Nanjing people call it "marrying a daughter-in-law", which is an important event for the man's family in marriage. After the man's "bride price" receives the woman's "counter-offer", the groom will sleep on the wedding bed with four boys the night before the auspicious day, commonly known as "pressing the bed". On the wedding day, the sedan chair of the man's wedding ceremony will be issued at Shen You time (around 4 or 5 pm). In front of the sedan chair, gongs and drums will be played, and four young people will be selected, each with a lamp in his hand, to accompany the float to the woman's house, which is called the "bride sedan chair". When the sedan chair arrives at the woman's house, you have to pay the "opening fee" to "make up" the sedan chair. The bride arrived at the door of her husband's house in a sedan chair, so she couldn't get off the sedan chair and land immediately. She had to step on the floor and spread a mat to enter the house. In the Qing Dynasty, rice bags were used instead of seats, which meant "handed down from generation to generation". Then, both the bride and groom attended the wedding. Two couples worship heaven and earth first, then their parents. After the couple worship, they drink a glass of wine. After the ceremony, relatives and friends began to make trouble in the new house. The morning after the wedding, the bridesmaid sent them a bowl of lotus seed soup to share, which means "having children". Then, make up a tattoo on the bride's face, which is called "opening her face", which means becoming a housewife from now on. On the third day after marriage, the bride, led by the groom, visited her ancestors, met her relatives and went into the kitchen. Nanjing people commonly call it "fried tofu" when they enter the kitchen, that is, when the bride cooks, she cuts the tofu into small squares and fries it in a pot, hoping for good luck. As the saying goes: "Tofu is fried yellow, and it will be the champion next year; The tofu is fried, and the groom sits in eight sedan chairs. 1 month later, the bride returns to her parents' home accompanied by her husband, which is called "returning home". In the late Qing Dynasty, some people returned to their hometown after marriage.

After the wedding, the bridesmaids will help each other and send the bride and groom to the bridal chamber. Two people sitting cross-legged on the bed, the man in the east and the woman in the west, were teased and motionless. This is called "sitting in wealth", also called "making trouble in the bridal chamber". All relatives and friends, young men and women, regardless of rank, all smiled and poured into the bridal chamber, pushing a glib trumpet and leading the "good wishes". This man holds a candle, says a word, and everyone will say hello. Words vary in length, as long as they are auspicious and catchy, for example, small candles meet the upstream (good! ), let me see the bride's head (ok! ), silk flower inserted on both sides (good! ), Feng Chai head a bright (good! ), sitting on a stone bed like this (good! ); Light a small candle (ok! ), take a closer look at the bride's waist (good! ), the bride's dress is so fashionable (good! ), it's good not to be fat or thin (good! ), give birth to a fat baby next year (good! ); The little candle is burning red (good! ), a happy marriage is a godsend (good! ), the groom is happy, the bride is happy (good! ), right, right, love life (good! ), a hundred years is good and a hundred years is happy (good! ), a family photo (good! )。 At that time, the bridal chamber was full of joy and excitement, and the voices of laughter and banter broke out one after another. The host family immediately distributed cigarettes, red dates, peanuts and happy groups to everyone.