Marriage of the Mulao

The young people of a village was courting the girls of other one by means of singings. This is called zuopo. In that the young people was approaching singing, the girls were answering equally, and like that some were rising the questions to others, first more personal details, then more intimate. At first in group, then if the love was arising the couples were separating to sing alone. If the relation was going to ahead it had to be formalized by the parents, who not always were agreeing.

Wedding: the fiancé sends a covey with singers for the fiancée, his followers receive them singing "Impediment of entry" to ask for his motives, they sing "Opening of the door" answering to the questions. Then they are got for the family of the fiancée, and after a banquet, on the following day after doing you revere the ancestors, the fiancée was going away with the covey of the fiancé and her own covey, to the house of the fiancé. Being stopped again on having come to the village of the fiancé, of similar form. When it was reaching the fiancé, this one him was receiving. The fiancée was honoring his ancestors, and on the following day it was returning to the paternal house. Little by little it was going familiarizing itself with the family of the husband, going over there in the spring Holiday, in epoch of harvest, more and more often. They live separated until she remains a pregnant woman, when they spend to forman the new hearth.

Divorce exists and the widows can turn to marry six months after the death of the husband, whenever they give a compensation to the previous family.

If the marriage had no children males, the husband could take concubines.

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