What are the wedding ceremonies in China?
Chinese wedding-dowry ceremony of the woman's family
After the bride receives the gift for the make-up wedding, it should be delivered to the man's house at the latest the day before the wedding. And this dowry is a symbol of a woman's identity and wealth. Besides precious gold and silver jewelry, dowry is mainly a good omen.
A pair of dragon and phoenix quilts and pillow bags should be embroidered with auspicious patterns such as mandarin duck, double happiness and dragon and phoenix.
Children's buckets and copper pots are filled with money running through the red line, symbolizing the full house of children and grandchildren.
Scissors * represent pairs, kindness and love.
The feet of future generations represent fertile land and prosperity.
A piece of candy represents sweetness and undivided attention.
Wallets and belts represent wealth, wealth and good luck.
The vase represents the prosperity of flowers and flourishing foliage.
The homonym of dragon and phoenix shoes represents Qi Mei with white hair.
Two sets of children's bowls and chopsticks * represent food and clothing (the bowls and chopsticks should be tied with red rope)
Longfeng tea set * Longfeng teapot, Longfeng tray, two pairs of tea cups * * * six pieces (6600).
Seventy-two sets of clothes represent ample food and clothing (clothes are put in a suitcase with cypress, lotus seeds, longan and pears)
Precious dowry such as gold, silver and jewelry given by parents to their daughters has been passed down from generation to generation.
China's Wedding-Bedding Ceremony
Choose an auspicious day. A few days before the wedding, the "lucky guy" (the elder or relative of the groom-to-be, who chooses parents who are alive, married harmoniously and have children) will move the new bed to a suitable place. Then, before the wedding, a "lucky woman" (the elder or relative of the bride-to-be, who chooses parents who are alive, married harmoniously and have children) is responsible for making the bed, laying mattresses, sheets, pillows, dragons and phoenixes on the bed, and taking out all kinds of happy fruits, such as red dates, longan, dried litchi, red mung beans and Li Lili.
On the wedding night, after the couple enter the new house, they can let their children eat happy fruits in bed, which is called "pressing the bed" and means "a hundred children and a thousand grandchildren". If you want to add a lively atmosphere, the groom's brother of the same age can make trouble in the new house to exorcise evil spirits for the couple, and everything will be smooth and auspicious after marriage.
Taboo:
After the bed is installed, no one is allowed to enter the new house and touch the new bed before the new couple enters on the wedding night.
During the first month of the wedding, pregnant women and undertaker are not allowed to enter the new house.
Women who have a monthly affair are not allowed to enter the new house (except the bride) after going to bed and on their wedding night.
China's Wedding Ceremony-Head Ceremony
On the eve of the wedding, both men and women choose the auspicious time (usually according to the auspicious time provided by the fortune teller, the man is half an hour earlier than the woman, that is, one hour), prepare the headgear * and perform the headgear ceremony. This ceremony must be held by a "lucky guy" and a "lucky woman" (the elders or relatives of both men and women, who choose their parents who are alive, married and have children respectively).
Newlyweds should wear brand-new silk pajamas to "miss each other". The woman should choose a window with a view of the moon, light dragon and phoenix candles and a wick of incense on the table, add three bowls of lotus seeds, red dates and soup pills (six or nine capsules in each bowl), and prepare fruits, barbecue and chicken for sincere worship.
Both men and women should prepare children's ruler, double-sided round mirror and red handle scissors, which are the so-called "bibcock mirror and scissors", so that "boy" and "good woman" can comb their hair and say:
"Comb to the tail.
Comb it twice until your hair turns white and your eyebrows straighten.
Three combs for children and grandchildren. "
After the ceremony, it symbolizes that a couple has entered the "adult" stage and wishes them a long life together.
Note: headdress (brocade box) is generally used for ceremonies at home; The top strip (flat box) is suitable for hotel ceremonies, because hotels are not allowed to burn dragon, phoenix and bamboo.
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