Tuzu wedding

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Tu wedding

Applicant: Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, Qinghai Province

Item No.: 504

Project No.: Ⅹ - 56

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: folk customs

Region:

Type: new item

Applicant: Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, Qinghai Province

Protection unit: Huzhu Tu Autonomous County Cultural Center

Introduction to Tu Wedding:

Applicant: Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, Qinghai Province

The wedding custom of Tu Nationality in Huzhu area has a long history. The wedding custom of Tu nationality is gradually formed and developed through the struggle with nature and the long-term practice of production and life. It is completed in the activities of singing and dancing, and is the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the working people of Tu nationality.

Marriage customs are divided into several steps, the first step is to say the matchmaker, the second step is to make an engagement, the third step is to say the ceremony, and the fourth step is the wedding ceremony. The day before the wedding is the wedding day of the woman, who needs to entertain relatives and friends. On this afternoon, the man invites two "nashkin", who are good at singing, dancing and talking, to take wedding gifts, clothes and jewelry worn by the bride and pull a white ewe (symbolizing purity and wealth) to the woman's home to get married. At this time, the woman's family deliberately did not open the door for nashkin, and her aunt (young woman) sang a sweet "flower" to make nashkin sing to each other, and splashed water on nashkin from the top of the door to show her good luck. It was not until the aunts had no songs to sing, or when they had no words to marry their relatives, that the woman would open the door and invite nashkin to her home. Then the bridegroom offered hada to his parents in law, worshipped the Buddha, and went to the Kang for tea and dinner. At this time, the aunts crowded in the window to sing the wedding song, and the atmosphere was warm and cheerful. Then the aunts rushed into the house and took their relatives to the courtyard or the wheat field to dance "Anzhao". The whole wedding lasted until late at night, and there were nearly 20 kinds of songs and dances involved. A wedding of Tu people was a beautiful song and dance ceremony.

Huzhu Tuzu wedding has the characteristics of compatibility of Tuzu, Tibetan and Han culture. The content of the wedding song of Tu nationality is beautiful and rich, including astronomy, geography, history, religion, deification, life customs and so on. It has strong cultural color and is the most prominent form of traditional culture of Tu nationality. It contains the spirit, belief and value orientation of Tu nationality. It involves all aspects of Tu nationality, such as clothing, food, housing and transportation. It has strong local characteristics and unique folk customs Ethnic characteristics, as an important carrier of Tu folk literature and art, have important academic value in the study of Tu culture, history, folk customs and so on.

Chinese PinYin : Tu Zu Hun Li