"Hui'an Girl" is a Han woman from Chongwu, Xiaodi, Shanxia and Tuzhai towns in Hui'an, Quanzhou, Fujian. They have unique costumes, endure hardships and stand hard work, and have gained a high reputation.
The "Self-combing Girl" is a woman who appears in the Pearl River Delta area who does not want to get married. Once a woman combs herself, her parents cannot force her to get married.
Hui'an women:
Hui'an women are actually more accurately called Huidong women. They refer to Chongwu, Xiaodi, Shanxia, ??etc. who mainly live in the east of Hui'an, Fujian Province. Han women in Tuzhai Four Towns. Hui'an women have gained a high reputation for their unique costumes, rich local traditional colors, and hard work.
Hui'an women have attracted the attention of folklore researchers with their unique customs. Most Hui'an girls have the custom of "baby marriage", where their families arrange an engagement shortly after birth. A few people still continue this custom.
The marriage custom of "staying in your natal family for a long time" is also called "not leaving your husband's family." Scholars believe that "this special marriage custom is the marriage custom of the indigenous Fujian and Yue people not leaving their husband's family and the extreme feudal chastity in Han culture." The product of a combination of ideas.”
The female poet Shu Ting once wrote a short poem praising Hui'an women with the title "Hui'an Women".
Shu Ting's "Hui'an Women"/view/1357809.htm
Reference address of Hui'an women: /view/53835.htm
Self-combed women:
It refers to women who tie their hair up like a married woman to show that they will never marry and remain single until old age. A woman who combs her hair is called a self-combed girl, also called Sister Ma or a great aunt. After her death, she is called a clean girl. , is a kind of ancient Chinese female culture. In the past, the etiquette and laws were strict, and many women were unwilling to be abused and determined not to marry, or to support each other with their female companions until they grew old. From about the middle to late Ming Dynasty, the special customs of combing one's own daughter and not leaving home came into being. Because the rise of the silk industry provided women with the opportunity to make an independent living, these customs were persisted for more than 300 years under the oppression of feudal etiquette and reached their climax from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China. It was not until the 1930s that the customs began to follow the social status of women. The influence of progress and war gradually faded away.
Reference address for women who comb themselves: /view/40904.htm?wtp=tt