On the third day after the wedding, when the bride arrives at the groom's door, the bridesmaid will get off the bus and walk on the red carpet to the front of the main room to worship the world with the groom. Then, the two sides bowed to each other, and the groom took off the bride's red handkerchief with a whip and bowed down to the kitchen hall side by side. "Aofu" (father-in-law) holds sheep's tail oil slices with Hada (a dish) and throws them into the stove fire, which makes the stove chamber ignite a blazing flame, indicating that they want to grow old together and live happily.
The origin of the wedding:
According to legend, the earliest marriage and wedding in China began with Fu's marriage and Nu Wa's matchmaking.
Legend has it that in ancient times, floods flooded almost all people and animals in the world, leaving only Fuxi and Nuwa. Venus asked them to get married and have children, but they thought they were brother and sister and refused to agree. But if not, mankind will be extinct. They suggested that they could get married if the bamboo cut into many sections could be connected again.
Later, bamboo was really connected and a lot of bamboo joints were planted. Still unwilling, the two proposed to roll down two sets of stone mills from two mountains, and if the stone mills can roll together, they can get married. But when the stone mill was put together again, they still refused to agree. Nu Wa has another idea. If Fuxi can catch up with herself, she can get married.
As a result, Fuxi never caught up with Nuwa. A turtle taught Fuxi to catch up from the other side of the mountain in the opposite direction. Nu Wa was unprepared and was suddenly held in her arms by Fuxi. The two had to get married. This is the earliest wedding in China.
Introduction to weekly marriage:
A weekly wedding is also called a faint ceremony. No extravagant bride price, no extravagant ostentation and extravagance, no noisy banquet. The most important thing is the righteousness of husband and wife and the grace of marriage. I don't think this is a joke. At that time, the faint ceremony was simple and clean, and the husband and wife "ate in prison and got married and died" and then held hands in the bridal chamber. The next day, I visited my aunt and uncle. Three months later, I reported to my family temple. The bride was formally integrated into her in-laws family.
The faint clothes in Shang and Zhou Dynasties are not the big red items that people misunderstand now, but the dignified dark black dresses. The married woman didn't put out the candle for three days, thinking of her distant daughter in the Ying Ying fire; My husband's family refused to give music for three days to comfort the bride who missed her parents. The whole ceremony was quiet and serene, but there was a shocking force in the quiet and meticulous ceremony.