Bai Marriage Custom-Serving 3 Courses of Tea
 2016-12-20 16:49:26   Zhangjiajie Tourism Information Website  

In Bai Nationality, People who accompany the bride to bridegroom’s family on wedding day are bride’s kinsmen and kinswomen. Generally speaking, they are bride’s uncles, aunts, prostitutes and so on.

After having a meal, they are arranged to rest in a place where is about a-hundred-meters away from the bridegroom’s home. Then the bridegroom and supervisor lead eight “Immortals” and band to welcome bride’s kinsmen and kinswomen after performing the formal wedding ceremony with bride. At this time, The bridegroom needs to respectably offer 3 courses of tea to bride’s kinsmen and kinswomen. For short, the tea can be called bitter course, sweet course and reunion course. That is to say, the bridegroom has to offer fresh tea at first, sweet tea next and egg tea finally. What’s more, there is a specified provision in offering egg tea. The amount of eggs should be over 3. Offering 1 egg or 2 eggs are considered as taboos.

Translated by Becky