The wedding process of the Republic of China period rich people wedding real shot

I. Three Books and Six Rites

Book of Appointment: the book of engagement, men and women formally conclude the marriage contract. Naji (over Wen Ding) when used.

The Book of Gifts: The Book of Gifts, which is a list of gifts, detailing the types and quantities of gifts. It is used during the ceremony.

Welcome book: the book of the bride. On the day of the wedding (welcome) to take the bride to the door with.

Nacai: the first wedding in ancient times, the intention of the female side, the extension of the matchmaker as a matchmaker, known as Nacai, now known as? The first time I saw this, it was a very good idea to ask for a marriage proposal.

Ask the name: the man asked the woman's name and birthdate and hour, to 1, auspicious signs, known as the name, now known as? The name of the woman's name and birth date and hour to 1, auspicious signs, is called the name inquiry, now known as?

Naji: ask the name if it is a good sign, send a matchmaker to give a thin gift, called Naji, now known as? The name of the matchmaker is called "Naji", which is now known as? or? Small fixed?

Naji: the gift of money, gift cakes, gifts and offerings, that is, the formal gift of bride price, said Naji, now known as?

Nalet: The formal gift of money, gifts and offerings is called Nalet.

Please period: the male family to ask the fortune-teller to choose a date, said please period, also known as? The first time I saw this is when I was a kid, and it was the first time I saw a kid in a house.

welcome: the groom in a gift car, go to the female home to meet the bride, called the welcome.

Bed: Choose a good day, a few days before the wedding by the good fortune to move the new bed to the appropriate location. Then, before the wedding, the Good Fortune woman will be responsible for making the bed, spreading mattresses, sheets and quilts on the bed, and sprinkling various kinds of fruits, such as jujubes, cinnamon balls, dried lychees, red and green beans

and red packets on the bed. No one is allowed to enter the new room and touch the new bed until the couple enters the room on the night of the wedding.

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Second, the bride dress

Color: Chinese wedding can not be separated from the big red, accustomed to bright colors to set the mood. Therefore, the women's wedding dress color for the big red has been customized to show festive, set off the newcomer, heralding the future of life is flourishing, happy and fulfilled.

Style: the bride dress for the wide-sleeved lapel Zhai clothes, head wear beads phoenix crown. It is worth stating that the pattern above the Zhai clothes is very delicate. The lapel itself has a complete sense of symmetry, and in Chinese culture itself represents the meaning of symmetry and beauty, and above the dense left and right symmetry and pairs of brocade chicken pattern, which symbolizes the traditional Chinese culture of the couple's life and beauty, and joy.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the traditional Chinese wedding dress is still long robe and horse coat and Feng Guan Xiapi. Feng Guan Xia cape was originally a Qing Dynasty ennobled wife of the prescribed dress, is a symbol of power and status, for ordinary people is unattainable. Because it was covered with jewelry and embroidery, the beauty of the Yong Hua, expressing the people's admiration for the rich and powerful, and thus gradually evolved into the wedding dress of the luxury leap show. And ordinary people's daughters get married, usually can only wear a big red jacket and skirt, outside the big red head and embroidered shoes, and with a big red sedan chair to carry into the in-laws door. What is the point of this? Red? The word "red" is the word "red".

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Headdress: generally the bride in the wedding day high bun, different from unmarried women.

Red skullcap: the bride in the wedding day with a red skullcap mask, symbolizing virginity, youth, purity. After the wedding, the groom unveils it with his own hands.

Before the bride on the sedan chair should be covered with a red scarf, in the sedan chair can not be removed, this is the barrier face, also known as the cover. To the male family into the bridal chamber, only by the bridegroom or the male family blessed with female relatives to uncover, so that congratulate the people look forward to see the bride's elegance, known as picking the head.

