novel
Weddings
Author: Zhang Julun
In the winter of 2022, I returned to my hometown as a senior in journalism to spend the New Year with my parents in the northwest of Shanxi.
People who have just come out of the epidemic are full of passion for reunion and release joy. Girlfriends in the same village, all married people, part-time workers, people who go home for the New Year are boys, although they know, but, they have married other wives, and there is no place to visit the house, stay at home, my mother always wants to talk about finding a partner, which makes me upset.
When my father saw it, he said to me: "Liu Jinna, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, Hu Jiuhan from Wan'anping Village held a wedding for his son, I am his aunt, let's go with our family!" You, the future reporter, go and see how the Hu family got married. Some time ago, I was invited, and promised to hold a large-scale, culturally strong, 'nine boys and two daughters' all back, a new type of wedding ceremony that combines the present and the ancient. ”
After listening to my father's words, I became happy again, picked up the university books and plunged into them again.
On the eighth day of the new year, on the seventh day of the new year, our family was sent down to my aunt's house in a seven-seater car by a boy in the same village to help with the marriage. As soon as I got off the bus, a boy who looked like a student stood in front of me and said politely: "Hello Aunt Liu Jinna, my name is Hu Qiankun, welcome you to my house today to attend my brother's wedding, I will serve Uncle Liu and Aunt Liu Jinna throughout the process!" ”
There is a custom in my hometown that my aunt and uncle can laugh funny, so I said: "Since Mao Sui recommended himself, let's serve!" Miss Ben is fierce by nature, and it is difficult to serve! ”
Hu Qiankun focused his eyesight on me, looked at me timidly, and said: "Master Ben is the second in the family, a junior student of the School of Steel of the University of Science and Technology, and his nature is hard and not soft, so he guarantees that the service is satisfied!" ”
I was about to speak, but my dad said on the side: "Qiankun, Jin Na is a future reporter, she wants to cover this wedding, you can help more." ”
"Uncle, don't worry, I will do a good job!" Hu Qiankun said to my dad very politely.
He turned around and said to me: "Reporter Liu, please, I'll find you a place to rest first, and then I'll be your tour guide!"
I said, "Well, listen to you!" ”
He followed Qiankun to a Chunguang Hotel on the edge of the Yellow River, settled me in room 308, poured a glass of water from a disposable paper cup and said, "Uncle Jinna, if you want to interview, I will tell you about my family history!" Although you and I are related by blood, you may not know our family history. ”
I hurriedly said, "Very well, you can just sit down and drink water." ”
Hu Qiankun sat down and said, "Okay, let me introduce you." My grandfather and your aunt had nine sons and two daughters, and they traveled to many places in China, not superborn guerrillas but heroic grandparents! The male Ding from Hu Dahan to Hu Jiuhan, the female baby Hu Da Ya, Hu Erya, the whole family of about 400 people, there are workers, farmers, businessmen, students and soldiers, all walks of life are famous, all over the motherland, this time my brother got married, asked the whole family to come back, all indispensable. My father said that he would take out millions of dollars to do a good wedding, and only keep accounts and not receive gifts for relatives and friends who participated in the wedding, so as to hold the wedding out of folk culture and run a well-off level in rural areas. The opportunity is rare, take a family photo and leave a picture of the Wang family. Let people think about the benefits of having more children and being alone. ”
Speaking of this, Hu Qiankun stood up and said, "Let's go out for a walk!" ”
I said, "Yes! ”
We came to the courtyard of the old aunt's house, a row of twelve caves sitting north and facing south appeared in front of the eyes, the gate is the size of the vehicle can enter and exit at will without the top of the double column factory standing shape, the gate is a brick and concrete structure of the bungalow unfolded, where there is a door of the cave, the room is pasted with the word happy and the marriage, only the two eyes do the cave of the cave volley up the red color flag, and hang the double happiness, fire eggs and other festive things, the middle leg of the two caves has been pasted with a double happiness background of the mandarin duck map, Underneath is a red blanket spread on a two-person desk, on which hangs a piece of red paper that reads: Master of Ceremonies
1. Worship heaven and earth
2. Worship the high church
3. Worship your parents
Fourth, please visit the guests
5. Husband and wife worship each other
I was about to walk into the cave room to take a look, Hu Qiankun pulled me and said, "Don't go in, I'll take you in at the right time tomorrow." ”
On the west side of the compound, there are many large round tables and chairs, and a tarpaulin house has been erected on the west wall, and all kinds of stoves have been put in place, and the cooked red meat and fish are placed on the dining table to dry, and the fragrance comes to the nose. After turning around and walking out of the compound, I turned my head and took a picture, and said something to myself!
