Phoenix crests, robes, mandarin jackets, gongs and drums to clear the way, the mighty sedan chair team must rely on it.

According to the traditional custom in China, the couple who carry forward the characteristics of the main wedding will leave an unforgettable day.

Wedding Customs and Procedures in China

When a couple decides to get married, they usually invite their elders to meet. pass by

The man's parents proposed to the woman and presented gifts, which was called "receiving gifts" in the old society. gifted

Gifts usually include various foods and items that are auspicious in China culture. Like tea, hair

Dishes, etc. The bride's family accepted the dowry and the engagement was formally established. Parents discuss the wedding form and date.

Date and place. After the parents met, the two families began to announce separately.

Wedding news, calling for preparation. When the bride's parents invite relatives and friends, they should distribute them to relatives and friends and neighbors.

A wedding cake is presented at the wedding to show that the daughter is getting married. The bride's family began to prepare her daughter's dowry and wanted to get married.

Send it to the man's house with the list. The men held a ceremony to make beds. Wedding day celebration knot

On the morning of the wedding, the woman held a ceremony for her daughter and the man held a "coronation ceremony" for the groom.

It is said that children grow up and will get married from now on. Then the groom leads the relatives.

Friends go to the girl's house to greet relatives. In front of the woman's house, as usual, friends and sisters will deliberately stop her.

Only when the man answers all the questions correctly and pays enough money to open the door can he be allowed to marry the bride.

So a couple took all their relatives and friends to visit the man's parents. The bride offered tea to her parents-in-law

After the wedding with her husband's relatives and friends, the bride should live with her in-laws the day after the wedding.

It's time to get up early and cook for my in-laws. This ancient gift is to show the man's parents that the woman is educated.

Hard-working and capable. On the third day after marriage, the couple visited the bride's house together, commonly known as "returning home in three days"

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General process of classical wedding in China.

● Sedan chair departure: With gongs and drums, suona and lion dance, the sedan chair begins to depart. According to biography

Ok, the bride will be carried out by her brother and put on the sedan chair. However, modern people have more than one child and can only

Cousins or groomsmen do it for them, and they usually switch to back-to-back hugs. The distance of the sedan chair is only on foot at present.

Form, unless the two families are particularly close, unless they are carried from one end of Shanghai to the other, they will definitely be exhausted. no

However, it is customary to give the sedan chair a red envelope, otherwise it will intentionally shake the sedan chair and let the bride. "

It feels good. "

● Archery across the brazier: In ancient ceremonies, the bride crossed the brazier in a sedan chair, which is usually now.

It was the bride who stepped directly with the help of the matchmaker. Then, before getting off the sedan chair, the groom will pull the bow.

Three red arrows were shot from the car door to drive away the evil spirits that the bride might encounter along the way.

● Visit the church and have a drink: Some people want to cross the saddle behind the brazier, which indicates that the new couple will get married and start a family.

Peace; Then, the groom picked up the mat on the bride's head with a beam wrapped in red cloth. At this moment,

It's time for a couple to formally marry the bride. The most important part after the meeting is not making a glass of wine.

), but to offer tea to both sides, usually a group of people are crying at this time, the scene.

Touching, in the warm festive atmosphere is also filled with deep affection.

● With one heart and one mind, thanks to the media: many modern wedding ceremonies should be in the bridal chamber.

Show it out. For example, if you tie your hair, it should be the couple who cut some hair for each other in the bridal chamber as a husband.

The keepsakes of the wife relationship are put together and now performed in public. After that, both mothers had the same view.

Dragon and phoenix candles, the couple exchange fragrant books and beautiful jade as keepsakes, and then ask the matchmaker to give them hoofs.

Wedding scene

"One worships heaven and earth, the other worships the high hall, and the husband and wife respect each other ..." Such a scene must be very common for most people.

It will look familiar. However, the pictures in this article are not stills in movies and TV, but percentages.

Hundreds of reality shows! Tired of lawn weddings, candlelight weddings, cruise weddings and other western-style weddings.