Moving grain and beans

When a woman is to be married, it is usually necessary to ask a respected old woman, holding a dustpan with grain and beans scattered everywhere, some places are scattered grass. Before the bride gets into the palanquin, the inside and outside of the palanquin are sown. Sedan chair to reach the male door, the bride before the sedan chair should also be sown, this is called spreading grain and beans. And the bride and groom into the bridal chamber, female left, male right sitting on the new bed when the male family members should also take the beans and fruits as well as coins to spread once again, which is called to spread the account. One is that the beans can avoid evil spirits, the second is a metaphor for plant seeds wishing the bride an early birth. Han Dynasty has this folk custom. There are also places to spread peanuts, jujubes, meaning early birth, and boys and girls to spend with the birth.

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Welcome the bride

When about to get married when men and women to kill pigs and slaughter sheep, ready to ask the cook bridesmaids, sedan chairmen and other handymen. These people should be recruited, should be the day before the wedding that is to the main family began to work, to do a good job of welcoming the bride feast preparations. Traditional wedding is generally a woman's home in the morning to prepare for the wedding wine, the male family at noon to set the wedding banquet; if it is a family member is vice versa. After all the preparations, the men's family cannon music, sedan chair to meet the bride. Matchmaker pilot, followed by the groom, bridesmaids, sedan chair, band, gift box team. Female family in the sedan chair to come before the wedding feast to be prepared. The girl should have her head combed by her mother or sister, the hair on her face twisted with silk thread, and her make-up applied, which is called ? Open face? and then cover her head with a red cloth and wait for the palanquin to welcome her. When the sedan chair arrives at the woman's home, the cannon to play music to meet. Welcome the bridegroom team into the women's house, the sedan chair landing groom bowed to his parents-in-law, and presented in the name of his father to write a good red to welcome the bridegroom simple post. Next is the woman's home to move music to open the feast. During the matchmaker and groom to be careful some, because the Chinese folk have unwritten custom, in the three days of the newlyweds relatives and friends in the younger generation and the younger generation of teenagers can be ingenious to make up a few small comedies, to play tricks on the matchmaker or the groom, called? The Matchmakers? and? Hanging up the red? which are popularly known as "Heshinke" (贺新客). The new guests are also called "HeXinKe". These can increase the joyful atmosphere of the small drama, the matchmaker and the groom should be tolerated, may be a small revenge, but do not really angry angry.

After eating breakfast, the bride and groom will be guided by the matchmaker to the bride's ancestors and elders salute, the bridesmaids can help the bride on the sedan chair. Sedan chair before the bride generally want to cry marriage to show attachment to parents and family. After the bride on the sedan chair, that is, playing music and artillery, the sedan chair hair pro. The band in front of the band behind the groom, the conditions to ride a horse, followed by the sedan chair and other personnel to send the bride.

The return of the marriage must go the other way, so sometimes to go around the road, commonly known as ? Not to go back to the road? If the road meets the temple, wells, shrines, graves, boulders, trees, etc., are to marry the sedan chair to cover up, in order to avoid evil spirits. If you meet another family to marry, the bearers should be more than swabbing skills, try to make the sedan chair to carry some smooth, some areas of the groom and the two sides to change the corsage. If you meet the funeral, married to send relatives to say:? Auspicious today, meet the treasure wealth! The bridegroom's team will arrive at the door of the groom's home, the male family should be fired to move music to welcome. Sedan chair parked in front of the groom's house, the male family asked the bridesmaids are generally young and beautiful women, to go up and lift the curtains, the bride to assist the car, the bridesmaids to go up to the front of the salute, the guests to the groom, the bride on the flowers, generally with red and yellow confetti instead of the wedding to a climax.

Worship

After the man married the bride, began in the man's room to set up the place to worship. When the sedan chair stops in front of the door of the hall, the bridesmaids invited by the man to stand in front of the sedan chair, the ceremony has begun. Incense case on the smoke, red candle burning, friends and relatives, the staff of the Division in place. Bridesmaids two were to? Citation? and? Tongzan? The bride and groom receive the invocations and the passages. The bride and groom start to pay homage to the bride and groom by receiving the homage from the guide and the passer-by. The traditional worship ceremony is as follows:

Invocation: the groom stands in front of the sedan chair.

Tongzan: the newcomer rises from the sedan chair.

