Brides in Shangrao, Jiangxi usually leave at midnight or noon.
Exchange personal information of notes/cards, such as names.
Parents refer to their children's eight-character swap as changing posts, also known as horoscope. After both parents are satisfied with the initial understanding, write down the man's eight characters and give them to the woman. She asked a fortune teller to tell her fortune. Open and close. If they match, write these eight words to the man, which is commonly known as the back eight characters. Write it in red paper and put it under the incense burner in front of the ancestral temple for three days. If the whole family is safe within three days, it will be a success.
employ oneself in/engage in
After the wedding is confirmed, the man will choose a suitable time to invite Lingdong wine, also called betrothal wine. At the banquet, the man presented clothes, shoes and socks, towels, etc. Invite the woman to the street and give her the dowry, gold and silver jewelry, money exchange and other gifts, as well as all the three-generation stickers. The woman also gave all her stickers to the man. After the banquet, the man also asked the matchmaker to put a dragon and phoenix on the woman, and the marriage was finally settled here.
good morning
When relatives arrive at the bride's house, they will eat snacks first, and then the bride's house will take them to the ancestral temple to burn incense to worship their ancestors. The bride's family will hold a banquet. Brides usually leave in the middle of the night or at noon, and it gets brighter and brighter during the day, which symbolizes light. The bride's admission time is usually seven or eight or nine in the morning. When entering, the bride will kick open the sedan chair door, and the man's maid of honor will lead the bride out of the sedan chair and then walk through the flame at the gate. The bride must pass through the fire lit by fir branches before entering the gate.
Pay tribute to heaven and earth
After the bride entered the hall with the drums, she began to worship the church. There is an incense table in the hall. Parents and elders stand east, relatives stand west, relatives stand north and young students stand south. Before meeting the bride, her in-laws will hang red on the groom and put five feet of red cloth on him. In the church, the groom stands on the left and the bride stands on the right. Li Sheng called: worship heaven and earth, worship ancestors twice, worship Gaotang three times and worship husband and wife four times.