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The wedding, one of the five rituals in life, is a traditional ceremony, which is equivalent to the legal notarization ceremony of modern weddings. Its significance lies in gaining social recognition and blessing, helping newlyweds adapt to new social roles and requirements, and preparing to assume social responsibilities.

All nations and countries have their traditional wedding ceremonies, which are a way to inherit their folk culture and a ceremony of their own national culture and education. Wedding is also an important milestone in a person's life and belongs to a kind of life etiquette.

The oldest, longest-lasting and most influential weddings in the world are those of Confucianism, Hinduism and Christianity, that is, the weddings of the three major civilizations. In most cultures, there are usually some traditions and customs of marriage, many of which have lost their original symbolic significance in modern society and gradually evolved into secular weddings.

Wedding, originally China's "faint ceremony", is one of the five rituals in life and one of the essences of Han traditional culture. Wedding ceremonies can even be traced back to Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

More than 3,000 years ago, the Zhou Dynasty had a complete set of "Six Wedding Rites". Wedding is a kind of gift, which is contained in the Confucian Bible "Yi Li's Wedding Ceremony" and "Li Ji's Wedding Ceremony", and has been popularized in the codes of past dynasties such as Huang Kailu, Tang Law, Song Criminal Law, Daming Law, etc., and it is also known as the five rites of good luck and ill luck.

Confucian wedding ceremonies carry out the Shinto doctrine and the concept of harmony between man and nature, and play an important role in the inheritance and development of traditions such as marriage, family stability and filial piety. Just like the Book of Rites, it makes a normative statement about aristocratic weddings: "Those who are confused by the ceremony must benefit from the second surname. The upper one serves the temple and the lower one inherits the later generations, so the gentleman is more important."

I ching preface: "there are men and women, then there are couples, then there are couples, then there are fathers and sons." The so-called Shinto means that time, costumes and ceremonies should be like heaven and earth. In Confucian weddings, ancestor worship and witchcraft coexist, consolidating the gender roles and social responsibilities of men and women.