Citation: the groom took a bow to invite the bride.

The bride and groom are in front of the flower hall.

Praise: the bride and groom to the front of the incense burner. Play music and fire the cannon.

Passage of praise: the bride and groom to the gods and ancestors into the incense and candles.

Lead praise: kneeling, offering incense and candles. Ming candle, burning incense, incense, storage of ambrosia, Xing, leveling and resetting.

Tongzan: kneeling, kowtow, then kowtow, three kowtow?

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Then comes the traditional three bows? One worship of heaven and earth, the second worship of parents, husband and wife worship each other, before finally introducing the cave. This is the end of the ceremony. Nowadays, the worship ceremony has the following steps:

(1) The beginning of the marriage ceremony.

(2) The bride and groom and guests take their seats.

(3) Presentation of flowers to the bride and groom.

(4) Fire the cannon and play music.

(5) Witnesses read the marriage certificate.

(6) Speech by the celebrant.

(7) Speech of the introducer.

(8) Speech by the guests.

(9) The bride and groom bow three times to the celebrant, witnesses, introducers and guests.

(10) The bride and groom bow to each other.

(11) The bride and groom exchange gifts.

(12) The bride and groom talk about their relationship.

(13) Bride and groom perform a program.

(14) The bride and groom enter the bridal chamber.

(15) The guests open the banquet.

Wedding Banquet

According to the traditional Chinese custom, the arrangement of the new room is also very elaborate.

The hall (1) a pair of couplets in front of the door plus a banner.

(2) the middle of the hall hanging a square colored lamp, colored lamps painted on four sides respectively? Luan and phoenix and singing?

(3) A pair of large red candles on the incense burner.

(4) Both sides? Pair of seats? A pair on the wall.

(5) The new room? Golden wall? On the sticker? Heaven and earth, the gentleman pro teacher position? Six big words, written straight from top to bottom. These six words are written in a delicate way: the sky should be flat, that is? Ping? The two crosses of the word should be written flat, not curved; the ground should be wide, that is? The ground should be wide, that is, the ground should be wide, that is, the ground? The character should be written wider, not too narrow; the king does not open, that is, the king is not open, that is, the king is not open. Jun? (the character "君") should be written with a wider character, not too narrow. Mouth? The character "mouth" should be fully closed, leaving no gaps; the character "pro" should not be closed, i.e., the traditional Chinese character "〓"(〓). The character "〓"(〓), the right side of the character? The right side of the character 〓? The right side of the character "= The right side of the character "〓" should not cover the upper part of the character "〓"。 The right side of the word "〓" should not cover the upper part of the word "目". The last cross of the character is blocked all the way through.

The new house

(1) door frame on both sides of the paste a couplet with a cross-check, the cross-check is generally written? Luan and phoenix and singing? Four words.

(2) door stickers red double happiness.

(3) the new room in the center of the hanging lights.

(4) Large red double happiness characters with paper cutouts are pasted on the windows and butterfly patterns with paper cutouts are pasted on the corners.

(5) Windows on both sides of the couplets.

(6) Hang paintings around the walls.

Kitchen A pair of couplets on the front door with a banner, the door stickers red? The door is red, and the door is red, and the door is red. The word "happy" will be put on the door.

Other details such as all the room doors with red? The door of all the rooms are labeled with a Chinese character "喜". The door of all the rooms are labeled with a word of joy.

Men and women in the wedding ceremony after the bride will not come out in the new room. The groom should go out of the new room to receive guests. Such as in hotels, wine home banquets, both husband and wife have to go out to meet the guests and toast to the guests. The wedding banquet should be in accordance with the guests of the seniority of the row of seats, called? Inviting guests? or? or "clearing the guests". The principle of seating is to honor the lower, right, left, guests according to their age and identity, status from high to low arrangement of seats.

