My village can't be like this

Chapter 272
After Zhang An got the tea seedlings he wanted, he didn't have any thoughts.

After walking around the village, he returned to the courtyard of Chen Yuan's house.

When I came back, it happened that dinner was about to start.

Here, unlike later generations or in Changqing Village, the banquet will be held three rounds.

It may be because there are not many guests, so the banquet in Maomaoqing Village is only held for ten days.

But this is not surprising, because there are not many people in Maomaoqing, and if the number is small, there will not be more people eating wine.

After all, many distant relatives will not be present because they are too far apart and the transportation is inconvenient.

Generally, only close relatives who are very close will come here without hesitation, so there are not many guests, and there is no need to set up so many tables.

After the meal, a raging fire was ignited in the open space in front of Chen's house. Many daughters-in-law, big and small, and even unmarried girls in their village all dressed up to attend, dancing their unique dances around the fire.

This is an unwritten custom in their village. It is said that it has been passed down for a long time. No matter who is married to a daughter-in-law, there will be such a program.

And those girls who are waiting in the boudoir, on the one hand, are practicing their dancing skills, and on the other hand, they are showing themselves in such a crowded situation.

After all, most of the girls and boys in the village now get married and start families, basically relying on matchmakers running around.

In this case, if you show yourself more, it will be easier to find your husband's family in the future.

Taking this opportunity to spread the name, everyone around basically knows that someone has a daughter at home, what she looks like, and what she is like, these will be spread by everyone.

When the age is up, there will be more people asking people to come to visit, and then you can choose more about the conditions of the man's family.

Needless to say, in the cold winter, with such a big fire burning, Zhang An still felt quite warm when he sat down.

There was a fire to keep warm, and there were dances to watch, so many people were not in a hurry to go home, and the scene became very lively for a while.

After all, in today's life, there should not be too few entertainment methods.

Especially in winter, when you return to your own home, you have to spend more dry wood to light a fire to keep warm, or many people shrink directly to the bed when they return home.

Zhang An and Su Ying sat by the side, and there were beautiful figures singing and dancing beside the fire pit, the husband and wife watched with great interest.

Fortunately, this is not a later life, otherwise Zhang An, who is married, dares to stare at other women so blatantly, then after returning home, he will probably have to sleep on the sofa or on the floor.

"This dress is really pretty, and it dances well."

Watching the dancing postures turning left and right in the open space in the middle, and matching them with their unique costumes.

It can be said that everyone attended in full dress this time. The hand-embroidered cloth clothes, coupled with the silver ornaments all over the body, had a special feature under the firelight.

Su Ying is a girl, and also a literary girl, she can't refuse these beautiful things at all.

"Do you like it? How about I make you a suit too."

The cost of such a unique outfit is much higher now than in later generations.

And you have to know people and find someone to do it.

Because now these clothes, whether they are printed, dyed or embroidered, are all stitched by themselves.

Including the silver ornaments they wear, they are not sold, but made by themselves.

It's just that most people use Miao silver for these silver ornaments.

Miao silver is a kind of silver, but the silver content is not as high as silver, and it is relatively low, so the price is cheap.

Although the color looks white, it is not as shiny as silver.

So this thing is generally sold to the Miao people to make silver ornaments for their daughters.

Of course, some families may have a better family background and better conditions.

For the sake of face, when making silver jewelry for the daughter at home, I bought pure silver directly.

In later generations, because of the vigorous development of tourism, the costumes of these ethnic minorities are loved by everyone.

Seeing the business opportunities, many people opened workshops or small factories to produce these clothes and silver jewelry in batches.

At the beginning, many people really liked it, and would buy a set to take home when they went out to play.

Because of the intervention of machines and mass production, a lot of labor is saved, and the selection of materials is relatively poor, so the price is cheaper.

Of course, although others like such a set of clothes, if the price is too expensive, few people will want to buy it.

But later, fewer and fewer people bought it, and most of them went to the local area and rented a set directly in the scenic spot.

After all, after passing through this thing for a day, the freshness is over, the photos are taken, the card is punched, and after the experience, there is no interest.

If you buy it at a high price and take it home, you will eat ashes if you keep it.

But Su Ying is different. Although she is not a Miao woman, she has always been in the village.

