The whole process of China ancient wedding must be detailed.

China is an ancient oriental country with thousands of years of cultural history. In thousands of years of cultural history, one custom after another has been bred. Chinese wedding is a kind of folk custom with China traditional cultural characteristics.

The purpose of choosing Chinese wedding is to regain the almost lost Chinese wedding custom. Holding a traditional China wedding in China will give you a deep understanding of the characteristics of China traditional culture and the rich connotation of China culture.

Through Chinese weddings, ordinary people and foreign friends can learn more about the profoundness of China culture and let young people cherish the cultural heritage left by their ancestors. Moreover, the couple will leave the most legendary and beautiful memories in the wedding.

Chinese weddings will become popular in a short time.

Basic elements of Chinese weddings

Sedan chair: As the core part of traditional wedding, sedan chair has been popular since the Southern Song Dynasty. It can be carried by four people and eight people, and it can also be divided into dragon sedan chair and phoenix sedan chair. The sedan chair is covered with a red curtain, with dragons and phoenixes inserted on it and silk ears hanging at the four corners. Rich people get married with five sedan chairs and three sedan chairs. On the way to the wedding, one woman sits and the other two sit in sedan chairs. When the bride comes back from the wedding, the bride, the wedding and the people who saw her off each take a ride, and the other two take a blue sedan chair covered with blue woolen cloth and a copper top, and the groom and the best man each take a ride.

Sedan chairs were once popular in a large area. Since ancient times, generations have attacked each other. There are different names because of different times, regions and shapes. Such as shoulders, eaves, bags, sleeping cars, warm cars and so on. Most of the sedan chairs familiar to modern people are warm sedan chairs that have been used since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, also known as curtain sedan chairs. A rectangular wooden frame is fixed between two slender round wooden sedan chairs, which is very resilient. The bottom of the carriage is closed with wooden boards, and a backrest seat box for single or double people is placed on it. The top, left, right and back sides of the car are sealed with curtains, the front is a tiltable car curtain, there are small windows on both sides of the car curtain, and there are other curtains. The ruling class of past dynasties has formulated the shape and grade of sedan chair, which is reflected in the size of sedan chair, the quality of curtain material and the number of sedan chairs. There are two kinds of sedan chairs used by the people: small sedan chairs with plain curtains and sedan chairs. The former is for ordinary women to go out and the latter is for marriage. Since1mid-1980s, Solvay sedan chairs and sedan chairs have been used by tourism. Sedan chairs are mostly set in tourist attractions, which are used to receive Chinese and foreign tourists, hold the ancient wedding ceremony in China, or as props for taking pictures, and cooperate with the traditional wedding dress of Emperor China-rockhopper dress. As a folk means of transportation in the mountainous areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Suwei sedan chair is used to welcome Chinese and foreign tourists. Created by Liu Hongping.

The general process of Chinese wedding

● Sedan chair departure: With gongs and drums, suona and lion dance, the sedan chair begins to depart. Traditionally, the bride should be carried out by her brother and put in a sedan chair. Modern people are mostly only children, and they can only be done by cousins or groomsmen, usually with their backs to each other. At present, the distance of sedan chair is only a form. Unless the two families are very close, it will be very tiring to carry them from one end of Shanghai to the other. However, it is customary to give a red envelope to the sedan chair, otherwise it will intentionally shake the sedan chair and make the bride "feel better"

● Archery across the brazier: In ancient ceremonies, the bride crossed the brazier in a sedan chair, but now it is usually the bride who directly crossed with the help of the matchmaker. Then, before getting off the sedan chair, the groom will draw a bow and shoot three red arrows at the sedan door to drive away the evil spirits that the bride may be contaminated along the way.

