The development of Chinese weddings

Nowadays, traditional weddings in China are becoming more and more popular. Share the historical origin and development of Chinese weddings. According to legend, the earliest marriage and wedding in China began with Fu's marriage and Nu Wa's matchmaking. Chinese weddings in later generations gradually evolved on the basis of Zhou weddings.

The origin of Chinese wedding ceremony

Weekly wedding

Zhou-style wedding, which inherited the Shang Dynasty in ancient Zhixia, merged the Western Zhou Dynasty, where rites and music originated, and developed into the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, is a gentleman's demeanor. It was stable when all ethnic groups in China finally formed the Han nationality. It has been a blueprint for Chinese weddings for 3,000 years and eventually became a brilliant cloud.

Develop wedding

It refers to the Chinese wedding that gradually evolved on the basis of Zhou wedding. There are many other sources of wedding customs and etiquette, and there are many variations, so they are called "developmental".

It is unknown when the wedding will be held in the daytime, perhaps because of the war after the Han Dynasty and the unsafe night, or because of the habit of being infected by Hu customs. Later, the wedding ostentation and extravagance gradually became bigger and longer, so the celebration ceremony often lasted for one day.

Looking at the above two traditional wedding modes in China, it is not difficult to see: it has a long history and a vast territory, and the degree of cultural gene variation is naturally not small. After all, there are no ethnic groups without communication on earth. In the development of weddings, China people's wedding utensils have absorbed the customs of many foreign nationalities. After many active and passive inter-ethnic exchanges and many ups and downs of national luck, Chinese weddings have slowly changed in a long time.

Intriguingly, from the revision of ritual books in past dynasties, we can see the attitude of the ancients towards this phenomenon: they prefer the Zhou ritual marriage system and tolerate the secular marriage system. Therefore, ideals and secularism are not contradictory, and each has its own market. This may be one of the characteristics of China culture, and the ancients have given an appropriate way to deal with it without asking for unification.