What are the customs of marriage of the Yi people

Yi marriage customs include the following aspects:

Folklore tradition: the wedding day, the man's home is full of joy, friends and family. In the middle of the yard with tree branches to build a green shed, shed Bin outside the red and colorful, placed in the middle of the Yi family god of joy tablets. Yi singers constantly singing a rich national mood (green shed tunes), friends and relatives gathered together, singing, suona sound constantly. When the male family gathering party comes to the front door of the female family, it should accept the female siblings and siblings of young men and women of the same generation to splash water to show welcome and celebrate. Yi family members believe that: splashing water, the girl to her husband's home will not go to a far place to carry water, even if the drought also have food and drink. After the marriage party enters the door of the woman's house, they light incense on the offering table, kowtow, and then begin to show the gifts they have brought, such as clothes, shoes, head wraps, and coins. The woman's side also displays the girl's dowry, such as cupboards, boxes, clothes, stools, bedding, color TVs, sewing machines and so on. At this time, the female parents invited the singer began to sing the marriage song, sing a section, show the same, and sing to what must be shown what, or the singer will use the dustpan in the marriage of the head three times, causing the crowd to laugh. After the show, the woman's family hosted the marriage of the people drinking water: tea first, and then drink sugar water, known as the "first bitter and then sweet", and then set up the champagne, ask the female uncle to say some auspicious words, and then open the red box, to the bridegroom draped in two red ribbons. After everything is finished, the woman's family feast to entertain the marriage of people, friends and relatives, as well as the village of the village folks. During the banquet, the groom should go to each table to bow first, and then toast. Waiting for all the guests have finished eating, to marry the bride to go home. If the road is far, the woman's family will be warmly received to marry the people live, the next day before leaving, that night, the woman's home yard or outside the square, people dancing all night left foot dance. If the road is close, you can marry and go home on the same day. While people are engaged in the above activities, the bride is usually upstairs dressing up and making preparations before the marriage. Before the departure of the woman's uncle to take the groom to the woman's family to pay goodbye in front of the ancestral tablets, the bride is carried by the older brother or younger brother from the upper floors to the door of the hall with the groom on the road, the matchmaker in the back to greet all the guests in the woman's home to send off the bride. To send the bride's team to a young couple mainly, the rest of the girl's companions or more pro junior, they can always be sent to the man's home.