Bride: Also called "bride", it refers to a girl who is having a wedding or is about to have a wedding. The word bride comes from ancient China. In ancient times, married women were often covered with red headscarves. This is the classic "bride" image.

In most parts of modern China, the bride refers to the woman who is about to get married, but in many places, the woman who just got married or is about to get married is called the "bride".

Shuowen Jiezi interprets this word as "a woman who just got married or married soon; Also known as concubine, it was first seen in the second chapter of The Scholars. "Just like a daughter getting married, getting married is called the bride.

The original text of The Scholars is as follows: Originally, Confucian scholars in the Ming Dynasty called Confucian scholars "friends" and Tong Sheng "children"; For example, when a boy enters school, even if he is a teenager, he is also called an "old friend". If you don't enter school, you will be 80 years old, and you will be called "children".

Just like a daughter getting married: she was called "bride" when she got married, and later called "grandmother" and "wife", so she was not called "bride"; If you marry someone as a concubine, you should be called "bride" even if your hair turns white.

In ancient Chinese, "fu" is a title for a wife, such as "twenty is husband and wife", which means to be your wife at the age of twenty. But at that time, all wives were called "women", which led to several "women" of different generations in a family, which was easy to be confused and led to unclear references.

The ancients believed that the blood vessels of the left ring finger went straight to the heart. In the middle ages, the groom put the wedding ring on the bride's three fingers in turn, symbolizing the trinity of the father, the son and the holy spirit, and finally put the ring on the ring finger. So in all English-speaking countries, the ring finger of the left hand is used as the traditional finger to wear a wedding ring.

With the development of the times, the language vocabulary is always enriched, so the word "bride" was invented by the general public. The original meaning of "bride" is "new bride", and gradually began to use the word "bride" to address daughter-in-law. It can be seen that "bride" originally refers to a woman who just got married and became a woman.