Qiankun said: "There are more magnificent ones waiting for you to enjoy!" ”
Came to the village. Qiankun said: There are more than 400 households and more than 1,500 people in Wan'anping Village, and since the beginning of reform and opening up, some of them have gone to school, joined the army, worked outside the village, and worked part-time, and some young people have almost disappeared. After more than a dozen families went out to earn money, they returned to their hometowns and set up jujube processing factories, small grain processing factories, pig farms, flour mills, oil mills, tofu mills and other enterprises, and also planted some land, living a life of grain, money, cars and houses, and some even became village cadres and became leaders of rural revitalization.
There are four or five five- or six-storey buildings in the village, all of which are located along the Yellow Highway, and are usually inns. The first floor is divided into various sales stores, and there is a large warehouse in the backyard, which is stacked with red dates, small grains, walnuts, almonds, and peach kernels that are ready to be sold to various places; There are also Chinese herbal medicine purchasing stations, stacked with locally collected Chinese herbal medicines to be processed. These things are very popular, after the computer sends out sales information, orders continue, there are those who need to be delivered, and there are also those who come to pull, which is really a couplet on the door: "Merchants gather all over the world, and the wealth is rolling up to the three rivers." ”
As we walked along the yellow-coloured tourist road, the water in the Yellow River flowed southward like a rocky beach in motion, and the floating ice glowed brightly under the sun. Because of the transportation capacity of Jin and Shaanxi along the Yellow Road, there are basically no ships in water transportation. The village is building a tourist resort, and the roads are all red, white, green, yellow and other colored pavement, walking on it, the heart is relaxed. From time to time, the speakers in the company floated out the song of "who doesn't say that my hometown is good and happy, and the songs are flutter......ing everywhere", which makes people a little lingering and forgetful. Suddenly I found that I loved to listen to Hu Qiankun's voice, I spoke fluently, and the language full of all kinds of knowledge made my heart beat wildly, oh, am I in love with him? And couldn't help but look at him. Qiankun looks like he is seven or eight meters tall, with a pair of glasses that are not very high on his white face, a white thermal underwear with blue stripes, a black and green down jacket with a hood, under the closure of the zipper, giving people an easy-going and ordinary shape, and wearing a pair of white love key sneakers under the black and blue pants. What a Prince Charming walked with me.
Because of my shifting thinking, I was a little incoherent in my conversation. Qiankun asked me, "What's wrong with you?" Tired? Let's go back to the hotel?! ”
I said, "I'm not tired, I'm a little jealous of your height, and I'm a little small and low." ”
Qiankun glanced at me and said, "My fair lady and gentleman are good, very good!" ”
I said, "The school girl must be attacking you at school, right?!" ”
Qiankun said: "I didn't find out, I admit death, and I can't get out of the textbook, so I haven't used those idleness to pay attention to these things." Today, you're in the first place. ”
I jumped up with joy, and as soon as I jumped on his shoulder, he was afraid that I would fall, so he half-hugged me and protected me, so that I could stand on my feet, and continue the conversation, and at some point, I had gone far outside the village, and the large and small vehicles that passed by on the road from time to time had no effect on our conversation and walk. I saw a village in front of me and said, "Ouch, what's the place up ahead?" ”
Qiankun hurriedly said, "It's broken! It's almost time to Nanheyu, hurry back, otherwise you will miss lunch. ”
The two of us turned our heads and went back, because we were walking too fast, I crooked my feet, and I screamed "oops" in pain, squatting on the side of the road and couldn't walk, Qiankun said: "Uncle, if you don't mind, I'll carry you on my back, right?!" ”
I didn't care about shame, and said cheekily: "Carry it, I'm just afraid of tiring you!" ”
Qiankun said: "It's okay, carrying you on your back is like an eagle catching a chicken, a piece of cake." So saying, he picked me up and laid me on a ridge of the ground, and I lay on his back, happily enjoying his breath.
