What are the customs of marriage in Zhejiang?

Zhejiang folk wedding, basically inherited the customs of the Southern Song Dynasty wedding legacy In the old days, men and women were married to a very strong feudal color, medium and above the family should be asked to matchmaker, called the wear wedding male and female asked to get the lucky post, the male family to choose a day to prepare gifts to invite the female family, the two relatives to meet, so-called kissing If the female side of the desired, that is, the hairpin inserted into the crown in a bun, called hairpin insertion If not as good as the desired, the gift of color satin, so-called

Two Engagement

The engagement is a ceremony before the formal marriage, which is called "marriage contracting" or "passing on the red wine". On the day of the engagement, the two families put up lanterns and colorful decorations, make offerings to the goddesses of peace and harmony in the hall, light red candles, and invite their relatives and friends to have the engagement wine

Three Engagement

After the engagement, the man's family will perform the engagement ceremony, which is known as the najing (拿征) in the ancient times, and nowadays it is called "hiring gift" (聘礼) and the financial gift (财礼). Depending on the man's family's conditions, the woman's family will mainly give her silver, gold, silk and satin.

Fourth Trousseau

The trousseau, commonly known as dowry, is given out one day before the wedding date is set. In the olden days, the dowry of a rich family was very generous, and the dowry was first displayed at home, with a certain format for the table and the items that would go first and then the trousseau would be displayed as it was in the man's house. p>

Ancient customs, the wedding is a twilight ceremony, must be held at night Hangzhou custom mostly in the daytime, the day of worship, to the Si, Wu and Wei three times as much Sedan chair from the man's home, to the woman's home after stopping in the hall Bride by the bridesmaids accompanied by the parents and family relatives throughout the resignation, and then, a person with red candles, a person holding a red lantern, led to the sedan chair Sedan chair by the four kung carries the family of the government official can also be sounded gongs to shout this is the Zhejiang women married to a special custom, which is the Chinese women married to the special custom, and the Chinese women married to a woman, and the Chinese women married to a woman. Legend has it that the Southern Song Dynasty Kang Wang Zhao Gong to thank the Ningbo women to save the life of the gift of half a pair of imperial chariot

Six three Chao Hui Lang

that is, the new pro door, that is, the female relatives on the male side to go, the old days are to be held on the third day of the wedding now the male side of the custom of the second day on the invitation of the female parents and siblings to the door in the old days, there is to eat three-way tea and other etiquette, and now eat a meal of wine on the door of the new pro three days after the wedding, the groom with his bride back to the bride's home. together with the bride to go back to his mother's home to see his parents-in-law, commonly known as double back to the Lang In the old days, the bride to go back to her mother's home, more than one month to live, as little as seven days, and then by the groom to take home

After the May Fourth Movement, the intellectuals have gradually taken the lead in free love, civilized marriage in recent years, the parents of the wedding has been less, but the custom of marriage to speak of the occasion is still alive and kicking

The bride's parents are now used to invite her parents and siblings to the door in the old days.