Chinese Wedding: A Chinese wedding, which is composed of the etiquette system centered on Zhou Li and the cultural system of costumes, buildings and utensils around etiquette, is the best interpretation of the life gift of contemporary China people. Including the classification of various styles and styles of China culture in different historical periods, such as Han style wedding, tang style wedding, Ming style wedding and so on.
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It has been more than ten years since the concept of Hanfu was put forward. Compared with those predecessors who are determined to revive Hanfu, we are much more relaxed today, at least the difficulty of spreading Hanfu is greatly reduced.
Compared with the promotion of Hanfu, Chinese weddings, as a by-product of the revival of Hanfu, are increasingly recognized by the public. No wonder, now that newlyweds can use Jiangnan style as the opening music of their wedding, what other ideas and forms are unacceptable to society?
People don't understand that the couple is the biggest on the wedding day, but workers in our marriage-related industry feel the deepest.
Of course, Chinese wedding is a kind of creativity and theme, which is definitely a disrespect for our ancestral culture. However, under the condition of limited public awareness at this stage, it is indeed a good thing to open a hole in wedding culture to popularize Hanfu.
But the question follows, how to make a Chinese wedding? Except for the wedding ceremony, it must be the newlyweds who ask the most questions.
If nothing else, there are dozens of inquiries on Daqin's QQ alone, and it is normal to explain the same question several times a day.
I can't help it and I don't want to be lazy. Make more time, enrich it to the front line, enrich it to hardware, enrich it to cultural study, and just write something.
Daqin is not an expert in etiquette, nor is he the first person to contact China culture in robes, but I think he must have met many new people who plan weddings (not the most, be modest). It should be a pragmatic approach to solve problems for colleagues who are about to get married from the perspective of wedding preparation.
Your book is called Chinese wedding preparation book. First, the confirmation must be a Chinese wedding that everyone here can understand. Second, confirm that this is only a small manual, not a long theoretical document. Daqin just wants to tell you how to prepare your own Chinese wedding with the most practical content. As for the specific etiquette, clothing system and so on. Many colleagues do far better than Daqin.
It is precisely because of this that Daqin has some pragmatism. If there are any inappropriate references, please forgive my colleagues based on rigorous research. It is always welcome to communicate with Daqin. Culturally, it is more advantageous to be a student forever. If someone can point out the shortcomings I mentioned, congratulations, you will be my honorary teacher, and I am always waiting for instruction.
Okay, cut the crap. It is estimated that the friends who plan the wedding can't wait. I want to wait patiently and slowly, and I want to summarize the information bit by bit. Lazy.
1 from the naming and classification of Chinese weddings
Naming of Chinese wedding:
Hello, I want to have a Chinese wedding. I want to have a wedding for Han; I want to have a Hanfu wedding; I want to have a Han and Tang wedding; I want to hold a wedding once a week; I want to have a Chinese wedding.
If you are lucky enough to work in any well-known wedding planning company that can undertake Chinese weddings, you will certainly face countless wedding consultations with different names. What is the official name? This is called a mess!
Yes, it is chaos, because the government has not yet had an authoritative definition. There is no Hanfu, but there is a Hanfu wedding? It doesn't matter whether Daqin is there or not. However, Daqin believes that this wedding style should be named with reasonable understanding and logical analysis. Because there is not even a name that everyone is familiar with, how can we let newcomers consult? Not to mention knowing the details of wedding preparations, it is impossible to even identify whether the other party is an expert on Chinese wedding-related culture.
As a service industry, the first requirement of a wedding company is reception ability, which is reception ability to put it bluntly. Friends who have been to the wedding fair must have a deep understanding of the enthusiastic reception staff at the scene. If there is a conventional definition, everyone will spread it gradually, and then there will be a unified frame of reference.
You may ask, I have been talking about Chinese weddings for a long time. What do you need to explain? Of course, I have to explain. I won't explain how you know the background and how to evaluate the wedding salesman opposite you.
Let's start from the beginning. China's wedding culture, which continues to this day, can be said to have originated from Zhou. I believe everyone has no objection to this. Duke Zhou decided to hold a ceremony. Even ordinary junior high school graduates can speak a thing or two, such as Duke Zhou, Duke Zhou's ceremony and so on.
From this perspective, wedding culture is younger than Chinese and Chinese characters. Therefore, if someone talks to you about the wedding culture of Shang Dynasty, it is really not the category of Zhou marriage. And it's a bit of a prank. Of course, ethnic minority areas still retain the marriage custom culture of Shang Dynasty. You can check the information or go to the primitive tribal resort in the south to experience it for yourself.
Since the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, China's systematic etiquette system has been followed by Zhou Li in all previous dynasties. Therefore, there is a narrow sense and a broad sense of weekly marriage.
Zhou wedding in a narrow sense refers to the wedding in the Zhou Dynasty, while Zhou wedding in a broad sense can of course refer to the wedding styles that have been followed by Zhou Li in successive dynasties. Of course, the Mongols in the Yuan Dynasty don't count, so don't be serious.
Define the specific content of the weekly wedding. You can go to Baidu Encyclopedia yourself.
Because of well-known reasons, Zhou marriage culture was once diluted by the public for a period of time. But because of the efforts of my colleagues. As the beginning of China's traditional wedding culture, Zhou wedding has been institutionalized from a ritual culture to a ceremonial cultural form, and has re-entered people's lives today. Become a new choice of wedding style for newcomers. Based on the Zhou ceremony, with the charm of elegance, dignity and honor, it has become a national wedding that truly reflects the classic cultural tradition of China.
