What are the Suzhou wedding customs What are the Suzhou wedding customs

Newcomers to the wedding, all over the world have their own wedding customs. Suzhou people get married "flower head" quite a lot of traditional customs did not disappear because of time, a lot of wedding traditions are very intact passed down, Suzhou Folklore Museum researcher Shen Jiandong said, for example, the day of the big day must choose a "good day", the bride out of the door, but also to choose a "good time" and so on. To choose a good "auspicious time" and so on. Now even if it is a blend of Chinese and Western, old and new modern wedding, Suzhou traditional wedding culture is still permeated by the whole process of the wedding.

The dowry dowry is a must for a girl to get married, the dowry is naturally the more the better, the old Suzhou marriage custom is to living things and so on by the woman "do", now the dowry is mainly living things, home appliances, etc., but basically from the ancient times continue down the "old doorway". The dowry is now mainly household goods and home appliances, but basically it is the "old way" from ancient times. There are some things in the dowry is very important: the dowry to start the children and grandchildren bucket is essential, generally carried by the bride's brother or younger brother, the first into the new room, but the original use of this household goods in life, now has been reduced to a few times smaller than the past furnishings; In addition, the new room in the Ruyi chopsticks and bowls can not be avoided, the bowls must be full of rice, cinnamon, jujubes, peanuts, which implies that happiness and contentment is the elders of the newcomer's sincere Blessings; first and last tied with a pair of red silk cane, is also a symbol of the new life, career high.

Welcome the bride in ancient times, to welcome the bride known as "pro-welcome", meaning that the bridegroom officer riding a high horse to meet the bride in person, very impressive. Welcome the bride team has Jiangnan silk and bamboo and other bands, blowing all the way to the bride's home. The woman's family heard the music, we know that the groomer will soon be here, get ready in time, specializing in the wedding ceremony of the bride will point out a few hours and a few minutes the sedan chair should be parked in the "happy God side", the bride after the grooming of the wash water to where to splash ...... saying "Married daughter splash out of the water" is so from, "splash water" in many areas of Suzhou is still as a traditional wedding customs are preserved.

The groom's home is almost to the bride's home, the bride's home quickly closed the door, relatives and friends asked the matchmaker and the bride to "happy money" and happy sugar, to get a good luck; the groom to prepare the hoof, round cake, carp and other gifts, with the welcome team to the bride's home, filial piety to the old father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Now there is no high horse and bamboo band, but the wedding caravan, firecrackers, friends and relatives to the door to ask for red envelopes, etc., but also the atmosphere of the welcome to the bride to make the lively.

The bride out of the bride out of the door, feet can not touch the ground, out of the door by the father's back out of the door, or in accordance with the meaning of the father's shoes to the door, and then put on their own shoes, some places have a bride can not be low to change the shoes of the saying, you can be directly outside of their own shoes outside of the father's shoes, to the door when the shoes can be taken off.

Worship the bridegroom took the bride back to the man's home, to "worship", worship parents, heaven and earth, worship and two immortals, which worship and two immortals is a unique custom in Suzhou, according to legend, and two immortals and two monks of the Cold Mountain Monastery, in charge of the "and" in the eyes of the older generation is the "God of Love" in Suzhou. In the eyes of the older generation, they are the "gods of love" in Suzhou. Nowadays, it is generally simplified as a bride's greeting to the groom's parents and elders.

Into the bridal chamber of the old time, the bride, the groom after the banquet guests, was flanked into the bridal chamber, began to "sit in the rich and powerful", "sit" is concerned, who first sat on who was pressured, and now the men are embodied in the "gentlemanly", always sit down first, which also became "no wonder Suzhou men afraid of their wives" the origin of the joke.

The caveman is the main event of the marriage of Suzhou people, a variety of ideas to play tricks on the new couple, this time can be taken out of the "problem". Suzhou has always been a caveman "three days without size", no matter how young, old, can be made, it is said that there is a caveman do not make the saying.

The bride back to the door of the original traditional bride back to the door is the second or third day after the wedding, accompanied by the bridegroom to the bride's home, an authentic Soviet wedding is nearing its end. But now most of the change in the wedding day back to the door, that is, the groom, the bride to go to the hotel before.