As I was about to enter the village, I said, "Come down, it will feel better to rest on your back for a while, so that the people in the village can see the joke." ”
After putting it down, I began to walk slowly, and when Qiankun looked at it and saw that it was okay, he said, "Do you want me to carry it?" It's my daughter-in-law who carries it back! ”
I turned to him and said, "You're beautiful! "Just get into his arms and hug each other!
Qiankun said, "Let's go!" Go back to dinner, or you'll miss the meal! It's all my daughter-in-law, is it still a problem to hug?! ”
I said, "You've got to drag me back!" The two returned to the gate of the compound hand in hand, and walked in one after the other. Qiankun's mother shouted, "You two eat quickly, it's going to be cold if it's too late." ”
I asked for a bowl of mutton and rice noodles, and I devoured it, it was so fragrant.
One afternoon and evening, Qiankun had something to do at the wedding banquet, and I was alone in my room reading books, writing diaries, tidying up my camera, tape recorder, etc., and preparing for tomorrow's interview.
When it was almost eleven o'clock the next morning, Qiankun ran in a panic and said, "Hurry up, the bride has arrived at the east entrance of the village!" ”
I quickly got dressed, hung up my camera and tape recorder, and ran along. Coming to the east entrance of the village, the greeting procession has set off as a whole team, and the drummers began to march with a long horn, led by a woman in her forties, carrying a horse lantern, emitting a faint red light, and walking slowly. Behind her was a comical picture of a black velvet hat, a red face and a red mouth, and a freshly broken fire bowl on her forehead. He wore a black shirt with pimple buttons on his upper body, a fancy belly puff hanging from his chest, a dry smoking gun in his hand, and two puffs in his mouth from time to time, spitting smoke rings into the air. It's a well-planned and dressed matchmaker-like harlequin, grimacing, dancing and jumping to the rhythm of the music, making the villagers on the side of the road laugh. Behind him was a group of drummers, blowing and beating and shaking the sky. Behind the drummer is an eight-lift sedan chair, which looks small and exquisite, and under a sedan chair coat, the auspicious pattern of the dragon and phoenix is particularly dazzling and charming. On the top of the sedan chair, there is a golden ball that shines brightly, in front of the sedan chair is a delicate door curtain, on which there is a small transparent glass window, there are also small glass windows on the left and right and back, the bride can sit in the sedan chair and lift the hijab to look forward and backward left and right. The long sedan rod is an aluminum alloy tube, it is a special tool that is elastic and both light and hard, two short bars are fixed with screws at the front and rear ends of the sedan bar, there are red rope loops at the four ends of the short bar, the sedan chair drivers put the flat bar into it and lift it up, and the first four and the last four people call it the eight sedan chairs. The sedan is divided into two layers, the bottom layer can put some of the bride's dressing and casual clothes, the second layer is like a sofa-like chair, cushion, armrest, backrest have sponge cushions, comfortable and pleasant, there is a button on the right hand, when the bride has a need, press down will make the horn sound of the sleeping car, at this time, the sedan chair man will stop, send the relatives to the front of the sedan chair, lift the curtain and ask what the requirements are, generally do not mention the requirements of the sedan chair, continue to move forward after meeting the requirements. On the road in the village, the sedan chair drivers will also follow the rhythm of the music, stepping on the cross steps or undulating and bumpy steps, so that the bride has a feeling of fluttering, fortunately there is a seat belt on the shoulder and chest, undulating will not be the bride's head on the steel frame collision, afterwards I asked the bride to sit in the sedan chair or take the car? She blurted out, "It's good to sit in a sedan chair!" "Behind the eight sedan chairs followed by a tall horse, wearing a big red flower on the horse's head, the groom is riding on horseback, wearing an iron-colored suit and white shirt, wearing a black top hat on his head, a pair of shiny black leather shoes on the stirrup, and a ribbon on his chest wearing a chest-length red flower, how handsome and chic, as if the legendary Prince Charming in history is here! Behind the groom is a white and seven black high-end luxury cars wearing ribbons, double happiness words, and big red flowers. The people who sent their relatives sat in the car and pulled all kinds of dowry gifts. When Hu Qiankun introduced me to him, he said, "Here is a temporary announcement, I want to take the master of ceremonies into the cave room to make the bed, will you go?" ”
I said, "Go!" Go!! Go!!! ”
Qiankun and I followed him to a sleeping car that had been prepared for a long time, returned to the gate of the compound under the drive of Qiankun, and parked the car in an open space. Our group of four really couldn't bear to step on the clean carpet, like a woman with small feet, staggered to the courtyard, a red festive restaurant that occupied five or six caves, there were dozens of large round tables, some vinegar dishes, chopsticks, candy, and cigarettes had already been placed on the table. I wanted to continue watching, but Qiankun said, "Jin Na, come and turn on the video, it's time to make the bed." "I still don't think so, do you still need to make a video? I was ready to break into the cave. Wow! It is really a unique cave, the top of the kiln is hung with fire eggs and double happiness words under the eight belt latte flowers, the size of the word happiness and the mandarin duck picture are pasted all over the wall in an orderly manner on the snow-white wall, and the artistic big photos and various photographic picture groups of the two people are hung on the lower kang cliff of the cave, which is both trendy and festive. I don't know when a lot of people crowded in the cave room, and I still have to watch it, the master of ceremonies (host) pulled a red sheet and recited the bed-making song aloud:
Make the bed, beaming,
Men and women are married, and the candle cave is a room.
