Shanxi Wedding Customs Shanxi Welcome

When it comes to Shanxi, I think the first thing that comes to mind is oil, and Shanxi is the place in China that produces a lot of oil. Shanxi, as the name suggests, is the west of the Taihang Mountains, Shanxi is also famous in history, once was the capital of the Xia Dynasty, with a long history of inheritance, natural Shanxi culture is also worth savoring, so as the capital of successive generations of Shanxi in the marriage of what kind of customs?

Marriage Customs in Shanxi

The groom with the bride team received the bride back to the man's home, this time the drums and music, firecrackers, friends, neighbors flocked to meet the bride. Southeast Qin County area, the bride's sedan chair to pay attention to fall on a bed of red quilt, the bride asked for "sedan chair money", assisted by a "full of people", stepped on the red felt into the door. The mother-in-law then use a broom in the sedan chair symbolically swept three times, and pick up a handful of soil from the ground, take it home and put it in the new room under the mat in the corner of the bed. This is called "sweeping sedan chair soil", it is said that the next year's crops will grow better.

Shanxi to meet the bride

Generally speaking, when you get married, to meet the bride is the groom to meet the bride. But Jincheng, Shanxi Province, is uneasy with the routine. There are two kinds of welcoming relatives in Jincheng, Shanxi Province, one is to welcome the bride and the other is to counter welcome the bride. Beiliu and Runcheng area, the groom are not to meet the bride, only to send people to meet the bridegroom does not personally go. In other places, the bridegroom would have to meet the bride in person. Both the bridegroom and the groom must be accompanied by a procession of drums and music. Both men and women should steam more than five kilograms of pomegranate cake with white flour in advance, and put a pine branch with a pine cone on top. When you marry each other to exchange pomegranate cakes.

Shanxi worship customs

In accordance with Shanxi wedding traditions in the groom to marry the bride into the door, and then to carry out the "worship" ceremony, also known as "worship of heaven and earth". Baitang place in front of the cave door, set up a table for heaven and earth, above the pro-division for heaven and earth, the master of the table, the table for the back of the ancestral mantle hanging. After the bride and groom in place, selected as the master of ceremonies to preside over the worship ceremony, perform three kneeling and nine kowtow rituals, worship heaven and earth, ancestors and parents. Then women east and men west, couples worship, men and women standing position is very delicate, can not stand wrong. Yanbei Datong area, worship when the groom worship, but the bride does not worship, do not go out of the ordinary.