About some of the traditional Chinese wedding customs

1. Ancestor worship Before the man goes out to meet his bride, he worships his ancestors.

2, set out to meet the bride fleet in even numbers is better.

3, firecrackers to welcome the bride on the way, should be fired all the way to celebrate the firecrackers.

4, waiting for the groom car to the woman's home, there will be a boy waiting for the groom with a tea tray, the groom off the car, you should reward the boy red packet gift, and then enter the woman's home.

5, the bridegroom should hold a bouquet of flowers to the room to be married to the bride, at this time, the bride's girlfriends to stop the groom, not allowed to see the bride, the woman can put forward conditions to the groom to agree to, through the only way to enter.

6, goodbye to the bride and groom to incense ancestors, the bride should bow to her parents to say goodbye, and by the father to cover the veil, and the groom only bowed to salute can be.

7, out of the bride should be blessed by high virtue female elders holding bamboo sieve or black umbrella to protect their walk to the limousine, because the bride's status on the wedding day than anyone else, and therefore shall not compete with the sky big.

8, the gift car in the bride on the gift car, the car started soon, the female parent should be a bowl of water, rice sprinkled in the back of the car, on behalf of the daughter has been thrown out of the water, and all the future never again, and wish the daughter success in all things, have to eat and wear.

9, throw the fan after the start of the car, the bride should throw the fan out the window, meaning that the bad nature of the in-laws will not be brought to the fan by the bride's brother to pick up, throw the fan must cry a few times, and in the car after the cover of the "bamboo sieve" to symbolize prosperity.

10, burning guns from the woman's home to the man's home on the way, the same way to fire a salute.

11, touch the orange to welcome the new caravan arrived at the groom's home, by a child with a tangerine or apple to meet the newcomers, the bride to lightly touch a tangerine, and give a gift of red packets to answer the gift. These two oranges to be put into the evening, so that the bride personally peel, meaning that the attraction of "longevity".

12, holding the bride from the bride out of the gift car, should be a blessed elder by the man holding a bamboo sieve on top of the bride's head, and help the bride into the hall. When entering the door, the bride and groom should never step on the threshold, but should cross it.

13, the wedding banquet is quite popular nowadays in the Chinese and Western-style wedding, most of the guests in the evening banquet at the same time to hold a ceremony, in the wedding banquet, the bride can remove the bridal gown, change into evening gowns to the tables one by one toast.

14, send off the guests after the wedding banquet, the bride and groom stand in front of the house to send off the guests, must hold a tea tray of cigarettes, candy.

15. The size of the disaster in which the bride and groom were made whole depends on whether the bride and groom have teased others at other weddings, or whether they have treated others faithfully enough