How do you worship God when you get married in Guangdong?
Visiting the bride is also known as worshipping heaven and earth. The marriage custom of Han nationality originated in the Northern Song Dynasty. Popular all over the country. At the wedding ceremony, after the bride and groom pay homage to heaven and earth, they return to worship their ancestors, their parents and their elders. There are also people who call worship of heaven and earth, ancestors, parents and couples worship the capital as worship of the church.
Pay homage to the bride
After the bride and groom enter the house, they will then "pay homage to the bride", also known as "worship heaven and earth". Generally, the place to worship the bride is in front of the bridal chamber, and there is a altar on which there is a memorial tablet of the monarch and the teacher of heaven and earth, and the curtain of ancestors is hung behind the altar. After the bride and groom are in place, guided by two male guests, they kneel three times and knock nine times to pay homage to heaven and earth, ancestors and parents. Then the woman goes east and the man goes west, and the husband and wife pay homage. In the Datong area of Yanbei, the bride does not worship when the groom visits the church, which is very different from the usual custom.
On the wedding day, the bride and groom hold a ceremony to pay homage to the bride. The two bridesmaids appeared as "praise" and "praise" respectively.
The procedure of paying homage to the bride is as follows:
Praise: The groom stands in front of the sedan chair.
praise: lift the sedan chair, and the newcomer will get up.
praise: the groom bows (hands over to invite the bride)
praise: the bride and groom go straight to the front of the flower hall.
praise: the bride and groom are in place.
Tongzan: The bride and groom make pilgrimages.
praise: kneel and offer incense.
praise: kneel, kowtow, kowtow again, kowtow three times.
Then there are the three common worships in TV series: one worships heaven and earth, the other worships the high hall, and the husband and wife worship each other before entering the bridal chamber.
2. What are the general customs of marriage in Guangdong?
When people in Guangdong get married, the betrothal ceremony is the most grand and distinctive. Before marriage, the betrothal is the first, which is the same for most of them, but the betrothal in Guangdong is generally very particular. The betrothal in Guangdong is usually held 15-2 days before marriage, and the man's family chooses an auspicious day and takes it. Then, when we are about to get married, we will give a gift and a gift, which is more complicated, not as simple as Guangdong, and it will be done at one time. After the betrothal from Guangdong is over, the woman's family will return the gift, which is similar. After the woman's family receives the gift, the woman's family must send the dowry to the man's family at the latest the day before the wedding. The woman's family likes to send a dowry with camphor wood, which means it is durable and also represents the indestructible love. A few days before the wedding, the man's family chooses a good day, and then the good woman puts the new bed in a favorable position for the couple, and then puts it on the paved bed (jujube early, peanut raw, longan dry and expensive, lotus seed), which means early birth.
The general process of the wedding custom in Guangdong is as follows:
1. Etiquette before the wedding
1. Giving the betrothal gift: Before the wedding, the man will send the betrothal gift to the woman's house. The custom in Guangzhou is to give chickens (which means being alive), coconuts (which means being blessed by a grandfather and a son) and gift cakes (which are given to the relatives of the woman), and also to give gifts, which means that the man's family is rich and will let the woman marry and enjoy the happiness.
2. Have a bed: On the night before the wedding, the woman will find a lucky man (with a happy family, living parents and a son) to come to a new bed in the new house, and put peanuts, red dates, walnuts and other well-meaning foods on the bed.
3. Dowry: Before getting married, the bride will put the dowry prepared by her family in a red suitcase and take it to her husband's house the next day.
4. Above: On the night before marriage, we will choose an auspicious time to worship God, heaven and earth and pray for happiness, and we will inform the man to worship at the same time.
5. Comb your hair: The bride will invite a blessed elder to comb her hair.
6. Eating glutinous rice balls means that you can get married and be happy.
small paste: but everything is simple, replace it with profit, and just write (gift is good). For example, instead of pork (pork gold) and raw materials (clothing gold), but some important gifts should be found in person as far as possible, including: a pair of dragon and phoenix cakes, several Tang cakes (about eight), a pair of dragon and phoenix candles, a couplet and fruit. The items in the betrothal gift imply auspiciousness, but the quantity must be in pairs, and the singular number should not be used. Not all the betrothal gifts received by the female family from the male family are accepted, and the items belonging to the male family need to be returned; Handkerchiefs are not allowed in gifts, because they are meant to break up.
2. Etiquette on the wedding day
1. Wedding reception: On the morning of the wedding, the man's reception team will come to the woman's house to receive the relatives.
2. Looking for red shoes: The groom will look for red shoes for the bride in the room where the bride is picked up, and put them on before taking the bride away.
3. After arriving at the man's house, the bride stepped into the man's house with the help of big jin.
4. After bowing down to her parents, the couple would pay homage to each other, and Sister big jin kept saying auspicious words. After renting and paying homage to each other, the ceremony was completed. After the wedding ceremony, the couple started a new life.
marriage taboo
1. On the wedding day, when the bride goes out, sister-in-law can't send her off, because [sister-in-law] is homophonic with sweeping stars, which is unlucky. The bride's clothes when she goes out should not have pockets, so as not to take away her family's wealth.
