Chapter Twenty-Three: The Prairie Wedding

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The motorcycle started, a gust of wind blew, and Pang Dongdong's black hair fluttered in the wind, like a fluttering waterfall.

Riding a bicycle to the gate of the hospital to look for Pang Dongdong, Hemiti looked at the long-haired woman in the distance in disbelief, and from a distance, the girl in her heart had already faded away from her youthful youth, and she had completely become a fair lady.

Haimiti, who works in Urumqi, persuaded the leaders of the unit and finally agreed to let him go back to his hometown to work.

According to Haimiti's request, he went to work at the county animal husbandry bureau, and began to move after completing the formalities with the transfer letter.

Although he is a bachelor, it is also a tedious thing to move, he settled the dormitory, and came to the hospital to find Pang Dongdong, who came twice and happened to be Pang Dongdong on the night shift, and her colleagues told Haimiti that she went back to the dormitory to rest.

This weekend, he specially asked the leader for leave and got off work early to pick up his beloved woman and return to Guangren Township together.

Unexpectedly, Pang Dongdong actually left on a police officer's tricycle.

Looking at the three-wheeled motorcycle that was gradually moving away, Hemiti felt a sense of urgency in his heart, and he didn't know which of the two men on the motorcycle was the person Pang Dongdong was about to date.

Back in Guangren Township, the three-wheeled motorcycle stopped at the alley behind the township government, Pang Dongdong led the way in front, Gao Li and Ha Ming followed behind with gifts, and the three came to Tian Kunrong's house.

The door of the house was open, and the three of them walked into the house one after another, and before Pang Dongdong could introduce him, Gao Li took the initiative to greet Tian Kunrong with a smile on his face, "Hello Auntie, I am Gao Li, a surgeon at the county hospital, and I am good friends with Dong Dong." ”

Tian Kunrong looked at the generous Gao Li with a happy face, and hurriedly gave up her seat to the visitor.

Buick Polati, who had changed his clothes, came out of the back room, looked at the polite Gao Li with complicated eyes, saw Gao Li get up to say hello, and said in pure Chinese: "Sit down, you're welcome." ”

Buick Polati glanced at Pang Dongdong, who was carrying a teapot to pour tea for Colliers and Hamming, and stopped talking.

Everyone sat in the house for a while, saw that the time was almost up, got up and walked towards the township school, and the location of today's broadcast of "Wreath Under the Mountain" was set on the school playground.

Pang Dongdong locked the door and asked Tian Kunrong, "Mom, where are Mina, Kaiyishan, and Areyi?" ”

After Buick Porati married Tian Kunrong, they gave birth to three more second-rotors (mixed-race children), a boy and two girls, a 16-year-old daughter Mina, a 13-year-old son Kaiyishan and an 11-year-old daughter Arey.

"Mina has to make up for classes at school this week and won't be coming back." Tian Kunrong reached out to arrange her husband's collar.

Mina is the most enthusiastic of all the children and is in her first year of high school at a middle school in Yining City.

Buick Polati continued with the following words: "Kaiyishan and Azheyi, two little guys, took a small bench for us to take a place. ”

Speaking of the three children he had with Tian Kunrong, Buick Polati was happy and proud from the bottom of his heart.

In the countryside, the "film to the countryside" activity is only once a year, and farmers and herdsmen of all ethnic groups who have heard the news have already come.

The center of the school playground was already crowded with people, and the walls of the school fence were also full of people, and the farmers and herdsmen who came from afar had all kinds of transportation, such as bicycles, horses, old ox carts, mules, and horses and donkeys.

There was a noisy and noisy sound, Pang Dongdong looked at this scene, and thought, when the movie starts later, should I listen to the sound of the film, or listen to the neighing of the horse next to me?

A donkey in the northeast corner made an "oh roar" sound, which was extremely unpleasant.

Pang Dongdong and his parents, Gao Li and other five people came to the playground, all looking for their younger brother Kaiyishan and sister Azheyi, who had come early to occupy their seats.

Before they could be found, suddenly a tall man came up behind them and strode towards Pang Dongdong.

Buick Porati, who was looking for a child, turned his head to see the young man, his lips trembled with excitement, and he didn't have time to speak.

The young man was behind Pang Dongdong, bent down and bowed his head, holding Pang Dongdong's thin waist with both hands, and easily carrying Pang Dongdong on his shoulders as easily as carrying a sack.

Pang Dongdong, who was carried on her shoulders like a cargo by the sudden man, was stunned in the air, and found that her abdomen was crawling on the man's shoulder, her upper body was hanging behind the man, and her legs were tightly held by the man's hands.

