Marriage of the Pumi

Monogamist generally arranged by the parents, often between cousins. Gifts were delivered, it was chosen one day auspicioso, and I could not change to him. Although the weddings were late, generally after 25 years. The ceremony was very complex, and generally the family of the fiancé was gathering the fiancée, who was escaping repeatedly, although it loved him 4 was obligatory to escape ó 5 times, her to force the family of the husband to go to look again.

The most important first age, they were delivering to themselves more gifts and all drunkards were finishing. The young people sings up to the dawn, then they take it to house of the husband. One year later he was retiring again. On having remained a pregnant woman, at least to the third collection, already it remains definitely with the husband. Sometimes the women did not have any interest in his husband, but as it was arranged by the parents, there was no remedy. They were letting off steam singing sad songs. Big families in Ninglang and Yongsheng. They do not marry inside the same lineage. The chief of the clan with big power on the administration of the matters of the same one, although they were consulting with the affected ones.

There are patriarchal except some villages of Yongning, where, possibly for living along with the Moso, they preserve the visit marriage, this is that the men happen the night at his fiancées' but they go away in the morning. The children belong to the woman, that they call his father "uncle", and who has not any right. Generally also they arise from the affection, and although a family does not believe, it usually support the affective tie. Although there was coming a moment in which the women had other more important responsibilities and were losing the interest in the azhu.

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