Marriage customs (Xibo traditional marriage customs)

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: marriage custom (Xibo traditional marriage custom)

Application area or unit: Xinjiang gashan Culture Communication Center

Project No.: 1214

Project No.: Ⅹ - 139

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Type: new item

Application area or unit: Xinjiang gashan Culture Communication Center

Protection unit: Xinjiang gashan Cultural Communication Center

Brief introduction of marriage custom (Xibo traditional marriage custom)

Application area or unit: Xinjiang gashan Culture Communication Center

The traditional marriage customs of Xibo people are mainly popular in Xibo areas of Xinjiang. Most of the places where Xibe people live and live maintain their own marriage customs. In Xinjiang, except Urumqi and Yili, there are also their own marriage customs among the scattered Xibe people.

The marriage custom of Xibo nationality has a long history. Up to now, the ancient fishing and hunting culture and the marriage custom formed in the period of agricultural production are still preserved in the traditional marriage custom.

The marriage of Xibo nationality is monogamy, which belongs to the patriarchal marriage form of subordination. Intermarriage stresses seniority and adheres to the principle of not intermarriage with the same surname.

The marriage forms of Xibo people have gone through a series of unique forms, such as marriage talk, engagement, ajisalin (small banquet), ambasalin (big banquet), married life and so on.

Due to the small population of Xibo people, they have always attached great importance to their own reproduction and social development, forming a custom of marrying a daughter-in-law, and everyone comes to help with money and things. Therefore, it is not only the "life event" of the parties to the marriage, but also a major event of the families and most members of the family.

Weddings are the highest form of Xibo marriage. Most weddings are held in late autumn or early winter, generally for three days. After marriage, the newlyweds go to the graveyard to worship their ancestors under the guidance of their parents. The mother-in-law also leads the new daughter-in-law to a relative's home to offer a cigarette to recognize their marriage. On the ninth day, the newlyweds will visit their parents' home to visit their relatives. After the full moon, the bride will return to their parents' home to live "on the moon". So far, the whole wedding is complete.

In the marriage customs of Xibo people, singing and dancing are always performed. A wedding usually starts with singing and dancing and ends with singing and dancing. From this, folk songs such as "marriage song", "dingba song", "Weeping marriage song", "persuading marriage song", "sarin spring dance" (wedding song) are formed. At present, many of the original ecological elements in the traditional marriage customs of Xibo people are losing, and the wedding ceremony, supplies and so on have changed, and are evolving to modern wedding ceremony. There are fewer and fewer traditional weddings held by Xibo people in urban life, even in rural areas. This situation is causing many difficulties in protecting and inheriting the content, ceremony and cultural connotation of marriage customs. The protection of intangible cultural heritage has become a very urgent task in the protection of intangible cultural heritage.