The love between Dong

In every village dong there exists a series of public houses in which the young people is every night, especially in the epochs of minor agricultural activity. Generally they are the girls those who come to these houses to the dusk, they continue chatting there and embroidering his textiles. Then they begin singing and it is like a sign for the boys, who answer them also singing.

The boys are not usually of the same village, since they also organize themselves in groups, which to the dusk go out to the nearby villages.

There begins this way a process of antiphonal singings of affectionate subject-matter by means of which the boys try to obtain the access to the house where the girls are. Once in his interior, it continues the courtship between boys and girls, always by means of singings. First the men sing on the one hand and the women for other. But little by little there are forming couples that keep on being sung up to the dawn. With these songs each one is expressing his feelings, being announced before the person who loves and to gain this way his confidence to be able to be becoming close increasingly.

In some areas the couples that are established are singing for shifts, showing the others a love that arises. This love is consolidated by the exchange of small gifts like test of the commitment. The lovers sometimes, will choose not to be in this public house, but in the forest, but only during the day.

Obtained the love of the woman, it is still necessary to have the authorization of the parents. For it the boy usually asks some relative to speak with the parents of the girl and the arrangements are established for the wedding.

Although the parents have the last word as for the wedding, numerous legends of unhappy loves as the intervention of the parents, they prepare them of insisting too much on his preferences. Also, the lovers always have the resource of marrying secretly, and apologizing then to the relatives by means of an intermediary.

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