Weeping marriage is a traditional marriage custom of Tujia nationality. Daughters don't need to cry when they get married. Generally, weddings start half a month or a month before the bride gets married, and some even start three months before. When they get on the sedan chair the night before their wedding, the crying will reach its climax, with cries, gongs and drums and firecrackers. The scene is extremely shocking.
The custom of crying marriage mainly comes from the imprisonment of marriage in feudal society, when both men and women's marriages were arranged by their parents. At first, crying marriage was a reluctant expression of feudal wedding system. Now marriage is free, and there is the custom of crying marriage. The main reason is that it is difficult to give up family ties, and the essential meaning of crying marriage has actually changed. You know, parents' feelings for their daughters are unparalleled, and you can imagine the bitterness of working hard to raise their daughters. Similarly, when a daughter gets married, she must form a new family, leave her hometown and her parents, be independent from now on, and take on new family responsibilities. It is understandable that she is at a loss and reluctant to part with her parents. When crying for marriage, both parents and bride were moved by tears.
The significance of a person crying and singing is mainly to cry about the grace raised by his parents and the obsession of his parents. When I left my parents today, I was sad and tearful. The two cried and sang for the two sisters, and relatives and friends cried with the bride. Crying for reunion, also called sister crying, is a unique form of Tujia people's crying marriage. Nine unmarried girls accompany the bride to cry. The content of crying marriage is mostly for sisterhood, for brother and sister-in-law, and for the love of their native land.