brief introduction
In the traditional customs of China, the wedding dress is the most important dress in a girl's life. Most of them were made by girls themselves or their mothers when they were young, and they were not finished until they got married. So this wedding dress has pinned all the dreams of girls and girls and the expectations of their families.
In ancient times, the traditional wedding clothes of folk brides were: wearing a phoenix crest, covering her face with a red square scarf, wearing a red Juan shirt on her upper body, embroidered a red robe on her coat, a neck collar, a magic mirror on her chest, a gown on her shoulders, a children's bag on her shoulders and a "silver hand" wrapped around her arm; Wearing a red skirt, red trousers and red satin embroidered shoes, I look charming, all red and beaming.
In ancient times, the wedding dress had to be cut and sewn by hand to show its preciousness and uniqueness. In recent years, the traditional customs of China have been accepted by more and more people, and the customization of wedding dresses has gradually entered ordinary China families.
Local custom
In Fuyang, Zhejiang, when the sedan chair is carried to the woman's house and placed on the dustpan, the bride begins to make up and change clothes. After changing her coat and trousers, she will stand on a steaming bucket and put on a red cotton-padded jacket and trousers. Interestingly, when wearing a rockhopper and preparing to wear a red skirt, 12 eggs should be put down from the waistband and rolled out from under the trouser legs. It is said that this will make the bride lay eggs like a hen any month after marriage.
The wedding dress of an old-fashioned bride in Quanzhou, Fujian Province is called "Li". When the sedan chair arrives, the bride is taken to the hall to freshen up with her bride's escort, which is commonly called "dressing up the sedan chair". A blessed woman named "Bing" crowned her and then sent the bride to wear her back. "Bin" wore a belly skirt for the bride, which was made of red cloth. There are 18 things in the skirt, such as Gleditsia sinensis, iron ore tailings, mud, pork slices, etc.
The bride in Cangwu, Guangxi must wear black clothes, black pants, black socks and black shoes when getting married, which is staggering. In the mountainous area of Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province, the bride must wear plain clothes to get on the sedan chair, and when she arrives at the man's house, she can put on auspicious clothes to attend the wedding. Jiangsu Jingjiang brides wear plain clothes when they get married: soil-green cloth clothes and soil-green cloth skirts, commonly known as "grass dust clothes and grass dust skirts". Until now, fashionable and exquisite girls have tried to make a turquoise cloth to wear when they get married.
The dress of the old-school brides in northern Shaanxi is very funny. The bride who is going to get on the sedan chair is wearing red and green trousers, flower shoes and beautiful flowers. But the custom is to paint the bride's beautiful face dark with pot black, which is in sharp contrast to the beautifully dressed clothes. Superstition legend says that if you don't do this, the bride will be cut off by ghosts on the way to marriage.