Old-fashioned engagement needs to go through "matchmaking" (matchmaking), "blind date" (looking at people or photos) and getting married (asking people to predict the birthdays of men and women), which is called * * *
Eight characters), interviewer (the woman's parents come to know the man's home, etc. ), engaged (The man offered a small amount of dowry and the woman accepted it.
, commonly known as "escort"), eat a small wedding banquet (exchange invitations, rich bride price, formal engagement) and other cumbersome procedures. Since then, boxing gifts have appeared, that is, by men.
Send rice cakes, zongzi, moon cakes, wine, fruits, fish, meat and poultry to the woman's home, and some even use money instead of things. After the wedding date is determined, by
The man informs the woman and gives her a bride price, which is called "ventilation to send the day". After liberation, according to the provisions of the Marriage Law, men and women who have reached the legal age of marriage
As long as both parties are willing, they can register for marriage without going through the engagement formalities. However, it is still popular for men to give bride price, souvenirs and their own gifts to women.
The practice of entertaining each other.
(2) get married
Marriage is commonly known as the wedding banquet. Old-fashioned weddings include getting married (dowry), welcoming the bride and visiting the bride. Eat candles, enter the bridal chamber, warm the bed, worship ancestors, and return to the door.
Waiting for the ceremony. Weddings cost a lot of money. As the saying goes, "a couple's sedan chair brings the cow home." Rich people greet their families, the bride takes a sedan chair, the groom takes an official sedan chair and sets off firecrackers.
Three-eye guns clear the way, followed by high-light flags, thick and thin belts. The poor people only give the bride a sedan chair, the groom a unicycle and even a new one.
Mom took the bus. In the 1920s, a new type of wedding appeared, that is, local celebrities were invited as witnesses, and the witness read the marriage certificate, and then the bride and groom signed the certificate.
The married person, the introducer and the host sealed the certificate respectively, and the bride and groom performed the wedding ceremony, and relatives and friends congratulated them. After liberation, we advocated simple marriage. 50 years
Generation, popular and civilized marriage. In the 1960s and 1970s, grand ceremonies were generally not held, and some only held symposiums or tea parties. Most weddings in rural areas are self-employed.
While driving, several people invited folk brass bands to entertain them. City residents only buy thin banquets, not lavish. Weddings in the 1980 s also paid attention to ostentation and extravagance and married the bride.
Rent a car and enter the hotel for banquets. From dozens to hundreds of tables, people hold their own wedding banquets. Traveling marriage is becoming more and more popular, and group weddings are becoming more and more popular.