Adulthood And Having A Family

In the miao society,adults and families are often inseparable,which is a necessary stage for everyone.This paper discusses the differences and connections between adults and families among miao people in limeng,a branch of miao people in the central guizhou province.The basis and premise of adults are married,in the concept of miao people,12 years old is the starting point of adults to the miao people,12 years old is the beginning of adolescence,this time is also the starting point of adult women began to leave the head and release to the society has reached marriageable age signals,since the girl has the right to an independent identity into amenity garden,love can be string of garden outside the village and small;Is twelve years old,can enter the ancestral grave a node after the age of twelve,death can enter the ancestral graves,ancestor of appellation,and have got the certificate of heir sacrifices after twelve years old,male and female,begin to pay labor the part family,all is the inevitable stage get married,is the basis and premise of married and start a family is the final confirmation of the adult,the miao people in the society,a family is a long process,marry and have children,is an adult a confirmation represents another stage of life began.Held a wedding,not just a matter of a family,but also about the whole village,is a collective event,in villages of the miao people in the annual fixed day wedding,image by people called the collective wedding this particular form of wedding,exists in the miao people in the group is the cause of this paper is to explore one of the problems.Appeared in the course of the wedding ceremony,each have a different connotation,through the analysis of the content related to the wedding ceremony,to reveal the value of social relations of hmong internal size corresponds to the corresponding social relations,the level indicates the social relations of the brioche glutinous rice because of its yield was lower than those of japonica and indica,the luxuries become social people endowed with culture connotation of waxy eat more if indica and japonica rice is for people to eat bread,so delicious food is something internal prevailing social,is the gift of a kind of flow.Glutinous rice is sticky,and a connecting role because of its viscosity,also is a kind of isolation in the wedding ceremony,by division of delicious food,the bride from the bride’s family,through the delicious food,the bride aggregated into in-laws this segmentation and coupling,also reflected in the ideology of the miao people in as the bride aggregated into the house,in the bride’s family lost ancestors bless the ghost also lost into the bride’s family after the death of the power of the ancestral graves instead,get family ancestral spirits bless,get into the family after the death of the power of the ancestral graves.Instead,get family ancestral spirits bless,get into the family after the death of the power of the ancestral graves besides,chickens and ducks in the wedding ceremony also represents the race last wish in the miao people in the society,chickens and ducks are common poultry,many chicks hatched chickens and ducks once,so it is a symbol of fertility in the hmong culture,is the best partof the whole pig pig leg,the bride and groom both sides by the transformation of the leg of pork(the wedding when the bride to send leg of pork to the groom’s family,recalls the return leg of pork groom to the bride’s family),represents the respect for each other.Leg of pork in the value of the gift of all is the largest,and the leg of pork is limited to the bride and groom eat two families,represents the concluded the affinity of the two in all the social relations derived in a core position,is the most important ceremony last link to hang red,is the interaction between two village,village relationship set up at this time.After the wedding,the social identity of men and women has changed,and the rights and obligations have also changed."Limeng" miao people’s collective wedding,obviously reflects their village order.Wedding is the matter of the whole village,in the wedding,the whole village should follow the custom rules handed down from generation to generation,hold a wedding day,to wait for the village groom to receive the bride back,the girl can go out to marry,in this follow is a kind of "marry in first,marry out later" principle.In the same village,men were expected to marry and girls were expected to marry outside the village in accordance with the custom of "the earlier generation and the later generation".In these rules and customs about marriage,ghost teachers and village elders play the role of administrators.Village to marry a wife,marry women should be informed in advance village old and ghost teacher,then village old and ghost teacher according to their seniority,age to determine the order and time."Limeng" miao people’s society has a distinct order,generations of people are clinging to this order.Through the mass wedding of "limeng" miao people,we can get a glimpse of their idea that the village is a big family.Ghost teacher and zhai old are two big parents.