Pumi: Bride arrest and matchmaker

in the pumi ethnic group on the edge of yunnan, when a girl is married, she must go to the “arrest” bride.

on the day of the marriage, the man sent a matchmaker, two bridesmaids and a couple of smart and tough young men to meet her and steal the girl in disguise, with the help of her family.

when the bride was about to be married, when the parents had arranged to work in the mountains or in the fields, a young man found the girl and said to her, “you are from the xx, and the xx have asked you to have tea and come with us.” she said she was going to “capture” the girl who pretended to run away.

at that time, a few beautiful and strong girls who were lying around the bride came and punched, kicked and kicked the “killer” of the “arrest” of the bride, even torn or stripped of his clothes, forcing him to surrender and hand over the bride.

subsequently, the bride was brought back to her house to celebrate her wedding, sing and drink and send her away.

when the bride's brother takes the bride out of the house and follows the groom's pick-up team, instead of leaving the girl's house with her, the matchmaker is being held by the girl's house and locked up in a room, while a singer from the woman's side is being “held”.

in the “prison”, two people are going to play and sing and decide to win.

the door is guarded outside by two girls with keys.

it's not until the matchmaker wins until the doorkeeper opens and the matchmaker goes after the family.

if the matchmaker doesn't win, he has to drink or send money to her parents, so that even if the matchmaker goes out of prison and goes to the village gate, the whole family of the woman's village will have to drink, regardless of the amount of wine, and will end up drunk.

if you don't want to drink, you have to sing a pair of songs to the drinker.

if you break this line, the matchmaker will do his job and catch up.

at the pumi wedding, there was also a very strange ceremony to eat sheep's testicles.

when the bride arrives at the groom's house, she first needs to share a bowl of “correspondent rice” with the groom, which contains sheep's testicles and is intended to have children and children in the future.

the bridegroom delivers a meal to the bride and another to the bridegroom, so that the meal is finished.

after eating the wedding meal, a couple of newcomers were tied to their necks with a coloured line, ceremonial ancestor, and the soy oil was painted on the bride's forehead, and once she was painted with soo oil, the bride was now a man's man。