"You let go of me, let go of me." Pang Dongdong pounded the man's back with both hands, and his legs struggled desperately.

Tian Kunrong saw that her daughter was being carried away by her stepson in full view, and shouted anxiously: "Haimiti, you quickly put down Dongdong." ”

Pang Dongdong heard his mother's anxious shouts, and then he knew that this reckless man was Haimiti, the lover she had been waiting for for 13 years, she gave up the struggle, and was so obedient that she climbed on the man's shoulder and did not move.

Colliers and Hamin were about to rush up to save Pang Dongdong from Hemiti, but the two of them were stopped by Buick Porati, "Don't chase it, that's my son, Dongdong's man, he has finally grown into an eagle on the grassland, and he has come to marry his sweetheart." ”

Listening to Buick Polati's words, Gao Li looked at the figure in the distance, Pang Dongdong was no longer struggling, and her hair swayed like a waterfall with the young man's movement.

Everyone on the playground looked at the back of Hemiti carrying his beloved woman away, and many young Kazakh barangs whistled to encourage him.

Under the sideways gaze of the crowd, Pang Dongdong and Hamiti disappeared into the school playground.

Hemiti carried Pang Dongdong to the tree on the road, tied the reins to the trunk of the tree, helped Pang Dongdong to the horse, and then stepped on the stirrup and turned over on the horse.

Like his father, Buick Polati, Haimiti rode on a tall horse with his beloved woman in his arms, and rode on the road of Guangren Township in a hurry.

He took Pang Dongdong to the grove that had lingered in the past, and many years had passed, and the grove thick with a shovel had long since become a towering tree, each with a bucket thick.

The two dismounted, and when they reached the dense grass that was inaccessible, Hemiti took a sheet from his horse coat and spread it on the green grass.

Pang Dongdong was so shy that he covered his face with his hands, and secretly saw between his fingers that Hemiti had tied the horsewhip to the branch of a poplar tree not far away.

Pang Dongdong, who is familiar with the customs and habits of the Kazakh people, knows that today, she is going to become a woman of Khemit......

In the steppe, the way Kazakh men and women fall in love with each other is full of poetry, if a couple of men and women fall in love, they will gallop in pairs on the beautiful steppe, looking for a good place to date.

When a Kazakh man and woman in love choose a secluded place, they turn over and dismount, crossing their whips in a conspicuous position that is easily visible to nearby pedestrians.

The place with the unique mark of the horsewhip has become a paradise for young Kazakh men and women to confide in each other, express their passionate love and pursue happiness.

Pedestrians who pass by this place and learn about the customs of the Kazakh people will take a detour not to disturb the couple who love each other, and silently bless the steppe with a delicate and beautiful flower of love.

In the school playground, Colliers and Hamin knew that they were bored, and before the movie was shown, the two of them returned to the county seat disappointed on a tricycle.

"Garland Under the Mountain" has not yet been broadcast, and the men, women and children of Guangren Township know that Buick Porati and Tian Kunrong's pair of unrelated children are talking to each other.

That night, Pang Dongdong and Hemiti did not go home, and the two of them poured out their thoughts and love in the grove that they had not seen for many years......

The next day, the two returned home hand in hand, and as soon as they entered the house, their marriage was put on the family's agenda.

Buick Polati and Tian Kunrong have already chosen the date of their wedding and will handle the wedding in accordance with Kazakh wedding customs.

When Tian Kunrong married Buick Polati, the living conditions were poor, and the problem of food and clothing was basically solved, how could there be conditions to hold a wedding, besides, they were both second marriages back then, so they didn't do a big deal, and they lived together after getting the license.

Bek Polati deeply regretted that he did not hold a Kazakh wedding ceremony for his beloved Han wife, and he let his son hold a wedding in the steppe.

Kazakhs attach great importance to the marriage of their children, and the parents of both sides must conduct a strict investigation and test of both men and women, and only after the permission of the parents can they determine the marriage, and they must go through the three major procedures of engagement, dowry, and wedding.

The Kazakh people value women and pay attention to the family, and the man should give the woman a "milk gift", "wedding" and other wedding ceremonies.

Before the liberation, there was a saying among the Kazakh people: "A beautiful girl is worth 80 horses, and if a family gives birth to a few daughters, she can become a big bayi (big landlord)".

Just as the Han people marry their daughters-in-law and inquire about the woman's mother's character, the Kazakh man's family pays great attention to the woman's mother, and there is a Kazakh proverb "The mother is the shadow of the daughter, the mother is good, the daughter will not be bad." ”

According to Kazakh customs, people of the same tribe are not allowed to intermarry, even if they must have more than seven marriages, regardless of whether they are born to the same parents or not, as long as they have drunk the milk of the same woman, they are like brothers and sisters, and they are not allowed to marry, mainly for the eugenics of the reproductive population.

