A special wedding
Shunde County, Shiken Township and the nearby Nanhai County, belonging to the seven Fort area, to the early 1930s, there is still such a special wedding: not only different from the county, and with the rest of the county is different.
First, the colorful moped every other day to return. If the first day of the month for the wedding date, then the real marriage should be the second day. According to local rules, the male side to meet the bride of the colorful marshes must be in the first day after sunset to the female home to go, colorful marshes to the married woman only after grooming. But dress up things, not only parents can not do, and even comb maid maid can not do, only by the girlfriends in the group of companions for its attire, and the group of companions is not that night, until the next day when the sky will be dawn, began to slowly move up to the hand. Therefore, the colorful moped back to the male family, is already the second day of noon. This practice, in fact, is to make the groom and the bride can not be married on the date of the round room.
The second is to welcome the bride without drums. Not only the poor so, even the children of the rich and powerful is also so. This practice has its historical roots. Things are like this: according to legend, the Ming Dynasty, Zhengde years, the university scholar, the Prince Master Liang Reserve's third son of the Prince Liang Sanbian, Shiken township people, by his father's power, rampage, misbehavior, hijacking the people's women. Once heard the sound of drums and music, they will visit the township neighbors of a marriage, led by its pawns, suddenly went to "welcome the bride", occupy the wedding guest of honor. If the bride is slightly beautiful, the groom will be imprisoned, or driven out and then occupy the bride. If a strong woman, to resist, it is often killed, so I do not know how many people died under its violence. Fear of their power to endure the humiliation of life, disobedience to those who sued the government offices, the officials fear their power, but false accusations on the crime. So the neighborhood of hundreds of townships, each other quit when welcoming the bride not drums and music, has been passed down.
Second, self-combing women, do not fall home
In the old society, Shunde County, unmarried girls are stored in the braid, after marriage is bundled bun. In the old days, unmarried girls in Shunde County kept their hair in braids, and after they got married, they tied their hair in buns. However, there are still a lot of self-combing women and women who do not fall into the family, including Panyu, Zhongshan, Nanhai counties, there are also similar situations.
The so-called self-combing women, is through a specific ceremony of their own easy braid and bun, to show that they are determined not to get married, in order to spend the rest of their lives, known as "self-combing" or "combing up", that is, self-combing women.
Shunde self-combing woman
The so-called not to fall home, is another kind of young girl, or forced by the parents of the order, can not be combed up, had to return to the mother's home after the wedding ceremony, to avoid living with their husbands; or, the first self-combing is not married to the old, will be half old, then another visit to a reliable man, funding for his concubine, on behalf of the heir, he is living in the nominal husband and wife to show that it is not unmarried; or, although already married, but the parents of the parents to the old, to show that it is not unmarried; or, the parents of the parents to the old. Although married, but the parents of the woman reeling daily income of one dollar and several hairs, do not urge them to fall home, even if they go back to their husband's home, only one to two times a year. Some even funded for their husbands to set up a concubine, the name is married, but also live alone. These are all known as not falling home women.
However, this does not fall home also have been broken. According to the newspaper at the time there is such a story. Shunde half of the village woman Luo Jinxiu, to reeling for life, quite a savings. Her father with the media will be married to the South China Sea, Xiqiao people Deng as his wife, after the wedding, married two years from the male family to live. Deng in Guangzhou business, whenever the season to return home, his mother will be a mikoshi welcome Jinxiu, but were rejected, or hiding, do not meet. Deng had no choice but to tell his brothers. When the Ching Ming Festival was approaching, Deng wanted to return to his hometown to visit the graves, and his clan brother, a certain A, came up with a scheme for him to lure his wife out of the province. To Deng fraudulent death in the ferry to and from Shun province, covered with rotten mat, by A sent to Deng's wife's mother to report the funeral, saying that Deng home to visit the tomb on the way back to the provincial capital, in the ferry phlegm and died. When his mother-in-law heard this, she believed it to be true and ordered Jinxiu to go to the ferry to hang up her mourning. When Jinxiu arrived at the ferry, crying bitterly, she saw that her husband was covered with a rotten mat and sang a dirge to hang him up: "Sister, I am stepping on the bow of the boat to see your brother's face! Seeing her husband covered with a rotten mat, she sang a mournful song: "My sister has come to the boat to see you, my brother! At this time, the ferry had already started, Deng immediately pushed the rotten seat to sit up, scared his wife was shocked. The first time I saw this, I knew that I had been tricked, but the boat was already moving, so I couldn't escape, so I had to go to Guangzhou with my husband and live there.
