the wife, the performance of the good, the female family is very happy, said the daughter has found a "new Paman" (good husband); some wives leave their parents' home the same day with their husbands to go back to the next day for fear of shyness only to go back. Thereafter, the wife does not have to be invited back to her husband's home. If the wife does not want to go back to her husband's house after the invitation, she says that it is a "taste of Hoaipaman", which means a divorce.
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