Marriage custom of Putian Hushi

Putian's wedding custom is to spend a lot of money on makeup, red eyes and red mouth.

The bride must be blessed, and everyone has a good matchmaker. According to the custom of Puxian, the man comes home for a blind date. If the woman is satisfied with the man, she will give each of the man's guests a bowl of boiled eggs, commonly known as "old moon eggs". If the man is satisfied with the woman (including family situation, etc.). ), he can eat the old moon eggs; Don't transport this bowl of eggs if you don't like it. Express the wishes of the parties in this euphemistic way to avoid embarrassment and unhappiness for both parties. After the man eats the old moon eggs, the woman will make snacks ~ noodles (longevity noodles), which means peace and longevity. After the guests finish eating longevity noodles, everyone should put a generous red envelope at the bottom of the bowl to show their gratitude. After the blind date, both men and women and their elders had no objection, and the marriage was basically agreed.

Engaged. Engagement, commonly known as "engagement", "congratulations" and "release" After the blind date, the matchmaker played a very important role. After several bargaining, she made both parties happy, thus successfully carrying out the engagement ceremony.

When engaged, the man should choose an auspicious day, and his relatives, such as husband and wife, rich children and grandchildren, or the woman who gave birth to a boy for the first time, will form 6, 8 or 65,438+02 people and matchmakers (both parties). Women should wear red clothes, bring some dowry and gold and silver jewelry, and send them to the woman's house together with Geng stickers, incense sticks and fireworks. At this time, the woman set off firecrackers and then cooked snacks (noodles) for relatives and neighbors, indicating that her daughter had been betrothed to others. In modern times, the candy and cigarettes given by the man are distributed to relatives, friends and neighbors, and banquets are prepared to entertain the man's guests. When the woman sets off firecrackers again, the engagement ceremony is completed.

Book a wedding day. Commonly known as "looking at the sky." The man fixed the wedding date, informed the woman of the auspicious day with a red sticker and sent a tray of gifts. The dish is a round dish with thin bamboo strips woven into the wall, painted red, called red dish, with a diameter of about 50 cm. * * * per load, red plate 10, 5 on each side, big and small. There are also wealthy families with generous gifts as high as 10. The gift of carrying a plate is a respect for the woman's family. If the woman's grandmother is alive, there should be a plate of pork and a plate of noodles in the red plate as a tribute to the elders, commonly known as the mother plate. Among the gifts sent to the tray, there are pork knuckle meat, noodles, rice noodles, red balls, cakes, vegetable balls, as well as bride price money, as well as clothes of various colors, which are loaded into the tray layer by layer. After receiving the red plate, the daughter's family immediately offered sacrifices to her ancestors, and then distributed the meat noodles and cakes in the gift to relatives and friends to inform her daughter of the wedding date. When relatives and friends know about it, they should add makeup to their gifts, commonly known as holding pollen, which is also called sending a wedding, and leave when they say it. As the wedding approached, the woman's family began to prepare dowry according to the amount of money paid by the man. According to the agreed etiquette, the man's family will send the prepared red headscarf (called bride's hat in Pu Xian), red coat with wide shoulders and big sleeves (commonly known as coat), fireworks and firecrackers and gift stickers to the woman's family. Married women will dress up and try on new clothes three to five days before they get married. In some coastal and mountainous villages, women also have the custom of sleeping with their boys in-laws (commonly known as little brothers), hoping to have boys next year.

The wedding ceremony is commonly known as marriage. Both men and women are decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations. The day before the wedding, the woman divided the dowry into several columns and then carried it to the man's house. The more she recited, the more decent the woman's family would be. Marriage varies in thickness, and there are mainly five clothes (inside and outside clothes), thread-wrapped food seeds and other daily necessities as dowry. In some places with good economic conditions, bicycles, motorcycles, color TVs, refrigerators and other household appliances are used as dowry.