● Visiting the church and drinking a glass of wine: Some people have to cross the saddle after the brazier, indicating that the newlyweds are safe after marriage; Then, the groom picked up Sipa on the bride's head with a weight wrapped in red cloth. At this time, it is time for couples to pay a formal New Year call. The most important part after the meeting is not toasting, but offering tea to the high halls of both sides. Usually at this time, a group of people are in tears, the scene is touching, and there is deep affection in the warm holiday atmosphere.

With one heart and one mind, thanks to the media: in modern wedding ceremonies, many things that should be in the bridal chamber are moved out for display. For example, tying the hair should be a couple cutting some hair in the bridal chamber and keeping it as a token of the relationship between husband and wife. Now this is a public performance. Later, the mothers of both sides lit dragon and phoenix candles, and the couple exchanged incense books and jewels as keepsakes, and then asked the matchmaker to give them hoofs.

Chinese wedding expenses

A venue has many Chinese wedding links. For example, although flowers can be omitted from the venue layout, there are countless props. Make-up artists will also be very hard, because besides newcomers, bridesmaids, matchmakers, family members and so on. You have to wear makeup. As for the host, the price is even higher, because there are many retro wedding speeches, and many of them have to sing and shout. Then we need to invite a live director who is equivalent to the director to coordinate the people who play various roles. Wedding supervision is even more necessary, because the route of the sedan chair and the coordination of the hotel must always be done by someone.

Wedding scene

"One worships heaven and earth, the other worships the high hall, and the husband and wife respect each other ..." This scene is no stranger to most people. However, the pictures in this article are not stills in movies, but 100% reality show! Tired of lawn weddings, candlelight weddings, cruise weddings and other western-style weddings, the newly-married beauties in this city have become traditional again, and a series of retro weddings with firecrackers, suona sounds and gongs and drums are grandly staged on good days around the Spring Festival.

★ Guan Feng summer clothes are the most indispensable props. People who marry their daughters, rich or poor, are very particular about their wedding clothes. Wearing a red coat, embroidered shoes, a fringed ribbon around the waist, an embroidered colorful skirt, a "rockhopper" woven with ornaments such as pompoms, pearls and jade pendants, and a brocade embroidered with various auspicious patterns on the shoulders-"Xiatie".

Bright red clothes make you look happy, especially when the groom wears embroidered robes and jade belts. Compared with the black suit in western-style weddings, there is another kind of wealth.

★ Flag Gong umbrella fan: located in the wedding procession, in front of the flowers, it can make the whole wedding ceremony vivid and spectacular.

★ Firecrackers: firecrackers should be set off all the way to celebrate the wedding ceremony.

★ hijab: The ancient brides covered their heads with red cloth when wearing crests and summer dresses to hide their shame and ward off evil spirits. Red is auspicious.

★ Saddle: "Saddle" and "An" are homonyms, meaning "long-term peace". Put it on the threshold of the bridal chamber, meaning that the bride will be safe all her life across the saddle. The bride stepped into the threshold with her front foot and didn't lift her back foot. The whole person took off the saddle with her parents and children, which just fits the meaning of "a woman doesn't want a man, and a good horse doesn't deserve a double saddle".

★ brazier: it is a pot of fire placed at the gate for the bride to walk through, indicating that the wedding day is booming.

★ Heaven and earth table: often placed in the courtyard, the magnifying bucket, ruler, scissors, mirror, abacus and scale on the table are called "six certificates". It means: you can know how much food, cloth, clothes, appearance, whether the accounts are clear, the weight of things and so on. People often say that there are only "three media (matchmaker) six certificates", which means that the wedding is reasonable and legal. When a wedding is held in Kyrgyzstan, it is commonly known as "worship heaven and earth", presided over by the master of ceremonies, one worships heaven and earth, the other worships the high hall and the couple.

★ Weighing beam: After entering the bridal chamber, the groom takes off the bride's red hijab with a weighing beam, which means "contentment is always a pleasure".

★ Candles: In the wedding ceremony, pairs of red candles are used and lit in the hall and new house. Because there are many gold and silver dragons on it, it is called "candle".