There are six ceremonies in ancient weddings: receiving gifts, asking names, receiving gifts, inviting guests and welcoming relatives. Nacai means that the man's family asks the matchmaker to propose marriage to the woman's family. After the man's family prepares the gift, the woman's family promises to propose marriage. Asking the name means that the man's family asks the matchmaker to ask the woman's name and date of birth.
Naji, that is, after the man retrieved the woman's name and eight characters, he performed divination in the ancestral hall. Zheng Na, also known as Nabi, means that the man's family gives it to the woman's family as a dowry. On the date of invitation, the man chooses the wedding date and prepares gifts to inform the woman's family for approval. At the wedding reception, one or two days before the wedding, the woman sends a dowry and makes the bed, and the groom goes to the woman's house to get married the next day.
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The ancient Zhou marriage was simple and clean, and there were no complicated things such as veiling and making trouble in the bridal chamber. Husband and wife "eat in prison, get married and die", and then hold hands in the bridal chamber. The next day, I visited my aunt and uncle. Three months later, I reported to my family temple. Since then, the bride has been formally integrated into the in-laws family.
In the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, faint clothes were not a piece of red that was misunderstood now, but a dignified dark black dress (dark black, the red color in black, according to the five elements theory, is the most sacred color symbolizing the sky). Married women don't put out candles for three days, thinking about distant daughters in Ying Ying fire; The husband's family also stopped cheering for three days to comfort the bride who missed her parents.
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