Interesting Facts about Chinese Minority Wedding Eating-2

15
/October 2021

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The wedding ceremony of the Dong people with Camellia oleifera is simple and interesting. When young men and women get engaged, the man asks the matchmaker to bring a small packet of tea leaves and a pot of salt-boiled camellia and invites the elders of the clan to drink it. After drinking the camellia, the engagement procedure is considered complete. At the time of marriage, the man sent 31 patties of meat, 60 catties of rice, and 60 bowls of wine to the woman’s house the day before the marriage according to the old custom. At the same time, he went to two elderly people, two middle-aged people, and two young people. Two middle-aged men helped carry rice and meat; two young men each carried two unopened black oil umbrellas, one of whom carried a small packet of tea and a small packet of salt on his umbrella, which were given to the woman for burning tea. The woman used the meat and rice wine picked by the man and the tea and salt sent by the man to entertain relatives and friends. At the banquet, the old people who went to pick up the relatives must first state their marriage customs. After that, the woman’s family took out two horns and filled the wine, and put them on the table. The two elderly people who accompanied the guests held the horns and issued the wine order. Then, people took the horns in turn. liquor. After drinking the croissant, the host and the guest sang to each other, sang and drank, and the girl went to her in-law's house with the person who picked her up until dawn.

Yi drunk Fangxiu Yi people are very enthusiastic towards guests, and they always treat their guests with wine. The host and the host raise their glasses, talking and drinking until the guests are drunk. Every Chinese New Year and New Year holidays, Yi women hold a jar of wine and put in a few brocade bamboos or wheat stalks, and on the roadside at the door of their house, they invite pedestrians to drink wine from the jar with wheat stalks. Some unmarried men often drank the wine respected by the girl and turned to woo the girl, and then formed a lifelong partner.

The wedding ceremony in Ordos, Mongolia is very interesting. Whenever a wedding is held, the groom must bring gifts and Deji (that is, the first bowl of rice or the first cup of wine), and hide a small bottle of white wine on the horse. This small bottle of liquor is a gift to the girl, and the girl must find it out by herself. After drinking the tea, the person who meets the relatives will display the whole sheep for everyone to try. After the bridegroom entered the bride’s room, the bride’s bridesmaid immediately brought a cooked sheep neck bone and asked the bridegroom to break it from the middle to test the strength of the bridegroom. Sometimes, to tease the bridegroom, the bridesmaids often put chopsticks or sticks in the bone marrow of the sheep's neck. If the bridegroom does not know the mystery and can't break it with all his energy, he will be ridiculed by the bridesmaids; while the wise bridegroom will see through the mechanism, take out the chopsticks or sticks in time, and break the neck bones of the sheep.