In the past, when the rural wedding, why use the scale to lift the bride's red head?

This means that the dragon and phoenix are in harmony, and the groom's use of scales to lift the red head is a symbol of "weighing the heart" and so on. Some weddings prefer the modern Western wedding, while others prefer the traditional Chinese wedding of the eight-carried sedan chair to bring the bride home. Western weddings are naturally simpler and more casual, with basically no rules. However, if you are using a traditional Chinese wedding, there are still many things to keep in mind.

I think many of you have seen it in some movie or TV show. That is, after the bride and groom enter the bride's room, the groomsmen should not use their hands directly to uncover the bride's head to wear a red headscarf. You should use a small weighing to gently pick up the red head covering.

Previous generations have said that this is how traditional marriages work, and that it is taboo to open the bride's red headscarf with her hands, and that she must use a pre-prepared weighing scale, and one with a double hook. This is because it symbolizes in ancient times to have a masculine male, while the phoenix crown worn by the bride symbolizes to have a phoenix elegant and feminine female, so please use the scale to pick open the bride's red head covering to reveal the phoenix crown.

Most notably, it has a deeper meaning In ancient times, scales were hexadecimal, sixteen taels equal to one catty today, and despite the inconvenience of using it today, it has a rich meaning. Ancient people were selected according to the celestial trunk, "sixteen" to form a symbol, mainly by the Big Dipper seven stars, the south six stars three stars, and then the three stars of fortune, longevity and wealth. The sixteen stars mean that when doing business, you can't afford to be short. If you lose one or two, you will lose a star. In other words, you must be fair. Using such a scale to open the bride's red turban not only meant a successful and beautiful marriage, it was also an indication of the importance people placed on marriage at the time. Like many people today, who say that life needs a sense of ceremony, this was also a sense of ceremony for the ancient people, a desire for their good life.