As "Jing Hua Yuan Wai Ji" said: "There was no difference between men and women in ancient times, and Tai Hao began to set up a wedding ceremony, with the skin of the couple as the gift." Since then, the couple's skin (paired deerskin) has become one of the classic wedding gifts. After that, in addition to the "wedding ceremony", we have to "tell our parents". During the Xia and Shang Dynasties, there were festivals of "before welcoming the court" and "before welcoming the court".
The Zhou Dynasty was an era of etiquette. At that time, a complete set of wedding etiquette was gradually formed. There are detailed regulations in "Yili", which combine the whole set of rituals into "six rituals". Since then, the production of the Six Rites Wedding has been the template of the traditional wedding in China, which has been passed down to this day.
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Brief introduction of 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.
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