Ethnic Wedding Ceremony

“Crying and marrying” is also called “crying for marriage”, “crying for marrying the child”, “crying before the sedan chair” and so on. It is the traditional marriage customs of...

Among the She people, apart from the common women marrying men, men marrying women is also their marriage custom. For the latter one, there are two situations: the man...

The matrimony of Ewenki hunters includes three phases: courtship, betrothal and wedding. When the wedding is approaching, the bridegroom has to move his house to a place neighboring to...

Wedding is the most important ceremony in the whole life of people. Uzbek wedding is effusive with nationality characters as well as emotion and jubilation  According to the Uzbek...

“Anzhao” is called as “Qianjiaori” in the language of the Tu nationality, means “curve” or “rotation”, and is a kind of old folk song and dance form that spreads...

The wedding ceremony and marriage commemoration days Russian nationality sees marriage as one of the most important experiences in their life, and attaches a lot of importance to it....

“Smashing pillows” and “‘punishing’ the bridegroom” There are many interesting customs on the wedding ceremony of Dongxiang nationality. For example, “smash the pillows”, “‘punish’ the bridegroom” and “joke with...

Interesting Wedding 3 to 5 days before the wedding, the bride begins to “cry for leaving”. The groom does not go to the bride’s, but sends the sedan men...

Dancing to Meet the Bride and Beating the Bridegroom The Hanis in Mojiang call themselves “Amu”. Their whole wedding ceremony is permeated with dancing from beginning to end. As...

Free Courting and Adventurous Wedding Ceremonies Until early 1950s, Jingpo young unmarried people all take part in “Gantuozong” (Zaiwa dialect), which is called “Chuanguniang” in Chinese, meaning looking for...