Marriage of the Gnu

According to his legend after the deluge only there survived two brothers, who had been saved floating in a pumpkin. After the ground dried off the crow urged them which they were marrying, although they him did not want to pay attention, in the ground there was nobody more. Then the girl said: "If you can meet on the arrow in the hole of the conch, we will be able to marry". The brother obtained it and they had nine children and nine daughters who gave birth to the Gnu. For it cousins marry between and sometimes between brothers, since his first parents like that did it. Generally they are monogamous. The older brothers go out of house, remaining the child, who lives with the parents and inherits them. The maternal, very powerful uncle, directs the family.

In the beginning his society was matrilineal, then the woman was losing power and now it is discriminated. They have prematrimonial sexual freedom, although the parents are those who end up by deciding the marriage. There existed divorce, in which invariably the woman was going out harmed. The adultery was very punished, both in the man and in the woman.

In the formalization of the engagement it was intervening the matchmaker and the fortune tellers. The marriage gifts were cows, from 3 to 8. Sometimes paid by installments.

The wedding day, a covey of the family of the fiancé was going to look for the fiancée with singings and was bringing it to house, where there was a simple ceremony presided by a priestess asking for the protection of the ancestors. Then there was a holiday, with dance and singings, and an erotic dance on the part of the father of the fiancé who symbolizes his desire to have grandchildren. The second holiday in honor of the ancestors, and a visit to the house of the fiancée two weeks later, they give end to the wedding.

Nusu de Bijiang does not marry the people of the same surname, although often they do it with the cousins

Between Along de Gongshan the fiancés marry in the family of the fiancée.

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