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What are the wedding customs in China?

China's wedding, the traditional program has six rites, respectively, Nacai proposed marriage, ask for the name of the post, Naji divination marriage, Naji under the recruitment, please set the date, the new welcome to the big day, after the pro welcome, the woman to the husband's home, the six rites of the ceremony has been prepared. After the woman to, there are 1, the same cell, also known as fm radio, son-in-law and women to perform **** food and drink rituals, similar to the current cup of wine. 2, the woman to see aunts and uncles, married the next morning, the bride to see the in-laws, and then to see her husband's family relatives. 3, the temple to see, that is, the death of the in-laws, three months after the wedding, the new woman in the temple to worship the in-laws. 3, son-in-law to see the women's parents, the Song Dynasty, often in the woman to see the second day of the line of the aunts and uncles.

Wedding rituals are roughly ask divination and marriage, choose a day, urge makeup, barricade car, green hut, turn the felt, but the fan, sitting in the saddle, the bun (knot hair), worship, spread the tent, haunted the room, awarded the scarf, cover the head, sprinkle beans, look at the new woman and so on. All these are described in detail in my book "Classics and Wedding Rituals and Customs--The Performance of "The Wakeful Marriage Biography" on Wedding Rituals and Customs in Some Regions of Shandong in the Ming and Qing Dynasties". If you want, let me know your e-mail and I'll send it to you.

Ethnic minorities:

Mongolians are popular with the custom of welcoming the bride, on the day, the male party has to send out three people, including the groom, the attire of these three people is, the groom is the scholar, the other two are the marshal and the military division. Departure, the groom to take an arrow to pull the bow, toward the southeast and northwest each shot an arrow, almost to the female family, the female family sent three people on horseback to meet, the marshal to reward the money loudly even asked to enter, open the feast, the marshal master of the army with the female family spokesman tongue, won before you can look for the bride, the evening, the bride and the bride's family cry goodbye, was carried by the groom to the car to the groom's home and then pay homage to the bridegroom.

Tibetan youth engaged to sign a marriage contract certificate, the content is mostly to both sides of mutual respect and love filial piety and elders and property inheritance and other things, written in the form of poetry. Miao, marrying a daughter, to hold a wash "and gas face" ceremony, some Miao areas, the wedding ceremony to be held to grab the cow's tail, generally two people are in love, it will be the groom to take away. Yi marriage water to splash the groom for good luck custom, Yi A fine people in the wedding the next day, the new aunt to the bride's home to recognize the family, a door, the first to go to the spring, pick a quart of water on the two people fixed for life. Zhuang brides get married need to take off their shoes and cross the bridge, take off their shoes, said from now on footprints no longer stay to the mother's home, over the bridge is a few boards built to the door of the new house, she walked a piece of the demolition of a piece of the bride said that the bride will always live in her husband's home. Manchu girls used to get married on the day, to eat the mother's family dumplings, to the in-laws, men, women and children attending the wedding to grab the uncooked "children and grandchildren dumplings", will leave a bowl to the newcomer.

The Chashan Yao of the Yao ethnic group, is the male party in the middle of the night to send house brothers 4-6 people light torches to receive the bride.

The Hani ethnic group, building green huts, playing "olive war" and "cow poop to welcome the bride". Hani Hakkadu people to organize the first day of marriage, both men and women's homes to build a "green shed". The green house should be built by the bride and groom's usual good friends to the mountains to cut wood, bamboo, picking pine hair, cypress branches. The hut is decorated with red and colorful decorations. Build "green hut" on the day, the woman's family to prepare a few tables of wine, please the bride's girl companion to eat a "happy meal. During the banquet, the female companions congratulate their girlfriends who are getting married, encourage her to respect the old and love the young, be diligent and thrifty, live a good life, and also give a little gift as a memento. After the "green hut" is built, a "dog" day is chosen as the day of the marriage. The day of the wedding, the bridegroom will be married to the dog. On the day of the wedding, the groom invites his best friend to accompany him. The number of people accompanying the groom must be even, meaning that they are paired up. Those who accompany the bridegroom must wear their best clothes, bring umbrellas and rain hats, and surround the bridegroom. When the bridegroom arrives at the woman's home, a group of Kado girls who have been waiting in the "green hut" will come out in a flurry, holding olives, laughing and playing to the groom. At that time, the young men who accompanied the groom hurriedly took out the umbrellas and rain hats they were carrying to cover the groom and prevent him from being hit by the olives. And there should be one or two more capable lads, braving the rain of olive attacks, rushed into the "green hut" will be loaded in a bamboo basket of olives poured all over the ground. At the same time, the other men who accompanied the groom ran as fast as they could into the "green hut" and sat down. This was the end of the girls' attack.

The Takayama people usually have a man come to the woman's house and the groom come to the door. Just bring simple luggage, a killed pig and 3-5 jars of rice wine, the wedding is often held on the lawn at the head of the village, and there is a celebratory party that lasts seven or eight nights. Saixiang ethnic wedding people to give the woman's family some large steamed buns with a mouth, signifying a good harvest in the coming year. Jingpo ethnic marriage to send relatives to even break through six passes.

These wedding customs are too many, I really can not type over, I do not know whether you are satisfied.?