A wedding without Bridegroom-Yunnan is quite different from ours

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The procedure of some of minority nationalities' marriage in Yunnan is quite different from ours, which goes like this, engaged, married, the bride goes back her mother's home for living, pregnant, birth and then she will come back to her husband, and begin their romantic life again.
This is a wedding of Yi nation without the bridegroom in a county of Yunnan. A bride is sitting on the grassland and a colorful scarf covers the face, but it seems there is no merry atmosphere on the wedding ceremony. The sisters of the bride get ready for the wine, cooked pig head and eggs; while the bride’s aunt takes off the scarf and combs her hair. She looks a little shy. The wedding is going on officially. Every three eggs are put in five bowls separately, a half of pig head and a bottle of wine; all of these are set before the bride. An old man, Bimo (a priest with rich traditional cultural knowledge) prays happiness for her, then the relatives of the bride, the people with the red cloth strips around the heads, begin to enjoy the dinner. They pray good lucks for bride while they drink, they will send the bride back home before sunset. where is the bridegroom, you may ask.
In fact, the bride had lived with her for a time, which called common-law marriage, and since it considered as a very happy marriage by all in the village, she can live with her husband. The bridegroom now is drinking at his home and waiting for her bride.