عادات الزواج بمنطقة أولاد دراج

الملخص EN

Marriage is one of the most important social phenomena in human social life because it organizes and keeps our existence through customs and traditions in succession.

Each generation creates one thing and omits others so that its life is more balanced and more adequate.

The marriage in Ouled Derraj is almost the same in the other regions; there are always traditions that characterize the steps to follow.

But everything changes so we chose the region of Ouled Derraj to study the changes affecting the marriage there, for example, the young man or the girl has the right to choose his partner, without forgetting the presence of the girl's parents as a sign of respect.

There is also late marriage and the choice of a woman who is not often close to the fiance; the causes are multiple such as the work far from home and the huge travelling movements.

The couple is granted absolute freedom to choose each other while the parents are no longer allowed to do so.

It is also common that the young guy is allowed to see his future wife and make her wear a wedding ring before the party and not as in the past where the two married could not see each other until the first night.

The invitation changes too; the groom's family invites people either in person or by phone.

There is a formal party preceding the wedding, organized by each family at home; it is called El-Henna, where they celebrate by singing, distributing the cakes and applying the henna on the palm of the bridegroom, the same thing for the girl.

The two families do no longer displace to each other and it is enough that each side made its own ceremony.

Finally, they take the bride to her husband.

As for the food; in the past, women were responsible for preparing it, but today they do not always cook but we buy ready meals, otherwise, a cook is rented and does all the cooking.

The main dish is Couscous which remains invincible.

Guests are welcomed in rooms equipped with tables and chairs and not on carpets as before.

The wife is taken in a luxurious car.

The fireworks and the Barud (gunpowder, or large rifles used to fire powder shells of non-dangerous explosives) and the fantasia are used, but these games caused security problems.

The question of the virginity break arose a long time, but no longer.

Although virginity is seriously required, it has become a secret shared by both spouses.

The Tasdira (tradition where the new bride exposes her dresses to invited women) is a custom abandoned somewhere yet there are families that still do it until now.