Gawain 2. Pagpapakasal sa Sinaunang Panahon Isa pang kaaya-ayang aspeto ng sinaunang kultura ay ang pagpapakasal. Sumulat din si Padre Chirino tungkol dito. Basahin ang kanyang sipi. For marriage ... they have distinct formalities of betrothal, which are accompanied by conventional penalties most rigorously executed. Here is an example: Si Apai promises to marry Cai Polosin; these married persons make an agreement with another married pair, while the wives are with child, that if the wombs of their respective wives should bear a male and a female, these two children shall be joined in marriage, under a penalty of ten gold taels. This compact is solemnized by a feast, where they eat, drink, and become intoxicated, and he who later is the occasion of breaking the compact must pay the penalty. This is betrothal. In the marriage there figures a dowry, and the surrender of the woman, with consent for the present, but not perpetual. It is not the wife, but the husband, who gives her the dowry—an amount agreed upon, and fixed in accordance with his means.... In addition to the dowry the husband is wont to make some presents to the parents and relatives—more or less, according to his means. Chirino, 1604, sa Blair at Robertson 12: 294. Glosari Betrothal … kasunduang pagpapakasal Consent … pahintulot Conventional … pangkaraniwan Distinct … katangi-tangi Dowry … bigay-kaya; ari-ariang ipinagkaloob ng lalaki sa kanyang mapapangasawa Execute … isagawa Formality … kapormalan, nasa ayos Intoxicated … nalasing Penalty … parusa Rigorous … mahigpit Perpetual … panghabang-buhay Solemnize … bigyang bisa Tael … pagsukat ng timbang na may katumbas ng 1.3 ounces; mula sa Tsina ang uri ng pagtimbang na ito Wont … kinagawian
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