Marriage customs (traditional marriage customs of Hui nationality)

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: marriage custom

Applicant: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Project No.: 1214

Project No.: Ⅹ - 139

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Type: new item

Applicant: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Protection unit: cultural center of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (intangible cultural heritage protection center of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, exhibition hall of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region)

Introduction to marriage customs (traditional marriage customs of Hui nationality)

Applicant: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

The marriage custom of Ningxia Hui people and the origin of Ningxia Hui people complement each other. It is not only a part of the life etiquette of Muslim believers, but also a product of the combination of multi-ethnic customs. In the process of adapting and transforming the environment, people have formed the local cultural characteristics. Therefore, the wedding custom of Hui nationality is also the concentrated reflection of Ningxia regional characteristics in folk life, carrying a lot of national and regional cultural characteristics and rich cultural matters.

The old people of Hui nationality often call holding a wedding and getting married to their son "unloading the burden", and think that it is "a matter of life" and the responsibility of the old people. Marriage events enter the wedding agenda, including marriage promotion, family affairs, blind date, Congratulations, marriage, nyikaha, banquets, playing with parents in law, bridal chamber, size recognition, door return and so on. The banquet is the climax of the wedding. Ningxia Hui people generally hold weddings or wedding events as "Banquet", "Banquet". The banquet song is the "family song" sung by the "singer" at the wedding banquet, which includes the wedding song, praising the new couple, thanking relatives and friends, the "watch needle line", the "narrative song" and the humorous "wine song". It is the most festive and lively part of the wedding. Banquet music is the essence of the marriage custom culture of the Hui nationality. Its elegance is healthy, its melody is beautiful and smooth, and its content is extremely rich. It has both the function of creating a festive atmosphere and the function of teaching and educating. It is a valuable primitive material for studying Hui nationality's history and music history. The wedding custom of the Hui nationality is unique because of the banquet music. At the same time, many art forms of the Hui nationality can be preserved and inherited because of the inheritance of the wedding custom from generation to generation.

There are both religious and folk contents in the marriage of Hui nationality. With the development of the times, some traditional marriage customs of Hui nationality gradually fade out of people's life because of the influence of modern social thoughts. Today, the banquet music sung in the wedding of the Hui people is gradually disappearing in the wedding custom, which makes the wedding custom of the Hui people lose its characteristics and luster. Therefore, to protect and inherit the wedding custom and banquet music of the Hui people is the protection of the cultural gene of the Hui people and the treasure of the national art.