Do you know all the wedding customs of the Dai people?

After young men and women fall in love and get engaged, the man's parents entrust the matchmaker to propose marriage to the woman's house, and the woman's parents generally don't stop them. After the engagement, we chose "auspicious day" to hold the wedding. Weddings are usually held in the woman's home, and the main ceremony is to tie the thread. Dai language calls it "tree blessing", which means "tying the soul", that is, tying the soul of the bride and groom together and tying the two hearts together.

On the wedding day, people send the groom (called "rye" by the Dai people) to the bride's house (called "white wheat" by the Dai people) and hold a binding ceremony. At the inner end of Zhulou Hall, there is a small table covered with banana leaves. There are two conical hats made of banana leaves on the table (called "Suolei Cave" in Dai language), and there is a cooked chicken under it. There are red cloth, white cloth, bananas, salt, a glass of wine and a banana leaf box with sticky rice and white thread on it. The wife who presided over the wedding sat at the top of the fruit, and relatives and friends sat around the table near the wife who presided over the wedding. The bride and groom knelt on the left opposite the wife who presided over the wedding. At the beginning of the binding ceremony, the wedding begins with a congratulatory message. All the people present put their right hands on the table and bowed their heads to listen to the congratulatory message. After the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom each picked up a ball of glutinous rice from the table, dipped it in wine, ordered chicken, salt and other things three times in a row, and put it on the table after the order. Then, the officiant picked up a long white line from the table, bypassed the shoulders of the bride and groom from left to right, and put the two ends of the line on the table, indicating that their "souls" are tied together and can grow old together and never part. Then, the host picked up two thin white threads and tied them on the wrists of the newlyweds. Then, other old people here also picked up the white thread and tied it on the wrists of the bride and groom, wishing them happiness after marriage and giving birth to a son who can farm and build a house, and a girl who can weave and transplant rice seedlings. ...