When the seats are arranged, the groom should first go to the chief to pour wine and toast, and make a toast, and then, start on the first course. Each seat of the wine and food should be the same, but? The first course of the meal should be the same for all seats, except for the male relatives. and? female first-degree relatives? Where the seat, as a rule, must have a steamed pork elbow. Moreover, the groom should always wait at the table for? The bridegroom must always wait at the table to serve the bride. Pouring wine, serving food, sending hot towels, etc., to show respect.

After the wedding banquet, ? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. First back to the house to rest for a while, eat some snacks, accompanied by the male elders to say some polite words, to wait for handymen to remove the surface, swept the ground, the big relatives should get up and leave. Before leaving, the male family to? send? Clothing, shoes and socks, and red envelopes. Sending off the older relatives? Another lively scene, the male family of all decent people should be sent to the door, but also the gun moving music, in order to show respect. The groom and his parents should send guests to the village.

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Handing over cups of wine

The custom of handing over cups of wine began in the Zhou Dynasty. The Rites of Passage recorded that couples ****ed and ate, fm radio. Fm radio is actually a gourd split into two dippers called ? fm radio? When the marriage ceremony was held, the bride and groom each held one side of the fm radio to rinse their mouths with wine, which was called fm radio. Fm radio. Therefore, fm radio was used as a synonym for fm radio. This custom evolved into the practice of having fm radio. Fm radio?

Candle Night

In ancient times, most of the candles used in weddings were decorated with dragons and phoenixes. Later generations used the flower candle as a metaphor for marriage. He Xun's poem "Watching the Newly Marriage of Volang" reads: ? He began to flower candle night, light fan to cover the red dress.? On the wedding night, the bride and groom stayed up all night, which is called? The bride and groom stay up all night on their wedding night, which is called "Keeping the Flower Candle". Do not keep the flower candle, the newcomer sleep, support, bridesmaids must always enter the room to see the flower candle has no damage leakage, for fear of ominous signs. Superstitious people have? The left candle of the groom died first, the right candle of the bride died first? said, so if a candle is out, another candle will be extinguished.

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The caveman

This can be said to be the climax of the wedding. In addition to being amusing, there are other meanings to the haunting of the bridal chamber. It is said that there are often foxes, ghosts and demons in the cave, the cave can expel the evil spirits of the yin qi, enhance the human yang qi, according to which there is a proverb: ? People do not haunt ghosts haunted? From the positive sense of the cave is still able to add a lively atmosphere, drive away the feeling of coldness, and therefore some places also called? Warm room? In the old days, men and women were introduced to each other more strangers, the caveman can let them remove the sense of strangeness, a good start for the newlywed life. In addition, the cave-in can also make friends and relatives familiar with each other, showing the prosperity of the family, and enhance the feelings between friends and relatives. Cave activities to a certain time, the groom should lead the bride? Greetings to recognize relatives. Where the male family elders, are to be in the bridesmaid's praise in the sound of one by one in so that the bride and groom to meet, and to reward a red envelope to the bride as a gift, known as? Make a bow to the package seal? At the same time, the elders should arch their hands back to a? Half a gift. This ceremony can show the unity of the family. The bridal chamber is? three days regardless of size? The bride and groom and even the groom's parents will often be teased by others and even the younger generation to make fun of, be teased to make fun of the person can not be angry, so as not to destroy the festive atmosphere of the newlyweds. Of course, the caveman can not be too out of character, too long to affect the newlyweds rest. Special attention should be paid not to excessive roughness caused by uncivilized things.

The opening ceremony

Three days after the wedding, the bride opened the box, aunts and relatives are prepared to offer, brothers, sons and nephews of the younger generation are also sent some gifts. The offerings are mostly silk clothing, shoes and socks and so on. The rich and powerful family has a large population, the offerings are extremely generous.

Back to the door

Three days after the wedding seven days or nine days, the groom accompanied the bride from the in-laws back to the mother's home. The woman's family will ceremoniously make a The bride's family will make a grand return banquet. During the banquet, the bride will lead the groom to meet her family and friends, starting with the oldest and most honorable ones. Being worshiped or nodding, or rise to assist each other, or also half a gift, at the same time to reward the groom a red envelope. So far, the traditional Chinese wedding folklore is complete.