If she likes it, prepare her upper body. When there are any activities in the village in the future, she can also join the team of those young wives and big girls, and join in the fun with everyone.

"Can I still buy this? I heard people say that Miao women can only make one set of clothes in their life, which is the one they wear."

After hearing Zhang An's suggestion, Su Ying was a little excited.

Although she is from the city, she is not very clear about other people's customs, but at least she is also a native of the country.

Even if she doesn't know a lot of things, she has heard it from others.

"Of course it's possible. After Zhou Yang gets married, we'll start looking for someone to do it."

The saying that Miao women only make one set of clothes in their whole life does exist, but it does not mean that they can only make one set of clothes in their whole life.

One is because this suit is purely handmade, whether it is cutting, printing and dyeing or embroidery is very labor-intensive.

Moreover, there are at least a dozen pieces in their entire set of clothes, and it would take three to five years to finish all of them at the current speed of manual work.

The other is that these clothes are made by myself and worn by myself. Of course, it is necessary to choose high-quality materials for materials.

In addition, you don't need to wear it when you are working, or during your free time on weekdays. Usually, you will dress up for festivals or when you have something to do.

Therefore, the number of times of wearing is small, and the material is strong, and it is placed properly at ordinary times. Isn't it a good thing to wear for a lifetime?

Zhang An has even seen many old people in the village pass on the clothes they made when they were young to their daughters or daughter-in-laws when they get old.

After all, when they get older, they don't wear that kind of clothes very often, and they can't hold it.

Zhang An wanted to get a complete set for his wife, but he didn't think about getting a complete set.

What he thinks is that some unnecessary small parts can be cut together like the scenic spots of later generations.

If we really want to make eighteen pieces, firstly, it will take time, and secondly, he is also reluctant to let Su Ying support such heavy clothes.

After all, my daughter-in-law, I feel sorry for myself, Su Ying is not a real Miao woman, she just dresses nicely, so she doesn't have to follow the rules like them.

In the middle of the night, the woman's family began to find a place for Zhang An and the guests who came to welcome the bride to rest.

After all, it was after five o'clock in the middle of the night to pick up the new daughter-in-law. At that time, after all the procedures were completed, it was just dawn when she was picked up by Changqing.

So for the rest of the night, the host's family naturally wanted to entertain their guests, after all, they were all here to welcome their daughter out.

Because there are not many places to rest, a few men are crowded together, and a few women are crowded together.

Maybe everyone was tired during the day, found a place to rest, and fell asleep as soon as they touched the bed, and suddenly the earth-shattering snoring sounded like a war.

Especially Huang Ming, Zhang An found that this guy's snoring problem was a bit serious.

Looking at the skinny man, the snoring Zhang An was worried that he would be out of breath if he was careless.

If it was before, Zhang An would definitely not be able to sleep with this snoring.

But now, that's not a problem.

Closing his eyes and sinking his mind into the space, Zhang An also began to fall asleep after a while.

When it was a little after five o'clock in the morning, Zhang An woke up on time and woke up everyone who was still dreaming.

At this time, everyone in the woman's family had already woken up, and some of them probably didn't sleep.

Although it was night, the two pairs of high candles lit in the main room illuminated the whole main room very brightly.

Before preparing to bring out the New Year, the man's side needs to sing against the woman's side.

This song has a title, called the Song of Begging Flowers.

The woman's family sang about how difficult it is to raise a daughter, and the man's family sang about how good it is to have girls in the woman's family.

Generally speaking, the husband's family is sincere, and the mother's family is distressed.

As soon as this link came, Zhang An was thankful that he had omitted these things when he got married.

Don't think it's just a simple antiphonal song, if you can't sing well, you will have people laughing for many years in the future.

In some places, the song of asking for flowers is even sung when the welcoming team arrives at the woman's home.

In the early morning of the next day when I was preparing to pick up my new daughter-in-law and go out, I still had to continue singing, which was not easy at all.

Seeing that the time was almost up, everything was ready in the main room, and Zhou Yang also entered the state.

Zhou Yang's mother-in-law led the bride out of the room, and the bride knelt and kowtowed three times and nine times in the main room of her natal family, as a farewell to the ancestors of the Chen family.

According to their customs, after she walks out of this door, she is no longer a member of the Chen family.

This is not just her alone, every Miao woman is like this.