Family harmony, happiness and auspiciousness.
Today we're going to make the bed and add a champion next year.
Make the bed, make the bed, the children and grandchildren are full,
Born early to a noble son, later born to a girl.
Make the bed, beaming,
Spread the four corners first, then the center.
Make the bed, sow in pairs,
A son and a daughter, the dragon and the phoenix are auspicious.
A pair of pillows and two well-behaved, and a twin will be born in the coming year.
The bed is made so well that a pair of boys can't run!
Make the bed so completely, and the glory and wealth will last forever.
This year we will ask for pro, and next year we will report the good news,
A man and a woman are famous, and they are born as a pair of college students.
A paved mandarin duck playing in the water;
The second shop dragon and phoenix are auspicious;
Three-shop fish water acacia;
Fourth, the love of the shop is long;
Five shops gave birth to noble sons early;
Six shops are full of children and grandchildren;
Seven shops for a hundred years;
Eight pavements are long;
Jiupu family harmony;
Ten shops are brilliant in youth.
Newlywed, newlywed, happy for a long time!
After making the bed, everyone hurried to the gate, wow, two red firecrackers from the door to dozens of meters away, on both sides of the gate there are eight buildings of a total of 16 firecrackers, to welcome the arrival of the bride.
Qiankun's mother and a group of women stood outside the gate and walked in front of them, and Qiankun said, "Mom, are you waiting here early to greet your daughter-in-law?" ”
His mother said, "No, Mom has a huge task standing here on standby!" ”
"Difficult task, what task?" Qiankun asked his mother puzzled.
His mother smiled and said, "Hand over the sedan money!" ”
"Ahh Hand over the sedan money? How much does it cost? "Qiankun is like a child to get to the bottom of things.
His mother lowered her voice and said, "If you can't tell anyone else, hand over two pieces!" ”
"Oh? Only two pieces? That's too little, right? Qiankun said puzzled.
His mother said, "Two good dollars (two white oceans), and if you don't come down, you will hand over another 20,000 yuan", and in a hand-basket he prepared these things. Qiankun has to see it, picked up the red towel covering the basket, a big red envelope, a small red envelope, I quickly reached in and pinched the small red envelope, hard, the big red envelope is estimated to be 20,000! I didn't look at it anymore, Qiankun's mother stretched out her hand to hit the back of her hand, and when I saw that I retracted it and covered the red towel again. At this time, I only heard people shouting! Here it comes! The matchmaker came writhingly. At that time, the firecrackers on both sides of the road were lit and exploded, crackling and exploding, so that the drummers could not hear anything. The matchmaker suppressed the trend of moving forward, and just a few steps forward after the fireworks were blown away by the wind, the red, yellow, and green colored tail smoke of the skyrocketing flowers once again blocked the marching wedding procession. After the second fireworks were blown away by the wind, the wedding team walked towards the door with various attractive movements and laughter. When coming to the gate, the matchmaker instructed the drummer to stop and blow on the west side of the door, let the sedan chair on the red carpet at the gate, the master of ceremonies shouted loudly, the band paused, the bride accepted the mother-in-law's meeting gift and prepared to get off the sedan chair, the mother-in-law came to the door of the sedan chair and lifted the curtain, and said to the bride: "Child, hard work!" As he spoke, he took out the little red envelope in the basket and handed it to the bride, the bride pinched it, put it in the expensive bag she was carrying and buckled it up with satisfaction, handed the bag out and said: "Mom, you keep it for me, and give it to me afterwards, it's too messy, I'm afraid of damaging my bag." Then he said, "Let me get out of the sedan chair." ”
The master of ceremonies shouted loudly, the groom dismounted, and the bride got off the sedan chair!