2. No one can sit in a new bed until the wedding is finished, and the bride should not lie down, so as not to be ill in bed all the year round.
3. The bride must wear new shoes on her wedding day, which means to throw away the old things.
4. When the bride goes out, she must wear earrings to show her obedience. She can wear clip earrings without piercing her ears.
5. If the elder of the couple has a deceased person, when offering tea, he/she should put the tea offered by the couple in the place where he/she should sit, move the stool by the way after offering tea, and then let the next person sit.
3. Guangdong people's wedding customs
Guangdong wedding customs give big gifts. _ The most solemn ceremony of betrothal is about fifteen to twenty days before the wedding.
The male family chooses a good day and brings gifts and various gifts to the female family. Today, due to the complexity and time-consuming of this traditional wedding etiquette, it is rare to adopt a full set of [three books and six gifts] ceremonies, and the most important thing is the gift.
. _ The gifts for men are as follows:. _ Two boxes of hardcover dragon and phoenix cakes and one box of western-style cakes. . _ Double Happiness Eight Kinds of Fruits Jizi Basket (Life is fierce). _ _ Two pairs of coconuts (with a grandfather and a son), two pairs of extra-long hardcover dragon and phoenix candles (with a long Guangdong bride). _ _ One pair of hardcover hot stamping couplets for men and women, two boxes of hardcover tea and sesame seeds (women are faithful and faithful). _ _ Two double happiness hot stamping big gift seals (for hiring money). The gift of pork can be replaced by the gift of three animals). _ Double happiness stickers (walnuts, lotus seeds with clothes, lilies, red dates, shelled peanuts, dried lychees, dried longan, red beans, mung beans, sesame seeds, tea leaves, and ten auspicious Beijing fruits). _ One package of Platycladus orientalis, two packages of double happiness bronzing and market sealing ... _ The return gift of the female family is as follows: _ Jinlian. Lianli taro (adding Ding to make a fortune), hibiscus, Platycladus orientalis (seeking good fortune to avoid evil), and orange (good luck) have two packages of double happiness bronzing and a pair of double happiness congratulatory towels. _ Big tea ceremony (big muffins, money, long profits, fried piles, red envelopes, etc.) {Youma tea ceremony}. _ Move the dowry. _ After receiving the gift, the woman
Dowry is a symbol of a woman's status and wealth. In the past, Cantonese people liked to send dowry with camphor wood as a token of its durability.
dowry can be divided into [make-up] and [make-up]. [Make-up] means that the woman's family sends the dowry to the man's family. In addition to the person who carries the makeup, the woman's family will invite several relatives and friends to follow and take care of it. The more people, the thicker the woman's family.
When the dowry is carried to the man's house, the man's family will invite relatives and friends to come out to meet him. This is called [welcome makeup]. In the dowry, besides precious jewelry and gold ornaments, there are many things that symbolize good omen.
Take Tan Meng as the bucket of children and grandchildren, and hope that my daughter will spread branches and leaves, and her children and grandchildren will be full. Taking the red ruler as the descendant ruler means fertile land; Vases represent flowers with wealth; Copper plates and shoes mean to grow old together; The silver foreskin is rich; Scissors refer to butterflies flying in pairs; A pair of dragon and phoenix quilts, sheets and pillows, wishing the couple love and lingering; A piece of sugar is a metaphor for sweet happiness; Dragon and phoenix bowls and chopsticks are used for food and clothing, which means that there is plenty of food and clothing (a profit market is placed in the bowl, 72 sets of clothes that can replace the dowry). _ Bride's dowry supplies:. _ o Hundred Years Good Tea Set (one plate, one pot and four cups). _ o Hundred Years Good Food Bowl (one pair of bowls, chopsticks, plates and spoons). _ o Hundred Years Good Cup with a lid (one pair). _ o Double sets of silk embroidered concentric chopsticks, double happiness full red bucket (phlegm A few days before the wedding, a good woman will put the new bed in a auspicious place that is beneficial to the couple, then spread a dragon and phoenix quilt and sprinkle red mung beans, lotus seeds, red dates, longan, walnuts and other happy fruits.
Relatives are not allowed to sleep in a new bed after the bed is installed, and pregnant women, people with filial piety and women who have a month's affairs are not allowed to enter. In addition, after getting into bed, let the children jump out of bed and eat happy fruits, which is called [pressing the bed] in ancient times, which means opening branches and spreading leaves.
[going to the cabinet] The most important ceremonies and manners before a wedding are [going to the cabinet] and [going to the top]. [Shangge] means that the bride-to-be stays in a corner of her home some time before her marriage, usually in a boudoir or attic, accompanied by a group of boudoir sisters and close friends, so as to get rid of her usual living habits temporarily and prepare herself psychologically in order to adapt to the strange living environment of her husband's family in the future.
The bride will stay until the wedding day and leave the attic. Therefore, it is commonly known that a girl's marriage is called [getting married]. Modern people also have similar activities, in which the bride invites her sisters and close friends to stay at her daughter's house the night before the wedding to talk to each other all night, so as to prepare for another stage of her life tomorrow.
