The foot-stomping is also called "stepping on sister's foot". It is a way of expressing love between young Miao men and women in the area of the Great Miao Mountains in the northern part of Guangxi.
Miao youth in traditional festivals, through the dance of the lusheng, step on the dance, song and other forms of choice of the person of interest, but the public is difficult to speak, the young man will take advantage of people do not pay attention to when the toes gently stepped on the feet of the young woman, in order to test its attitude, if the young woman is also as the law in return, it will be expressed to accept the courtship; otherwise, will not blame the other side. After "step on the foot" to determine the love, can be frequent rendezvous, mutual tokens, and then by both parents agreed to the wedding date.
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The conclusion of marriages between young Hmong men and women is based on autonomous marriages, which are determined by socializing and talking about love. Social activities in the program or rush days, in the form of a young man with the girl song, mutual understanding, communication, if the two sides are in love with each other, and then by the parents of the man to ask the matchmaker to the woman's home. Marriage is generally the bride walk to her husband's home, not worship. But there are also some areas of sedan chair or horseback riding.
Xuanen area bride to her husband's home. Must be from the side door into the bridal chamber, and by the "bridesmaids" tray to invite the bride and groom to drink the "cup wine", said the same heart and mind. South Sichuan bride to enter the husband's home from the east, said to commemorate the ancestors from the east. Qian Dongnan some areas, the husband's family to prepare a pair of cooked carp to the bride "pinch fish ancestor", that she has become the husband's family.
In Hunan, eastern Sichuan, Guizhou, Songtao, Tianzhu and Qinglong, part of the Miao, the bride to live in the husband's home after the wedding. Other areas of the day after the wedding or the next day to return to her mother's home, and later festivals, busy seasons, or the aboriginal family wedding, funeral, marriage, only to pick up to live for a period of time, so that after several years, only long live in the husband's home.