The mother-in-law immediately retreated, and a pair of chic married women as bridesmaids supported the bride to get off the sedan chair, and the bride said: "There is part of me in the lower layer of the sedan chair, let people send me to the cave room, be careful of losing it!" Another bridesmaid came to carry the dowry items, at this time, the greeting song sounded, there was a hand holding a wooden plate, put a few sections of grain grass inside, 28 coins, red dates, 13 walnuts, from the place where the sedan chair landed to the place of worship, grabbed it with his hand and scattered it into the air, and recited loudly:
A sprinkle of joy and happiness is opened;
Second, the god of wealth is happy;
Sansa Xi Qian got off the sedan chair.
The bride is beautiful and talented, and she will marry back on an auspicious day.
The bridegroom hurried up to meet him and invited his bride to come in.
Young friends go up, and the bride is fun for the first time.
Men and women worship heaven and earth, and worship ancestors after worshipping heaven and earth.
After the wedding ceremony, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl entered the cave room.
In five years, he gave birth to three noble sons, doctoral and master's degree students.
When scattering money, the children rushed to pick up money and dates, affecting the bride to enter the hospital, after sprinkling, the bride should enter the hospital with the support of the two bridesmaids, also called dragging the daughter-in-law (in the old days, the new daughter-in-law did not step on the soil when she got off the sedan chair, and three mats were replaced by entering the hospital to "worship heaven and earth", and now a seamless red carpet is from the sedan chair to "worship heaven and earth", and enter the cave room, without pulling the mat and stepping on the soil).
With the support of the bridesmaids, the naughty offspring to prevent mischievous offspring from pulling down the hijab to see the beauty. Walking in from the gate with small and steady steps, another congratulatory song sounded:
As soon as you enter the gate, you will be happy, and the couplets will be pasted all over the courtyard.
Red flags were planted in the gates, and firecrackers exploded to the sound of gongs and drums.
Find a partner for yourself, get married, and find your sweetheart.
I married a flower this year and gave birth to a champion baby next year.
It is a big cadre who gives birth to a man, and a noble lady who gives birth to a woman.
In the congratulatory song, before the ceremony of worshipping heaven and earth, he began to worship heaven and earth under the auspices of his aunt (commonly known as the dragon's head).
The main agenda is:
1. Worship heaven and earth
2. Worship the high church
3. Worship your parents
Fourth, worship relatives and friends
5. Husband and wife worship each other
At the beginning of the worship of heaven and earth, friends to a couple of heads and whole body paper flowers, the head and body sprinkled with colorful confetti, grandparents sit early on the worship table around the table waiting for the children's worship, after the worship left, already waiting for the parents next to sit to accept the worship. From the husband and wife worship, peers, friends frolicking, and then the groom picks up the bride into the cave room, put it on the bed, the groom takes a small red wooden stick to pick up the hijab on the bride's head, ready to drink the soup (also known as children's soup), by the aunt (dragon head) holding a rolling pin, stirring in the small pot while reciting the "half-solution song":
A rolling stick, half-dissolved (large), the beautiful bride sits on the bed;
Two rolling sticks, half-dissolved, giving birth to a child is small;
Three rolling sticks, add some water, the husband and wife have a pioneering life feas;
Four rolling sticks, add some noodles, and a lifetime of beauty will appear;
Five rolling sticks, put some salt, and the son is filial to Sun Yexian;
Six rolling sticks, put some vinegar, the future is bright and sunny;
Seven rolling sticks, put some oil, and all the children are very good;
Eight rolling sticks, put some green onions, and make all the doctoral students at home;
Nine rolling sticks, putting some rice, and having a child to be the prime minister;
Ten rolling sticks, snot and stubborn phlegm are put in the pot, and the aroma is fragrant and easy to mix with soup.
The aunt (faucet) has to pretend to blow her nose and spit stubbornly in the pot, and then say, "Drink!" "Scoop the soup in a bowl and eat the oil cake slot while drinking the soup. Another fun scene is over.
