An Overview of Jinuo People's Marriage and Marriage Customs
There are 56 ethnic groups in China, and each ethnic group has its own uniqueness. They are like different varieties of flowers, making China more charming. Among the customs of these ethnic groups, the customs of marriage and love are the most distinctive. Next, let's go and see how the Jino people fall in love?
Jino is an ancient ethnic minority. Keno is a national self-proclaimed person. In the past, it was often transliterated as "You Le" in Chinese, which means "following behind my uncle". It is extended to "the nation that respects my uncle." In June 1979, it was recognized as the ethnic group and became the 56th ethnic group in China. The Jino people call themselves "Keno", which means "descendants of their uncle" or "a nation that respects their uncle." It is mainly distributed in Jinuo Township, Jinghong County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and the rest are scattered in the surrounding mountainous areas of Jinuo Township. Mainly engaged in agriculture and good at growing tea. The Keno language is used, which belongs to the Yi branch of the Tibetan-Burmese family of the Sino-Tibetan family.
coming-of-age ceremony is a sign that young men and women of the Jino nationality have gained the right to love and marry. Therefore, all men and women of the Jino ethnic group hold a coming-of-age ceremony after the age of 15-16. The main content of the coming-of-age ceremony is to allow school-age men to report to Raokao. From then on, he has the qualifications to be a member of the commune and the right to fall in love and get married. The main content of the women's coming of age ceremony is the waist surrounding ceremony. In some villages, the woman who held the coming-of-age ceremony personally wrapped the waist around the waist; in some villages, the mother wrapped it around the daughter; in some, other adult girls wrapped it around the waist. After wrapping around your waist, you have to report to Nigozuo, the place where Raokao is gathering. From then on, unmarried adult men and women can have free love.
After the coming-of-age ceremony, Jino young men and women are free to fall in love. In her first love, a woman usually holds a betel nut in her hand and carries it behind her back. The young man waiting behind her immediately takes it and quickly puts it into her mouth. The young man accepted the betel nut gift from Miss He Kouhan, which means the beginning of love. After that, women usually present flowers to the young man, or directly wear the flowers on his earrings, while the young man returns with straw tobacco or carefully carved sword handles. After the preliminary establishment of the relationship, the two sides exchanged more and more gifts. The woman gave melons, melons, olive fruits, leggings, embroidery ropes, large handkerchiefs, meals, etc.; the man gave sugar cane, knife handles, bamboo tubes, cigarette boxes, strings, bracelets, meat, etc. Since then, men and women have routinely socialized in Nigozuo every night to further deepen their feelings. When the fruits of love became more mature, the man asked the woman to live together. After the woman agreed, the woman sent a signal to the young man, who understood the meaning and followed the woman shortly after she left. Most of the women waited halfway with torches. After entering the woman's house, they washed their feet first and then moved into the house to live together. The man quietly left before dawn.
the wedding day, the groom and his relatives went to the woman's house to pick up the bride and had lunch at the woman's house. The village elders and witnesses (usually priests) held a blessing ceremony for the bride's house, and the bride cried in the boudoir. After drinking, my aunt put on the "five rubs"(a round bamboo object worn on a bun to support a triangular woman's hat) as a wedding symbol for her niece, and was helped by two bridesmaids to leave her home. The welcoming and sending teams walked to the groom's house with the bride's dowry. When the bride climbed the bamboo building, the groom's mother waited at the door to present the bride with eggs and two boiled chicken thighs, and tied a red thread around her wrist. Then the wedding dinner began on the bamboo building. Village elders, priests, wizards and new friends took their seats in turn. Parents, elders and priests delivered ceremonial greetings respectively. After the banquet, young men, women, singers, etc. gathered together to sing wedding songs, including love, marriage, family, childbirth, agriculture, hunting, making a fortune, etc. There were lead singers, chorus, duet, and solo singers. The songs came one after another and stayed all night long.