The Marriage Customs of Louzhuang Town, Cao County, Heze City, Shandong Province

In the process from friends to lovers, the man's family usually finds someone to propose marriage, which is the traditional matchmaker. It's best to find a matchmaker that both sides know. After the matchmaker introduces the family, the family members of both sides can sit together for dinner and get to know each other.

Engagement:

If both parties think it is suitable, we can talk about engagement. The man should calculate the engagement date before informing the woman. When informing the woman, the man should prepare a gift.

When the man goes to the woman's house for the first time 1 time, he should bring four gifts, cigarettes, wine, dried fruits and cakes.

On the day of engagement, the man should prepare a dowry for the woman: engagement money and hardware. Change your mouth and prepare a red envelope.

Choosing good luck is commonly known as "good delivery".

The man sent someone to the woman's house to ask her birthday. Generally, the woman refused for the first time and the second time to show that she was unwilling to marry her daughter in order to raise her social status, and she agreed for the third time. After retrieving the birthday, the man asked the fortune teller to choose the wedding date according to the birthday. After the auspicious day is decided, write a wedding list, indicate the matters needing attention when getting married, and bring clothes, washbasin, cosmetics, toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, mirror, soap box and so on. Send it to the woman's house, which is called "good delivery".

The dowry should be taken away in advance by the man's family, or sent in advance by the family. The amount of dowry depends on the financial situation of the woman's family.

The dowry route is the same as the wedding day route, and firecrackers should be set off.

Wedding day:

Avoid going the same way when you get married. Generally speaking, it should go east and west. If you meet wells, stones, temples, cemeteries and intersections on the road, you must set off firecrackers or cover them with red blankets.

Usually go out to see relatives with firecrackers around five in the morning. The number of relatives who receive red envelopes is calculated in advance.

Back to the man's house, a big girl came out with a tray in her hand, with wine on it and an entrance ceremony (money) sealed with red paper, and then a "fully armed" woman took a torch and turned around the bride's sedan chair (car) three times to show the evil of expelling Lu Yu. When the bride got off the bus, she could not reach the ground. The groom is holding the bride, standing on the red carpet and worshiping heaven and earth with the groom. One worships heaven and earth, the other worships Gaotang, and three couples worship each other. Then the bride walked from the red carpet into the bridal chamber.