recognition of kinship is a popular folk custom in rural Shanxi in the old days. After the recognition of kinship, most of the contacts are frequent, and they all imitate the way of family communication and form a relatively fixed kinship.
In the countryside, although there is no fixed procedure, michel platini, godmother, godbrother and godsister are generally recognized as godrelatives. The reason for the formation of the confession is roughly like this. The two families are friends and have good contacts. In order to make this kind of contact relatively fixed, the method of letting the next generation recognize the confession is adopted to deepen the communication. Such as adoptive father, adoptive mother and so on. Some of them are because one party has great kindness to the other's family, and one party repays the other's kindness, so they form a long-term relationship with a relatively fixed program by recognizing their relatives and acting as their adopted sons, so as to achieve the purpose of gratitude. Also, because the child is delicate and afraid of dying prematurely, they adopt the method of recognizing relatives, so that michel platini, brother and sister can keep the child, so that they can avoid misfortune and grow up. There are also some families, in order to climb high and become expensive, so that children can recognize the rich as michel platini, or they can benefit from it in the future. Also, children are sent to the nurse's house to nurse from childhood, thus forming a new relationship between children and nurses. In the countryside, they are called wet nurses, wet fathers and wet brothers. In fact, this is also a kind of godmother relationship. There are various reasons for recognizing the kinship, but the appearance of this kinship naturally makes the relationship between the two families enter a sequence of relatives' exchanges.
Affiliation is found all over Shanxi, especially in Yanbei, Xinzhou, Jinzhong and Jinnan.
rural customs, once you recognize a godmother, everything must be done according to the general procedures of rural communication. All children who recognize michel platini's godmother should follow the rural etiquette procedures for Chinese New Year, festivals, birthdays and birthdays. To be a godson, you should take care of michel platini and dopted mother, do your duty as a godson, and give some financial support. Michel platini dopted mother, on the other hand, has to ask about her son's major activities such as getting married, having children and building a house, and give necessary support and funding.
With the development of society, there are fewer and fewer relatives in rural Shanxi, but they still exist in the countryside. This is a special kinship that exists in society and has become a side of the social relationship network.
■ La michel platini
"La michel platini" is a primitive way of making friends among people in many places in Baoshan. From the perspective of folklore, the formation of this custom is related to the backward social production and the "help-seeking psychology" that people are eager to get help other than family when they are in trouble. Therefore, it is most common in mountainous areas with vast territory and sparse population, lack of medical care and simple folk customs.
In the mountainous areas of Baoshan, such as Wayao, Wama and Wafang, "michel platini" usually has two methods of "pulling", one is to identify the target and get married through negotiation. That is, when the dolls in the mountains can run away, the parents will show their wishes to the acquaintances in the neighboring village. If the other party agrees, they will choose an auspicious day to kill the chicken in cook the meat, invite relatives and friends, kowtow and name, and complete all the formalities of "naming". It is said that after the doll was "adopted" to michel platini, it was not her own son once she changed her surname and name. Even if there were some mishaps in her "life", it would be resolved.
what is interesting is another "pull" method-"resigned to fate, forced to pull hard". Marrying in this way can only be done from the second day of the New Year to the Lantern Festival. People who want to "pull michel platini" often choose a double day, and men bring roosters, bacon and other food. Before dawn, they cross a thin white line at the place where pedestrians must pass by the small bridge and narrow road outside the village, and then lie in ambush near it: whoever passes by here and trips the white line is deemed to be in-laws, and the ambush rushes out, bowing and calling out "in-laws". "God's will" is hard to violate. Under normal circumstances, newcomers can only promise, otherwise they will be blamed. So I buried the pot to cook rice and had a picnic on the spot. After eating and drinking enough, go to the village to "recognize the door" and hold a worship ceremony. If the newcomer is a woman, she is of course a "dopted mother"; If they are unmarried, they are "godbrothers", "godsisters", "godbrothers" and "godsisters"; If you happen to meet cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, etc., it will also be "pulled"-its owner will take over all formalities and obligations, but the name must be determined according to the name of the tripping animal, such as horses and dogs.
No matter whether people choose it intentionally or it is determined by "destiny", once the godly relatives are formed, the two sides will be like a family, take care of each other, visit at the right time during the New Year's Day and the New Year's Day, treat each other with brotherhood, get along well, and even get along with each other for generations, which is a much-told story.
What's even more amazing is that in some mountainous areas of Tengchong County, there is a custom of "pulling" big trees as "michel platini", and many people have worshipped a strange tree as "michel platini" since childhood, because their parents believe that the ancient trees are towering, deeply rooted and have a wide range of blessings. Once worshipped as "michel platini", they can bless the dolls without diseases and disasters. Especially pious people should also ask the clergy to help them calculate whether the tree is willing to accept it. If so, they should choose an auspicious day of the ecliptic to burn incense, and make three obeisances and nine knocks before they can be considered as "people's trunk relatives". Finally, we have to give the child a name with branches and leaves. Because this custom has been going on for a long time, many well-known ancient trees in Tengchong, such as the thunder tree in Xiaoxi, the big oak tree in Daiju, the "Shuangshan" in Heshun, the goose feather tree in Mazhan and the "Ginkgo King" in Mazhan, are all bustling under their knees, with many "adopted sons" and "adopted daughters" who are alive or long gone, and many of them.