What does "Chuanqi" mean?

Chuanqi means that rural people call the conclusion of marriage Chuanqi.

If the so-called "qi" depends on the important event of engagement, first of all, the word "qi" is a cognitive word, with the word "household" on the left and the word "mouth" on the right, then if we extend our understanding, does engagement mean that the girl's identity account will belong to the man from the date it is set? My second understanding is that the word "Kai" means "Faith". If you want to say goodbye, you will ask me questions. -Among Su Shi's eight poems, the word "Kai" in a poem written by Su Shi means letter.

It seems that Chuanqi is the kind of "messenger" who assumes the identity of "messenger" and passes the girl's account to the man. I'm not a textual researcher, I just understand it literally. It may be a bit far-fetched! But it does not affect enlightenment!

Generally speaking, in rural areas, "communication" means that the matchmaker truthfully conveys the date of the man's marriage to the woman's parents (the specific wedding date separated from the yellow calendar), so that both parents can make arrangements for their children's marriage. This is a delivery ceremony in the form of letters related to engagement! When I was a child, I didn't have any memories of initiation with adults, only the process of initiation.

Marriage needs to be bought.

Chuanqi's letter has been written. Let's see what Chuanqi's man bought for the girl. This is very interesting. Although things are not good, everything has a "head"!

Open a bag with auspicious patterns such as peony or blooming flowers, and there are several things in it.

At the top are onions and wormwood, which are homophonic-probably parents want a man and a woman to have a smart child after marriage, and then grow old together with kindness and love! This has always been the tradition in China. It has always pinned its best wishes and wishes on the original meaning of the text!

Behind it are three pieces of cloth, one is black flannel, the other is red flannel (how thoughtful, one for women and one for men! )

The third kind is rubber shoes, which are worn by women.

There is also fragrant pancreas (the wrapping paper on the outside says "Luoguo soap"), which is a kind of soap with concave middle and upturned ends!

Then there is dinner, and the man's parents arrange the matchmaker to put in a good word for the woman. After dinner, no one needs to leave, because it is the custom of Chuanqi to get to the woman's house before twelve o'clock in the morning, otherwise it will be unlucky. The matchmaker passed the word "qi" to the girl's family, which often attracted many neighbors to look at the contents of the bag, but just looked at it and didn't like candy. The things in the bag are always only ten dollars! This is an "enlightenment"!