Blind date: In the Song Dynasty, some new customs appeared. Because the commodity economy is relatively developed, when discussing marriage, the practice of taking care of each other's daughters-in-law and sharing wealth began to appear. A daughter-in-law is a blind date. The man and the woman agreed on a date to meet. If you are in the middle, you can insert a gold hairpin on a woman's bun, which is called "inserting a hairpin". If you don't like it, send colorful satin, which is called "shocking the world"
General fortune: in the marriage certificate, besides the names and birthdays of both men and women, it is very obvious that the property status of the family should also be stated. Before the wedding reception, the south should send pollen and other things to "promote marriage", and the woman's home should decorate her new house with curtains and bedding, which is called "paving the house".
Wedding process in song dynasty
Kissing: On the wedding day, the man goes to the woman's house to meet the bride and then goes home.
Better makeup: it is a makeup promotion gift given by the man's family to the woman's family three days before the wedding, which is the signal of the wedding. In ancient times, it was called invitation, and in Song Dynasty, it was called makeup promotion. These gifts are wedding dresses and powder, such as flower bun, gold hijab, flower fans for five men and two women, and pollen boxes. After the bride's family received gifts, the gifts included gold and silver, wallow, green robe, boots and so on.
The second step is to lay the house: welcome the woman who laid the house the day before, send the furniture and utensils of the new house to the man's house to hang curtains, lay the bedroom, properly decorate the new house and help them get married and start a family. When you get married, you must use a new bed, and you must invite the blessed people to share the same bed and make up for it for a hundred years. This etiquette is called "paving the house". In the Song Dynasty, the bride's family attached great importance to the ceremony of "paving the house" and often used it to show off their wealth.
Step 3: Wedding: On the wedding day, the man's family sent a wedding team, and the groom led a team to the woman's house to marry the bride. This team must be composed of trumpeters and official prostitutes.
Step four, stop the door: the etiquette for the bride to get off the sedan chair and enter the man's house. The wedding team returned to the man's house and the whole wedding officially reached its climax. The order of the ceremony is quite complicated. The bride gets off the sedan chair in front of the man's house and can't enter the door at once. There are three small ceremonies: one is a music official, a prostitute, a sedan chair, an advocate and so on. There is also a certain procedural ceremony for "stopping the door" and asking for "money for the market"
The fifth step is to sit in wealth: take a rich prostitute to lead the bride into the house and sit on the bed. Generally, the man sits on the right side of the bed and the bride sits on the left, which is called "sitting rich".
The sixth step is to hold a meeting ceremony in the nave, which is an important gift in the wedding. The emcee invited the bride and groom out of the bridal chamber and held it in the nave. The ceremony was like this: "My husband invited the bride out before the bed, and the two families gave each other satin, which became one, called a towel; The man hangs on the water (carrying a sword) and the woman wears it on her hand; People step back and look at each other. " & gt& gt& gt Recommended reading: Honeysmith's wedding tells you the marriageable age at all times.
Step 7: Tie the bun. After tying the knot, the woman will hold two cups and give them to the bride and groom respectively. They will tie a red heart and a green heart at the bottom of the cup and make a gift, that is, exchange glasses, drink wine and sometimes make a toast.
After the couple completes the wedding, there are ceremonies such as worshipping the door and three dynasties.