The Black Thai live mainly in the Northwest provinces and some highland districts of Nghe An and Thanh Hoa. For the Black Tai in Dien Bien, many customs and practices in life are still handed down and maintained. At present, the procedures in the wedding ceremony have been greatly reduced but in the process of keeping the traditional basic features very impressive.

If you attend the wedding procedures of the black Thai you will find extremely interesting. The first time is the "Chóm mia" ceremony (touching the alley). The second time is the ceremony "Thut chin kin" (questioning). The third time is the ceremony "Tàng mia" (welcoming wife). If convenient, the two sides will get married three days in a row, drinking alcohol together, "all over" jubilantly.
In particular, during the black Thai wedding ceremony (in Noong Nhai village, Thanh Xuong commune, Dien Bien city), only women are allowed to do the ceremony, the men cook or help out.

 On the wedding day, the groom's family woke up early, slaughtered cows and buffaloes, prepared gifts to bring to the girl's house including: pigs, glutinous rice, wine, chicken, 4 clips of "dried fish" with dried fish in the basket of eye-catching spokes. fox, 4 tubes "Bua nhua" (meat pipes) choose lean meat marinated with salt, stuffed into bamboo tubes to long for "us" (the maternal grandfather), the package "soot, thirsty" (4 pack betel nut forest) to eat Along with the roots of the tree "co sang", betel leaf taken from the forest called "co tói".

This betel nut does not eat with lime, people abstain from eating lime and are afraid of hot children. The gifts also depend on the circumstances of the groom's family and the "fluttering" elements of the bride's family.

Cushion blanket:
By the good time, the four women were chosen to be strong, healthy and happy women in life, carrying out the procedures for spreading the mattress for the bride and groom, in the bridal chamber, in order: screening the bride first arrives with the groom on top; cushion the bride to the groom cushion; bride's mattress to groom's mattress; The two bride and groom's pillows are placed close together ...

The four women had to fill in the mattress and had a happy blessing for the bride and groom: “Stretching the mattress for thick. Spread blankets for wide. Spread the mattress wide for a girl and a boy! ”Finally, the four women got married and dropped down to cover the whole mattress.

Leaning Ceremony (Inverse bun)
In the morning of the ceremony of Tàng Crane, the boys' family sent a delegation to the girl's house, including beautiful young women and healthy, resourceful, profoundly understanding of the customs, customs, and mastering the reverse bun gesture for her. new strawberries. On the side of the girl's family, there were also a corresponding number of people, including two young women who were bridesmaids, often the best friends of the bride.

The tray on the side of the bride's room consists of: The clothes of the parents-in-law chignon to be delivered (Two padded buns, a silver hairpin, eight white cloths for self-weaving, eight for brocade fabrics, one forcing. silk back, more or less depending on ability); Gifts of wife-in-law celebrating hair-raising ceremony for their daughter (Four white cloths woven by themselves, four woven brocade cloths, one with a silk belt, more or less depending on ability, a comb, a bowl of water. .. to brush the bride's hair).
The chunky tray is ready, the girl is about to become a bride, wearing a skirt, the girl's mother takes the girl's hand and sits down to sit on the mat in front of the bun.

The mother let her daughter's hair straightened down for the boys' side to follow the reverse bun process. The chosen one let Tang Crane stand at the back of the bride, gently comb his hair, then use his hands to stroke his hair back from the back of the neck with padded curls and bun tightly pulled from left to right or vice versa.

While buning the girl, the representatives of the two families drank and sang "all around" the song. The content of the songs speaks to the plight of every home and the advice of a couple.
During the Tang Crane ceremony, the one chosen to wear the bun for the bride to sing the instructions and congratulate the happiness of the bride and groom: "Long, smooth hair. Combed up into" Tang Crane. " later, the married man. Water does not change the line. The heart does not change direction, my child. "

After the Crane Festival, the girl must always have a bun to look both beautiful and be a sign to notify other boys that they are married.
When the ceremony was over, the termite on behalf of the groom's family thanked the bride for caring and agreed to support and create favorable conditions for the groom's family to perform the ceremony for the two children to achieve good results, to become a wife and a husband. ; After saying that, they pushed the new couple into the wedding screen, after a while they were able to get out of the curtain and go to normal guests.
After a few days, the groom's family will hold an informal dinner to invite the bride's family and officially bring her daughter-in-law home. In this ceremony, the bride will give the bride's family each one a gift including a pieu scarf, a Thai bag ... made by the bride herself.