Toast at the table. By a special person with the bride and groom, according to the size of the main and secondary toast followed by the parents after the toast, poured by the groom, the bride according to the guidance of the aunt with the title while calling while respecting, the elder relatives also took the opportunity to pay a few hundred yuan to the bride to hand over the gift, the bride put the money well, held the wine glass with both hands and said: "Thank you uncle or brother-in-law, please drink a glass of wine for the younger generation!" ”
Luncheons and dinners have to be toasted.
Caving room. After the dinner, after a couple returned to the cave house, the mother's family sent Qi to explore the cave room, to see the location of the cave house (after sending Qi to the village after marriage, you can find the specific location where the son-in-law's family lives), and second, to see how the cave house is arranged. After being satisfied, go back to your room to rest.
Haunted Cave Room. The aunt (dragon head or friend) leads the aunt, two aunts, and friends to make a hole in the room. They also sent an older middle-aged and young woman and a peer to accompany the bride to the cave room. The main control of the hole room should not be excessively aggressive to prevent accidents. (An elder told me that a long time ago, a family along the Yellow River in the northwest of Shanxi Province turned a cave house into a mourning hall.) When the groom was not allowed to make the bride a mediocre lady and a foolish woman, and when some low-level and obscene language and behavior were stopped, the friends forcibly escorted the groom out of the cave room, took a rope and tied it to a jujube tree on the Yellow River beach, and when he went to find the groom after the cave house, he had already been eaten into a skeleton by several hungry wolves. Since then, people have sent bridesmaids to the cave room mainly to prevent the occurrence of accidental safety accidents)
My eldest girl also came to the cave house to take pictures out of curiosity.
The moderator proceeds one by one according to the prepared procedure. When the bridegroom came to the cave to enter, a friend shouted, "The bridegroom has arrived!" ”
The first procedure begins, and someone says in the door: The first item in the cave room: the bride and the groom.
Enter the door to the poem:
The bride said: "Close the door and roll out the window before the month." ”
The bridegroom said, "Throw a stone to break through the bottom of the water." ”
The host said: "Ancient poetry is relatively successful. ”
The bride said, "Under the nipple mountain is Pingchuan. ”
The bridegroom said, "The hills and grass ditches are clear springs." ”
The host said: "The dilemma is successful! ”
The bride has another dilemma:
"Points, lines, and surfaces form a three-dimensional mathematical theory."
The groom is interested in:
"Words and sentences have become a masterpiece of science and technology literature."
The host said: The trilemma is passed, the groom enters the cave room, and the hole room enters the ordinary procedure.
1. Exploring flowers (a big red flower is inserted on the top of the kiln, and the groom is holding the bride and poking it down.)
2. Kissing (the bride and groom hug each other and kiss, everyone laughs).
3. Skeleton building (the bride holds the groom's neck with both legs, holds the groom's head with her hands, and the groom stands up and turns around and slowly puts the bride down)!
4. Gnawing on apples (hang an apple with a string and let the bride and groom nibble on the apple when they can't get their hands on it, until each of them has a mouthful).
Fifth, "millet seeds" (that is, a hundred grains of millet suddenly put into the crotch of the bride, and then let the groom put his hand in to touch it, which lasts for a long time, the millet is smooth, and the difficulty is also great, and it is generally not completed).
Sixth, teach Ling'er. Teach the bride to say: The slave family will give birth to a child next year, the eldest child is the leader, the second child is Tanhua, the third child is not angry, and the eighteenth is the champion. Five men, two women and seven sons were reunited, and there were civil and military generals and handsome officials.
7. Teach tongue twisters. A rural friend said: "I came to teach the bride to say tongue twisters: "Cut the grain without cutting the roots, do not cut the grain eggs, and do not accompany the rice (bi) grain and long grain (ban, busy)," said it three times in a row, and said it quickly, and when it didn't come, it would make everyone laugh.
8. Free and funny (generally some vulgar and simple sour words and shy actions, which make everyone laugh constantly).
9. The host advocates that the bride and groom should write poems.
The groom is out: lotus leaves and lotus sky are blue, and the blue sky is even lotus.
The bride pairs: peach blossoms reflect the red side, and the red face reflects the peach blossoms.
The groom is out: Although the silver spear is sharp, it is difficult to break the thousand-year-old meadow.
The bride is right: The light is faint and can burn thousands of miles.
The bridegroom comes out: The spring water in the cave is inexhaustible.
