What are the main etiquette from engagement to marriage?
Ask your neighbors and wish you a happy marriage and happiness forever.
I know those in Guangzhou.
The traditional wedding procedure in Guangzhou is quite complicated, which can generally be divided into three "general procedures"-pre-wedding ceremony, formal wedding ceremony and post-wedding ceremony. There are many specific names under each master plan, from the initial "proposing relatives" to the final "returning to the door". Without a month before and after, the ceremony could not be completely completed. Red tape is the most appropriate word to describe it.
Therefore, some people say that formal weddings in Guangzhou are exclusive to the rich and the idle, and the poor just choose some necessary procedures to carry out one or two.
Prenuptial ceremony: The last important procedure before the wedding is to welcome the bride. The man's family sent representatives to the woman's house to meet the bride; The woman's family received some (but not all) gifts from the man's family, and expressed gratitude in return.
Premarital etiquette
1. Bride gift: Before the wedding, the man will go to the woman's house to give the bride a gift. The custom in Guangzhou is to give chickens (meaning alive), coconuts (meaning blessed by a grandfather and a son) and gift cakes (for the relatives of the woman), as well as gifts to show that the man's family is rich and will let the woman get married and enjoy happiness.
2. Return gifts: The woman's family will also return gifts, including betel nuts (meaning the groom).
3. Make the bed: The night before the wedding, the woman will find a lucky man (happy family, parents alive and a son) to come to the new bed in the new house and put well-meaning food such as peanuts, red dates and walnuts on the bed.
4. Dowry: Before marriage, the bride will put the dowry prepared at home in a red suitcase and take it to her husband's house the next day.
5. Above: The night before their wedding, they will choose an auspicious time to worship God, heaven and earth, pray for blessings, and at the same time inform the man to worship God.
6. Comb her hair: The bride will ask a blessed elder to comb her hair.
7. Eat glutinous rice balls: it means that you can get married and be happy.
Formal wedding: the etiquette on the day when the bride arrives at her husband's house. Both bride and groom worship heaven, earth, ancestors, parents and husband and wife. Subsequently, the bride, accompanied by the groom, presented "holding the heart" (that is, daughter-in-law) tea to her parents, elders and relatives and friends who congratulated her. After drinking tea, tea worshippers should give the couple a "profit market" (that is, a red envelope). The male family then hosted a banquet to entertain relatives and friends. During the banquet, the bride and groom should toast one by one and offer tea before the banquet is over. Before entering the bridal chamber, the bride and groom should drink lotus seed syrup with the goodwill of "having a son together"; Drinking "Lily Tea" means "harmony for a hundred years" and "Qi Mei with white hair"; Eat smooth olives, which means good, smooth and sweet.
Etiquette on 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 relatives. Nowadays, picking up the bride is the climax of the whole wedding. The first level is "getting started". If you want to successfully get the beauty back, you must go through a series of intellectual and physical tests, and if necessary, add love songs, but the most important thing is a rich "good start". Sisters will not open the door if they are not satisfied. The groom should bring a bouquet to marry the bride (the bride should not make her own bouquet).
2. Looking for red shoes: The groom will look for red shoes for the bride in the room where the bride is picked up, put on red shoes and take the bride away.
3. Tea worship: The couple will offer tea to their parents and bow (according to the old custom, the couple should not bow before visiting Weng Gu at the man's house, that is, the couple should stand and offer tea to the woman's parents. However, at present, I am not so particular about it. Kneel if you want.
4. Hold a red umbrella and sprinkle rice: The bridesmaid holds a red umbrella to accompany the bride and groom to go out, and will sprinkle rice to the chicken while walking to avoid the chicken pecking at the bride.
5. Bypass Jixiang Road: The car that welcomes the wedding must bypass the road named Jixiang Road in the urban area. Such as auspicious road, Huifu road and other roads in the name of good luck.
6. Going through the door: Going through the door means that the bride officially enters the man's house after going out from the woman's house to meet the elder of the man's house.
7. Wedding: A ceremony was held in the hotel, presided over by the master of ceremonies.
8. Visiting guests: After the banquet begins, when the fish is served, the bride puts on the traditional dragon and phoenix robe to offer tea to the guests.
9. Entering the new house: After the banquet, the couple and some friends will begin to visit or entertain the new house.
Wedding ceremony: The newlyweds return to their mother's house on the third day after marriage, which is called "three dynasties returning to the door". This is the last ceremony of marriage. When I returned home, my husband's family prepared gifts, including roast pig, chicken and gift cake. The newlyweds must return to their husband's house before sunset that day; Moreover, the round trip should follow the original road when welcoming the relatives, and you can't "take two roads in three days."
Wedding etiquette
Huimen: Huimen in the Three Dynasties means that on the third day after marriage, the bride, accompanied by her husband, went back to her mother's house with roast pigs and gifts to worship her ancestors.