Forty years of marriage is a ruby wedding. Gem weddings are really rare. The old couple have gone through 40 years together, and they have come through thick and thin, just as the following couplet says: "Forty years side by side, through thick and thin, plowing the same species, raising Li Peitao and sweating together;" Join hands for thousands of days, be sweet and sweet, * * * sing * * and write poems. "

This couplet cleverly embeds "forty years" and skillfully uses overlapping words to vividly depict the joys and sorrows of husband and wife, the hardships of raising children and the sweet harmony of forty years of love life.

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Name of the main wedding anniversary: 1 year paper wedding; Married for 2 years; Married for 3 years; Married for 4 years; 5 years and one wooden marriage; 6 years of iron marriage; Bronze marriage once every seven years; 8 years of electric marriage; 9-year-old pottery married; 10 a tin wedding; 1 1 year; 12 a flax wedding; The lace wedding is on13; /kloc-an ivory wedding in 0/4 years; /kloc-A crystal wedding in 0/5 years.

20 years of porcelain marriage; 25 years of silver marriage; A pearl marriage in 30 years; A jade marriage in 35 years; 40 years of ruby marriage; 45 years of sapphire marriage; Golden marriage once every 50 years; Diamond wedding 60 years later. But in fact, the most grand wedding is the silver wedding and the golden wedding. Friends and relatives are usually invited to banquets and anniversaries. As for celebrating the "diamond wedding", it can be said that it is rare and row upon row.