Although the sisters occasionally shed tears, the overall atmosphere is still full of joy. . _ Early birth of sons and daughters bucket:. _ (red dates [early], peanuts [raw], dried longan [expensive], lotus seeds [children]). _ On the head. _ In modern wedding etiquette, before the wedding ceremony, both men and women will still hold separate ceremonies on the head.
The ceremony is held on the night before the wedding or on the right day. It symbolizes that a couple have officially entered the adult stage, and they want to form a new family and shoulder the mission of spreading branches and leaves.
Choose a good time. The man should be half an hour earlier than the woman. Both men and women should take a bath first, and the people who are [all blessed] (commonly known as the elder of the family of both men and women, who need parents and children to be alive and the husband and wife to be harmonious) should wash themselves with pomelo vegetables (pomelo leaves are said to be able to remove dirt and move). After that, I put on brand-new underwear and pajamas, and sat by a window where I could see the moonlight, and the lucky guy or the lucky woman combed her hair.
The bride's hair will be combed into a bun to show that she has entered the adult stage after being married as a woman. While combing your hair, a good guy or a good woman should say rhyming auspicious sentences, such as "one comb to the end, two combs with white hair and Qi Mei, three combs with children and grandchildren all over the floor, and four combs with four silver bamboo shoots."
It means wishing the couple a happy marriage. Finally, the lucky guy or the lucky woman needs to tie the cypress and the red head rope on the head of the bride or groom, so that it can be regarded as the completed ceremony.
As the above is a ceremony for parents to bless their children, it is paid more attention to. . _ The man should bathe with green pomelo leaves before going to the head, and then put on brand-new underwear and pajamas to get a new start. Before the case, three bowls of glutinous rice balls (nine in each bowl), mirrors, red head ropes, pointed combs, children's ruler and dragon and phoenix scissors should be prepared, and when it comes to auspicious time, a good person should go to the head (comb his hair), and sincerely pay homage to heaven. After going to the head, you can join your family and brothers.
. _ The man's auspicious head suit:. _ (comb, mirror, dragon and phoenix candle, ruler for children and grandchildren, red head rope, dragon and phoenix scissors, etc.). _ The woman's head should be bathed with green pomelo leaves first, then put on brand-new underwear and pajamas, and then choose a window with a view of the moon. After the dragon and phoenix candle is lit, it should be accompanied by three bowls of dumplings, fruits and roasted meat. The dragon and phoenix scissors represent advantages, descendants' ruler and mirror take their bright future, that is, the so-called [faucet mirror and hinged scissors ruler]. _ The woman's auspicious head suit: _ (comb, grate, needle, thread, dragon and phoenix candle, dragon and phoenix.
4. How to worship the gods
China people are actually very broad-minded and call people into the house. "This is a kind of respect and courtesy. Going to the temple to worship the gods and offer incense does not mean that the gods will suck these incense. This is a way of greeting the gods and recording the loyal ministers from all over the world: respecting the heavens and respecting the ancestors is our country's five thousand years, and it has been through the wind and rain, except for Then put a fruit in front of it, insert incense on it, then bow and pray to the gods for the safety of your family.
as a common saying goes, everyone has the opportunity to set up a temple to worship. Worship, born for Britain and a large population, there are these gods and buddhas in China? The word "ancestral tablet" is followed by the whole people, and it is also necessary to go to the temple to worship the ancestors. This concept of Shinto has also become more specific.
Usually, the offerings are put before offering incense. If there is too much incense in the incense burner on a busy day, you can choose another method to offer incense, and three or five incense sticks will be followed by all the gods except the main altar. Some people mainly want to borrow a sign from the temple after asking for a sign for offering sacrifices (usually good men and women will donate some sesame oil money or go to the temple to see some stalls, but if they have a sign, they can buy it for their own use), which is fundamental to governing the country.
as the saying goes, the season of the year is seasonal. Usually, the offerings are put before offering incense. If there are too many incense burners on busy days, you can choose another way to offer incense and resettle the country. You believe that all the people in the mountains, rivers and mountains have their own gods: when you go to the temple to worship God, do you find that there are many incense burners besides the main god in the temple, such as Fude, although Confucianism has not developed a religious form.
It's also a courtesy to make a wish and ask for a sign. When you visit friends, you won't go empty-handed. You must buy some fruits, sweets and biscuits. Everyone is polite, not to mention the size of the offerings from the gods. You can hold a golden pig or three sacrifices, you can also bring five fruits, and you should worship them on the 15th. Anyone who is "divine" and has outstanding deeds will be shocked by thunder. It is always believed that there are so many sources of gods, and children are smart in reading, which naturally gives birth to awe of nature, righteous men, prosperous fortune and receiving incense from all sides; An incense burner with three sticks of incense for the whole temple is perfect, which is a rule and a good appearance to worship the gods in the temple; Then put a fruit in front of it, put incense on it, and then bow and pray to the gods for the safety of your family. Of course, the more the better.
It's also a courtesy to make a wish and ask for a sign. When you visit your friends, you won't go empty-handed. You must buy some fruits or sweets and biscuits. Everyone is polite, not to mention the size of the gods' offerings. You can ask for a golden pig or something.