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What is the marriage custom of Huian Chongwu?

After marriage, Hui 'an's daughter does not live in her husband's house like other Han women, but must abide by the traditional custom of "living in her mother's house for a long time". Three days after marriage, she will go back to her husband's family for a long time. There are only Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, winter solstice and other festivals in a year, as well as busy farming hours. I won't live in my husband's house for a long time until I have a baby.

In Huidong ethnic group, there is also the custom that new people live in different places during the wedding. On the wedding day, the bride usually wears a very strange headdress. It took five or six ingenious women four or five hours to comb this headdress. It is impossible for the bride to comb it again by herself if it is not carefully messed up. In traditional wedding customs, this kind of headdress, which is difficult to arrange, will play a supervisory role on the bride's wedding night. Three days later, when the bride returns to her parents' home, her peers will laugh at her if she finds that her hair is messed up. Therefore, in order to keep the hairstyle neat, the bride usually does not lie down and sleep for three days and three nights after the wedding, and will do everything possible to avoid sleeping with the groom.

In the old tradition, the newly married and childless Huian girl wore a black veil when she went out. This is a fig leaf to avoid seeing strangers and their husbands, and it will only be taken off after the couple turn off the lights when they sleep. This makes some husbands may not recognize each other as their wives when they meet on the road.

Over the years, the image of Hui 'an's daughter has gone from China to the world with the works of photography, painting, poetry, novel, song and dance, drama and film and television created by artists. In many literary and artistic works, the author not only looks at Hui 'an women's costumes with a curious eye, but also shows his incomprehension of their special marriage customs. He believes that the humanity of Hui 'an women has been oppressed by feudal customs for many years, and thus he has placed deep pity and sympathy on their "misfortune".