What does it mean to get married crying?
In ancient folk customs, when it comes to marrying a daughter, the family may ask someone to cry, indicating that they can't bear to see her leave. Zhou Libo's Home Beyond the Mountain: "Only those who cry are invited. In Tianjin, there is a kind of men and women who cry and marry for others. They are experts in this field. They cried and counted, methodically, as if singing, very beautiful. So crying for marriage became popular.
Getting married crying is a sign of reluctance.
The girl who is about to get married is the lead singer, and the mother, sister-in-law and sisters sing or answer and sing together. Married women cried and sang their reluctant feelings for strict father's loving mother and relatives. From grandparents to brothers, sisters and nephews, they cried and said goodbye, expressing their feelings incisively and vividly. The sadder a married woman cries, the more she shows her love for her loved ones, and she will be happy in the future. The lyrics are plain and euphemistic, but touching. The mother taught her daughter how to behave when she went to her husband's house by crying and singing. Sisters of sisters-in-law and married women also use songs to express their deep affection for each other.
A crying marriage is a way to relieve tension.
Marriage is an important turning point in a woman's life. Its main function is to change a woman from a daughter to a daughter-in-law. Daughter and daughter-in-law are two completely different roles, and there is a gap between them: on the one hand, the bride wants to bid farewell to the role of daughter, so her heart is full of attachment to past lives; On the other hand, the bride is afraid to begin to perform the duties of a strange daughter-in-law. So the bride must break away from the original role and enter a new role in some way. This sudden change of role will inevitably bring great pressure and burden to women's psychology. They need some means to eliminate their nervousness, and The Weeping Wedding Song just provides them with a legal and effective way. Women are given the right to speak at the wedding. They use this right to vent their feelings, unload the emotional pressure and burden when changing roles, bid farewell to the old daughter role, and make full psychological preparations for accepting the new role.