Why is it necessary to "worship heaven and earth" to get married in ancient times?

Worship, traditional Chinese marriage rituals. It is the most important ceremony in the wedding process. After the ceremony, the couple is formally married. Because the ancient wedding ceremony is held in the hall, so called. Also known as worship of heaven and earth, worship of flowers, worship of marriage. It is widely popular in many areas of the country, and is practiced by the Han, Jing, and Mulao ethnic groups. In the North and South Dynasties, the couple's worship was fixed as a marriage ritual.

Before the Tang Dynasty, the folk in the northern region called? The ceremony of paying respect to each other was called the "handover ceremony". Tang Dynasty? Worship? The word officially appeared. Northern Song Dynasty, the wedding day first worship temple, fm radio ceremony, the next day, five night, with a table, holding a mirror mirror on it, looking at the show worship, called the bride show worship. To the Southern Song Dynasty, it was changed to the wedding day. After sitting in the rich ceremony, the newlyweds took the towel to the hall first uncovered the bride's head, and then? Sen worship hall, the next family gods and family temples, the ritual of the relatives? Later generations generally in the day of the wedding first worship heaven and earth, and then worship hall. The Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China will worship heaven and earth and worship ancestors collectively referred to as the worship ceremony. In recent times, more in the day of the day in a certain hour in the e, f, wu held.

The beginning of worship, burning candles, incense, firecrackers, music. Music this, the ceremony student (i.e., wedding host) chanting: ? The incense smoke, lights and candles brilliant, the bride and groom are on the Hall of Flowers. The bride and groom take their places, and then the officiant chants: "The bride and groom will pay respect to heaven and earth. A worship of heaven and earth, two worship high hall (parents), husband and wife to worship, sent into the bridal chamber? The bridegroom and groom kneeled in the same order as the ceremony. In feudal society, the bride and groom first to the family temple to worship ancestors, after the couple line cross worship. Zhejiang Province, the sea area said the male family to meet the bride in the flower candle before the three worship to heaven and earth for worship;? Worshiping Heaven and Earth in the three worship, including the newcomer to the sky, earth, people's gratitude, is a simple and pious thought. Modern weddings more than not kneeling, instead of bowing, bowing to parents, husband and wife in the form of relative bowing, not bound by the stereotypes.

Worshipping heaven and earth will have incense and red candles, lit before worship. The table of heaven and earth (table) covered with red cloth, sitting in the north and south. Men and women in the west and east, facing north to the heaven and earth table (platform) and stand, led by the master of ceremonies singing, the new couple kneeling, kowtow four heads. The layout of the Tiandi Table (platform) varies from place to place, but the main things are not far apart. On the Tiandi Table (platform), there is a tablet of the Master of Heaven and Earth, and a bucket full of grain is placed in front of the tablet, on which a sticker is affixed with the name "Jin Yu Man Dou". The bucket is labeled with the words "Jade Full of Pipes". Four characters, bucket with red paper seal, inserted cypress branches, branches tied to the copper called? The tree is called "Money Tree". Inside the bucket insert scales a pole, pole with sixteen stars, respectively, on behalf of the Big Dipper seven stars, six stars and three stars of the South Dipper and fortune, meaning that the lucky stars, as expected; scales on the copper mirror, used to ward off evil spirits, but also implies that understand as a mirror; table put the bride's mother-in-law to the lyrics, the allegory of the long live in the long term. And then put a ruler, a symbol of fairness, integrity; there are also put jujubes, peanuts and so on.

The heaven and earth on the table with the bucket, scales, feet is the meaning of the three media six certificates.