The house is made of logs and falcons. There is a layer of moss between the two logs, and the logs are piled up against each other. Because bryophytes are sandwiched between two logs, they can play a role in sealing the gap between logs, keeping warm and preventing wind. When Tuva people get married, sheepskin is the most important thing.
Later, I learned that Tuwa people regard sheep as a gift from the sky and never take them out of the gate. Someone came to buy it and handed it out from the fence. In this way, it is as if the sheep are still at home.
When a young man and a young woman get married, both parents should prepare a sheepskin early. On the wedding day, the man went to the woman's house, and the woman took out a sheepskin and asked the man to attend the wedding competition. Everyone grabbed a corner of the sheepskin and struggled to pull it into their arms. Sheepskin has good toughness, so people just need to pull it without worrying about being torn. Slowly, some people lose their hands when their wrists are sour because of insufficient strength or perseverance. As long as you keep your hands off the sheepskin, you can't rob again. Grabbing sheepskin not only shows the man's demeanor, but also embellishes the atmosphere of the wedding. Those who grab the sheepskin don't take it home, but give it to the elders present. After the bride returns to the man, the man has to take out a sheepskin to send the bride off. Similarly, people who get sheepskin should also give it to the elderly.
If you choose to get married in winter, there will be a beautiful scene when grabbing sheepskin. Two people grabbed the sheepskin and sometimes fell into the snow. The heavy snow made them unrecognizable, but no one would let go. Finally, the two men became snowmen, and the leather in their hands turned white. The onlookers laughed louder and louder, but they just wouldn't let go. In the end, the two fought hard, and one of them got the leather with his strength. Onlookers applauded the winner warmly. He won the admiration of his opponents and people. He is a win-win home. As soon as the wedding is over, there are always two old people who go home happily with sheepskin under their arms. People in the village have great respect for their elders. Seeing the elders go home with sheepskin, people's mood has been comforted unanimously.
People in the village usually sell sheepskins quickly and don't keep them at home for a long time. If you really don't sell it, hang it in front of the door, but usually there is only one situation, that is, the sheepskin that the elders attending the wedding get. To celebrate, they usually hang sheepskin in front of the door for a few more days. This is the blessing of the elderly to the young.
After men and women competed for sheepskin, people welcomed the bride into the new house. The man killed a dozen sheep for the wedding, and the mutton was cooked, and the smell of mutton floated in the yard. As soon as the bride enters the yard, there will be a ceremony. The groom will take the ear of the first slaughtered sheep out of the pot and give it to the bride. The bride caught it with both hands and ate it seriously. Tuwa people, like Kazaks, are very particular about eating sheep's ears. When there are guests at home, give the sheep's ear to the smallest of the guests, which means you are the youngest and be obedient. The bride has just entered the house, let her eat sheep's ears, and let her be obedient and be a good daughter-in-law
The caves of Tuwa people and Han people are very different. Just after dark, someone shouted and started. Because people have been drinking all day, they are humming and shouting, pushing the bride and groom away, making a lot of noise. Some people also prepared branches and slapped the bride and groom. Every time they smoke, there will be a painful call. Therefore, her pain became a kind of happiness. Even if it hurts again, she will bear it. A Tuva, like all fathers, does nothing until his children get married. From getting married and having children, to adopting children as adults, and then getting married for my son, I have been busy for decades. At this moment of leisure, only half a bowl of mutton is waiting for him. I wonder if he can fill his stomach in a day.
The bridal chamber is still noisy. I chatted with him, and he said, even if you can't eat a bite of mutton, you should make the villagers lively. If people don't make trouble and eat all the mutton, that's a shame.
When a family marries a daughter-in-law, first, the sheepskin looks small and no one grabs it. Then, because there is too little mutton, everyone does not have enough to eat, and the festive atmosphere suddenly cools down. At night, people dispersed in unison, and no one went to the bridal chamber. Although the bride and groom were not beaten, they felt worse than being beaten. The bride thinks that the man is stingy and bad for the villagers. In a rage, she ran back to her parents' house. When the family saw their daughter coming back, they asked the man to break off their marriage.
A sheepskin and a mutton rice broke up a couple.