When the bride cried all the way to the man's house (a custom of crying for marriage, so the song says: a sister gets into a sedan chair and laughs when she gets to the bottom of it), everyone in the man's house hid. If it is the She nationality, the bride will deliberately say, "Your family is dead!" Men ran out and said, "I'm waiting for you to get vaccinated!" " "At this time, an old woman will spread a red cloth and let the bride walk on it. The bride walked all the way, and the old woman followed the bag all the way and put it in front. It's called carrying on the family line. When getting married, the car door and the lintel of the hall were affixed with "media seals". The media seal is a red note that says "Kirin is here" or "Phoenix is here".

The wedding custom of hipsters in Huilai Guitan area, when the bride comes, the man's people have to avoid it, but the bride stepped on an earthen pipe. The crock is a cylinder formed by the reverse superposition of corrugated pipes, in which mascots such as lily and licorice are placed, which symbolizes the harmony of yin and yang for a hundred years. When stepping on it, you should get under the groom's armpit, that is, under the protection of her husband, fly with me (armpit). Tides and customs have also crossed the "smoke of fire" under the threshold. The slang goes like this: "Mother strode across the smoke of fire and went to the hall. The hall was carpeted and decorated together, and A Niang enjoyed eternal spring. "

Another She nationality song goes like this: "The bride walked to one side of the hall in a dress with laurel branches. Mom went to accompany your mother to the furious world, and a couple sent a round day. Step by step, Kirin is here. As soon as I get to your house, Wang Fu Yoshiko. This is a good day to be born. Mother's sedan chair will be at a good time and she will eat for a long time. Although husband and wife have been with each other for a hundred years. "

In fact, the wedding is just a prelude to marriage, and the biggest purpose of marriage is to carry on the family line. The same is true of the so-called "worship the ancestral temple and inherit the descendants". Around this goal, there are often many activities to ask children at weddings. The most commonly used activity is "Kirin to send children", including Kirin to send children lights and pictures. "Kirin is here" is also used by hipsters as a way to pray for children. What they pray for in their concept is still a boy. But what I want to say is that "Kirin is coming" comes from She nationality, and its original intention is not to pray for her son. But when it is used wrongly and repeatedly, it also becomes a custom of praying for children!

Kirin is an auspicious animal created by the Chinese nation and has the symbolic significance of unity and peace. People often compare Kirin to outstanding people and call smart children "Kirin". The origin of "Kirin sending a child" is also related to Confucius. According to legend, when the sage was born, there were Kirin spitting jade books at home, so the folk "Kirin sending pictures" often engraved with couplets of "Kirin in the sky, champion on the ground"

However, "Kirin is coming" is different from "Kirin is sending a child". Its semantic meaning is that there is a unicorn or an auspicious arrival. Pan Hu, the ancestor of She nationality, is called Qi Long, which symbolizes courage and hard work. "Phoenix is coming" means that there is a phoenix or auspicious arrival. What are you doing here? She people have a legend about this: In ancient times, Pan Along released a phoenix, and the phoenix gave him three feathers, which satisfied his three wishes: food, clothing and a wife. Qi Long and Fenghuang are both totems of She nationality, and LAM Raymond stickers actually express a kind of totem consciousness. She people are well aware of this and never regard it as a matter of praying for their children.

There is also a legend in Chaoshan that "Kirin is coming": Luo Tong killed Dou Nong, the princess of Fanbang who loved him deeply, while sweeping across the north. Princess Dounong was buried at the foot of Qilin Mountain, and Li Shimin, the king of Tang Dynasty, was so angry that Luo Tong was not allowed to remarry. After interceding, he betrothed a silly girl to Luo Tong to pass on incense. She passed by Qilin Mountain when she got married. With Yan's help, Princess Dounong attached ghosts to the silly girl, making her look and intelligence like Princess Dounong before her death. In other words, the original intention of "Kirin is coming" is not to pray for children, but to pray for looks and a beautiful and capable daughter-in-law like Princess Dou Nong.

I am convinced that the custom of "Kirin coming here" was misunderstood when it was circulated. But why is it misunderstood? Is it the Han immigrants who want loyalty or the She people who keep it a secret? If it is the latter, does it mean that the intermarriage and integration between the Han nationality and the She nationality-thus forming the Minnan people-is not as extensive as expected?