As the Laba Festival gets closer and closer, the wedding of the two newlyweds Fan Debiao and Liu Yunlong is also close at hand.
Since everyone in the Zhou family has a close relationship with Fan Debiao, Liu Yunlong, Wu Zhina and the old Li family in the county, and the two grooms’ homes are relatively far away, their parents and relatives can’t help them in the first place. Came here to help prepare for the wedding.
Therefore, the preparations for the wedding fell on Li Youwei and Zhou Yang's uncles and sisters-in-law.
Therefore, in the next few days, the lives of almost everyone in the Zhou family were busy surrounding this collective wedding.
Regardless of whether you are rich or poor, marriage is always the most important thing for your family.
Although getting married these days is not as complicated as in later generations, it is not just a matter of just taking someone to your home and calling it a day. A decent wedding is the most basic respect for the woman.
What's more, whether it's Uzhina or Li Qian, their natal family is a family with status, so they can't just act casually.
Therefore, for this wedding, both Fan Debiao and Liu Yunlong themselves, as well as Zhou Yang's family, made a lot of preparations.
As red couplets were posted at the Zhou family's old house and at the veterinary station, and the villagers helped kill pigs and sheep, the smell of the banquet at the primary school spread throughout the village, and the atmosphere of the wedding suddenly It became richer.
January 25th, three o'clock in the afternoon!
Fan Debiao's biological father and eldest brother came over from the Gannan area, followed closely by Liu Yunlong's parents from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas.
At five o'clock, under the eyes of everyone in amazement, a team consisting of three jeeps arrived at Babaoliang Village.
These are Uzhina's relatives, including Fan Debiao's father-in-law Bilige, mother-in-law Urqiqige, and of course Zhou Yang's sister-in-law Tana, etc.
Sending off the bride is an extremely important part of the Mongolian wedding. Under normal circumstances, most of the family, relatives and friends will come to see the bride off.
There were dozens or hundreds of people, riding horses and singing songs. The scene was extremely grand!
If the wedding is held on the grassland, there will also be a hat-grabbing game on the way to the wedding, also known as hat-grabbing.
The bride-to-be and the bride-to-be are galloping on horseback, chasing each other, trying to get home first and become the winner.
Usually the sender tries to snatch the bride's hat, pick it on the riding crop, or throw it to the ground, forcing the groom to get off his horse to pick it up, thereby affecting his speed.
The married people protect each other and don't let the bride-to-be take away the hat.
Along the way, you chase each other and play with each other, giving you a strong atmosphere of grassland life.
However, considering that the wedding was held in a remote village, and the man was not Mongolian, the woman decided to keep everything simple and only brought a dozen immediate relatives over. They planned to go back to their hometown to have a real wedding. Mongolian wedding.
Even so, the scale of this family sending group still opened the eyes of Zhou Yang and others.
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January 26th, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is a good time to get married!
Early in the morning, the "Er Kiji" in the village kept ringing, and occasionally there were firecrackers. The festive atmosphere suddenly came up!
At the same time, the Zhou family was particularly lively!
Dozens of people wearing various costumes crowded together to wash up, queued up to go to the toilet, and then gathered around to drink milk tea and eat breakfast. The scene was particularly spectacular.
There weren't that many places to live in the village, so after Uzhina's natal family arrived in Babaoliang Village, they were all arranged to stay at Zhou Yang's house.
Anyway, he has five main rooms and three side rooms, and most rooms have a big Kang.
Anyone who has seen a big kang in the north knows that it is like the kind of big bunk bed in school. Seven or eight people can easily sleep on one kang.
If there is a big Kang in the main room, it will be okay for more than ten people to sleep.
After breakfast, Uzhina's mother, Tana and others were busy dressing up Uzhina.
That's right, Uzhina is going to get married in Zhou Yang's new house. This is the result of Fan Debiao and Uzhina's discussion.
In fact, Uzhina could also choose the school dormitory, but they felt that Zhou Yang's home was more memorable.
On the one hand, it was because the two of them knew each other and had a relationship with Zhou Yang. On the other hand, their wedding room was also Zhou Yang's old house.
It's quite interesting to think about marrying the bride from Zhou Yang's new house to his old house.
Zhou Yang would naturally not object to this.
He and Lao Fan have been together for more than a year and have experienced a lot together. Naturally, they fully support this kind of thing.
While the woman was dressing up at Zhou Yang's house, the two groomsmen at the institute were not idle either.
Since they were getting married, Fan Debiao and Liu Yunlong both put on brand new military uniforms!
These days, soldiers generally wear military uniforms when getting married. They are powerful and domineering and save money on new clothes. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone!
And this may also be the origin of the tradition of soldiers in later generations wearing military uniforms when getting married. After all, this is how their predecessors came.
At this time, many soldiers were decorating the two jeeps in the parking lot inside the institute.
Getting married is a celebration, so big red happy words have to be pasted on it, and big red flowers have to be hung.
Soon, the two military vehicles were decorated "prosperously"!
It's eight o'clock in the morning!
With the crackling sound of firecrackers here, the two groomsmen walked out of their respective dormitories!
Then, surrounded by a group of comrades and colleagues, they boarded the jeep that had been waiting for a long time and headed for their respective destinations.
Others formed a team and walked to their new house and elementary school to help!
The car in which Fan Debiao got married came out of the institute and headed south, directly to the new house of Zhou Yang's family.
But Liu Yunlong's car was interesting. After leaving the gate of the research institute, it did not drive directly south to the county seat, but drove directly north along the sandy road.
It's not that the driver doesn't know the road, but it's because there is a local tradition of not taking the old road when getting married, that is, the road you take to welcome your bride is not the same road you take when you come back (this tradition is still preserved to this day).
Therefore, they need to take the back road to bypass the county town, and then take the flat road when coming back.
Over here with the Zhou family!
Under Li Hu's organization, the children closed the big iron gate early and stayed here.
As Fan Debiao's car arrived at the gate of Zhou's house, the children became excited.
After Fan Derbiao got out of the car, he looked at the closed door and the big iron lock on it, and he was suddenly stunned!
Although Zhou Yang had told him before that although the local culture of playing sons-in-law and wives is not very strong, there was a habit of blocking doors.
Especially for a man, if he wants to successfully marry his daughter-in-law back home, he must not only take care of the woman's aunts and uncles, but also make the women's children happy, otherwise you won't even be able to get through the door.
I originally thought that what Zhou Yang said was a bit exaggerated, but now that I saw it, he clearly meant it simply.
After all, in addition to these child soldiers at the gate, there is also a group of adults watching the fun at the door. These people are all "blockers" on his way to marrying his wife...
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(Northeast Kang)
(Inner Mongolia Kang)
(Tongpu Kang in the 1960s and 1970s)
(The mat on the kang, are you familiar?)
(Kang in the wing)
(The current Kang has changed so much!)
