We modern people all know that the age of 18 symbolizes a child's coming of age, which means adulthood, and this day is a very special day, so we should attach great importance to it. But the Yi people have a saying: "A girl's adult ceremony is a wedding without a groom." This sentence can be understood as: On the wedding day, the man's family was beaming and his relatives and friends were full. A green shed was set up in the middle of the yard with branches. The shed was hung with red inside and outside, with Yi Xishen's memorial tablet in the middle.

When the family reunion team of the man's house comes to the woman's house, it should accept the brothers and sisters of the woman and the brothers and sisters of young men and women of the same age and splash water on them to show welcome and celebration. Yi people think that if water is poured, the girl will not go far to fetch water when she arrives at her husband's house, even if it is early.

The woman also showed the girl's dowry, such as cabinets, boxes, clothes, stools, bedding, color TV sets, sewing machines and so on. At this time, the singer invited by the woman's parents began to sing the wedding song, singing a paragraph, showing a paragraph, and he sang a paragraph.

During the dinner, the groom should make a plan at each table before making a toast. After all the guests have finished eating, they can marry the bride and leave for home. If it is a long way, the woman's family will warmly welcome the married person to stay and leave the next day.

When young men and women of Yi nationality in northeast Yunnan get married, they should sing "wine ceremony song", "wedding song" and "wedding song". * * *, 22 songs, often take a month. With the development of society and the change of people's ideas, people usually only sing for one night now.

When people do the above activities, the bride usually dresses up upstairs and makes some preparations before marriage. Before leaving, the woman's uncle took the groom to say goodbye to the ancestral grave tablet of the woman's house, and the bride was carried upstairs by her brother or younger brother, outside the main room and walked with the groom.

The adult ceremony of Yi girls is generally held in Liangshan area, and a group exchange ceremony will be held on the same day. The Yi language is called "Shalalo", which means to take off the childhood skirt and put on the adult skirt. Adult ceremony is a universal cultural phenomenon. There are usually grand ceremonies. Did you find it interesting to listen to the Yi people's adult ceremony?