Ancient Chinese Wedding and Funeral Customs

Traditional Chinese Han Chinese custom, when you get married to stick red couplets, wear red flowers, the bride and groom to wear red and colorful, so it is known as the "red matter". People died, their children and grandchildren to wear mourning, all with white cloth, so it is called "white things". The organization of red and white wedding due to the different national customs and different. With the improvement of people's cultural level and the change of customs, the organization of red and white wedding ceremonies has been greatly simplified. 1. Marriage customs in China have a long history of several thousand years, especially after the feudal era of evolution and enrichment, forming a set of marriage norms. Marriage customs are directly affected by the marriage system, our country due to multi-ethnicity and its social development imbalance, in the process of the development of the marriage formed a large number of forms of marriage customs, some marriage customs still exist to a certain extent. In terms of the current state of marriage customs of our ethnic groups, marriage in China currently has at least the following rituals, namely, courtship, marriage, matchmaking, betrothal (for small festivals), consummation of betrothal (for large festivals), fixing of the wedding date, welcoming of the gathering, worshiping at the hall, wedding banquet, fm radio, making of a disturbance in the room, and returning to the peace. These procedures are linked together to form a complete wedding. 2. Funeral and burial customs: The death of a person is called a funeral, and the holding of certain burial ceremonies for the deceased is called a burial. Burial without rituals is called burial. Funeral rites are referred to as funeral rites and burials. Funeral rites of the program generally have to stop, mourning, hanging filial piety, sitting night (wake), into the coffin, mourning, funeral. There are collective burial, joint burial, relocation, artemisian burial, water burial, wind burial, hanging coffin, cave burial, cremation, earth burial, sky burial and so on. Modern funeral etiquette has the following specific etiquette: the establishment of mourning organizations, obituaries, gift couplets, singing elegies, offering wreaths, wearing black veils and white flowers, wakes, to the remains of the farewell, memorial services, eulogies and so on.