Vietnam strange marriage customs: the first night is dedicated to the old flame

A "first night" "Shane" Wedding Customs.
In some of the tribes of the northern barbarians in Vietnam, married an old flame preemptive "first night" and "Shane" Wedding Customs. A bride before marriage tend to have the old lover. If it is determined that the engagement with a person, it is necessary to sever relations with the other lover. Traditions and customs, the wedding night the bride does not live in the groom's bridal chamber, but look for the old lover a bed last night to show "Shane." Since then, there is the old lover cut off all dealings, and completely loyal to her husband, there will be no other misconduct.
Second, the "bride theft" Marriage.

Live in the mountains of northern Vietnam, Lou Lou family (lolo), young men and women to express their love is an extraordinary line bamboo wear made loudspeakers, boy girl love homemade megaphone to his message across.
If the girl has agreed to his proposal, he was ready to marry the girl. Some time, both men and women in private plans, the girls start their own home, slipped out, a group of young boy to the girl "kidnapped" the boy's home. After the man grabbed the girl, the man to be a feminist hosted a celebration of abducting a success. The next day, inform the bride at home, on the third day care matchmaker go Yueqin.

If both parents agree, you can wedding, the woman sent two representatives to the groom's family presented a basket of sticky rice and a cooked rooster. The bride and groom must go to the house to meet the representatives of the two, and eat rice and chicken that they sent.
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 "First married into the marriage after the marriage customs.
More the Nangong family Wedding Customs marriage is very special. Their marriage was the most important feature is that, first married into, and after married.
First male parents, brothers, chiefs and the future groom to the woman to propose marriage, to bring a bag of salt, one tea bag, a bundle of hemp rope used for weaving, a barrel of wine in the evening to Guniang Jia. While smoking, drinking and to discuss the marriage of their children. If the woman agrees to be agreed man married into the woman's life of. The site is 8-12 years, and now generally shortened to 3-4 years.

Properly agreed, the next day, the groom is necessary to bring the quilt, pillow, and a knife married into the women at home, the girl's hair began to change, the long hair on the head, said has been her husband. During door Lang married into, although it was regarded as a son of the woman's family, but there are constraints. Stool, unable to sit at home can not wear shoes and slippers, and not into the mother-in-law, sister-in-law's room. When the father-mother-in-law to dinner, the door Lang can not sleep, water to a tea for the meal of the wife's parents, early in the morning to get up early to boil water to cook for the whole family out fishing

Married into the expiration of a few months, the door Lang and parents once again to visit women at home. The two sides agreed on the date of Bridal general election in the autumn harvest after the November-December, it is the day after the year of harvest.

Bridal that day, the groom's parents, uncles, uncle, aunt, brother, a bunch of people to the women at home to greet the bride. Contribution to family girl weekdays wear Thai clothing, but in the big day, we must wear the traditional clothing of the nation. The groom and the bride's two antiphonal singing folk songs in front of the house stairs, female household shredded banana flower stir-fry the sesame seeds and chili, as snacks, with guests to please the man drinking to celebrate. The man Changba, drink and let the female just to please the man all the staff of burglary.

Her family to give back to the door of the married daughters ceremony blankets, mats, clothes, knives, hoes, picks, a pig, a hen. To her husband, her husband's aunt to my room and Wife, if the bride is the people of this village, it is necessary to back to the groom, if the distance is far, only a symbol of the back section of the road can.

At this time, the woman with stove ash, cow dung, pig manure mixing with sewage spill to all visitors of the man's head, body, outside the house. Chaos, chasing each other, and very lively. Because of this marriage custom, both men and women to participate in the wedding, ready for the two sets of clothes to wear old clothes, to be slapstick washed and then put on new clothes. This is similar to marriage customs in Pula, Hing door people.