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Marriage customs in Longkou, Shandong Province

Choose an auspicious day: after a couple completes the marriage registration formalities, choose an auspicious day to get married. Most people are willing to hold weddings on traditional auspicious days-the sixth and ninth day of the third lunar month, and most of them are concentrated after the New Year and before the Spring Festival. There are three reasons: first, the Spring Festival is the off-season; The second is to add one year after the Chinese New Year to facilitate registration; Third, in the middle of winter, the food prepared for marriage will not rot and deteriorate, and it is easy to preserve. In recent years, the wind of tourism marriage and group wedding has intensified; When you get married, it is common to hold a banquet in a hotel or order food in a hotel. All this is not limited by seasons, solar terms and auspicious days, and it is more casual. Send a wedding invitation: after choosing an auspicious day, you should inform your relatives and friends. The way is to send an invitation, which is a big deal for the man. Only single posts are sent to ordinary relatives and friends, but the invitation to the woman's elders, such as grandparents, parents, uncles, etc., is unusual and unique. Fold eight times as much red paper as a single sticker into eight equal parts, commonly known as "20% discount sticker". Wedding ceremony: In the countryside of Longkou, sedan chairs, carriages and bicycles were used. In recent years, the wind of car use has been very strong. When the bride enters the door, both husband and wife, accompanied by bridesmaids and groomsmen, bow and scrape many times: one worships heaven and earth, the other worships Gaotang, and the husband and wife worship each other. A big banquet will be held at noon to entertain the guests, and the bride and groom will take turns toasting the guests. After dinner, guests and friends are still received until dusk. The bridal chamber: When the room is brightly lit, full of guests and full of laughter, young men and women automatically choose their owners and make various demands on the newlyweds, forcing them to finish their work. The young couple must gladly accept people's wishes and try their best to satisfy them. Visit in-laws: On the wedding day or the next day, the woman's parents or uncles go to the man's house to visit in-laws, which is called meeting in-laws. To have a hearty lunch, most of the guests are celebrities or elders in the village. Their elegant speech and extraordinary behavior not only decorated the facade for the male family, but also left an excellent impression on each other. New wives have various customs: "Leave if you want, three, six, nine." This is about the date when a woman leaves her family and returns to her husband's family after marriage. But according to the old people's explanation, it is said that the third, sixth and ninth days are "auspicious days of the zodiac, suitable for travel." "On March 3rd, send Chunyan." Before the arrival of the third day of the third lunar month, the bride's family prepared hundreds of clever swallows made of refined powder, which were artificially colored and painted with colorful colors. On the third day of March, the girls put the painted Chun Yan in a food box and took it back to her husband's house. After the husband's family has had a full meal, it is distributed to relatives and neighbors. On the one hand, it is a courtesy, and on the other hand, it is also a compliment to the in-laws for their exquisite craftsmanship. On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, "April 8, Cargill and his wife" became a festival for newlyweds to send fish to their in-laws to show their filial piety. Cargill fish is not only a treasure at the banquet, but also a very auspicious name. So it's best to send Cargill fish to her husband's family. As for Duanyang sending zongzi, Mid-Autumn Festival sending moon cakes, Jiujiu sending wine, and winter solstice sending pig heads, it is even more obvious.