Marriage Naxi

It is thought that formerly the naxi were practising a type of quite liberal marriage, like the Moso that live more to the east, with that they share a common history. The Chinese influence, nevertheless, patents in numerous aspects of his culture, it is transforming the institution of the marriage into a rigid prison to which the young people naxi has never gone so far as to get accustomed.

There is news really of a time in which he was enjoying himself of an absolute sexual freedom, and of a primitive patriarchy stage, em the fact that many women still marry more than once. Nevertheless, the marriage naxi in the modern epoch is monogamous, patriarchal and arranged by the parents. Although daughters-in-law leave certain aptitude to the maternal uncles to choose between his nieces.

The young people was remaining in an intermediate situation between the two states of the marriage naxi, since they had freedom of supporting prematrimonial social relations, although not sexual, that they were prohibited, the premature pregnancies and the alienated progeny. The strong social censoring for the one that was violating these rules joined to this possibility of falling in love freely, but not of marrying, was producing frequent suicides for love, for which the lovers were adorning themselves and losing the life with the hope to be happy in the paradise.

The parents were preparing the wedding from the birth of the son, with help of fortune tellers and matchmakers. At the age of thirteen or fourteen there was celebrated the small wedding, for which the families knew each other. Since then these visit often, and approximately six or seven years later the young people marries definitely.

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