Next is "eating noodles", "going indoors", "taking photos" and "reporting seats". A formal meeting between a man and a woman and their parents, in which the woman informs the man of the number of women to be sent, is regarded as the "last date" of the marriage. At the beginning of liberation, taking photos was just a three-to-five-inch photo of men and women giving gifts to each other and setting up banquets. With the development of the times, wedding photos are often hundreds, thousands or even higher.
Getting on the sedan chair-three things a mother taught her daughter to get married. The man said to marry a daughter-in-law, and the woman said to marry a daughter. Let's talk about marrying a woman first. In the old society, the woman was young and even had a child bride. After the implementation of the Marriage Law, this backward custom was completely changed. Before marriage, women should take a bath, wash their faces and comb their hair. She should say goodbye to her parents before leaving. Then, with the help of the "sister-in-law holding her daughter" (bridesmaid), she walked from the "long cloth" (big red cloth about ten feet long, handed forward in turn) to the front of the sedan chair, and "walked too far" (a fire lit with dry straw) before leaving the gate. It used to be a hard-wheeled horse-drawn car, with a sedan chair in front of it and a donkey riding by my old father behind it. In the "Cultural Revolution", "breaking the capitalism" was changed to using bicycles. Now, it's very different. There are three or four rounds of dowry in the countryside. In recent years, the same is true in the same city. Brand-new motorcycles with red satin arms are used to press sedan chairs, and fancy cars and buses run away. Accompanied by his TV, washing machine, refrigerator and household appliances, they were all pasted with big double happiness words, installed in the car, blowing and beating, and firecrackers were everywhere. Mother has three things to do before her daughter gets into the sedan chair. One is to tie a bright white green onion on her daughter's nepotism or belt, and then give her a pair of Xiaoguang wonton (a kind of ritual steamed stuffed bun in Guanzhong) to remind her not to forget to eat wonton and green onion. The second is to teach her daughter "bottom words". This custom is little known nowadays. In fact, it is a metaphorical enlightenment education under the suppression of feudal ethics of "see no evil, don't listen if you are indecent, don't speak if you are indecent, and don't move if you are indecent". There is also putting walnuts in the dowry to symbolize eternal love; Filled with sugar, it symbolizes the sweetness of married life.