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Marriage custom of Yi nationality
The custom of the Yi people is to walk no matter how far it is, not to ride a horse or take a sedan chair, and now some people take cars and tractors. So, the wedding and farewell teams, carrying dazzling dowry, set off for the man's house in the sound of loudspeakers and suona cheerful music. Along the way, people also played Qin Yue, sang folk songs and danced with their left feet, which was very lively.

The wedding team returned to the groom's house to set off firecrackers and firecrackers, and invited Bimo to enter the wedding ceremony. Then the bride, accompanied by a girl with two torches, walked into the gate and sat in the middle bed of the new house. At this time, a middle-aged woman presided over the ceremony, and the bride and groom raised their glasses to propose a toast. Then the groom walked out of the bridal chamber, and the female guests of the woman's family stayed in the room with the groom. According to the traditional custom, the bride is not allowed to eat two meals a day at dinner. The mother who accompanied her warmed up the food brought by her and invited Sina to accompany her.

Then, the man's house hosted a banquet to entertain the guests. After that, they made a fire in the courtyard of the green hut, played black boy, sang songs and danced around the fire with their left feet at home. At this time, the bride and groom also joined the dance. Everyone forms a circle, sings and dances heartily, and often dances until dawn.

After dawn, the bride went to pick two buckets of water to the kitchen and lit a fire in the kitchen at the same time, indicating that the bride began to cook at the groom's house and lived in the groom's house from then on. On this day, the groom's family will also entertain guests, most of whom are native, and all the foreign guests have already left. On the third day, the bride will return to her family, commonly known as Huimen. It usually takes four or five days for the bride to return to her husband's house. In some places, she goes back to her parents' home for several months or even years, depending on the local customs.