1. Welcoming the bridegroom
On the day of the wedding, the men's family sent their friends and relatives to the women's home to participate in the wedding. They accompanied the bridegroom to the woman's house, banging elephant foot drums and sharp point drums in a joyful manner, and firing firecrackers and bird cannons along the way to increase the festive atmosphere and drive away evil spirits. The wedding begins at the door of the woman's house: a carpet of flowers is spread out on the ground and a small offering table is set up on it with flowers and fruit and wine.
2. Tethering Ceremony
A small table is set up in the hall of the bamboo building, on which are placed two conical hats made of banana leaves, and underneath, one boiled male and female chicken each. On the table are also gifts from the man to the woman, such as clothes, tube skirts, silver pantaloons, bracelets, and so on. Sticky rice, brown sugar, banana, salt, white thread, etc. are also placed on the table. The hitching ceremony begins with the bride and groom kneeling side by side in front of the wedding table to receive blessings from the elderly.
3. Banquet
After the hitching ceremony, one of the chickens on the table is offered to the bridegroom, and the other is taken to the young men to share and eat, wishing them to find their beloved girls soon, and to come to be happily hitching as well. All the rest is kept by the newlyweds' tent, to be eaten only after three days.
4, singing
Wedding process, the Dai singer Zanha singing is never missing. Dai people often say: no Zanha wedding is not lively, wine is not good. People eat food, drink, while listening to the Zanha singing, singing to the wonderful place, people will burst out of the water, water, water cheers.
5, the second day of the wedding
The next day at dawn, the groom to return to his parents' home, to the evening before returning to his wife's home. On the third day, the man's parents pick the cool rice noodles and other things to the woman's home to recognize relatives, and respectively to each of their friends and relatives to send a piece of cool rice noodles. The fifth day after the wedding, the bride and groom and picking the cold rice noodles to the man's home to recognize relatives, but also sent friends and relatives cold rice noodles a piece of friends and relatives to the bride to present gifts. At this point, the whole wedding is considered to be over.
Expanded Information
It is a traditional custom of the Dai ethnic group that the husband goes to the woman's home to live. Before the liberation, the husband went to the woman's house to live, after three years, the man's parents requested and the woman's parents agreed to bring his wife to live in his parents' house. The woman married to the man's home, the woman in the man's home after three years, the husband and wife to the woman's home to live, and thus the cycle repeats itself, until another gateway to inherit the property of one of the parties so far.
After the liberation, this situation has changed, if the man is an only child, the family lack of labor, the man's parents can ask the woman's parents, in advance of the bride to the in-laws, and even seven days after the wedding can be taken away. If the man's family is large and full of laborers, and the woman's family is an only child or lacks male laborers, the man can live from his wife for a long time.
Monogamy is generally practiced in Dai areas. If one of the husband and wife dies first, the one who didn't die, no matter how old he or she is, is required to hold a ceremony to sever ties with the deceased when the funeral is held for him or her.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Dai Marriage Customs
China.com - Family Life of the Dai - "Going to the Door" and Monogamy