Do you know what the local marriage customs are in Shan County?

During the Republic of China, when men and women were teenagers, matchmakers came to visit. As long as both parents think that the age is right, the family is right and the zodiac is the same, they will decide to get married. The man asks the woman for the birthday of Niangeng, which is called "Niangeng Life", and the woman issues the birthday of Niangeng to the man, which is called "Niangeng Life". The man according to men and women birthdates, let fortune teller divination calculation, life is incompatible, to get engaged.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the number of people who want to meet gradually decreased, and "blind date" became more and more popular. That is, young men and women of school age get to know each other and fall in love after being introduced, talked and negotiated. If both parties agree, the man gives the woman a gift, or the woman and the man go to the market town or county to buy clothes, which shows that both parties have the desire to get married.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the consent of both parents, the "eight characters" were engaged. First, the man sends a worship box to the woman, which is called an invitation. If the woman agrees, leave an invitation card and return it to the man. An invitation is an agreement. After the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), both engaged men and women went to the civil affairs department of the township government for marriage registration. The government issues marriage certificates to both men and women and obtains legal protection. The book is called Engagement for Marriage. At that time, the man will hold a banquet to entertain the woman, guests and marriage references.

Before the founding of the people's Republic of China, the old ceremony was followed. The day before the wedding, the groom worships the ancestral graves and neighbors, and the woman eats less for three days. The wedding was grand. The man slaughtered pigs and sheep, arranged alcohol and tobacco banquets for guests and friends, and arranged new houses for his brother and sister-in-law with two children. Hire sedan chairs and suona classes to marry women. Poor people can't afford sedan chairs, so they use Taiping cars or colorful carriages. The bride wears red, and her head is red. When the bride arrived, the man fired his gun and played music, and the sedan chair stopped in a certain direction. There is an incense table in the yard, where the bride and groom worship heaven and earth, the high hall and the husband and wife, and then enter the new house. After entering the room, the groom used a scale to remove the blush from the bride's head and sprinkled peanuts and red dates. Finally, the bride and groom drink heart-to-heart wine and eat rice. Friends and neighbors make trouble in the bridal chamber, regardless of age or size within three days. After the founding of New China, simplified weddings and modern weddings gradually replaced the complicated feudal etiquette.

In recent years, buses or vans are widely used in rural areas, while cars are used in cities. The ceremony of picking red flags and laying accounts has been abolished, but worship halls and listening rooms are still popular. The scale of entertaining guests has expanded, and some people have also taken the opportunity to collect money. In rural areas, bride price and dowry are becoming more and more prosperous, which brings many difficulties to some farmers.

Since 1980s, young people in some towns have changed their bad habits, cultivated new styles, avoided bride price, and traveled and married informally. The Party and the government use the "May Day", "Eleventh Day" and other festivals to encourage and organize some collective weddings and guide the development of weddings in a healthy and civilized direction.

Remarriage Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, widowed remarriage was considered immoral. Remarriers are mainly young widows forced by life. Widows remarry, secretly discuss marriage and get engaged in advance; At that time, I will quietly return to my family with my luggage. Sneak to the man's house to get married at night. Generally, most of the property is abandoned in the ex-husband's house, except for the clothes you changed with. Divorce and remarriage are also from parents' homes, and the wedding depends on the man's situation. If it is the first marriage, it is more grand than the second marriage.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), most widowed or divorced young and middle-aged women were able to form families again. Remarriage generally involves self-talk, introduction, acquaintance and understanding. Since the 1990s, the number of widowed elderly people who remarried has increased, most of whom are elderly people with economic income.

It is a special kind of marriage for a woman to marry a man, commonly known as pouring soup on the door. Before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, men who were forced by poverty to marry were taking this road. Many people are discriminated against after marriage. Since the implementation of the marriage and childbearing policy of one couple and one child, the government has encouraged men to settle in the woman's house and given them all kinds of care, which has improved the social status of women married men. In recent years, few women have married men.

Before the liberation of doll media, men and women were still young, and their parents married them. Since then, festivals have been celebrated and hung. Women also address the relatives of men by the title of marriage. You can't get married until you get married. After liberation, doll media gradually decreased and disappeared.