The wedding of Yao nationality has always been ancient and mysterious, and there are many legends. Ma 'andi is a remote mountain village in Jinping Miao, Yao and Dai Autonomous County, bordering on the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and having a long border with Yao marriage customs. Because it is located in the national Jinping watershed nature reserve, the endless virgin forest is picturesque, with continuous peaks and charming scenery. Ma 'andi Township is a multi-ethnic township where Yao, Hani, Yi and other ethnic minorities live together. Because they are located in the jungle along the border between China and Vietnam, the traffic is not smooth, and the ethnic minorities here are little influenced by foreign cultures, and still retain their traditional and original national cultures. Among them, the traditional wedding of Yao nationality is a unique landscape.

Climb up the building

Chashan Yao, who lives in Dayao Mountain, is a branch of Yao, meaning people who live in the mountains. In order to seek love, the young Yao people in Chashan are popular with the custom of "climbing stairs", which has a unique national style. Chashan Yao village is generally surrounded by mountains and waters, with large scale and concentration, and the houses are all two-story wooden buildings. The facade and the hanging building are carved with dragons and dragons and painted with oil, like a sedan chair hanging on the mountain. The quiet hanging building is a place for adult girls to socialize.

Walking into the gate of Diaolou, you will find that the Yao compatriots living in Dayaoshan, Guangxi, basically maintain the traditional customs in marriage due to the influence of their living areas. I live here in Chashan Kiln, Dayaoshan.

Marry a woman and a husband.

Yao Autonomous County is the earliest established Yao Autonomous County in China, and it is called "the hometown of Yao in the world" because there are five branches of Yao in the territory: Pan Yao, Hualanyao, Chashanyao, Shanziyao and Aoyao. Fei Xiaotong, a famous late sociologist, once said: "Yao nationality in Dayaoshan has many branches all over the country, and its folk customs are the most typical.

At present, there are two national hotspots in human body research in the world, including Yao nationality. The World Yao Research Center is in China, and the China Yao Research Center is in Jinxiu. "

Yao people have formed profound, simple and colorful Yao culture and customs in their lives. The marriage etiquette of Yao family covers the richness of Yao. Pan Yao's wedding dates are mostly after the autumn harvest and before the Spring Festival, which can be divided into "marrying a woman" and "marrying a husband". Before a formal wedding, you must go through the process of choosing a spouse, proposing marriage and getting engaged. At the wedding banquet, there are three "regular drinks" and six "partial drinks" (breakfast and midnight snack). On the morning of the fourth day, when the guests left, the men each sent a "nipple gift" (also called Xiao Yuan gift), that is, eight to nine kilograms of sow legs and four to five kilograms of other pork to their father-in-law. On the fourth or fifth day, the husband and wife went back to the door for one night and went back to the rear to consummate their marriage.