In ancient times, Pu Xian married with gifts, commonly known as the bride's adult ceremony or the head ceremony. The bride should freshen up in the boudoir before going to Hongqiao. The bride's family asked an older woman who lived a long life to comb and decorate her hair, and inserted five-core flowers made of paper or red silk on both sides of the new bun, commonly known as "top". The custom of "reaching the summit" has a long history. According to "The Palace Poems of Mrs. Hua Rui", the fifteenth day of the New Year is the most romantic, and it is convenient to climb to the top when giving it to the temple. Therefore, male and female gifts are called "heads".

At the wedding ceremony, the man sent someone to hire a vegetarian bridge and carried it in the hall of the woman's house. The red sedan chair is called "Bridal sedan chair" in Pu Xian. The red sedan chair is made of wood, carved and colored. There are four golden rolling dragons inserted above the sedan chair, so it is also called "dragon sedan chair". There are a pair of red notes on both sides of the car door, indicating the identity of the woman's family and showing her dignity. A piece of red pork is hung on the car door to avoid the injury of the "white tiger". After the red sedan chair, it was changed to a sedan chair with flowers and ventilation, commonly known as "makeup". However, the bride still held the ceremony before getting on the sedan chair according to the custom, and was reluctant to get on the sedan chair. It was not until that auspicious moment that I bid farewell to my parents and relatives, put on a red coat and a red silk scarf hat, and with the help of my mother, I bid farewell to the sedan chair with tears. Xi Niang closed the car door and tied it with a red rope. When the sedan chair set out, Xi Niang poured a basin of water and the bottom of the sedan chair and praised four auspicious words, commonly known as shouting four words. Every time I called Xi Niang, everyone shouted "Good!" ! Like a sedan chair ... good!

Good husband ... good!

Gui Sunlian's brother,

Prosperity is in a hurry.

The bride and groom worship heaven and earth first, then their ancestors. Then the husband and wife prostrated themselves in worship and toasted three soups and three points (that is, a small bowl of longan, red dates and lotus seeds). Then, please invite the groom's father and mother, both of whom sit in the Eight Immortals chair to be worshipped by the bride and groom. After the ceremony, my father sent a pair of red chopsticks (10 pairs) to wish you an early birth, and my mother sent a pair of red balls to show family reunion. The bride and groom should also pay New Year greetings to the elders present, and the elders will give back small red envelopes to show their respect.

After the bride and groom pay homage to their ancestors, the groom's family should prepare a banquet to entertain the guests. The banquet should have 12 dishes, which means that there are 12 months in a year, and every month is happy. On the sixth course, the groom, accompanied by an uncle, raised his glass and made a toast. The last two dishes of the banquet are sweet: balls made of glutinous rice flour; Sweet soup made of longan, red dates and lotus seeds means a sweet wedding and a long life together. After the last dish of the wedding banquet was finished, firecrackers rang again and the banquet broke up. Puxian's unique wedding custom ~ "noisy bridal chamber" began. It is said that ancient marriage customs tease or tease the bride and groom on the way to marriage, mixed with many banter programs. Pu Xian moved the ancient marriage custom to the bridal chamber.

In Puxian's wedding custom, making trouble in the bridal chamber is the climax of the whole wedding, which mainly takes the following forms: before the wedding reception begins, the wedding brother is led by a band and a phoenix lantern to send porcelain children, followed by a lantern bearer, candles and fruit boxes, and then sent to the bridal chamber from outside. The groom greets at the door of the bridal chamber, puts the porcelain children on the shelf of the bed and puts red candles and fruit boxes.

Everyone will send the baby tonight, and the bride and groom smile. Yan er's newly married fish gets water and gives birth to your son early.

After the praise was sung, the guests crowded into the new house to see the bride. Brother Fang deliberately spilled a bowl of water on the bed, saying that the baby had peed.

Put out the lights. After the wedding banquet, the evening has been relatively quiet. The guests gathered in the bridal chamber under the organization of Brother Fang, ready to make trouble in the bridal chamber. First of all, holding a lantern (indicating early birth of a boy), hanging a pair of small red lights in front of the new house and new bed, commonly known as the hundred lanterns. Under the command of Brother Fang, the groom picked up the bride and asked her to exchange left and right lanterns. After hanging them again, Fang Ge immediately praised the auspicious words:

Candle fairy in the bridal chamber, with a pair of phoenix lights hanging on both sides. Introduction to east-west communication,