Traditional Chinese weddings are full of red double happiness characters. Double happiness consists of the word "Xi", which means double happiness, extraordinary happiness and celebration, and also means bringing good luck and a happy life to the couple. Nowadays, most of the only children are happy couples, and both men and women can post them.

Couplets are also called wedding couplets. In the old society, both men and women had to put up red couplets at home to celebrate their wedding, which was enough. Hi-Lian pays attention to flat and level, neat antithesis, beautiful words and catchy words. Wedding couplets were specially posted at the entrance, hatchback, hall and door of the new house. Wedding couplets are like "Birds love love the water, brothers love sisters, clouds match the leaves of the moon, and beautiful women match handsome men". "Newlyweds are happy, and the wedding ceremony is always complete".

Press the cash box

The cash box is also one of the dowry of the woman in the wedding ceremony, which shows that the woman's family is rich and is also the bride's favorite thing and treasure. People usually put money at the bottom of the four corners of the dowry box, that is, "box corner" or "box corner" The amount of money at the bottom of the box depends on the actual situation of the bride's family, ranging from a few dollars to dozens of dollars to hundreds of dollars, but generally it must be even.

Step 3: candles

Candles are exquisite candles used in traditional weddings, usually painted with beautiful and auspicious patterns. Usually in the bridal chamber

A pair of red candles should be lit and extinguished at the same time, indicating that the bride and groom will grow old together.

Since ancient times, food is the most important thing for people, so it is natural to prepare some auspicious items such as food when getting married.

1. tea

Tea plays an important role in the traditional culture of China. Tea in wedding ceremony has unusual significance because of its growth habit, and it is the mascot of wishing children.

All ethnic groups and regions in China have various customs of taking tea as their profession. The Dongxiang people in Gansu are engaged, and the man's matchmaker goes to the woman's house to act as matchmaker. After she agrees, she will send a piece of cloth and several packets of good tea, which is considered an engagement. When the Hui people in Ningxia, Gansu proposed marriage, the man wanted to send tea bricks or tea to the woman's house, and the woman accepted it and agreed. Security guards in Jishishan, Gansu called it "tea picking".

At the time of engagement, the man gave the woman tea as the main gift, and the woman who accepted the "tea" no longer proposed to others. In Huangpi, Hubei, the Han nationality in Xiaogan area, when the man and the woman are engaged, the gift money must have salt and tea.

Extended account

Cancellation of household registration was once a popular marriage custom, and its important activity was to sprinkle all kinds of fruits on the wedding bed. Due to the different scenery in different places, the fruits used for selling households in the north and south of China are slightly different. Jujube, chestnut and peanut are mostly used in the north, and lotus seeds, longan and litchi are mostly used in the south. Jujube and chestnut are homophonic with "jujube chestnut", so they are often used for wedding custom wishes at the same time. Lotus seed is a symbol of many children. Lotus seed is homophonic with "lotus", and lotus seed is endowed with the meaning of "lotus gives birth to your son". Because the cylinder "Gui" and "Gui" are homophonic, it has become a symbol of "early birth". Litchi, because of its homonym with "Lizi", has also become a wedding custom blessing. In addition, there are peanuts, soybeans, rice, pine nuts and melon seeds. Has become the reason for their diversity. All kinds of fruits are mixed and colorful, so what is scattered in the tent is also called five-color fruit. Colorful seeds and fruits, in addition to pinning people's wishes for the newlyweds to have children, also decorate the festive color of the wedding.

3. adzuki bean

Red bean, a traditional wedding token in China, is usually used as dessert and red bean paste, which symbolizes the lingering sweetness of the two people after marriage.

4. Red eggs

In many areas, it is a custom to put red wedding eggs in the dowry. Generally, there is a bucket of red painted children in the dowry, and some boiled red eggs should be put in the bucket. After the dowry is delivered to the man's home, all the people attending the wedding can invite the bride to eat red eggs, hoping to wish the new couple an early birth by eating red eggs. The implication is that the more people eat red eggs, the stronger the fertility of the bride will be.

In ancient old-fashioned weddings, many different items are used to indicate good omen, and spittoons are also equivalent to children's buckets, representing early birth.

The meaning of the child, the vase means that flowers bloom with wealth, and there are all kinds of auspicious things, such as copper pots and shoes, dragon quilts, sheets, pillows, chopsticks, bowls tied with red ropes and so on.

5. Wedding cake

Wedding cake is also a traditional wedding food in China. Buying and sending wedding cakes is a wedding custom. The significance of wedding cake is that wedding cake is used to share the joy of wedding. It is advisable to carefully inform the wedding news and convey it to every relative and friend through the distribution of wedding cakes.