The ancients usually held weddings at night, which was caused by the cultural customs and marriage customs system in ancient times.
In ancient Chinese, the word "marriage" is a knowing word, which comes from the word "faint" The original intention is that a woman marries a man's house, and the time of marriage is generally chosen at dusk, so it is called "faint".
"The Book of Songs" wrote: Silk Miao has a high salary, and Samsung is in the sky. What occasion? See this lover.
It means to light a tightly tied firewood in the yard, and the fire is soaring, illuminating the three stars in the sky. What's a good day tonight? I'm really glad to see a beautiful woman.
This scene describes the scene of people getting married in ancient times. A tribe is singing and dancing around a bonfire and happily holding a wedding for a certain ethnic group.
Generally speaking, there are two main reasons why the ancients held weddings around bonfires at night.
First, the ancient marriage system was not perfect. Rob marriage was popular at that time, usually at dusk. Marriage robbery, also called "marriage robbery", later became marriage.
Intragroup marriage was popular in early human society, that is, only men and women in the group could get married.
With the continuous development of ethnic groups, the population is increasing, and there are not enough women in ethnic groups, which leads to many men not getting married. So the system of robbing marriage was formed.
Marriage snatching refers to that ancient men went to other tribes to rob women to get married, in order to achieve the purpose of reproducing the population of their own tribe, but they had to take great risks and even die.
The reason why we choose to rob the wedding at dusk is because the light is dark at dusk, which is conducive to the concealment of the action. Second, there is at least a little light at dusk, which is convenient for men who rob marriage to see the woman's appearance clearly. If you catch it in the dark night, it is more hidden, but it is difficult to see the woman's face clearly. What if you arrest an aunt or even a man? Wouldn't that fall short?
Later, with the progress of civilization, men and women from different tribes got married, which evolved from robbing marriage to matchmaker's words, but the marriage time still continued the ancient tradition.
Nowadays, in many southern regions such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Hainan, when a couple get married, they still choose to hold it in the afternoon or evening, which actually continues the tradition of ancient marriage customs.
At present, most northerners don't have the custom of getting married at night, because northerners have long been influenced by the customs of Hu people and gradually lost this tradition.
Secondly, it is related to China's ancient philosophy. The ancients believed that everything in the world has a way of yin and yang, and yin and yang are opposites and can be transformed into each other.
In the eyes of the ancients, men were yang and women were yin. They are opposites. If you want to get married, you must choose an auspicious day to neutralize the accident.
There is a saying in the Book of Rites: When you marry a woman, she is Yin, so she married. From the female to the faint, the faint also rings.
The meaning of this sentence is that women are naturally yin, and after the sun goes down, the yang declines and the yin flourishes, which is an auspicious day for marriage. Therefore, people will choose to get married at sunset for good luck.