Miao men and women never leave glutinous rice cakes from love to marriage

Guizhou Miao family is making glutinous rice cakes

The Miao people have always attached great importance to the production and function of glutinous rice cake. glutinous rice cake is made on holidays, glutinous rice cake is used to worship ancestors, and glutinous rice cake is used to build houses. Serving distinguished guests with glutinous rice cake is better than serving chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs. The most interesting thing is that young Miao men and women cannot do without glutinous rice cakes from love to marriage. Every twelfth lunar month, Miao girls prepare glutinous rice cakes of various shapes; the most triangular, round, long and five-color glutinous rice cakes are triangular, round, and five-color glutinous rice cakes are the whitest. From the first day to the third day of the first month, there are unmarried young men of the Miao nationality in Waizhai who come to travel for the spring. They can use the prepared glutinous rice cake to throw it at the flower pockets of their beloved person who is dancing the Lusheng dance. If the man also intends to, he will accept it; if he does not, he can decline politely. At the end of the first month, the man invited his friend to send a pound of glutinous rice cake and a pound of sugar to the woman's home. The woman invited his friend to accompany the man and his relatives and friends. If there is speculation, the two sides can interact in future Xiangyue activities. If they have no intention, they will leave it behind. In the first year of marriage, a man had to roll a large glutinous cake made from a bucket of two liters of glutinous rice into a dustpan shape, put it into a linen pocket, and carry it to his wife's house. Why is it unknown.