Why is the wedding a double happiness? Which double happiness is coming?

Happy characters are folk auspicious symbols. According to custom, the word "double happiness" is used in marriage, and the word "single happiness" is added to married women. When people hold a happy event, they will put a happy word on the street gate, which reads "I am very happy". It is said that posting double happiness characters is related to Wang Anshi, a great writer in the Song Dynasty.

According to legend, one spring, Wang Anshi went to the capital of song dynasty from his hometown of Jiangxi to take the exam. On the way, he saw a rich man named Ma, with a lantern hanging on the gate, which read half a couplet: "Go, go, stop." It turns out that this family has a daughter with both talent and beauty who wants to get married. This couplet was invented by the young lady herself. Whoever can match it will be married. Wang Anshi admired the ingenious conception of this couplet and fell in love with its maker. But he couldn't think of a suitable offline, and he was afraid of missing the exam date, so he had to leave the light on the road.

When he arrived in the capital of song dynasty, Wang Anshi took the exam and successfully passed the three levels of poetry, fu and strategy. I didn't expect the examiner to have an interview this year to cope with agility. It was Wang Anshi's turn to take the exam, and the flying tiger flag erected in front of the examiner's finger made a couplet: "Flying tiger flag, flying tiger flag, tiger flag hidden." Wang Anshi had a brainwave, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he put together the half couplet made by Ma's girl. The examiner was overjoyed and nodded in praise.

After Wang Anshi appeared, he left the capital without waiting for the list and rushed to Ma's house overnight. At first glance, the lantern for picking the son-in-law was still there, so Wang Anshi used the upper part of the examiner to deal with it. Miss Ma is right. Her father immediately recruited Wang Anshi as his son-in-law. On the day of worshipping heaven and earth, there was a sudden news: Wang Anshi was nominated as a scholar, to be no.1!

This is real happiness! Wang Anshi, overjoyed, immediately wrote two conjoined "happy characters" on the red paper bucket and posted them on the door. Write another song: "Qiao Lian becomes a double happiness song." Lantern flying tiger knotted silk. There is a gold medal in the bridal chamber, and Deng Ke meets the headlights. " Since then, double happiness has become an auspicious symbol of celebration, especially wedding celebration. But in the Qing Dynasty, Manchu people used the word "single happiness" in their weddings. According to the examination, Manchu people think that the word "double happiness" is another way of writing the word "traitor", and it is unlucky to celebrate uncivilized marriage with it.

The auditorium is a place where newlyweds worship heaven and earth. There should be a table in the auditorium. The so-called heaven and earth table is an incense table dedicated to the god of heaven and earth, and the newlyweds worship heaven and earth. The table of heaven and earth should be surrounded by red silk and covered with red carpet.

A wedding room is a new house. Wedding couplets should be posted at the entrance of the bridal chamber, red letters should be posted on the windows, and red curtains should be hung on the kang (bed). There is red silk on the kang (bed), a bed with green satin in Zhang Xiu, and a pair of pillows embroidered with mandarin ducks. Lay a red carpet in front of the kang Generally speaking, people's auditoriums and wedding rooms can be visited by relatives and friends to congratulate them before they come back. When you get married, you must lock it up. The extended family began to avoid the door in the auditorium and wedding room the day before the wedding.

Traditional weddings in China have special requirements for etiquette personnel. First, we must be well-off people (also known as well-off people), that is, we must have spouses and children, and parents are better in the classroom. In terms of human relations, it is more ideal for four generations to live under one roof and five generations to live under one roof. Widowed and lonely people can't be etiquette personnel. Second, the zodiac of the etiquette personnel is not worthy of the bride and groom. Third, we should understand the traditional wedding etiquette and be good at socializing outside. Fourth, there is no obvious disability in face and posture, and the appearance should be responsive and generous. On the wedding day, the host and master of ceremonies invited by men and women mainly include: the married wife, the master of ceremonies, the little boy carrying the red baggage, the girl who helped the bride get off the sedan chair (called bridesmaids in the south) and so on. And the woman's family as the general host of the woman's family wedding. The emcee and emcee invited by the families of both men and women should prepare gifts and come to the door in person.