After that, the newly married women in this city became traditional again, with firecrackers and suona.

The retro wedding with gongs and drums has been grandly staged in the good days around the Spring Festival.

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Basic elements of Chinese weddings

★ Crown-shaped corolla costumes are the most indispensable props. What do you think of wearing red?

Yao is beaming, especially when the groom wears an embroidered robe and a jade belt, compared with western-style weddings.

Black suit, another kind of wealth.

★ Red sedan chair According to the ancient ceremony, after the wedding ceremony, the bride was sent to the bridal chamber, and then Xipa was opened.

Know what your future partner looks like. That kind of mood, modern sedan chair people certainly can't understand.

Yes Perhaps, only seeing the interesting appearance of the other party wearing ancient costumes will shine at the moment.

★ Various roads have braziers, saddles, bows and arrows, candles, scales, handkerchiefs and scissors.

A dozen things, such as wheat barrels, rulers, fruit bowls, tea cups, wine and keepsakes from both sides.

Chinese wedding props and their uses

Sedan chair: As the core part of traditional wedding, sedan chair has been popular since the Southern Song Dynasty. It is divided into four parts.

There are two kinds of people carrying it, eight people carrying it, and dragon sedan chairs and phoenix sedan chairs. The car body is covered with red curtains with a dragon inserted on it.

Phoenix is auspicious, and its four corners are covered with silk ears. Rich people get married in sedan chairs, sedan chairs, sedan chairs.

On the way, the female guests took one ride, and the other two were taken by sedan chair children; When the wedding comes back, the bride,

The people attending the wedding and the farewell each took a ride, and the other two took a blue sedan chair with a blue woolen cloth and a copper top.

The groom and the best man each take a ride.

★ Flag Gong umbrella fan: located in the wedding procession in front of the floral decorations, it can make the whole wedding ceremony hot.

Noisy and spectacular.

★ Firecrackers: firecrackers should be set off all the way to celebrate the wedding ceremony.

★ Get off the train in Guan Feng: People who marry their daughters, rich or poor, are very particular about their wedding clothes. Internal wear red

Coat, full of embroidered shoes, fringed ribbon around the waist, colorful skirts embroidered below, fluffy balls and bright hair on the head.

Beads, jade pendants and other ornaments are woven into a "phoenix crown", and then embroidered to wear on the shoulder.

Brocade with auspicious patterns-"Down the Iron".

★ hijab: In ancient times, the bride covered her head with red cloth while wearing a gown with a crown to hide her shame and avoid evil spirits.

Color represents auspiciousness.

★ Saddle: "Saddle" is homophonic with "An", meaning "Long-term peace". Put it in the bridal chamber

On the threshold, it means that the bride will cross the saddle and be safe all her life. When the bride's front foot enters the threshold, then

The foot was lifted before it fell, and the saddle was put by the whole person with their parents and children.

Take it out, just in line with the meaning of "a woman doesn't want a man, and a good horse doesn't deserve a double saddle."

★ brazier: it is a pot of fire placed at the gate for the bride to walk through, meaning the day after marriage.

The child is thriving.

★ Heaven and earth table: it is often placed in the courtyard. There are magnifying barrels, rulers, scissors, mirrors, abacus and scales on the table.

, called "six cards". You can know how much food, cloth and clothes you have at home.

Bad appearance, clarity of accounts, weight of things, etc. People often only have "three media (matchmakers)"

The six certificates are complete, indicating that the wedding is reasonable and legal. Wait until the wedding ceremony is held in Kyrgyzstan.

Rites, commonly known as "worship heaven and earth", are presided over by the master of ceremonies, one worships heaven and earth, the other worships the high hall, and the third is

Goodbye, husband and wife.

★ Weighing beam: After entering the bridal chamber, the groom takes off the bride's red veil with a weighing beam, which means "contentment is always a pleasure".

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★ Candles: In the wedding ceremony, pairs of red candles are used and lit in the hall and new house.

Inside. Because there are many gold and silver dragons on it, it is called "candle".