The liberal customs of Chasan Yao

Chashan Yao is one of the branches of Yao. They live in houses of two apartments, the lower one it usually use to keep the implements of farming, the domestic animals and the grain, in of above it is where the people live.

The young people, when they claim the love of a girl, rises to the apartment of above, where she sleeps and sings songs to him in the balcony. If the girl is single it is frequent that there spend different boys to be sung to his balcony, if it is already it has fiancé, only this one does it.

Other times are in the "Lounge of January", which usually opens during this month, for the social relations between the young people.

If the marriage is decided it is not necessary to deliver gifts for any of two parts. And, except between the richest much influenced by the Chinese, the weddings are usually very austere. In fact some of the richest families throw the house away and get into debt during generations.

From the month of having married they can have extramarital relations, and if children are born fruit of these relations, they will not be discriminated. To the beginning of this period they call it "to light the torch", because the men go out in the night carrying one.

The divorce is a habitual thing, and there are persons who marry 4 ó 5 times.

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