Street Fortune Telling Putian _ Street Fortune Telling Putian Dialect

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I. Matchmaking

When their children grow up, their parents ask the matchmaker to find a partner for them. Some of them are in infancy or have so-called "bossy marriages". It is usually the matchmaker who talks things over. In order to earn a bride price, the matchmaker [Putian custom is Tian 3 Garden 4 Iceman 5]. Do everything possible, and rhetoric "jade becomes its thing." This has also led to many marriage tragedies.

Step 2: blind date

After the matchmaker makes a match, if the father meets a "suitable match", he can go on a blind date on behalf of his children [usually taking the man to the woman's house to see his daughter], and the other party will cook noodles or eggs as a snack. If he is in love, he will eat noodles and eggs cooked by each other. If not, he is not allowed to touch snacks.

3. Send Geng Tie

If both men and women agree to the marriage, they will send each other the year (date of birth-Geng Tie) characters through the matchmaker. However, the man put the woman's Geng Tie into the cage of the cooker. After three days and three nights, if nothing happened at home, he thought that this woman could take care of the family. Later, both sides asked fortune tellers to calculate the marriage to see if there was any conflict between men and women, good or bad marriage and so on.

The above-mentioned matchmaking, blind date and wedding invitation belong to the general term of "talking about family ties" in the marriage discussion stage, which is in the same strain as the rituals of "asking names" and "concubinage" in the ancient "Six Rites"

Four. appointment

After the "eight characters" are married, if both parties are satisfied, the matchmaker will negotiate the bride price and dowry, and then choose an auspicious date, commonly known as Fang Ding. The man chooses "double date" and invites 6-8 women from his relatives who think their fate is good, wearing red shirts and carrying gifts, to send some bride price and some gold and silver jewelry to her home and put rings and bracelets on her hands. Giving cakes and fruits to relatives and neighbors means that the daughter has been betrothed to others. Then prepare wine and vegetables to entertain the man's guests and give everyone a red envelope. This custom is consistent with the "fixed alliance" in the ancient "Six Rites".

Verb (abbreviation for verb) fixed date

Commonly known as "depending on the date", it was called "invitation period" in ancient "Six Rites". The man asked the wedding museum to choose a wedding date and told the woman with a red sticker that she came back with a red sticker. After that, according to the agreed wedding date, both men and women choose a date to "tailor-made" the wedding dress for the future bride and groom.

Eight. marry

Putian people are called "adults" when they get married, which means that children will grow up. The wedding day is called "Adult Day". Adults have to make a lot of preparations before, and there are many manners and customs.

The last bridal chamber