Marriage of the Zhuang

The young people knows each other in the principal holidays, during which it is normal that the young people of several villages meets for the celebrations. They were showing his attraction throwing to the elected person his rag balls. It was normal that the young people was supporting prematrimonial relations. In the holiday of small New Year and girl garments are exchanged. On the 13th of the first month the boy goes to the house of the girl with the pledges. For three days they sing antiphonal singings, remaining awkward. In the formalization of the engagement there intervene matchmakers and fortune tellers, who fix the wedding for a propitious day in six following months.

The family of the fiancé was sending a commission to look for the fiancée with a red porter. In her there was a monk taoísta and an orchestra. The sisters were dismissing sadly the fiancée, who usually cried in turn when he was saying goodbye of his family. On having come to the house of the fiancé, it was presenting his respects to the family and ancestors of the fiancé in a festive ambience. After happening the night with the girls of his family it was returning to his hearth. A few days later the fiancé was going to look for him. With this process what one was trying age to guarantee that this woman who was leaving his family, would be well treated by the family of the fiancé.

Sometimes the parents even were summoning the future husband and were interrogating him meticulously on the living conditions of his family, his grounds and all that it details will be considered to be by them interesting. Up to the first pregnancy the newly married one only visits the house of the family of the husband of occasional form.

The descent is patrilineal, as what between they have big importance the children males. In fact, if a family has no children males, he adopts them. Formerly the marriages were arranging them between the parents, being celebrated when the fiancés had between 14 and 18 years.

In some places the marriage is celebrated by abduction, which in fact is a form used by the lovers whose love is not approved by his ancestors, of putting the society before the perfect fact, which ends up by being recognized, and even extolled.

In the district of Lingyun the weddings are celebrated in the night, it is a custom transmitted from the epochs in which the gentlemen were exercising his kick right on the newly married ones. They were celebrated at night to prevent from having news about that was celebrating a wedding.

In some regions, after the childbearing the husbands get into the bed to rest and to take care of the baby.

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