What do you mean by getting married, engaged and receiving gifts?

The first of the six rites. If the man wants to marry the woman, ask the matchmaker to propose marriage to her. After being accepted, please ask the matchmaker to formally accept the woman's "spouse-choosing ceremony". Yi Li Shi's Faint Rites: "Faint Rites, Order to Receive Gifts. Use geese. " Goose is the only gift from Gunnar Chua Li. Acceptance is the beginning of all marriage procedures. The ceremony of accepting gifts in later generations basically follows the weekly system, while gifts have other provisions.

2. Subscribe to:

An engagement ceremony, which means to get married and give an engagement gift. Commonly known as small engagement (subscription) is to sign an agreement. In the Ming Dynasty, Sun Ren wrote "Biography of Dongguo: Getting a Wife": "Self-pity for the only child, even the marriage is clever." Also, make a contract

3. Automobile manufacturers:

The manufacture of amphibious vehicles generally refers to an auspicious day suitable for the delivery of new cars.

4. Sacrifice:

As a part of China's ritual code, the main part of Confucian etiquette includes five classics, which are not more important than sacrifice and are blessed by God. The objects of sacrifice are divided into three categories: gods, territories and human gods. God is called sacrifice, the earth is called sacrifice, and the ancestral temple is called enjoyment. The concept of sacrifice records the explanations of Confucian classics such as Zhou Li, The Book of Rites, Justice in the Book of Rites and Da Xue Yan.

In ancient China, there was a strict level of sacrifice, because "God did not admire the nonhuman, and the people did not worship the nonhuman". The gods and the earth are only sacrifices of the emperor. Kings and doctors sacrifice mountains and rivers. Literati can only worship ancestors and kitchen gods. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Double Ninth Festival are the days for ancestor worship.

5. Market opening:

The so-called "market" means trading, and "opening the market" means "starting trading". (Commencement) The opening, opening or beginning of the new company's line number on the first day of that year.

6. Coupons:

Deal, conclude various contracts and buy and sell each other. In ancient times, business was written, such as buying a house with a deed. There is a title deed for buying land. Writing down your rights through a contract is called making a voucher.

7. Enter the house:

When I entered the house, I moved into the new house, the inauguration ceremony of China folk new house. When you move to a new house, you must choose an auspicious day.

Migration, in the past, refers to moving, but also to moving into a new house. In ancient times, while migrating, there were a series of accompanying activities, such as Kari and Anling, that is, entering the house to worship ancestors and burn incense, which was usually called returning to the furnace to light a fire. Nowadays, going back to fire and moving into a house is collectively called moving. Whether it is tempering or cary, of course, you must choose the auspicious day of the zodiac.

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Choose an auspicious day

An ancient custom in China is that important things in people's lives, such as getting married, building a house and moving to a new house, should be chosen according to the ancient lunar calendar or inviting Mr. Feng Shui. Although it has a certain color of feudal superstition, it is also the heritage of China traditional culture.

Nowadays, choosing auspicious days through events is still very popular in rural areas. People in urban life still attach great importance to the date selection of marriage, housewarming and other matters, and the most important basis for looking at the date is the yin and yang, the five elements and the yellow calendar.

In the past, before choosing an auspicious day, men and women exchanged "Geng Tie", commonly known as "copying eight characters". In this way, all parties can give consideration to each other and make overall plans to choose auspicious days, and the selected auspicious days are beneficial to both men and women.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhou Li China Literature and Art Network-Yi Li Wedding