The Wedding Ceremony Research Around The Witchcraft Scenarios

In the half of 20 th Century, Yao migrated to Vietnam in order to escape war and bandits.In 1978, anti-Chinese incidents occurred in Vietnam, becoming the fuse which Yao returned to their homeland. In fact, the Yao’return due to the war,Vietnam conscription and other factors. In 1980, Yao returned overseas Chinese are placed in Shiwanshan Overseas Chinese Forest. In this process, in order to adapt to the living environment, these yao people made a cultural adaptation, including their language, dress, livelihoods, traditional values, and so on. At the same time, these yao people’ marriage custom has also undergo a change,due to socio-cultural factor, economic development factor and the natural environment factor, showing particular in: intermarriage scope expand,the type of wedding diversification, weddings procedures simplified.Yao returned overseas Chinese have some marrige custom,including proposing a marriage, fixing a day, getting engaged,selecting the wedding day and giving a red book,before the wedding. In Wedding ceremony, some wizards must be needed,they were called xiangqingkong and meirengong.Besides,there are some people acting as marriage staff,for instance middleman,groomsman,bridesmaid and so on.They make the wedding smoothly.Among them, xiangqinggong is responsible for inviting their master,wiping out evil,worshiping ancestors,etc;and meirengong in charge of worship ancestors,Acacia magic,etc.For these yao people, these witchcraft has certain cultural functions and social functions. Cultural functions of witchcraft are reflected in: administration of people witchcraft,wipe out evil witchcraft emphasise village and family identity;They can strengthen group identity. Nanli and worshipe ancestors can strengthen ancestor worship belief. Witchcrafts also can give some spiritual comfort to the yao.Some of them clean up environmente, some change Mao and umbrellas into people’guarding, and some make the newly married couples love each other,etc. Social function of witchcraft is reflected in two points. First, ancestor worship standardizesocial behavior.Second,witchcraft of manage people norms social organization.Not only that, witchcraft which in the wedding ceremony is a symbolic system. When wizards implemented Acacia magic, candles, lamps, wine,liver, incense and other items, are a symbol of the newly married couples,reflecting the yao people’s expectations for a better combination of gender. In addition, these yao people devoted to do away with any unacquainted ghosts,reflecting its reverence for the natural world.