From the reality of social promotion, it is precisely because Zhou marriage has surpassed the original etiquette system and become a cultural form, and the attribute of this cultural form can be naturally positioned as a part of China culture today. Just like Chinese characters, you have never heard of anyone who must call Chinese characters "Shang Zi", which is called China Cave Language.
Today's revived Zhou wedding can be logically called China cultural wedding, or Chinese wedding for short. Of course, the Han here refers not only to the Han Dynasty, but to the Han culture. Weekend marriage itself can be defined as the original form of the wedding system.
In fact, in a low voice, Daqin left many successors. There are always people who want to position Chinese weddings as Han weddings, but I can say responsibly that this is equivalent to narrowing the audience of Chinese weddings. Are all Chinese characters used by Han people? Is Chinese spoken only by Han people? Some people say that China is the Han nationality and the Han nationality is China, which makes sense from a cultural point of view.
Simply put, many ethnic minorities and the Han nationality are also of the same origin. As for how it ended, you'd better look up the information yourself. Daqin is too lazy to explain, for fear that he will make a slip of the tongue. In a word, it is not only reasonable in theory but also reasonable in practice to replace the Han nationality system with the Han culture system.
Does anyone else want to call a Chinese wedding a Han wedding? What else is there? It doesn't matter. Daqin doesn't decide. You can call it whatever you want. Nobody cares.
What about Chinese weddings? Chinese wedding. God, what a big basket. It spans 9.6 million square kilometers of land and more than 4.7 million square kilometers of water. People come from China. What kind of Chinese wedding are you asking? Not to mention, the early wedding industry has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people from the revival of the Qing Dynasty to the Chinese wedding in the style of the Republic of China. China people's national consciousness has always existed. As early as before the Hanfu culture appeared, the practitioners in the wedding industry had already started their own excavation and arrangement of China traditional culture. Just finished is the poorest and weakest culture in China. Culture itself is innocent, but whether aesthetics is accepted depends on public taste.
Does anyone still call a Chinese wedding a Chinese wedding? What else is there? It doesn't matter. Daqin doesn't decide. You can call it whatever you want. Nobody cares.
I don't even bother with the definition of crossing such as weddings in Han and Tang Dynasties. Do you think it is beautiful to add some elements to a wedding for all ages? It doesn't look good. Why do you call it that?
Hanfu wedding only emphasizes the dress in terms of nouns, and the definition scope will certainly not be more accurate than a cultural form.
So to sum up, the simple title of Chinese wedding should be acceptable to many people.
Classification of Chinese weddings:
Having said that, many colleagues must be asking, what is a wedding in the Han Dynasty and a wedding in the Tang Dynasty? Although Chinese weddings have always followed the rites of the Zhou Dynasty, there have been changes in different dynasties, not only in the etiquette system, but also in the surrounding cultures such as costumes and venue layout.
It is not appropriate to name the wedding style after the dynasty, because we can't restore the past. The so-called Chinese wedding is a general term based on cultural attributes, so it is still appropriate.
There is a long story here. Many people ask about the Zhou wedding, which is actually a Chinese wedding with the cultural characteristics of the Han Dynasty. This is not only related to the promotion of early Chinese cultural industry practitioners, but also related to the similarity between Zhou Wenhua and Qin and Han cultures.
Having said that, I have to mention the classification of Chinese weddings.
We asked about Chinese weddings, and it is impossible to do all the weddings that belong to Chinese wedding culture. As mentioned above, each dynasty has its own wedding cultural characteristics, which cannot be completely restored. I also don't advocate making today's wedding of the couple archaeological.
Today, the core of Chinese wedding is still dominated by etiquette culture, which extends to all aspects of wedding culture. At least Daqin himself thinks so, and he works so hard.
It's not restoration or archaeology, but it doesn't affect our choice of wedding style and planning our own wedding. Therefore, under the Chinese wedding, it can be divided into different wedding styles according to the cultural characteristics of different historical periods.
What was the most typical culture of China in that period? Simple, Qin and Han Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Song and Ming Dynasties. By the way, those who study history can do textual research, but the newcomers who plan the wedding should be practical, and thank the ancestors for leaving such a rich wedding cultural heritage. So that we can choose our favorite wedding style according to our own conditions.
Under Chinese wedding, Chinese wedding, tang style wedding and Mingfeng wedding, the needs of most new couples can be solved in details. Wind? Yes, it's the wind, because we are doing historical features, not restoring archaeology. At the same time, while keeping the core of etiquette, we will bring the costumes, buildings and utensils around the etiquette to the wedding of the couple to achieve the complete beauty of the wedding culture, and only the beautiful things will be accepted by the public.
Maybe someone will ask, where are Song Feng wedding and Jinfeng wedding? Daqin is lazy, yes Daqin is lazy. At present, the popularity of China's history and culture is too small, so participation may not be effective. It's better to make one and make another. Those who are interested can study it. What Daqin knows is that the cultures of some dynasties are similar and can be roughly compatible in the actual choice of weddings. This is a matter of opinion.
Said a lot of knowledge can be regarded as non-professional popularization, but also as Daqin's nonsense, as long as friends who are interested in preparing their own wedding can gain something. Next time, I will analyze and introduce the appearance characteristics of several large-scale wedding cultures. Appearance! Yes, Daqin only knows what it is, not why. Just talk about appearances.
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