For example, I have a marriage book, a book, a contract, a double contract, a box of musical instruments, a training instrument, Jin Lin Cheng Ying, Shoupa Shuang Fu, Sexian Chengduan, a golden pig, a pleasant goat, a sugar screen, a hundred pills, a box of dreams and a double glow of dragon and candle. In ancient times, the man usually prepared the bride price according to the following rules:
1, ruler: measuring tool, extended to measure happiness in marriage, refers to a hundred children and thousands of grandchildren, happiness goes back to ancient times, and it is also a blessing for newcomers to rise step by step in their future lives and careers.
2. Comb: The so-called "one comb to the end, two combs with white hair and three combs with children and grandchildren" means "knotting hair", especially Prime Minister Zhuang, which means that husband and wife love each other for life and grow old together.
3. Embroidered shoes: shoes are homophonic with "opening", which means that husband and wife love each other forever and grow old together in the beautiful years of flowers, and * * * is saturated with the grandeur and fragrance of life.
4. Cash box: Jiubao Band of Jiubao Band is the cash box, which is one of the wedding gifts given by the woman to show that her family has money. After marriage, it is also used to collect her beloved baby.
5. Mirror: It represents perfection, fullness and the beauty of the bride. It is a sweet and happy wish for the bride's married life; Even if time passes, it will still retain the beautiful sustenance of youth and beauty.
6. Ruyi Scale: Ruyi Scale is used by the groom to unveil the bride's red veil on the basis of the traditional wedding ceremony. Now it is one of the nine wedding bands that parents give to their married daughters. I hope that my daughter's future life will be satisfactory and husband and wife will be United.
7. Doudou: It was originally a tool for measuring grain, which was used in wedding etiquette to show the man's wealth and rich family. After his daughter gets married, she can live a carefree life.
8. Abacus: a calculation tool used to calculate income and expenditure in daily life. The golden abacus in wedding etiquette symbolizes the couple's ideal and plan for a peaceful and prosperous life in the future, which can make reasonable investment and financial management and win financial resources in Guang Mao.
9. Scissors: It is one of the "six certificates" in traditional weddings, and it is mainly used to cut clothes in life. Wedding etiquette implies that the bride will live a luxurious life after marriage, with a bright future and enjoy the splendor of life.
The bride price and dowry in ancient times II. The dowry in ancient times was a woman's private property, and it also reflected the position of a woman in her husband's family.
1. The bride price and dowry are given by the man to the woman's home. The bride's parents may also give the bride price to their daughter as a dowry, but it's okay not to give it. The woman's parents have complete control.
The dowry is for the bride and belongs to the bride's private property. The husband's family has no right to use and interfere. If you want to touch your daughter-in-law's dowry, you must ask her permission, and it makes sense for her not to agree. In ancient times, it was a bad behavior to encroach on a daughter-in-law's dowry, which was bad for her reputation.
After a woman dies, the dowry can only be inherited by her own children. If there are no children, it will be inherited by her family. This is because after a certain dynasty (I forget whether it was Tang or Song and Ming), women in China actually had a certain inheritance right, and the inheritance of her family's property was reflected by dowry, so if she had no descendants to return to her family, others in her husband's family were not allowed to possess it.
4. When a woman divorces or leaves her husband's family, she takes the dowry herself, and there is no division.
In ancient real life, many daughter-in-law were still taken in by her husband's family because of their weak health, but if someone reported or spread this kind of thing, his husband's family would pay the price. In ancient times, women usually used dowry to subsidize their families (small families), help their husbands to study or do business, raise and pass them on to their children, and some special "virtuous" also used dowry to take concubines for their husbands to improve their status.
The above is the introduction of ancient bride price and dowry that Bian Xiao wants to share with you. I hope the text introduced by Bian Xiao above can help you. When you get married, pay attention to the words introduced by Bian Xiao above, which will definitely make your wedding more perfect.