Wedding customs in Henan province

1, Shangqiu, Henan: You should drink turtle soup at the wedding banquet, and the husband and wife will get rich in years.

Shangqiu's wedding custom, when the couple pay homage, can use shoe polish and pot bottom ash to smear on the groom and his parents' faces to show happiness. The more you wear, the longer your blessing will last.

Eating a wedding banquet is an important part. In the 1950s and 1960s, there was basically no such thing as a family eating a wedding banquet. In the 1970s and 1980s, it was common to eat wedding banquets, but it was relatively simple, with 24 dishes. Now the wedding banquet is getting richer and richer, and all kinds of meat are served. For example, "turtle soup" is a symbol of the happiness of new people for thousands of years and thousands of years.

2. Xuchang, Henan: I have a bucket, pour vinegar on the plow and step on the stone.

On the wedding day, the number of people attending the wedding is odd. After receiving the bride, it is just a double number for the yes-man. On the way back, the bride-to-be will "search" the dowry, and the woman will put food such as oil buns, fire and eggs in it in advance to increase the festive atmosphere.

When the wedding car arrives at the door, it is necessary to set off firecrackers around it. Another man followed closely with a red-hot plowshare with wire and poured vinegar on it, calling it "exciting plow" and taking the homonym of "Geely". The man will also give the bride a sedan chair gift. There is a stone covered with red paper on the ground, which is called "pin stone". His foot steps on the pin stone, which means "stepping on the ground".

After the bride comes down, light two piles of straw, and the bride should pass through the middle. It is said that straw fire can ward off evil spirits. The groom's brother or our brother leads the way with a bucket. There is grain in the bucket, and cypress branches are inserted in the grain, and red dates are hung on the cypress branches. There is also a pole for weighing grain, with nine copper coins hanging on it. This is called "fighting, the more you fight, the more you have."

3. Zhoukou, Henan: I am optimistic that the number of cigarettes will not be less next year.

The matchmaker introduced the understanding between men and women. This man must have more than three packs of cigarettes in his pocket. In addition, giving the matchmaker a package and sending it to everyone in the woman's village can indirectly improve the success rate. If the man recognizes the woman, the next day, he will get together with the woman, let his family meet, give her gifts at the same time, and then start giving gifts. Gifts are divided into dry gifts and wet gifts. Dry gifts are all cash, while wet gifts are articles.

Pay attention to "just look at it every other year", and the faces you meet this year are generally married this year. Before marriage, every Mid-Autumn Festival when wheat is harvested, the man will bring gifts to the woman's house to visit her future mother-in-law. At the same time, the man is responsible for buying all the furniture, watching several episodes with the woman and looking for videos, photos and wedding dresses on the wedding day.

On the wedding day, the man will give the woman a car gift and a divorce fee. When the woman goes to the man's house, she will first bring face washing water to her future in-laws, and the cost varies.

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4. Luohe, Henan: The five stages of love and marriage, the bride cooks before cooking.

Young people in Luohe generally go through five stages from love to marriage: proposal, blind date, love, engagement and marriage. At the wedding reception, the groom's parents will toast the guests and wish them enough to eat and drink. Some people take this opportunity to draw the faces of the groom's parents, which is called "drawing faces".

After three rounds of drinking, the bride and groom began to propose a toast to the guests. The last course of the banquet is meatball soup or egg soup, indicating the end of the banquet. On the third day after marriage, the bride will go to the kitchen to cook; After breakfast, my husband and I went back to my mother's house, calling it "three days back" After returning home, everything returned to normal and began to live a sweet life.

5. Nanyang, Henan: The custom of night marriage no longer reappears, holding hands.

When it comes to marriage customs in Nanyang, we can't help but say "night marriage". "Night marriage" is the reappearance of the ancient custom of "faint ceremony" and robbing marriage. The reason is that the newly revised Nanyang County Records in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty recorded that "residents forced them to abuse their power and dared not marry in the future". Zhu Chang, the twenty-third son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was sealed in Nanyang. When he saw someone happy, he led people to rob the bride.

In order to save the bride from being ravaged, the people had to "flexibly" change the wedding to evening. According to Nanyang tradition, the bride should pretend to cry when she goes out, even if she is happy. Therefore, in the old days, there was a long lyric "wedding song" circulating all over Nanyang, and it was circulated among the people: "The sun came out a little red, and thousands of women went upstairs to the shed. The golden girl slipped through the hut to her husband's house.

6. Xinyang, Henan: The woman opened her face and the man drank soup, feeding a chicken to the tiger and the wolf.

Xinyang Huaibin, Gushi, Xixian and other places, the wedding time is in the early morning or early morning. The custom of Huangchuan and Shangcheng County Chengguan is midnight. Red "_" is pasted on the new house, nave, doors, windows and tree trunks. The bride asked the woman with two children to "open her face"-twist the hair off her face with two threads. At the wedding in Guangshan county, the groom drinks "dragon soup" (cooked whole fish or a chicken) and then takes out a "seal" to reward money.

When I got to the man's house, the car door was opened by two married women and the 1 girl who handed the iron pot. The bride gets off the sedan chair after receiving the tin pot, indicating that she is a daughter-in-law. After paying tribute to the bride, she entered the bridal chamber. First, the bride took a sip of descendant soup made of dates, and then someone served a bowl of chicken soup. The bride threw a piece of meat under the bed, which was intended to be fed to monsters such as tigers and wolves so that they could have children in the future.