A Tujia girl in Tongren, Guizhou Province, mainland China recently got married. The unique custom of “crying for marriage” has attracted the attention of netizens. (Picture / flip from Weibo)
A Tujia girl in Tongren, Guizhou Province, mainland China recently got married. The unique custom of “crying for marriage” has attracted the attention of netizens. It is reported that the bride married from Tongren to Tangshan, 2,000 kilometers away. Before she got married, she took a video and mentioned that there was a thick stack of crying marriage poems that she had to memorize. There were as many as 4 books in total. Crying handkerchief, she cried for many days in a row, but what she was worried about finally happened because she forgot the words when she was crying for the groom.
“Headline News” reported that the woman married 2,000 kilometers away from Tongren to Tangshan. Before she got married, she made a special video and said that she had to memorize a thick pile of crying marriage poems, as many as four. The party revealed that her mother made her a crying face mask, and crying for marriage starts with the closest relatives, crying for parents, relatives, and even the butcher. She cried for many days in a row, and finally worried It finally happened, and the crying groom forgot his words.
It is understood that “crying marriage” is a marriage tradition in certain regions or ethnic groups in China, such as the Han, Tujia, Tibetan, Yi, Zhuang, Salar and other ethnic groups. On the day of marriage, girls will sing a weeping wedding song when they leave their natal homes, such as the Zhuang nationality’s weeping wedding song. Crying marriage originated from the unfreedom of women’s marriage in ancient times. They used the singing of crying marriage to accuse the evil marriage system. Although marriage is now free, there will still be crying marriage when getting married, but this is just a ceremony.
In addition, the crying wedding songs are all songs that a girl learns from an old woman at her natal home on the eve of her marriage. The content is mainly to curse the man’s family who married her. When they leave their natal homes, they first have to scold the misery of this life. However, most of these ballads were passed on orally and rarely recorded in writing.
