Wedding, originally a "faint ceremony" in China, is one of the rituals of Han people's life-crown, marriage and funeral, and it is one of the essences of traditional culture in China. 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 unconscious of the ceremony must conform to the interests of the two surnames, and the upper one serves the temple and the lower one inherits the later generations, so the gentleman attaches importance to it. "。 I ching chuan: "there are men and women, then there are couples, then there are couples, then there are fathers and sons." "The so-called Shintoism 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.
Weddings in the west are solemn. According to the Bible, in ancient times, the evidence used by men to propose to women was the ring. In the ninth century, Pope Nicholas I issued a decree stipulating that it is an essential procedure for a man to present a wedding ring to a woman to formally propose marriage. The color of the bride's dress represents tradition and also has its specific meaning, for example, white represents pure virginity.
Because some countries in ancient Europe were a country where politics and religion were integrated, people had to go to church to receive prayers and blessings from priests or priests before they could be considered as formal legal marriages. Therefore, the bride wears a white dress to show her sincerity and purity to God. Before the West19th century, there was no uniform color specification for the bridal gowns worn by young girls when they got married. It was not until around 1820 that white gradually became a widely used wedding color. This is because Queen Victoria of England wore an elegant white wedding dress at her wedding. Since then, the white wedding dress has become a formal wedding dress.
The differences between Chinese and western cultures are manifested in many aspects, and the wedding is one of them. This mainly comes from the different cultural and historical backgrounds of China and the West, and evolved slowly under the influence of different concepts and customs.