Traditional marriage customs of Han nationality

Name of Chinese national intangible cultural heritage: traditional marriage customs of Han nationality

Applicant: Xiaoyi City, Shanxi Province

Project No.: 1005

Project No.: Ⅹ - 98

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Shanxi Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Xiaoyi City, Shanxi Province

Protection unit: jiajiazhuang village committee, Xinyi street, Xiaoyi City

A brief introduction to the traditional marriage customs of the Han nationality (jiajiazhuang marriage customs in Xiaoyi)

Applicant: Xiaoyi City, Shanxi Province

The traditional marriage custom of the Han nationality has a long history. In the book of rites, Hunyi, it is said that "husband's ceremony begins with the crown, originates from Hun, is more important than funeral, respects chaopin, and shoots at the hometown. This ceremony is generally the same." For thousands of years, Han wedding has been regarded as an important part of Confucian "ceremony". Since the Zhou Dynasty, "six rites" (lottery, name asking, auspiciousness, levy, invitation and greeting) have become a kind of normative custom, and played an important role in the marriage life of the whole feudal society. After entering modern times, with the change of society, the traditional "six rites" fundamentally disappeared, but in some areas there are still "six rites" customs and other traditional marriage customs, which provide extremely valuable information for the study of folklore and sociology.

The marriage custom of jiajiazhuang in Xiaoyi city of Shanxi Province is a kind of folk cultural phenomenon with distinctive local characteristics. It originated in the song and Yuan Dynasties, and gradually became fixed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the long-term development process, the marriage custom of jiajiazhuang has been integrated with the local folk music, dance, literature, handicrafts, social beliefs, ethics and so on. It has a broad mass base and has become an important part of the local people's spiritual life.

Jiajiazhuang's wedding custom is simple in form and rich in content. It is based on the ancient six wedding rituals, combined with the characteristics of local culture and customs to deduce the festive and warm wedding etiquette procedures, which adds color to the wedding custom culture in the Yellow River Basin and becomes a special representative of China's diversified wedding custom.

Under the impact of modern civilization, the wedding custom of jiajiazhuang has gradually lost its original luster, and many etiquette procedures are on the verge of being lost, which is in urgent need of rescue and protection.