Privacy habits
In nomadic areas and oases
(Hanafy Abdel Wahab)
Is usually an act of cultural, which meets the need for psychological and social development of man, and agreed upon by the group living in the place of his specific circumstances, and are affected usually the extent of cultural communication through neighboring communities or the media or the proportion of education and immigration, which leads to the gradual disappearance of some of the habits and the emergence of new habits with taking into account that the habit of cultural elements are rooted in the personality of the group that needs to change several generations
In this study we take - first - an oddity of some customs associated with marriage in Bedouin areas Matrouh and the oases of the population of the Egyptian Western Desert
First - Dakhla Oasis
Habits tear in the marriage customs in the town of Mott is a celebration (hype calves) and was held on the afternoon of the day before the wedding in the biggest fields of the city where he is attending the people some of the Threnhm (Ajulhm) with calves will be slaughtered at dawn on the wedding feast of joy, gather calves in the form of a circle The badges are placed on the necks of cloth of various colors with the exception of calves joy Vtkon insignia red, moving the calves in the circle on the rhythms of drum my drum is known as MM (the most famous practitioner of this sound the drum) and this was the celebration will continue until before sunset
In the mid-sixties of the twentieth century, disappeared and was replaced by the celebration ceremony of henna, which entered the Dakhla oasis with the arrival of itinerant Suez setback in the wake of June 1967 so it has remained until recently called (henna Elsweese)
Among the most peculiar customs associated with marriage festivities in the city of Dakhla Oasis Mott and practiced so far is the phenomenon (Ashian)
And Ashian (collection of dinner) is a two meals the first breakfast, second lunch provide for or the bride by sending them to her daughter as of Wednesday morning until night Sbua, but striking is the amount of pigeons stuffed the content of the lunch, where enclosing ten baths a day, and the number rises to 71 dove night Sbua, and more bizarre than that of the people of the bride are prohibited from participating in the dinner Sbua!!
In the village of Tnidp Dakhla Oasis of the practice of marriage ceremony is very special (minority)
The minority is a wheat and safflower are Thamism in the center of the oven municipal celebration and the participation of most women in the village, and provide minority in bags of Maazim on the night of the henna night and wedding day morning
Secondly - Bahariya Oasis
In Bahariya Oasis be Azump joy over two consecutive days at lunch and dinner so that it can absorb all the people of the oasis, and provide food on the pallet is called, each episode sitting by the eight Maazim and placed on the applied main two and a half kilo of meat is the oldest cut the meat into equal parts and in the Meanwhile, stop everyone from eating until the end of the cutting process
Also characterized Bahariya Oasis in the celebration of (light), a preliminary agreement on the outline of the marriage and where the family Aerospbastdhavp the people of the groom on the feast Ashathtoy on all kinds of Almthiat and barbecue, Mahashy and most important what they contain turkeys this in night light which is prohibited by the groom to attend, where he majored night The following Azump groom and a group of friends and be a feast more expensive than its predecessor and more bizarre, and the latest in the habits of feast the groom that the bride is developing a mobile phone of modern fashion in a plastic bag placed inside the turkey, which provides for the groom, and more bizarre than that of friends of the groom who attend these feast pay (Alnicot) to the groom and the bride-not bear all the costs Aloulimtin, and mobile device
III - Siwa Oasis
Unique in the Siwa Oasis a set of distinct traditions in the celebration of marriages among them, for example:
The bride to prepare 45 dress busy and embroidered with silk and manually include crew dress on Ahrah shirt and pants and use these sets in three consecutive occasions the first night of the wedding and the second day morning and the third day (gloating) in the sense of night week (at 15 for every occasion)
Siwa Oasis is unique from the rest of Egyptian communities cook carcass with the skin of the liver and spleen in the feast of joy in the meal is called a (Takkakic), and also that the unique banquet held in the open, not closed in places
There is also a celebration called the cracking wood the previous day to a meal with a firewood which is used in cooking food offered and take part in this process, all the youth of the village for the compliment and be in front of the house of the groom
On (gloating) You are strangest customs of marriage Seiwy is to guide the groom to his mother the amount of the flames of Palm, who is on his friends have gifted it to him, and anyone who does not know al-Gammal, is unless you get it only after the killing of Palm exactly is a (heart) Palm It will be recalled that the number of palm, which is killing all marriages with more than twenty!!
It is worth mentioning that Siwa is unique celebration of the bridegroom in the morning attended by all his friends in the yard or garden a palm and olive trees which are held Almspqat for adults and children and offer prizes for the winners.
IV - Bdomntqp Matrouh
And distinct from marriage customs when Bedouins Matrouh (They all belong to the tribes of children on) that the ceremonial start the so-called (the fence), which is to take the groom to the bride supplies the fence which is the number of sheep, vegetables, fruits, tea and sugar, all supplies Aezzomp until liquid cleaning dishes where held a feast for the groom's relatives attended every bride, so is the fence as a publicity for the case of marriage, and as a so-called (network)
And habits (morning) that the bride be that of another tribe to Aizorha her family in the morning, and vice versa when the relatives of the bride and groom here is the work of the groom's feast
Habits and also the father of the bride is given to sacrifice his daughter to take the marital home for the wedding night
(Zorah) is a festive Sbua marriage where the Bedouin, is where the bride and some ladies of the relatives of the groom visit her family for the first time where to take her sacrifices and certain articles of food, in return, the father of the bride do a dinner for guests or sending an offering with his daughter after one had
(Shot rancher), a visit carried out by the bride with her husband to be the biggest or her uncles and her grandfather take her sacrifice, and gets the hosts on the sacrifice also
And customs of nomadic that is the bride of Atsahb her daughter on her wedding night, and also take the bride some gifts for ladies and girls who live with the groom at home, which includes Big Daddy and his sons married a so-it (house buyers) and as a gift is a clothing and ornaments gold
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