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What are the attractions and what are the customs in Kunshan

Famous attractions in Kunshan Park Forest Park , Tinglin Park (Yufeng Mountain), Dangui Garden. Temples and temples Huazang Temple, Chongning Temple, Yanfu Temple. Ancient towns and cities Zhouzhuang, Qiandeng, Jinxi, Zhengyi. Resort Yangcheng Lake Resort, Dianshan Lake Resort. Jiangsu Kunshan marriage customs Ancient marriage rituals. Refers to the six rituals in the process from the marriage to the completion of the marriage, namely: Nacai, ask the name, Naji, Naji, please period, pro welcome. This marriage program,

Na Cai: that is, the man's family asked the matchmaker to go to the woman's family to propose marriage, the woman's family agreed to discuss the marriage, the man's family to prepare gifts to go to the proposal.

Ask for the name: the man's family asked the matchmaker to ask for the woman's name and date of birth.

Naji: After the man's family gets an auspicious omen, they prepare a gift to inform the woman's family that they have decided to enter into marriage.

Na Zheng: also known as Na Cai (纳幣), this means that the man's family sends the bride price to the woman's family.

Requesting a date: the man's family chooses a date for the marriage and prepares a gift to inform the woman's family of their consent.

Welcome: the groom goes to the woman's home to welcome her.

The completion of the six rites of passage only means that the rite of becoming a wife has been completed, and the rite of becoming a woman must be completed on the following day by paying a visit to one's aunt and uncle; if the in-laws have died, the in-laws will be worshipped at the family temple in three months' time, which is called the "temple visit".

Kunshan's water town wedding customs are basically in accordance with the six rites, the backbone of China's ancient marriage rituals, to comply with each ceremony.

The water town wedding customs in Kunshan have distinctive local characteristics: centered in Kunshan, they are passed down orally in Wu language, with continuity and originality. Water town wedding customs is a systematic custom, because of the "six rites" throughout, and like a complete, with plot and content, has a deep meaning of life drama. Water village wedding customs is also like a set of long poems, not only recorded the details and process of the wedding, but also the lyricism and romance of poetry, and will be seeking children, praying for blessings, exorcism, etc., reflecting the water village people's simple ideals of happiness. The wedding customs of the water town is also an encyclopedia reflecting the life of the water town, covering the historical origin, folk customs, social structure, religious beliefs, and clothing, food, housing and transportation of the Han water town residents.

The wedding customs of the water towns show the joyful scenes in the marriage of Han men and women, reflecting the unique characteristics of the rice culture and regional features of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. In the wedding process, there are worship tea, tea customs, because "where the tea tree will be born", so the tea as a wedding props, is to take "planting will be born" meaning, implying that the birth of a son to extend the wishes. Bride in a few days before the wedding to "cry marriage", even the mother, relatives are accompanied by crying, and crying the more sad the better, will also sing a long history of crying marriage song. The lyrics are easy to understand and are generally passed down orally from folk to folk. Folk custom is to be able to sing the wedding song as a measure of female virtue or laziness, intelligence or stupidity of one of the standards. The wedding song, which expresses the feelings of the bride by crying and singing, not only expresses the simple love of the traditional big families for their family members, but also expresses the inner feelings of the new bride when she gets married. Rocking fast boat, stop the family boat and other customs reflect both the water townships unique oar culture, but also reflects the bride's family to the bride out of the marriage of a kind of Wanjiao and respect.