Bride pair: Twin peaks show on the water.
The groom out: piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, hops,
Bride's pair: firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea.
10. The rope tied the mandarin ducks, and finally laid a yellow belt behind the bride, and the friends worked together to press the groom on the bride and tie it up with a yellow belt, so that the bride could slowly untie it, at this time, the host said: "The bride and groom we can't coax for free, one hundred per person." When will the bride untie it and when will it be given to you. Then ask the bridegroom to give us two packs of cigarettes. ”
The pimple is not a living festival, it is very difficult to untie, the money is paid and it can't be untied, the pressure is long, the bride can't shout out of breath, so let the two lie on their sides to solve it, and the bride said that her arm hurts.
The bridesmaids took the opportunity to untie it, and they were pulled away by their friends, and then turned over the man and the woman on top and continued to solve it until it was untied. The host paid the money, the groom gave out cigarettes, the friends dispersed, and the bridesmaids laid out the bed and said: "Let's go to sleep, you must take off your clothes, the two of you will sleep in a quilt, and your eldest brother will send you a urinal to smoke for others." After the end, your mother will send the cave room, and the bride will leave the door at dawn, and she will have to go to the table when she comes back tomorrow morning. After saying that, the bridesmaids withdrew. After a while, surrounded by friends, the eldest brother put the urinal on the floor of the cave room, and the groom hurriedly stepped forward to shake hands with the eldest brother and gave the eldest brother two packs of good cigarettes. Then pull the lamp to sleep.
Send the cave room. Parents lead children, smeared by friends, riding brooms with feather dusters in their hands, and mothers-in-law following them, carrying flower baskets containing walnuts, dates, peanuts and coins, praying for an early birth of a precious son. The mouth recited: "Bai Nurou, Hei Xiaorou, mother will sprinkle dates for you." Shuangshuang walnuts and double jujubes, both sons and daughters come early, children come to wisdom or good, rubbing hemp, twisting threads, Tsinghua Peking University, drawing bows and archery, officials and businessmen, standing up a hole, many people are also heavy, sitting on a few benches, what to do is also competent, many sons and daughters have relatives. Not in the village in Beijing. Then he said, "Let the dog sleep for his life."
Then he began to recite:
a sprinkling of millet seeds;
2. Sprinkle dates;
Three dolls run all over the ground;
Fourth, everything goes well;
Five Sons and Five Sons Dengke;
Six scatters, six six, two full;
Seven scatters and seven sons are reunited;
Eight scattering hair;
9. There is money and there is something;
Ten sa is real. ”
Someone outside the back door listened to the cave room, and after hearing it, it was auspicious and overjoyed.
After a tired day, I went back to 308 and slept like a pig, and suddenly a mobile phone ringtone woke me up, the call was from Qiankun, he said that the banquet will start immediately, and he will walk back to my yard from the east end of the village, you come and shoot!
I quickly wiped my face, got dressed and left, came to the village, the team was already walking on the road, the uncle who was called the dragon head painted his face in black at this time, but he was wearing an old sheepskin jacket, the wool was exposed, and he was holding a broom as a fan in his hand, so scary and funny, so scary and funny, people were so afraid and funny to see. I can't really say what kind of shape it is. He led the groom and his relatives and friends to pick up the bride, the brother and sister-in-law wore official uniforms and cheongsam, wore a phoenix crown, the sister-in-law pretended to be a queen, and the brother pretended to be a county official dressed in a robe and wore a gauze hat. Other brothers and sisters-in-law of the same generation also decorated, smeared red, wore broken straw hats, wore torn leather jackets, held wool dusters and brooms, and connected the brothers and sisters-in-law with ropes, the bride and groom walked slowly under the guidance of the upper aunt (dragon head), and the brother and sister-in-law followed, and the drummers lined up to blow and beat. Then the Yangge team brought by the drummer twisted in various dance postures, and the harlequin played all kinds of funny grimaces and laughing movements to help behind. The whole team walks in the streets and alleys, renovated, a while the bride is carried by a friend to hide in the neighbor's house, the dragon head is found and back, although there are four or five bridesmaids to follow the left and right, it is difficult to beat the coaxing of young friends, the bride's face will be smeared with some red, one will be smeared with some black, all the way to play, entanglement until the end of the house, it is really tired of the team, but also tired of the drummers and Yangge team.