The marriage customs of the Kazakh people were formed in the special environment of nomadic steppe herding, and contain the marriage phenomenon left over from the ancient Turkic peoples.

For the wedding of Hamiti and Pang Dongdong, it is really special, Buick Polati and Tian Kunrong are both Pang Dongdong's mother's family and her mother-in-law's family, and the family of four has discussed how to hold the wedding for a long time.

In the end, Pang Dongdong decided that the Kazakh "Giltis" ceremony and the "door recognition ceremony" would be avoided, and the wedding would be held directly at Grandpa Haimiti in the Guozigou steppe according to the Kazakh wedding.

After the "Giltis" is ready, the sheep is slaughtered and invited relatives and friends to gather at home to discuss whether the "Giltis" is suitable, and the relatives also bring gifts to make up for the lack of the owner.

After the man sends the "giltis" to the woman, the woman also has to hold a ceremony on this day, also called the son-in-law's "door-to-door ceremony" or "door-recognition ceremony", where the man and woman meet, and the son-in-law meets with his father-in-law and mother-in-law, so that the son-in-law can openly go to the father-in-law's house.

Buick Polati and Tian Kunrong thought about it for a moment and felt that it made sense, so that a lot of red tape was avoided, customs were changed, and the marriage procedure was simplified, which was quite suitable for the requirements of the times and social development.

On the day of Pang Dongdong's wedding, Buick Polati held a marriage ceremony for his stepdaughter in his old house in Guangren Township in accordance with grassland customs, that is, the woman gave a gift.

At the ceremony, Buick Polati slaughtered a cow and three sheep, and feasted relatives, neighbors and people of the same tribe.

Young men and women sang in duets, the duets only had tunes and no fixed lyrics, the lyrics were improvised, and the young people sang all night long, so lively.

Buick Polati invited Tian Kunhe's family, friends Wang Ling, Zhang Hua and son Tian Shishi and other Han relatives and friends to also participate in the gift.

Looking at Pang Dongdong, who looked like Tian Kunrong, Tian Kunhe and his wife remembered the past when they came to Xinjiang at the beginning of that year, and the couple thought about their deceased relatives and secretly wiped their tears.

On the day of the bride's wedding, her mother dressed her in the costume of a Kazakh wedding girl, a dress with multiple layers of ruffles at the hem made of white, red, green, light blue satin, floral cloth, etc., with a shoulder on the outside, a pointed hat with embroidery and jewels on the top of her head, and a beaded hanging in front of her face.

The groom, Hemmiti, wears a high-necked pullover shirt with colorful embroidered collars, a jacket called a "kimono", and large crotch trousers for riding.

After hearing the "Saren" song of the welcoming procession outside the house, Pang Dongdong put on a red hijab and cried and sang the wedding song "Sensma" according to the custom to express his attachment to his mother's family.

The best man led a group of young people such as Ha and Han to gather in the boudoir of the girl Pang Dongdong and sang "Gar, Gar" (persuasion song), and used this affectionate song to comfort the affectionate Pang Dongdong.

At this time, the elders gathered in front of the door will invariably say "ten thousand blessings", after Pang Dongdong cried and got married, the two young daughters-in-law supported Pang Dongdong to Buick Polati, Tian Kunrong and his younger siblings Mina, Kaiyishan and Areyi to cry goodbye one by one.

Pang Dongdong said goodbye to his relatives and friends with a cry, and after singing "Awugar Troubles" (crying farewell song), with the support of his younger brother Kaiyishan, he got on a horse with a silver saddle, and rode towards the Guozigou prairie surrounded by the groom and the best man's team.

When they arrived at the Guozigou grassland, the chubby Kazakh aunt who had been waiting for a long time helped the bride Pang Dongdong off the horse and held the wedding surrounded by relatives, friends and neighbors.

Pang Dongdong was accompanied by bridesmaids into the yurt room of Haimiti's grandparents and held a "fire worship" ceremony.

Two Kazakh women supported Pang Dongdong in front of the fire that had already been burned, and one woman stretched out her hands to roast on the flame, then wiped her face a few times, and then put her hand into Pang Dongdong's veil and wiped Pang Dongdong's face a few times.

At this moment, the women who come to the wedding are blessed with auspicious words such as "happiness in the newlywed" and "let the spirits of the ancestors bless the bride", which is the cultural inheritance of the Kazakh fire worship custom.

The officiant of the wedding was Tangnur, the vice principal of Guozigou School, a young Kazakh boy with excellent eloquence and good singing and dancing.