It is being said that marriage is fixed at the heaven and we humans are just like a puppet that walk through the path of life to finally choose our partners. Since ages, marriage is considered a very sacred ritual where a girl and a boy tie ...
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There came the large and mighty procession to escort the bride with firecrackers set off here and there and the gongs and drums and other jubilant music for the wedding ceremony lingering in one's ears on their way. The bride's sedan, bed, ...
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The marriage date for girls of Tujia Ethnic Minority is usually welcomed with crying. According to custom, the new bride should begin to cry half a month or one month before the wedding ceremony. Whether a girl can cry about her marriage ...
In the Lugu Lake region, Yunnan Province, the custom of visiting marriage has been practiced for centuries among the Mosuo People. The man and the woman involved in such a marriage practice spend their whole life with their respective ...
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Besides popular forms of marriage, there is a marriage custom called "grabbing" marriage among some people of the Miao ethnic group. There are two kinds of grabbing marriage: One is based on an agreement with each other. The other is ...
The walking marriage widely adopted by the Mosuo people of China is a unique marriage custom that is deeply related to its social and cultural traditions of the matrilineal family system. In a walking marriage, the couples do not marry to ...
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The Kirgiz ethnic minority is named after a word meaning forty girls. The Kirgiz have a population of 160,823 mostly distributed throughout the Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, Ili, Dacheng, Aksu, Kashgar, the southwest of Xinjiang Autonomous ...
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The Hani people mainly inhabit an area within the reaches of the Yuan and Lantsang Rivers. This is a branch of the ancient Qiang people who had been nomadic on the Tibetan Plateau and then emigrated southward. The Hani ethnic group now has ...
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