What are the wedding customs in Jiaoling, Meizhou?
Before the liberation of marriage customs, the marriage of Jiaoling people was divided into "big marriage", "child bride", "waiting for a girl" and "second marriage". Marrying in a big bank is mostly an arranged marriage of "parents' orders and matchmakers' words". The procedures include betrothal, drawing lots, wedding banquets, paying homage to the bride and making trouble in the bridal chamber, and making three dynasties. On the wedding day, women wear cheongsam, a crested phoenix and a sedan chair. When getting married, she first uses peach branches or banyan branches to clear the way, which is called Tuoqing. When the man gets home, the groom will kick open the sedan chair door and help the bride into the house to meet the bride and get married. In the old society, after a small family gave birth to a boy, she took (received) a girl from a neighbor with a surname, which is commonly known as "careful uncle". When you are an adult, you will get married on New Year's Eve. This is called consummation. This is a child bride. Waiting for Langmei means that in the old society, some poor families didn't have their own sons, so they bought a girl to raise them first, and when they had boys, they became couples and got married when they grew up. Some daughters-in-law grow up to eighteen, and the "little husband" is only a few years old, so there is a saying that "eighteen wives are three years old." Second marriage refers to women's remarriage, which was often discriminated against in the old society. After the founding of New China, marriage was newly established and became a civilized trend. There are group weddings, men going to women's homes, tourist weddings, tea parties and other forms, and the wedding is simple and warm.