The wedding customs of stealing daughter-in-law in the Qidan ethnic group's "Fangsteal Day"

I don't think anyone can understand "Stealing Day". What kind of festival is this? Are you letting thieves steal anything at will? It is recorded in the Chronicles of the Khitan Kingdom that the Khitan people had such a strange festival-"Day of Declaring and Declaring". What is Day of Declaring and Declaring?

"Khitan National Chronicles" records that the Khitan people had a strange festival-"Day of Stealing", also known as "Day of Stealing", which means that on the three days of the first month before and after the Lantern Festival every year, Khitan families are allowed to open doors day and night, light lights and steal from each other. What is even more unbelievable is that during the day of theft, people can not only steal vegetables, fruits, cattle and horses from each other, but also men can steal a daughter-in-law.

It is impossible to verify when stolen items were allowed to evolve into the marriage custom of stealing daughter-in-law during the "Release Day" period. However, it is recorded in the "Songmo Chronicle" that Khitan people "on this day, their wives and daughters 'precious goods, chariots and horses were stolen, and no additional punishment was imposed.""There were also people who made a private appointment with their wives and stole it when the women wanted to stay." This shows that Khitan people could not only steal daily necessities during the "Release Day", but also live women could "take" them away at will.

Most historians believe that the formation of the marriage custom of stealing daughter-in-law in the "Fangsteal Day" is mainly related to the social and economic conditions of the Khitan people.

First, in the early days of the Khitan nation, influenced by the legacy of the late matriarchal clan society, allowed women to freely decide on the marriage contract and choose to follow their husbands to leave home on the "day of theft"; second, due to the unstable economic status of Khitan men at the beginning, if they wanted to marry a daughter-in-law, they would have to work hard labor in the woman's home for three years, and only after having children could they pay the "bride price" and leave alone.

The tortuous process forces both men and women to negotiate, and the man steals the woman on the "day of the theft". In the long run, the marriage custom of stealing daughter-in-law in the Khitan ethnic group's "Fangsteal Day" gradually took shape.

The "Fangpilai Day" originated from the Khitan people reflects the shadow of primitive communism. The theft in the "Fangpilai Day" is more of a way to play.