Yi girls up to seventeen or eighteen years old will have to accept adult baptism. Mothers and female elders, choose an auspicious date and time, burn up good incense, pick up clean water, wash the girl's body clean, in the side of a long time waiting for the female companions, began for her to change off the white dress worn as a child, put on the black dress marking the adult woman, while changing and say some praise and blessing words for her.
Then she was sent to live in the girl's room, which had been built especially for her, and she was allowed to begin to socialize with the lads.
The girl's room varies in size, the big one can accommodate more than ten people, the small one can accommodate three or five people, usually built at the beginning or the end of the village, firstly, it is convenient for the young man to meet with the girl, and secondly, it avoids affecting the parents and elders in the village. The girls go home to work during the day, the night in the girl's room spinning and weaving embroidery, some of the girl's room will also prepare some cigarettes, candy, melon seeds and other snacks, there are young men to meet, they will be accompanied by sitting and chatting.
Whenever the night comes, the girls will dress up carefully and wait for their favorite boys to come. After the boys came, through the conversation to recognize each other, and then they will be in the girl's room in a circle, singing love songs, dancing joyful dance, singing enough to dance tired, they will be and fancy girl in a bed and clothes and sleep, but must not have any ideas, or the girls will be attacked by the group. At dawn, the boys will wake up early, meet again to meet the time, and then quietly leave the girl room, at this time the girls also returned to their homes, began a day of labor.
The girl's room is also a place for blind dates. When a girl leaves for a song session, her mother must cook a meal for her future son-in-law. After the young people met each other at the song session, the young men had to live in the girls' room with the young women and be entertained by the girls. The parents could not show their faces, but could only peek through the door. This night, the girls and boys live together, and further tell each other their love. At dawn, the young man quietly left. If the man is interested in, soon sent to propose marriage, if the man in a short period of time did not move, it is considered to have blown. The man proposes marriage, the woman can refuse. No matter which party is unwilling, only wait until the next song skipping will be another choice.