Matrimonial singing of the Aini-Akha

Yuv Xal Yiv - matrimonial Singing of the Akha

It is the matrimonial singing of the Akha. But it is sung neither by the fiancés nor his family and friends but the elders of the village. A tradition of more than 1.100 years.

Along the same one the elders wish a fortunate marriage the newlyweds, and simultaneously they instruct them in the tribal traditions, since they are born, name is chosen to the children, the phases of his education, the relations with the people and the knowledge inherent in the activities of production and of the social life, the different phases of that one his social education until there turn into adults, the phases of the love, the commitments with the dear person, the form in which the fiancé must learn to trade and the election of a date auspiciosa to celebrate the marriage. All the traditions Akha that they will lead to the marriage are remembered by the elders by means of this singing, preserving from this form his secular traditions.

In the middle of the wedding night, the elders represent his conservatives' role and transmitters of the traditional culture for the newlyweds, and across them, for the whole village.

There is a bilingual edition in Hani and Chinese published by the Publishing house of the Nationalities of Yunnan in the year 2002.

Shi Da yChen Guifen. - Ouxiayi - Hani zu hunli gu ge (Ancient Matrimonial Singing of the Hani).

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