In the face of extramarital affairs and marriage disputes, why can ancient Miao people solve them reasonably with "shooting back cards"?

Miao nationality is one of the 56 ethnic groups of the Chinese nation, and it is also an ancient ethnic group with its own traditions and culture, and the Miao nationality has its own set of regulations on marriage in history. For example, to get married, you have to embroider a suit or batik a suit. In marriage, the ancient Miao people have their own rules about extramarital affairs and marital disputes, that is, the current Miao name = folk custom "shooting back cards".

so what exactly is a backhand? What's the story about the origin of Miao people's shooting back cards? What is its function? This article will introduce in detail,

In a place where Miao people live in concentrated communities in Guizhou Province, there is still a very old custom to solve the problem that marriage feelings are incompatible with the law, which is called "shooting back cards" by local people. "Paibei Pai" has a long history. It is said that it originated in the Tang Dynasty thousands of years ago, and its origin is a love story:

According to legend, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a Miao hero named Di Yu, who helped the people in the tribe shoot many evil beasts. One of them saved a Miao woman named Di Li, and they fell in love in their later life, but even though they fell in love, Di Yu and Di Li's parents. However, the two people fell in love, so they thought of a way to solve this problem. They asked their parents and clansmen to testify that they could not get married in the dead and married in the underworld, and their parents also agreed to them. Both parents and the patriarch at that time took the whole clan to the open space, and

they passed the ceremony of "shooting back cards", thus concluding the first marriage of Miao people in the underworld for the first time. Their behavior also touched their parents and clansmen. Later, everyone continued their practice, because it was not against their parents' orders, but also combined their feelings and was acceptable to both sides.

From then on, the Miao people began to have the custom of "shooting back cards", which became the favorite of all lovers who could not get married. After years, it finally became a custom. What's the ceremony of shooting back cards

First, Miao women should dress up and put on new clothes with embroidered patterns, and of course, there are long headscarves wrapped around their heads, and then unique flowers made of silk scarves are worn on the headscarf.

Then Miao girls will go to "shoot back cards" with their friends. It is a grand occasion for Miao men to dress up very handsome before shooting back cards.

accompanied by parents and friends, young Miao men and women who shoot back cards come to the hillside where they shoot back cards with the venerable old people in the village. Young men and women had already gathered on the hillside, and everyone crowded around the notary. After the notary read the congratulatory message, a young woman put her "back card" on the ground, and a young man symbolically shot an arrow to the left, right and middle with a crossbow, and then shot an arrow at the "back card". The young woman immediately took the "back card" and fled, and the young man gave chase. At this time, people who came to watch cheered and applauded. This is the completion of a ceremony to shoot back cards.' The role of shooting back cards

In the tradition of Miao people, all the men and women who have shot back cards show that they have publicly expressed their desire to marry ocean deep to the world and the people. The meaning of "shooting back cards" is that you can't be a family in this life, and you will be husband and wife in the afterlife. Both men and women can't communicate with each other in this life after shooting "back cards", which is not only a proof of their feelings, but also the final farewell ceremony. Therefore, there will be no extramarital love in Gaopo Miao inhabited area, and family feelings are relatively stable.

The cultural meaning behind the custom of "shooting cards on the back" is the Miao people's yearning for love and expectation for a better life, and it has become a part of the ancient Chinese culture and is now a reserved custom of the Miao people in Guizhou, as it will never change their minds and provide a good way for the stability of the Miao people and the harmony among the ethnic groups. You can experience it for yourself when you are free.