Nepalese Newari: not a widow of the nation

Living inNepalKathmandu Valley in the Newars, has maintained a unique record of the world -- the tribe never widow. In order to have a faithful love and never interrupt the marriage, Nivard women at an early age, she would marry a called the "Baer effect". After a long life, the nut is they really never abandon "husband". But women and men together, just as "short false marriage", if they want to get rid of the family, as long as the Baer effect on the man's bedside, can restore freedom.

Newars

In addition, Newars is also a festival people enjoy, they Year festivals one after another continuously, the whole nation as if they are immersed in the celebration, and each day they almost all from a myth and legend, this let the Newar people's spiritual world and the ancient gods together forever......

����The first marriage did not marry a man

����The Newar girl became a woman in the dark

Neward woman, life at least to marry for the two time. When they grow up to 7 ~ 9 years old, is not out of childhood, first marriage sacred fell, the marriage is called "fruit marriage", the wedding ceremony is called "Yi xi". Interestingly, this first "groom" is not a man, but a girl's parents carefully selected by the "Baer effect" (the Baer tree fruit, a green nuts).

The fruit of marriage

In the Nivard tradition, "fruit marriage" is often a collective wedding ceremony, although only marry a nut, but "Yi Xi" ceremony was solemn, not sloppy. At the ceremony site, parents and relatives and friends gathered together, "married" girls wearing bright saris, the forehead central point meaning auspicious mole, in order to express their wishes, red cinnabar and even the small "bride" black hair red, some girls, a painted the God of the sun paper handkerchief on his head, which means the sun god is watching her marriage. The priest finished dressing, under the auspices of the girls, Belgo and one one parents to salute, said the establishment of marriage. After the wedding, the parents will "groom" with a piece of cloth wrapped, the girls will be the "groom" cherish one's whole life, accompanied by their own.

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