A table has already been set up in the courtyard, there are dishes and wine jugs, wine cups, chopsticks, etc., and then let all kinds of female relatives sit in two rows from large to small in turn, in the middle by the bride and groom wearing saffron facing the table with dishes standing, there are two chairs next to the table, by the host to invite out the grandparents and parents and aunts until the eight uncles and eight aunts sit on it in turn, by the groom pours wine, the bride holds the wine cup in both hands and toasts to the high hall in turn, and shouts: "Grandpa drinks, grandma drinks, daddy and aunt drink ......." Then kneeling, the high hall paid the bride, and the bride said while collecting the money: "Thank you, grandparents, grandparents, and aunties!" "While prick your own token needle (it is used to store the mascot of sewing and embroidery needles in the past, there are villains, puppies, bears, rabbits and other embroidery products, which can reflect the evidence of the bride's needlework skills) to give grandma, and then from Hu Dahan Uncle Aunt to Hu Jiuhan Father and Mother, toast and bow down in turn to give money and gifts called salutation! Then under the guidance of the host, the bride shouted out the name she should shout one by one, and presented the mascot, the groom toasted and handed cigarettes, the host and the women who recognized the size in turn pooled money and handed it to the bride, Minglong recognized the size of the end, and entered the table to eat.
The staple food of breakfast is oil cake powder soup, and the oil and gas of fried cakes fill the compound, and the locals say that the pot is full of oil cake gas, which means auspicious.
During the meal, the old man dressed up as a "fried noodle god" (there is a local joke story, it is said that in ancient times, a family married back to their daughter-in-law, and the old husband saw that the daughter-in-law with a pink face was so beautiful and beautiful, and couldn't help but step forward and kiss it on the face, and ran out of the street for a while, and the neighbor hurriedly asked, what's wrong with your white lips and shy face?) This person thought to himself, it's bad, you have to find a good reason, otherwise you will be laughed at. Then he said, "It's okay, I just took a bite of fried noodles." Since then, the locals have nicknamed the husband who married his daughter-in-law the god of fried noodles. A small cloth bag with fried noodles hung on his chest, with a spoon in the bag, his face blackened, and a special official hat full of the symbol of the god of fried noodles. At this time, the friends brought the bride over, let the old man carry him around the courtyard restaurant three times, and then sat on a chair and asked the bride to shout:
"Daddy!"
Dad should say, "Hey! ”
The bride asked, "How thick are the fried noodles?" ”
Dad replied, "It's fine! It made everyone laugh, and the father-in-law and bride waited until they had fun.
The old man said, "The children have worked hard! I'll bring you cigarettes! "The old brother and the two uncles of Hu Jiuhan were among the coaxing, and the pockets of the friends were full of cigarettes.
Everyone who is happy is happy, until they are happy.
Xi Bei, the Hu family took a family photo with a camera in the compound, 500 people smaller, it can be regarded as a big family in China!
Sending the bride back to her parents' house in a car in the atmosphere of the courtyard full of oil cakes is called "returning to the door", which is also called inviting a son-in-law!
On the third day, the whole family of the mother-in-law sent the son-in-law and daughter home, and the son-in-law's family held a banquet at noon.
So far, the two families have become the family of children and daughters, and they have been in contact for generations.
Rural weddings are indeed a kind of culture, and I want to write about it and pass on this kind of intangible cultural heritage wedding
Dragging my tired body back to my room just wanted to lie down, Qiankun also came, he smiled and hugged me in his arms, I turned into happiness that I had never had before, and after sitting down, I said: "When we get married, everything is simple, too tired!" Hu Qiankun said: "Can close relatives get married?" ”
I said, "I've asked my mother, my aunt will marry your family, and I will marry yours, okay!" Didn't you regret it? ”
Hu Qiankun said: "Look at you, the sea is dry and rotten, and you will never change your mind!" ”
"Today you drove us home and announced to my family that you were my boyfriend! Tomorrow, your family will be engaged! ”
(Taiyuan, June 22, 2024)
About author:Zhang Julun, born in May 1954, is a retired cadre at the deputy county level in Xing County, Shanxi, a retired party branch secretary of the political and legal system, vice president and secretary general of the Association for the Elderly, and vice president of the Sanjinxing County Cultural Research Association. He is fond of reading and literary writing, and has successively published various newsletters, novels, essays, etc. in newspapers and magazines.