After the founding of New China, due to the development of productivity, people's clothes are constantly changing from styles to colors and fabrics. Its law is: guided by wealthy families and young people, from less to more, from individual to general, and gradually popularized. In 1950s, Chinese tunic suit became popular among cadres and workers. Open-chested double-breasted tops are popular among young women. Most rural areas still follow the dress habits of the Republic of China, with more and more plain cloth and less and less homespun cloth. In the 1960s, the "student costume" based on the Zhongshan suit was very popular among students. The fabrics are gabardine, serge and corduroy. In 1970s, Chinese tunic suit and all kinds of clothes evolved from Chinese tunic suit have become the dress habit of most people, and all kinds of skirts have become popular among young women. Rayon fabric, such as polyester, polyester and acrylic fiber, has replaced cotton fabric to enter the market. After entering the 1980s, the number of men wearing suits has gradually increased, and women's clothes have become more varied, with changeable seasons. Wool fabric, blended fabric and man-made fiber have become the main fabrics that people wear. The daily clothes of the Hui nationality are basically the same as those of the Han nationality, except that when going to the mosque to worship or participate in festivals, men usually wear white hats or black hats, while women wear white or black veils. Giving birth to boys and girls is a happy event in Jiyuan. At that time, the host family will report the good news to the woman's family, and then give the baby a "12" or "18" according to the family's economic situation, that is, the twelfth or eighteenth day after the child is born, and the host family will hold a banquet to entertain relatives and friends who come to congratulate. Before "making trouble", the main family first sent "wedding cakes" to relatives and friends, painted the cakes for boys green and the cakes for girls red. During the "noisy" period, relatives and friends sent children's clothes, cloth, rice flour, eggs and so on to the host family. The old saying "menstruation gives me shoes, menstruation gives me socks, and my mother gives me a fork (refers to pants)" means that relatives and friends should give "money" (lucky money) to look after the baby. After the host's reception, we will burn flowers (greasy food), cakes and other foods for friends and relatives. When the baby is full moon, the mother and child will be called back by their parents to live for a few days, which is called "full moon".
Three days after birth, the Hui baby held a "dike blowing", and the imam read "witness" to him and named him. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the marriage between men and women depended entirely on "parents' orders and matchmakers' words". Most families are used to betrothing their children at the age of 10. In mountainous areas, many families get their children engaged when they are babies, which is called "early marriage". There are also a few wealthy families who agreed before the birth of their children: the same sex will become dry sisters (brothers) and the opposite sex will become husband and wife, which is the so-called "referring relatives." The process of engagement is as follows: firstly, the matchmaker proposes marriage according to the principle of door-to-door, and after the parents of both parties basically agree, they invite each other to have a look according to their respective zodiac signs, birthdays and relatives. You can get married without taking each other. Then the two sides give each other gifts and exchange "Geng Tie" (write down the date of birth of each man and woman), which is the "engagement". Some women send their underage daughters to the man's house as "child brides" because their families are poor; Some men let their sons go to the woman's house because they are poor and can't afford a wife. This is called "recruiting the elderly" and "thrusting the door backwards". The wedding process is: the parents of both men and women agree on the wedding date. The day before the wedding, the man sent someone to the woman's house to get the dowry. As a relative, the groom is led to the woman's house by a tour guide. You have to go the same way to get married. After the bride got off the sedan chair, the groom used HongLing to lead her into the house, first to worship heaven and earth, and then to worship her parents. After the husband and wife finished worshipping each other, they were sent to the bridal chamber, and the wedding was over. In the evening, the bride and groom "sit at the table" and propose a toast to each other, and "making trouble in the bridal chamber" begins. "It doesn't matter for three days", that is, brothers, sisters-in-law and even distant elders can come to make trouble. On the ninth day after marriage, her family took her back to live for a few days, called "Back to Nine". After the founding of New China, the state promulgated