After going through all the rules, Chen Wenwen's mother finally picked up a chopstick on the table and gave Chen Wenwen back and forth a few times.

Finally, let Chen Wenwen face the door, then picked up the chopsticks just now, and threw them back behind him.

It was neither early nor late, at exactly six o'clock in the morning, Mr. Zhu Jia began to sing the lyrics.

With the sound of "The auspicious time has come, the master's family will make a marriage." Chen Yuan stepped forward, as a brother-in-law, he wanted to send his sister out in person without carrying his sister.

Zhou Yang's aunt had been waiting at the door for a long time. Seeing Chen Yuan carrying the bride out of the door, she quickly opened the big red umbrella in her hand, put it on the bride's head, and accompanied her all the way out.

At this time, Zhang Ping had already brought the carriage over, and it was at the gate of Chen Yuan's courtyard.

After Chen Yuan carried his sister on the carriage, Zhou Yang also went up together.

At this point, the bride is already a member of the Zhou family.

The golden boys and girls that Zhou Yang's family was looking for were Zhang Yan and Li Yao.

These two people had been waiting in the carriage for a long time, sitting on Zhang Ping's left and right sides respectively.

Afterwards, the woman's family also produced two carriages, which were used to hold the dowry and the bride's own belongings. The accompanying people had to go to the in-law's house together, which was regarded as sending off the relatives.

After all the preparations were completed, the old people lit the torches of the golden boy and the jade girl.

Afterwards, Chang Qing's welcoming team also lit the torches in their hands one by one.

With the sound of firecrackers, Zhang Ping lightly waved the reins and the carriage moved slowly under the bride's reluctance to part with tears.

Fortunately, there is no custom of crying for marriage in Hongyan Town, otherwise it would be too tortured.

In some places, people cry for marriage, and they start crying three days before they get married.

When the bride arrived at her in-law's house, her eyes were swollen like something, which made people feel distressed.

Although it is said to cry for marriage and cry for marriage, crying means something.

But when the bride is getting married, watching those scenes, she will really cry very sadly.

Although it was dark along the way, there were still occasional cars passing by.

Most of them are locals, and when they saw the welcoming team holding torches, they looked like a fire dragon.

So many drivers turned on their headlights, and when passing by, they honked their horns a few times to express their congratulations.

When the bride was taken to the village, it was not too early or too late, and when it happened to be at the gate of Zhou Yang's house, the sky just dawned.

"The bride is coming~"

As soon as Zhou Yang got out of the carriage with the bride on his back, a group of children started shouting at the door.

In the past, they would all still be sleeping, but today they had a drink and picked up a new wife, so they all got up early.

Because later you can ask for wedding candy, and hipa, and if you are lucky, you can even see red envelopes.

When Zhou Yang arrived at the door with the bride on his back, the second uncle of the Zhou family took a big rooster and threw it at the young couple.

This is the Huishen chicken, which is thrown very high and has been thrown from the red umbrella.

Finally, it fell to the ground, and both adults and children were looting.

Anyone who picks up the Huishen chicken will get a red envelope later. The adults are here to join in the fun, and the children are very serious about grabbing it.

Before entering the door, there was a red bed sheet at the gate. Zhou Yang put the bride down, and Zhou Yang's uncles tied the new red bed sheet for the two of them.

It was originally intended to be tied with a quilt or a blanket, but because it was too thick to be tied, it was simplified as a bed sheet, implying a lifetime.

After entering the door, the old man began to sing congratulatory speeches, and the newcomers began to worship heaven and earth.

After being sent to the bridal chamber, the person who rolled the bed was Zhou Yang's younger brother Zhou Song.

Although he is a teenager, it is actually the most suitable for him to roll.

But Zhou Song was rather boring, and there might be more people watching, so he rolled a few times on the bed shyly.

In the end, the children in the village enter the new house and start biting the flower kerchief. This link is indispensable no matter who gets married.

After dismissing the children, the elder girls and daughter-in-laws of the village chatted with the bride in the new house until they had dinner.

As for the other aunts and aunts, all of them are helping out with things, after all, a bunch of people have to eat later.

All the meals are prepared by them, and finally they are cooked for the back kitchen.

Therefore, when holding banquets in rural areas, the women in the village can be said to be the biggest force.

(End of this chapter)