Guizhou Ethnic Marriage Customs Museum is located at No. 70 Zhuangzhuang Road, Xiawutun Street, Xingyi City, Guizhou Province. The museum is located in the west area of Liu's Manor, with a quiet and elegant environment.
Guizhou is a multi-ethnic province, with a population of more than 35 million, ethnic minorities account for 36.3% of the total population, including 17 ethnic minorities.
Guizhou Ethnic Marriage Customs Museum is a museum for protecting, researching and displaying Guizhou ethnic wedding customs and culture. With more than 2,000 pieces of cultural relics as historical evidence, the museum flexibly displays the unique marriage customs and culture of various ethnic groups in Guizhou through pictures and multimedia.
Guizhou ethnic marriage customs originated in the primitive society where private ownership emerged, and experienced a gradual and long process from low-level to high-level, from group marriage without marriage to monogamy.
For a long period of time in history, Guizhou belonged to the land of non-culturalism. The ethnic minority areas were not controlled by the imperial court, and the marriage customs and culture were not bound by feudal ethics, and they were in a state of independent marriage. With the gradual control of Guizhou by the imperial court, especially after the establishment of Guizhou Province in the Ming Dynasty, Confucian culture was promoted and spread in ethnic areas of Guizhou, and the marriage custom culture of "the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker" in the culture penetrated and even replaced independent marriage. Customs, Confucian culture believes that independent marriage is a phenomenon of not respecting parents and elders and not obeying the rules. As a result, the traditional Confucian wedding culture "three books and six rituals" gradually integrated into Guizhou's national wedding customs, and evolved into rituals such as "proposing marriage, discussing horoscopes, combining horoscopes, sending Geng letters, and getting married".
The love customs of the ethnic minorities in Guizhou are unique and interesting, such as the Bouyei people's wave whistle and bamboo tubes to express their feelings; Wall talks about marriage, etc., are full of romantic and mysterious colors.
In Guizhou, many ethnic minorities still adhere to the simple and traditional concept of marriage. For example: the ethnic group "same surname does not marry", the partner must "be of the same family", "cousin marriage" with relatives, married but "do not live at home" There are also "stealing marriages", "snatching marriages" and "transferring marriages", etc. Many customs, although there are many primitive feudal ethics and customs, are the mediators of national reproduction and growth, and they are important for national unity, stability and national unity. development is guaranteed.
Walking into the Guizhou Ethnic Marriage Customs Museum will allow you to understand the origin and development of Guizhou Ethnic Marriage Customs, and allow you to personally experience the colorful and colorful Guizhou Ethnic Marriage Customs and Culture.