There are two bowls for each person in the ceremony,in one of which there is rice wine and the head of chichen in another.the boys will count the number of the head of chicken, if there are enough chichen head, they will take the seat,otherwise they would not join the party.
At the begaining of the party ,the boys will hide the chichen head and tease the girl as telling them the chichen are not enough.the girls have to find the chiken head or they have to drink a cup of rice wine.
The boys will pay for the dinner ,and they will collect the money and hide them ,letting the girls find it. when they finished dinner,they will sing in antiphonal style.
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Achang engagement
led the guests to the villiage, the girl have to find other girls ,the number of whom must equal the number of boys,for example,if there are 10 boys,she has to find other 9 girls.
When there are enough girls ,each girl will go and find a chicken and invite the best cook in the valliage.
When this cayton is completed, the host will go out to call their guest:”my honored guests, the food is ready, please come quickly.” when the host girl shout for a while, she will go home directly.the boy who are waiting come to the girl’s house immediately.
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Achang ethnic is one of 56 nationalities in China, the people mainly living in Yunnan province.
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Youth of Achang called love as “visiting girls”,their cuostoms are very interesting.on the water splashing festival,all the young man and women come to the court,splashing each other with fountain,and enjoy singings.They start to leave upon the sunset.And if a young man falls in love with a girl,he will ask for the permit of visiting the girl’s home,if permitted,he will invite several other young man to follow the girl home. They singing all the home,and the girl must remember how many young man here are.when they arrive the girl’s villiage,the boys are not busy to visit the girls parents,but have a rest first in their ralatives home and waiting for the coming of night.
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Then comes the cutting of the cake. As elsewhere in the world, the bride and groom cut the cake, which is several layers high. The bride then tosses her flower bouquet behind her back to other hopeful females. Who ever catches the bouquet is lucky because she will be next to marry. Next, the couple opens the buffet for the guests, which is usually a wide variety of salads, meats, stews, sweets, Fruits, and other Arab cuisine dishes. Actually the list might go on forever in some weddings. Food is considered one of the factors that reflect the wealth of the families of the bride and groom. After every guest has “stuffed” his or her stomach, the wedding party is over. In some weddings there may be some more entertainment. Then the bride and groom usually get a complimentary night or two at the hotel.
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Modern urban weddings are obviously affected by western traditions. For example, the cutting of the cake and tossing of the bouquet. This is not the case with rural areas. In rural areas, like Egypt, after the Zaffa, the wedding ceremony will usually take place in a big clearing of land where a huge Arabic tent called the “Sewan” is set up. Entertainment includes a belly dancer or singer and sometimes both. Drinks are passed to guests and food comes in huge plates to be served to guests. The customary food is Fattah which is pieces of lamb meat embedded in rice and bread dipped in stew. The bride and groom will leave the wedding early but the guests continue the festivities.
Whether rural or urban, weddings reflect the image of the families that have come together. Both families show off their wealth and generosity to their wedding guests.
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The Wedding itself differs from an Islamic wedding to an Arab Wedding, the Islamic weddings have separated halls, where Women celebrate with the Bride in one, and the men celebrate with the groom in another, then the Groom takes the bride from her hand and leave the wedding… The Arabic weddings, are very much more open then the Islamic ones, they usually include a Zafah, where the Zafa’s goal is to announce loudly that these two are married in front of gods and the people, the Zafa is a performance that differs from one region to another.
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In Egypt there is the Dumiyati Zaffa in the north, and the Sa’eedo , iskandarani zaffa, in the levant, or the cham there is the traditional folkloric Dabkeh, the Halabi Zaffa, and other versions of the Zaffa can be found in Maghrib and Arabia, the zaffa has even reached Malaysia, with the first Arab traders, called the Zapin. after the zaffa, the bride and the groom sit in the Kosha, The Kosha usually consists of two comfortable seats in front of the guests where the bride and groom reign as though king and queen. As soon as the bride and groom are seated in the Kosha a rose sherbet drink is passed to the guests and all drink to their health. Then the bride and groom will switch rings from right index fingers to left index finger. This is probably an old Christian tradition but it is done whether the couple is Muslim or Christian. With this ritual, the festivities begin. The bride and groom have the first dance after which the other wedding guests join in. Usually a belly dancer or a singer entertains the guests but in more luxurious weddings there is more than one entertainer. Guests will dance and sing with the newly wed couple, and the groom will occasionally be tossed in the air by friends. The more the tossing of the groom the more his popular. in Modern weddings, and after the formal entertainment, a disc jockey is used to extend the festivities.
