Why do Dongguan people choose to get married in the middle of the night?

Why do people get married in the middle of the night?

It is true that many Dongguan people pick up their brides in the middle of the night. This link is called the "wedding banquet" in the traditional wedding procedure. The wedding ceremony is the ceremony for the groom to marry the bride at the woman's house, and it is also the most important procedure in the wedding. There are two kinds of old-fashioned weddings: one is the groom's wedding, and the other is that the man invites a "lucky dog" to meet him. In modern times, most of them are the groom himself.

Why do you want to get married in the middle of the night?

In the old days, wedding ceremonies were held after sunset or before sunrise, which was actually related to the ancient ritual system. In ancient books, marriage is often called "fainting".

Poetry, North Wind and Valley Wind: "The banquet is new and faint, and I don't want to waste it." Han Bangu's Marriage of White Tiger and Yi Tong: "What is a married person? Salute when you are unconscious, so it is called marriage. "

"In the Soul of Li Yi's Poems": "The ceremony of marrying a wife is a faint, solid and well-known ceremony. If you want to faint, Yang will go to Yin. "

According to Guangdong custom, picking up the bride is arranged at midnight. Of course, picking up the bride requires the groom's good friend to get married. As soon as it gets dark, the married friends are ready to go. In the morning 1 or so, we will begin to worship our ancestors and prepare to "rob" relatives. The man sent a strong wedding team, and the long wedding team was quite spectacular.