Marriage must obey the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers. Before marriage, the matchmaker arranged the match, but men and women didn't meet. Only the woman wrote the year number and gave it to the man. If the man thinks that there is no "gram" in the eight characters, he asks the original media to send a red post and give the woman a silver dollar or cloth. This is called "engagement". Commonly known as "Chuan Geng". Since then, on holidays, the man should give the woman clothes, fruit bags and other gifts, commonly known as "sending the festival." The man chooses an auspicious day, and then asks the matchmaker to send "auspicious red stickers" together with gifts such as red envelopes and candy to the woman's home, commonly known as "reporting the day". At the wedding ceremony, the man "married" and gave the woman 18 kinds of gifts such as pork, rice and fish, and sealed red envelopes ranging from 128 to 42. The man hired a hi-sedan, with red couplets on the door, a man's book and a woman's bottom couplet, and the words "Good luck" on the top. There is a male hen in the sedan chair. The cock belongs to the sedan chair bearer and the hen belongs to the mother's family, commonly known as "leaving the hen". We should also organize honor guards and gongs and drums teams. The guard of honor consists of 24 people, holding their hands high, with lanterns, flags and umbrellas in front and gongs and drums behind. When the woman was "married", the newly married mother and daughter cried and watched the woman cry. Before the bride gets on the sedan chair, she wears blue trousers and a green veil. My brother accompanied the sedan chair, which arrived at the man's door. The bride walks to green trousers, green veil and bright red dress. When the bride goes to the man's house, she will set off firecrackers, and the court official will kill the chicken and spread salt rice to ward off evil spirits. Hang a rice screen, mirror, ruler and scissors at the door to ward off evil spirits. When the bride got off the sedan chair, she took her mother and scissors and walked around the bride three times. She carried the bride out of the sedan chair and took an umbrella to protect her from the wind and rain. When she can't see the sky, she goes to the main hall. The groom crossed HongLing obliquely, and Mr. Zongbo was the master of ceremonies, worshiping heaven and earth first, then ancestors and parents and elders.
Finally, husband and wife pay homage to each other, commonly known as "paying homage to the church." Then send the bride and groom to the bridal chamber and make a toast. Mr. Zongbo sprinkled red dates into the red account, praising China, East, West, North and South. The woman's house is called the "guest of honor", and the man's house has a banquet. Ginger and onion are not allowed in the dish. During the dinner, someone will take care of towels, tea, alcohol and tobacco. Before the guests go home, some places reopen their seats and have more wine and vegetables, commonly known as "eating the next seat." Some people like to eat bar wine, which varies from place to place. After the banquet, the groom pays New Year greetings to his husband and elders, and the husband gives back red envelopes, commonly known as "worshipping grass". Then blow and blow to send the guests back, and the guests will return the money. In the evening, men, women and children can enter the bridal chamber, eat bride's tea and have fun, which is called "three days". Pregnant women and menstruating women are forbidden to enter the bridal chamber. Finally light firecrackers to put you to sleep. The next morning, the bride handed her mother-in-law a "falling red" towel to prove that she was a virgin. Seven days later, the groom accompanied the bride back to her mother's house, commonly known as "returning to the door."
After the founding of the people's Republic of China, the marriage law was implemented, and the marriage of men and women was independent, and the wedding was simple. In the 1980s, the ancient customs of etiquette reappeared, and new customs such as traveling and marriage appeared at the same time.