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The Katb Kitab is the official marriage ceremony held in a Mosque, and starting with a small speech by a sheikh, or Imam . T he speech is about how the Prophet honored his wives, and how to honor women, and how women should treat and honor their Husbands. Then the Imam, tells the groom to follow his words,and the father, or eldest of the family accepts the proposal, it is more or less like the Proposal party, but it is considered a more official one in front of god, and then two witnesses sign their names, usually the eldest men in each family, and they are now officially married.
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The Henna Night is very similar to a bachelorette party, where the Bride’s Female Friends, and relatives join her at a house party called Henna, it includes food, drinks, and a lot of dancing, the bride changed dresses constantly, almost on each song, a band of females takes place, playing Arabic Music, and sometimes Islamic Music, all the girls would Belly dance on these music, a women draws Henna, a temporary form of skin decoration, on the Bride and the Guests. It is usually drawn on the palms and feet, where the color will be darkest because the skin contains higher levels of keratin which binds temporarily to lawsone, the colorant of henna.
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Engagement
Engagement is called as Khotba/Khotouba (ar:خطبه), Ta’ahod (ar:تعهد), Ertibat/Irtibat (ar:ارتباط) in arabic. Usually the Engagements in the Arab world, are very much like the Wedding parties, but the bride gets to wear any dress she pleases. Usually, the dress of the bride and the groom match in colors. The groom and the bride then exchange rings, where they put the rings on each others right Ring finger.
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the Proposal Party
a proposal party is a reception made in the bride’s house.the Groom asks for the Bride’s hands from her Father, or an eldest man in the family during the party, and the father agrees, the people in the reception reading the Fatha, which is the first surah in the Quran, and then a drink called the Sharbat/Sherbet, or a combination of Syrups, are introduced to the Audience, that is made out of both families, and then ends by a Walimah.
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Arabic Wedding customs, Farah (ar: فرح ) in arabian,have been changed greatly in the past 100 years. Usually traditianal Arabic weddings were very similar to modern-day Bedouin weddings and rural weddings.they were unique from one region to another–weddings in Lower Egypt were quite different from the ones in Cairo, and in Cairo they were different from the ones in Upper Egypt, and so on, even though Christian Arabs`wedding are very similar to Western weddings.
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The marriage process usually starts with fixed meetings, and ends with the “Dokhla”, or the entrance; it is usually misconceived in the West that Arab weddings forbid the groom from seeing his bride until the wedding day. On the contrary, it cannot be considered an Islamic wedding unless the bride and groom agree on the marriage, and the groom is welcomed in the bride’s house, although only with parental attendance, to maintain the purity relationship between both sides.
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There are many different wedding cultures ,wedding dresses for diffrerent nationilities,different regions.their wedding dress maybe the most luxary,most elegent and most important clothes for them.these dresses are amazing artwork, it is lucky to be a girl,because one day you will be dressed with thoses dresses,with all focuses on you,becomeing the envy of the world.
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This time the native America wedding culture will be introduced.
The indigenous peoples of the Americas have varying traditions related to weddings and thus wedding dresses. A Hopi bride traditionally would have her garments woven by the groom and any men in the village who wished to participate. The garments consisted of a large belt, two all-white wedding robes, a white wedding robe with red stripes at top and bottom, white buckskin leggings and moccasins, a string for tying the hair, and a reed mat in which to wrap the outfit. This outfit also would serve as a shroud, since these garments would be necessary for the trip through the underworld. A Pueblo bride wore a cotton garment tied above the right shoulder, secured with a belt around the waist. In the traditions of the Delaware, a bride would wear a knee-length skirt of deerskin and a band of wampum beads around her forehead. Except for fine beads or shell necklaces, the body would be bare from the waist up. If it were a winter wedding, she would wear deerskin leggings and moccasins and a robe of turkey feathers. Her face would be painted with white, red and yellow clay. The tribes of Northern California (which include the Klamath, the Modoc and the Yurok) had a traditional bridal dress woven in symbolic colors: white for the east, blue for the south, yellow (orange) for the west; and black for the north. Turquoise and silver jewelry were worn by both the bride and the groom in addition to a silver concho belt. Jewelry was considered a shield against evils including hunger, poverty and bad luck .
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