Lianyungang is a famous historical and cultural city in Jiangsu Province, and also a city applying for the Maritime Silk Road. With a history of more than 2200 years, it has inherited many excellent traditional cultures of the Chinese nation. The marriage custom in Lianyungang also has its own unique side, because there are many ethnic minorities living in it. Although many ethnic minorities are gradually sinicized, their unique national culture has been preserved. So what are the marriage customs in Lianyungang where 49 ethnic minorities live together?

betrothal gifts/presents (from the bridegroom's to the bride's family)

In Lianyungang's wedding custom, bride price is an important link. If there is not enough gift money, the heart will fail. In the choice of bride price, the old and the new are combined. In the old society, the bride price was divided into four parts: financial gift, betrothal gift, talent recruitment and thank-you gift. Now Lianyungang people have improved on this basis, combining the four gifts into four burdens and sending them to the woman's house together under the guidance of the matchmaker. The bride price needs to carry four burdens and needs to be beaten along the way. The more lively, the stronger the groom's family, and the people around him will know that the son of this family is married.

Wedding anniversary

The bride dresses up and waits for the groom to get married at home. The groom and his married relatives and friends go home after drinking high tea, which means happiness and sweetness. The groom's family usually organizes more than a dozen relatives and friends to participate in the wedding parade, and then sets off for the bride's house after setting off firecrackers. Have a good cup of tea at the bride's house first. After the bride's relatives and friends earned the "box-moving gift" for the bride, the bride held a red umbrella, and the girls sent by two men helped the bride to the car and left the bride's house in a burst of firecrackers. The bride went to the groom's house. Many places have the custom of "holding the door". Relatives and friends of the groom's family kept the bride out of the door, asking for sugar and cigarettes. The bride usually enters the bridal chamber before twelve o'clock.

Moon and back door shoes

In the wedding month, it is customary to "have no room" and the bride and groom are not allowed to go out for the night. After the full moon, the bride can go back to her parents' home for a few days, and the husband and wife can also go back to their parents' home for a month. This is called "two doors and two months". Whether it's a double-door visit or a single-door visit, you should make a pair of shoes for your husband's family, old and young. If the family is poor, you can only make a pair of shoes for your husband, collectively known as two-door shoes.