Yantai Marriage Food and Drink Customs

A, first of all, before the marriage of the preparatory work:

'Look at home' female to the male home to 'look at home', that is, specific understanding of the situation of male family members and family conditions, the day the male party to the female party to prepare for the gift, according to the family conditions are not the same gift also has a number of points, but generally are 'pick one', that is, the least ten thousand miles to pick one (eleven thousand one hundred and ten one dollars) to the Yantai wedding food customs. According to the family conditions are not the same as the financial gift also has how much points, but roughly are 'pick one', that is, the least of the ten thousand miles to pick one (eleven thousand one hundred and eleven dollars) to the top of the pick one. Watchers generally pick on even days of the lunar calendar, because even numbers are auspicious, like the sixth and eighth days of the year and so on.

'Send the day' 'change the mouth' male to the woman's home to 'send the day', that is, the man in the basic determination of the date of marriage to the woman's home to notify, and then both parties The two sides will then discuss and finalize the date. The bride and groom will start calling each other's parents "mom and dad" on the day of the wedding. The bride and groom-to-be change the time, the other parents will have to give the red envelope, red envelope amount is not limited, the basic principle is also an even number.

Two, the day before the wedding

Male: prepare four pork ribs (take the bride's time to bring to the bride's home, the bride's home with the meat on the ribs made into small dumplings)

Female: one day before the wedding female will be busy, like the bride's aunt, aunt, uncle and other relatives this day will go to the bride's home, we talk and so on, the main program is the The main program is to eat dumplings in the evening. After eating the dumplings, the bride has to 'roll' (because the dumplings are rolled in boiling water). There is another situation where the bride's family entertains their own guests (giving away their daughters), i.e., when the bride's friends and relatives do not attend the wedding on the wedding day. If this is the case, the bride's family will have to host a banquet for their friends and relatives the day before the wedding.

Three, the day of the wedding

The first item is the best man to lead with the cameraman convoy to the wedding room to pick up the groom. Before the arrival of the best man, the wedding room inside and outside the happy words, couplets and so on should be posted (usually the dawn of time on the paste, has been posted until dawn, accounted for a 'days go brighter' color). After the arrival of the best man, the groom, best man, welcome personnel (welcome the theoretical number of personnel for the total number of vehicles in the fleet minus one, that is, the groom, best man a car, the remaining people each a car, which is called 'escort car') by the groom's parents and friends to send together on the car. The time to get on the best man needs to give the groom to open and close the door of the car.

The second caravan arrived at the bride's home, the best man out of the car for the groom to open the door, and will be prepared for the wedding cigarettes and candies to the onlookers. This is the woman's home firecrackers fireworks. The groom arrives at the door of the bride's home, the bride's siblings and so on will make trouble for the groom to ask for a red envelope. Then the groom enters the house. After entering the door, the new couple to eat dumplings (not rib meat Yo), individual sea Oh bridesmaids will be the bride's shoes to hide the groom to find.

The third item bride and groom on the car (before getting on the car is again a big fuss). Bride and groom on the car time will bring rib meat dumplings, curtains, chairs, quilts, peanuts, lotus dates, taro apples and other auspicious things, of course, there is also a copper pot of meat and potatoes (very large and very beautiful meat and potatoes, there is also a lotus-like base, meat and potatoes on the dragon and phoenix, mandarin ducks, peonies, and so on)

Fourth shoot outside

Fifth into the home bride and groom off into the bridal chamber! Before things refer to the time to receive the bride. Into the home after the newcomers to eat meat and potatoes first (two small meat and potatoes tied together with a red rope), that meat and potatoes will say "big mouth bites meat and potatoes, children a Tolo' a Tolo is the dialect is a lot of meaning) and then the groom's father to his son and daughter-in-law's bedroom to hang curtains, hanging curtains time to say (a nail gold, two nails, silver, three nails, polybasin). Then the newlyweds sit on the bed, eat big noodles (very wide and long egg noodles, one person bites one end) and drink a cup of wine, then the groom's father rolls a cylindrical log on the newlyweds' bed a few times and says (gul gul dun zi, you will have a grandchild in the coming year), then the groom's elder sister or younger sister fans the newlyweds with a grating (a board used to put dumplings in when they are wrapped in a dumpling) and says (hulah hulah xiao castor, you will have a baby nephew in the coming year). The newcomer out of bed, the bride put on the groom's mother ready for the new shoes (wear small shoes from here, the mother-in-law to prepare small shoes for the daughter-in-law to tell her to be submissive, of course, nowadays, the shoes are all the right foot ha)

Sixth to the hotel before the newcomer off the firecrackers to hold the wedding ceremony, the beginning of the banquet, the newcomer toast during the banquet. The banquet usually have three big pieces that sea cucumbers abalone shrimp, there are five big pieces is three big pieces plus shark fins and bird's nest. The total number of dishes in the general 18, but there are also a lot of 28, 36 ranging. In addition, there will be two fish in the dishes, generally a freshwater fish and a sea fish, when all the dishes have been half on the table, there will be a freshwater fish, telling guests that the dishes have been on the half of it, did not come out of the bail to work harder, and then the last dish is the sea fish, and then on the staple food - rice. The last dish is the sea fish, and then the main course - rice. The dish varieties usually also appear chicken, pig's trotters, the whole family.

PS: These six items are strictly timed, what time and how many minutes to leave what time and how many minutes to enter the house, what time and how many minutes to start the ceremony are pre-arranged

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