Marriage Customs in Yueyang, Hunan Province

Traditional marriage, by the orders of parents, the words of the media, early marriage and remarriage. There are six kinds of ceremonies for marriage:

Nacai: The matchmaker proposes marriage with the consent of the woman, and the man prepares a bride price for the blind date to show his intention of proposing marriage.

Ask birthday: the woman has a "eight-character" and the man asks the fortune teller to "match the eight-character".

Najib: A man can get engaged as soon as he is hired.

Zheng Na: After the engagement, before the marriage, the man gives the woman a "big gift", including food, clothes and jewelry. With a desk box. Women can use clothes, hats, shoes, etc. As a gift.

Date of invitation: The man writes the wedding date in red and asks the woman for permission.

Wedding ceremony: The bride gets married in a red sedan chair (the remarried one in a green sedan chair), and the man carries out the sedan chair ceremony the night before the wedding. The groom is sitting in a sedan chair in a dress, which is carried and rocked by four people. Pour vinegar on the red-hot pebbles outside the car to show the intention of cleaning up the pollution. The bride takes a red sedan chair to the man's house and stops at the gate to play cupping. There will be a "door blocking ceremony" in Xixiang. After the ceremony, the bride will be led into the room from the sedan chair, and then a wedding will be held to worship the heavens and the earth and ancestors, and the bride and groom will worship each other. After paying homage to the elders, divide them into different sizes, and then go into the bridal chamber for a cup of tea. In the evening, the bridal chamber is noisy and tea is delicious. On the third day after marriage, the bride and groom go to Yue's home together, which is called "Three Dynasties" and "Spring Festival". During the Republic of China, civilized weddings were also popular in county towns.

After liberation, the marriage law was implemented, and men and women were free to fall in love and get married. No dowry, no dowry. Before marriage, both men and women go to the local government for marriage registration and get a marriage certificate, and then hold a simple wedding ceremony and entertain guests with candy and water wine. Since the 1950s, government agencies and units have collectively held weddings, and then started to travel and get married. After the 1980s, the old marriage customs began to rise again.

deliver

The whole family was very happy when the baby was born. Go to the grandmother's house to report the good news first. When reporting good news, set off firecrackers and give gifts. Boys give cocks, girls give cocks. On the third day of the baby's birth, perilla, tender tip of sandalwood and egg shell (intact) are used as decoction, which is called "washing three dynasties". After washing, the woman in charge of bathing will take it to worship the ancestors to show her gratitude. Babies in the Three Dynasties, full moons, and the first year of birth, are all celebrated with banquets. In the old days, after giving birth, women had to stay indoors for a month and cook dried vegetables with plants, which was called "confinement". Go to your mother's house after the full moon to call out the moon. In Pingjiang County, there is a custom of worshipping michel platini. After the baby was born, the first stranger came to the family, that is, he named Shengfeng Ganye. He must stay and be treated as a guest, especially tea. It is said that the more michel platini drinks tea, the more the baby's mother will sweat.

Shoudan

People who are over 60 years old are called birthdays every 65,438+00 years. A banquet for children and grandchildren to celebrate their elders' birthdays, commonly known as birthday banquets or birthday celebrations. Married women send embroidered shoes and birthday noodles, peaches, cakes and pastries. On the birthday, the "birthday girl" sits on it, and the children and grandchildren kowtow three times in turn, which is called birthday worship. After liberation, there were fewer birthday ceremonies, but many birthday parties were held.

funeral

When the funeral patient dies, relatives gather around the bed and stop breathing, that is, burning paper-wrapped sedan chairs and bearers. The children knelt in front of the bed and burned paper money (called "meeting ceremony"), then bathed the body and "lined up". On the same day, an "obituary" was published, a mourning hall was set up, and the deceased entered the coffin, which was called "burial". Relatives wore mourning clothes and mourned the wake. Condolences from relatives and friends (commonly known as burning incense). In the meantime, please ask the monk to do the Dojo. After the Dojo is over, they "spend money" (burn the spirit room) and then blow the funeral (some send the funeral first and then disperse the Dojo). In the northeast township and Xixiang area, people "build coffins" after the age of 50. After death, push the coffin to seal the crossing and complete the burial. Other places are temporary burial sites, and most of them will be reburied after three to five years (commonly known as graves). When their parents died, their children and daughter-in-law wore linen, Ma Xie (straw sandals), a straw ring and a straw rope around their waist, and stuffed their ears with cotton. Father mourned for bamboo sticks and mother mourned for tung sticks. Unmarried daughters wear linen and semi-Ma Xie. When the husband dies, the wife wears white clothes and white shoes; When his wife died, so did her husband. Other relatives wear white clothes and semi-white shoes. Take off your mourning clothes after the funeral. ]

After the funeral reform and liberation, funerals were gradually simplified, people were buried when they died, and mourning halls were set up to hold memorial services. Then out of the coffin, funeral. After the 1970s, people began to send the bodies of the deceased to Changsha for cremation. After the 1980 s, the wind of doing Dojo for the dead began to prevail again.