The emergence of Shunde self-combing women, is with the 30s before the Shunde reeling industry is more developed have a direct relationship. Shunde women do reeling women, sericulture women, economic self-sufficiency, so many young girls are to "self-combing" for satisfaction. They are richer. More concerned about food, can do a good job, can engage in cooking. To the 30's, guangdong silk industry by foreign silk blow, a decline, these self-combing women or do not fall home women, have because of the closure of silk factories and unemployment, to guangzhou, hong kong when the "live-in workers", because they are civilized, can do the dishes, very much like the master. At that time, Hong Kong maids, ninety percent for the Guangdong people, and the most Shunde women.
But the custom of not falling into the family is not desirable, and from time to time, there will always be a "bad" thing to do. According to the "Yuehua Newspaper" reported on April 17, 1930, "Yesterday, there are Rongqi Pengjia Lane Feng Mou, in Xiaolan ferry selling drugs for a living, his daughter and beef boy had an affair, so to cardamom tire containing. Neighbors have annoyed, and then the tire private. How because of the overdose, even to death. Beef boy listening to the news, personally went to the woman's home for mourning, acting Chen Village Jin Tanban buy water a strange drama, along the way often to towel tears. Knowing its people, into the private performance of true love cloud.
Third, drink the happy wine left vector
Shunde Chen village area, the wedding banquet has a customary example, that is, when the wedding day banquet, the great-uncle should sit in the chief. After the great-uncle father to be seated, the relatives and friends can be seated, such as the great-uncle left the table, the relatives and friends must also leave the table.
According to the newspaper, May 18, 1930, Chen Village, the old Wei tea lane Li, married Long's wife, the day of the wedding over the door, a large banquet to celebrate. His great-uncle according to the customary first into the banquet, soon, suddenly suffering from dysentery, anxious to leave the seat to the toilet. However, as he had just been seated for a short time, if he left, his friends and relatives would have to leave the banquet with him, so he was forced to hold his tongue. But the common saying: "the lawsuit is not as tight as shit and urine", although the force to endure, the real very embarrassed, anxious, tasteless, but not easy to speak out, the result of the belly of the monster, the legacy of the pants, the stench overflowing, woefully unpredictable. The friends and relatives are also very upset. Great-uncle father red face and ears, had no choice but to run home to take care of. The first time I saw this, I thought it would be a good idea to get rid of it.
Fourth, Tanabata will
July 7 Eve, rumored to be a double star a year a period of time, the name is said to be Double Star Festival. Throughout the ages, it has been passed down as a myth. Generally less knowledgeable women, at the expense of money, for large-scale exhibitions, highly revered, worship to the extreme, this custom, this should also be removed. But Shunde women, this move has a lot of enthusiasm, especially reeling women as the most. The collection of more than 10 people or dozens of people, organizing the so-called Tanabata. Some of them were gathered in advance, and they were paid monthly and stored up for reserve, which was a long-term meeting. Some of them were gathered temporarily and organized at that time. The short-term meeting is to give out all the money at once. Regardless of whether it was a long-term or short-term meeting, a few days before the festival, each office was divided into sections to prepare for the organization. After a few days of preparation, the work was completed. Such as the fruit of the hundred flowers, God's clothes, chairs, tables and bedding, and other small utensils, paper, wood, sesame, colored beans made, all kinds of, strange and bizarre. Compound cover with koi shed, rows of tables on display, lined with curiosities, help with the light color. Said to invite this fairy to appreciate, and for people to see. The scale of the large, cost thousands of hundreds of gold. The simplest, but also cost a hundred dozens of gold, or one or two hundred gold.