Based on the visiting relatives custom of“receiving Aunt and Grandma”in Hongtong County, through investigating the legends of E’Huang and Nv Ying, temple fairs and relation among villages, this thesis attempts to explore how the vitality of the custom of visiting relatives lasts till now.

Applying related theory of teasing relation by Radcliff Brown,this paper makes a study of the bride escorting ritual of Chinese ethnic groups with characteristic as teasing relations,blocking the door for gratuity given to a gatekeeper and blocking the way to bride s home to escort her to the wedding.