The ancient wedding in China roughly includes six steps, namely, receiving gifts, asking names, accepting gifts, inviting the Japanese and welcoming the relatives, which is called "Six Gifts", and the same is true in the Tang Dynasty.
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On the wedding day, the groom personally led the drum band, honor guard and float to the woman's house, blowing and beating along the way. The girl filled the mortar with three liters of millet, covered the well with a mat, plugged the window with a three-catty pestle, and put three arrows on the door to ward off evil spirits. The bride will dress up in her boudoir before boarding the float. At this time, there are makeup poems, which are usually sung by the groom himself or by the guests. At that time, there was a makeup advice poem: "It is rumored that the candle drops pink, so don't make love in front of the mirror. There is no makeup on the face, but there are eyebrows to draw people "; "In the past, I will swim in Yujing, the first immortal Xu Zhuangtou. Today, I have the honor to be Jin Hui, A Qin. I will teach the couple to go to the makeup building early." Someone wants to read an article about car obstacles after singing makeup poems. After leaving the boudoir, the bride must cross the saddle to show her family wish her a safe journey and a smooth arrival at her husband's house. Obstacle cars will be held on the way to the wedding parade, and the people who bid farewell to the wedding will have fun drinking with the people who watched the wedding and stop the car for money.
When the bride arrives at the groom's house, people below her parents will go out the small door and come back from the gate, which means following in the footsteps of the bride. After the bride enters the door, she worships pigs and stoves first, then gods and ancestors, and then couples worship. In the Tang Dynasty, the bride should not only bow to her in-laws and her husband's elders, but also bow to the guests attending the ceremony, which is called "bow ceremony". After visiting the temple for three days, the bride began to "take care of women's work". Her first job was to cook in the kitchen to honor her parents.
There was a bridal chamber after paying homage to the bride, which was called a "play girl" in the Tang Dynasty, and then the newlyweds entered the new house (the groom entered the new house backwards) to drink acacia wine, which was later called "drinking a glass of wine", meaning that the two sides loved each other and became one, and was later called "marriage".
After the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom say goodbye to each other again and then sit on the bed. At this time, a large group of women began to spread money, which is called "spreading accounts". Money is generally six baht, engraved with the words "long life and wealth", and tied with a color bar every ten articles. At this point, the wedding is over.
Brides always use a cover in the process of greeting each other, such as curtain partition in Tang Dynasty (these two words can't be typed in computer), curtain cap, soap bar or fan, which are collectively called "hijab". Curtain partition was often used in the early Tang Dynasty. Curtains are things that women use to cover their bodies. It is made of silk and can cover the whole body in length. After the emblem of Yonghui, curtain caps and soap were gradually used. Curtain hat is a kind of hat, and its net only covers the neck, so it is also called "face hat". In the Tang Dynasty, women often used two kinds of fans for marriage, namely, ten thousand fans and folding fans, so the bridal chamber was fixed on love, which was called "lack of fans" in the old saying.