Marriage Traditions

        I will introduce a Tujia group in China. They live in Hunan, Hubei mainly. The marriage of the Tujia group has strange manners and customs. The bride begins to cry for a half a month of the marriage and reaches a wedding ceremony by crying. She begins to cry for at least 3-5 days. However, there is the bride who begins to cry for more than one month in that.  There are the manners and customs to evaluate keen intelligence, intelligence, gentleness, the gentleness as the woman whether the bride can sing a certain "song of bride crying" a lot. When the marriage of the woman was not free once, this "song of bride crying" accused poor one's situation through "a song of bride crying." The marriage became free now. However, these manners and customs remain as a kind of ceremony when the woman of the Tujia group still gets married.