There is basically no essential difference between the five rites before marriage and the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties. In other words, the folk saying is somewhat different.
The bride price of the wedding also includes deerskin as stipulated in Zhou Li, and silk and silk become the following: Albizia Albizia, Jiahe, Ejiao, Jiuzipu, Zhu Wei, Shuangshi, Mianxu, Changshouxing and dry lacquer. Each has a special meaning.
Albizia Albizia said that the husband and wife love each other forever, Jiahe said that they are blessed * * *, Ejiao dry paint said that they are inseparable, Jiuzi Pu Zhuwei said that they can bend and stretch, double stones said that righteousness is in two solids, cotton wool said that affection is long, and long life means that they are together for a long time. From these contents, we can see people's beautiful expectations for marriage, and also confirm the influence of folk customs on weddings, because so many collateral explanations are unlikely to come from the etiquette system itself.
On the wedding day, before dawn, you begin to prepare for the bride. What's going on here? Didn't you say dusk gift? In the Tang dynasty, the rules changed? You're right. Don's wedding time really started in the early hours of the morning. At least, the late gift no longer represents all the wedding forms at that time. Today, noon in Beijing and night in Tianjin are still two typical wedding features.
When I arrived at the bride's house, I lost the quiet salute in the ceremony. There was a loud noise, and I entered the bride's house in a mess under the attack of the new queen's club. What's this for? This is also a unique custom that began to appear in the Tang Dynasty. Find a husband and play a trick on you before the bride goes out.
Outside the bride's boudoir, I haven't finished counting. As the Tang Dynasty, where poetry prevailed, how can you make up without reading two poems? The bride is waiting inside the door. If you don't want to miss it, just bite the bullet. Of course, it is allowed to prepare a few songs in advance, as long as you pray that the bride and her family are not in the habit of asking impromptu questions, which is really uncertain. Because this link is also a folk custom, there is no certain law. In today's wedding, are there any rules about where to hide shoes and where not to hide them? On the one hand, the ancients may not be more conservative than today.
I'll let you go in order not to occupy space. No matter how many poems you read, ask the bride to come out and go home with you. The bride will cover her face with a headscarf, come out and get in the car to meet her. When the bride gets on the bus, you have to ride the horse around the car three times. What? What if you say you can't ride a horse? No way! Don't talk about men in the Tang Dynasty, even some handmaids can't ride horses. You can't ride a horse in the Tang Dynasty, just like you said you can't drive in the United States today! Ride with the bride and get out of here!
On the second day after the bride gets married, her family will make a kind of meat porridge (why not eat minced meat? Do ordinary people marry their daughters every day? )。 It should be to celebrate the success of the bride's marriage.
The journey was not peaceful. When we saw the wedding motorcade, groups of people gathered to beg for money! What happened? Obstacles! Never seen it? It is also found in many areas today. Ask for money when you see the wedding car coming up! This is really a long history! It's just that the rickshaw pullers in the Tang Dynasty are basically literary disasters, and the customs are more of a nature. And basically a big family gets married, so do it well! Otherwise, ordinary people can't afford to spend thousands of dollars on the original.
Pushing the tower through customs can be regarded as a writer. Before the bride came in, the family had done two things. One is to fill three liters of millet in a mortar for pounding grain in the yard. Cover the wellhead at home with a cushion. I will also use the skin of three kilograms of marijuana (not the marijuana that foreigners often smoke! Here, hemp skin is the raw material of textile) on the windowsill. Put three arrows on the door frame. What does all this mean? Or borrow the metaphor of ample food and clothing to ward off evil spirits.
Another thing is to build a green house in the corner of the yard at home, also known as the hundred sons account? Why is this? Probably people in the Tang Dynasty also followed the fashion and wanted to have a lawn wedding, right? In fact, the two are related. In the Tang Dynasty, due to the custom of the conference semifinals, people took Lu Qing as the wedding place, while western Renye Fang used nomadic people to hold grassland weddings. Both of them use tents because they don't have a house. As a result, mainstream society became a custom later. Of course, it is not absolute that there was a custom in the Tang Dynasty. People in the Tang Dynasty only regarded Lu Qing as part of their marriage, and it was not that they didn't have a wedding at home. The Tang Dynasty was more open and diversified in culture. Perhaps there used to be a group of wedding planners who often had their brains wide open!
Far away, the bride went to the groom's house and entered the door as soon as she entered. At this time, the groom's sister-in-law and brother-in-law, that is, the groom's brothers and sisters, will go out from the side door of the groom's house and walk back from the main door. What is this for? Is to step on the bride's steps when she walks in the door. The symbolic meaning is that the bride can't find the way back, can live in her husband's house with peace of mind and have a long marriage in the future. This custom still remains in some places today.
After the bride enters the door, she goes to the pigsty and the stove to worship, which should be a prayer for the prosperity of her future marriage. Of course, mutual worship between you and your lover is also indispensable. Maybe even worship heaven and earth. However, it seems that it can't be found in the literature of worshipping heaven and earth, but there are many murals in the Tang Dynasty. At the wedding scene, there is a scene where new people stand together and worship in one direction. I really can't say what I admire. Before there is new evidence, let's worship heaven and earth.
After all this, you and the bride are sitting around Lu Qing, and the maid handed me the same prison plate, which contained the same prison meal (not going to prison to eat together! ), you and the bride have three bites each. Then the maid handed me a pair of gold and silver wine glasses tied together with colorful silk threads. Two children sat next to you and whispered: one for the son-in-law and the other for the bride.
After drinking, you untie the red rope from the bride's head, which is the solution to the wedding in the Han Dynasty, but at this time it was called Guan Temple. Later generations wanted to do business and invented scissors to cut hair and tie knots. Or let the couple lie together and tie the bun all night. It is obviously against common sense for the couple to turn over.
When you untie the red tassel, you can get up and take off your clothes. The crown is gone, the shoes are put aside, and then ... why did the bride take out a fan again? Are you afraid of hot weather?
Of course not! Finally, you have to read some poems, let the bride take the fan away and rest together in the bridal chamber! Is it a pit? That's it. I'll embarrass you again. Why don't you continue to mobilize brain cells for poetry? Anyway, people in the Tang dynasty like this, not to mention getting married for such a big thing. Even going to a restaurant to drink Hua San needs some poetry.
Anyway, the poem was read by a fan. When the bride's fan is gone, the maid can put out the candle and pay the bill. Your Datang wedding is now complete!