Located at the southern tip of the Himalayas, Nepal is full of ancient tribes, one of which still holds a record that is unique in the world and the only ethnic group in the world without widows, where every woman is married at least 3 times in her life, and the reason behind this is related to a strange custom!
This peculiar ethnic group is the "Nivar tribe", which has lived for generations in the valley west of the capital Kathmandu and has a population of more than 100,000. In order to have a faithful love and an uninterrupted marriage, Nival women are married at least 3 times in their lives, and when they are around 7 to 9 years old, they have to prepare for marriage and dedicate the sacred marriage to a fruit called "Bell Fruit".
Because the fruit of the bell fruit is hard, it is regarded by the locals as a relic of "eternal marriage", and this marriage is also called "fruit marriage", and its wedding ceremony is called "Yixi". "Fruit marriage" is often a group wedding, although it is only married to a nut, but the ceremony of "Yixi" is solemn and solemn, not sloppy.
The second marriage that followed was followed by a "kiln dwelling" ceremony under the guidance of each girl's first menstruation. According to the custom, girls are locked up in a room without light and live alone for 11 days, during which time they are not exposed to the sun, face fear and loneliness alone, and food needs are provided by the older women in the family. After the kiln is over, the girl must wake up before the sun rises, first bathe, then apply balm to her body, then blindfold herself, and be dragged by her family to the platform on the roof to meet the sun.
Unlike the first time, the object of marriage was fruit, and the second time the Nieval maiden was married to the sun; For the locals, only women who have been purified by the sun can welcome formal marriages between men and women. After experiencing the first 2 "inhuman marriages", the Nival woman will make the third marriage contract through the words of the matchmaker and the order of her parents, and choose an auspicious day to complete the marriage event.
However, if the woman feels unhappy after marriage, she will put the souvenir of the first marriage next to the husband's pillow to show that she wants to be separated from her husband; if the husband dies of illness or other reasons, she only needs to take out the bel fruit and put it next to the husband's body to remarry.