the Marriage Law, which stipulated the autonomy of marriage between men and women and abolished the marriage of buying and selling. Under the protection of the law, groups of men and women broke the fetters of the feudal marriage system and freely fell in love, got engaged and got married. Some people fall in love by themselves, while others talk after introduction. After a period of love, the two sides exchange gifts and photos on the basis of mutual affection, that is, "engagement", and parents only give "reference opinions" on their children's marriage. It is customary to visit each other's old people on holidays after marriage, and the old people will give gifts to the woman or give gifts until marriage. Before marriage, both men and women have to go to the civil affairs department to get a marriage certificate, and the wedding ceremony is becoming more and more simplified. Marrying a bride has changed from riding a sedan chair to riding a horse, riding a bike, taking a car or a car. In the 1960s and 1970s, the wedding ceremony was that the bride and groom paid tribute to their leaders and parents, the newlyweds saluted each other, the host (or introducer) spoke, and the bride and groom introduced the love process. Since 1980s, a few young men and women have further simplified their marriage, holding group weddings and traveling to get married. There are also a few people who get married in a big way and waste money after their living standards have improved. Most young people's wedding ceremonies have changed back to the procedures of worshipping heaven and earth, parents and husband and wife.
Marriage of Hui nationality is decided by men and women independently, and it is strictly forbidden for parents to arrange it. The wedding was presided over by the Imam, who recited "Izabu" (marriage words) to encourage the bride and groom to have a happy marriage, honor their parents, respect the old and love the young, and live in harmony with their neighbors. The old funeral custom in Jiyuan is very complicated. After a person's death, his children should immediately send people to relatives' homes to "mourn". Relatives will be crucified when they arrive. Most people die and are buried for no more than seven days, during which their children (daughters) and grandchildren (daughters) will wake up day and night. In the afternoon and evening before burial, there will be ceremonies such as "inviting the memorial tablet" (inviting ancestors to the grave), "pressing paper" and "serving food" (that is, paying homage to the dead). At the funeral, the relatives of the younger generation and the younger generation all wore Dai Xiao hats and mourning clothes and took the coffin to the grave with funeral sticks in their hands. After the coffin was put into the grave, the children returned home after filling three shovels of earth, and then "busy workers" filled the grave. The funeral is over. The day after the burial, the children "splashed soup" before going to the grave. After death, every "7th" to "July 7th" and "Memorial Day", children, relatives and friends will pay homage to the grave. After the third anniversary, the dutiful son took off his filial piety. After the founding of New China, the Party and the government advocated simple funeral services. In the 1960s and 1970s, many rural reform funerals were held under the auspices of production teams, and their children wore black veil, which removed superstition. However, after entering the 1980s, most of them resumed their original procedures, and the "hand-blowing class" was changed into a three-dimensional car and movie the day before their death. Since 1999, the city has carried out funeral reform. Except for some places in the mountains and ethnic minorities such as the Hui nationality, it is forbidden to bury coffins and cremate them.
Hui people carry out burial and quick burial. According to Islamic classics, the deceased should not stay at home for more than three days, and it is not allowed to pay for burial clothes. Before burial, the deceased was carried on a couch cloth (a common wooden bed), washed with clear water, and then the body was wrapped in white cloth (three men and five women, that is, the big list made of white cloth was 8 feet, the small list was 7 feet, the underwear was 5 feet, the women's waist skirt was 4 feet, and the hijab was 3 feet). The mourners made a farewell ceremony around the body, and then held a memorial service, which was read by the imam. Before burial, the elders of the deceased's family led the sons and nephews of the deceased to the Ming point of the graveyard, dug the tomb in the north-south direction, dug the hall at the northern end of the cave, put the deceased in the hall, sealed the door of the hall, filled in the grave and left the grave. Plant a tree at each end of the grave. Seven days, forty days, one hundred days and the anniversary after the death of the deceased, the family invited the imam to the grave to recite the "Tian Jing" and fry oil to send it to relatives and friends.