What are the steps of a traditional wedding?

The overall structure of a general wedding is divided into three parts: the pre-wedding ceremony, the main wedding, and the post-wedding ceremony.

One, the traditional Chinese wedding process - pre-wedding ceremony

Basic process of pre-wedding ceremony: Nacai, ask for the name, Naji, Naji, please period

1, Nacai The man proposes to the woman to take the geese as ZhiXi gift. "Yi Li - Shi Lu": "Lukewarm ceremony, under the Nacai. With geese."

2, ask the name After the Nacai, ask the woman's name, in order to divine the marriage or not, good or bad. Rites of Passage - Shihwangli": "Bing Yan, please ask the name; master Xu, Bing into the award."

3. After asking for the name, the man "will return to the temple, and when he gets an auspicious sign, he will send a messenger to tell him" ("Rites of Passage: The Rites of the Shih"). After asking for the name, the man divines the birthdates of both the man and the woman, and if he gets a good sign, he sends a messenger to the woman's home to report the good news, as in the case of the proclamation of prozmozmo.

4. The man sends a messenger to the woman's family to announce the betrothal. The rituals of the ceremony are as follows: "The levy is a wedding ceremony, and it is a wedding ceremony in which the envoys pay tribute to the woman's family." After the marriage, the marriage enters the stage of formal preparation.

5, please period The man chose an auspicious date for the marriage, officially agreed to the woman, with geese as gifts. Rites of Passage - Shihwangli: "Please period, with geese." Zheng Xuan note: "the husband's family must first divining, get the auspicious date, is to make the messenger to the speech, that is to say."

Two, the traditional Chinese wedding process - the wedding

The basic process of the wedding: welcome, worship, the rituals of the seat, Wo washi rite, fm radio, fm radio, untying the tassel and knotting the hair, the ceremony of the hand

1, welcome the new husband to meet the new wife in person.

2. Worship The ritual of worship is the basic etiquette of a traditional Chinese wedding. The bride and groom kneel on the mat facing the podium to express their gratitude and commitment to heaven and earth, parents and each other.

3. Ceremony on the mat Newlyweds stand opposite to each other, with a few cases in the middle, and the newlyweds kneel opposite to each other, wishing to get a person of one's own heart, and not to leave each other for ever; to be married to each other, and never to move in love.

4, Wo wash ritual Wo wash ritual refers to the bride before the bride and groom water wash, expressing the solemnity of the wedding of the new people. The new son-in-law wipes his hands and face clean, and then wets a towel for the bride, wipes his hands, and cleans his face. It represents that at this moment the two newlyweds are devoting themselves to a new life with pure and clear hearts.

5, fm radio: "Rituals - fainting": "women to the son-in-law greeted women to enter, *** jail and food, fm radio, so the body, with the same inferiority and superiority, in order to kiss also." The term "fm radio" refers to the new husband and new wife eating meat from a single fm radio. "Fm radio" refers to the new husband and new wife each holding a fm radio cup and drinking wine against each other. By fm radio, the newlyweds are declared to be one family from now on, which symbolizes that the new couple enjoys the same blessings and life together, and that they share all the sweetness and bitterness with each other.

6, fm radio ceremony The son-in-law poured wine, each of them drank half of it and exchanged it, the two put together the gourd, and the bride quickly wrapped the gourd tightly. Gourd represents many children and good fortune. Husband and wife *** drink, may the two from now on can be the same sweet *** bitter, lifelong support each other. Afterwards, the gourd will be spliced as before and tied with a red rope. Symbolizing the new couple from now on the couple as one, never separate.

7, the tassel knot hair "tassel" refers to the new husband personally removed the bride's head of the promise of marriage tassel. "Knot hair" refers to each cut the new husband and wife a bunch of hair, to red tassel comb together. The new son-in-law cut off a strand of the bride's hair, and then cut off his own hair, the bride unfolded the pouch, and the son-in-law put the hair of the two men in turn. The son-in-law puts the hair of both of them in turn. Both of them **** together and pull the string of the bag tight. It means that the couple's bloodline is blended, and they will grow old together and be united forever.

8, hand salute Get up, the new man and woman hold hands and look at each other. Holding hands, and son *** art; holding hands, and son *** food; holding hands, and son with the return; holding hands, and son with the sleep; holding hands, and son with the pleasure; holding hands, and son with the old!

Three, the traditional Chinese wedding process - after the wedding ceremony

After the wedding ceremony, also known as into the women's rituals, it's the basic process: women see aunt, aunt sweet women, women feed aunt, the temple to see into the women

1, women see aunt wife said father-in-law as "uncle", said mother-in-law as "uncle", said mother-in-law as "uncle", said mother-in-law as "uncle", said mother-in-law as "uncle", said mother-in-law as "uncle", said mother-in-law as "uncle", said mother-in-law as "uncle", said mother-in-law as "uncle". Early in the morning of the second day after the wedding, the bride woke up early, bathed, carrying bamboo containers with jujube, chestnut and dried meat to wait outside the door of the bedchamber of the in-laws. The word "jujube" means to get up early, the word "chestnut" means to tremble, and the word "dried meat" means to cheer up.

2, the woman feed aunt and uncle, the new woman personally serve the in-laws to eat, to wait for the two old food, the woman should symbolically eat the remaining food in-laws to show filial piety. Another said, "women feed the aunt" refers to the third day after the new woman over the door, we have to cook and cook, to feed the aunt, to show that since then to preside over the feed, to do filial piety. Tang Dynasty, "three days into the kitchen, hand-washing soup; not familiar with the aunt food, the first condemnation of the small aunt taste" of folklore records.

3, aunts sweet woman in-laws for the new woman An food gargling, and "a gift" to reward the new woman, in order to show the care of the elders.

4, the temple to see the woman three months after the wedding, the husband's family to choose a day, the rate of the bride to the temple ancestors, to show that the woman from now on officially become a member of the husband's family.

Traditional Chinese Wedding Flow

The sedan chair is the centerpiece of a traditional wedding. There are two kinds of sedan chair: the dragon sedan chair and the phoenix sedan chair. There are also dragon sedan chair and phoenix sedan chair. In addition to the sedan chair, there are sheng gong, umbrella, fan and other start, the general sedan chair team is less than a dozen people, more dozens of people, it is very spectacular. Now the sedan chair is not much, so if you want to hold this form of wedding, must be booked in advance. To choose a place in the park or to avoid the main traffic lanes, to give their own sedan chair to leave enough space, because the scene of the upside down sedan chair will attract a large number of sightseers, resulting in traffic jams. The bride and groom are dressed in cape or gown. The bride, accompanied by her bridesmaids and led by a large red silk held by the groom, slowly boards the float and arrives at the position of the sedan chair, where the bride and groom change to the sedan chair.

Necessary Customs for Chinese Wedding

Carrying the sedan chair: accompanied by gongs and drums, suona, lion dance, the sedan chair begins to start. Traditionally, the bride should be carried out by her brothers to the sedan chair. However, in modern times, many people have only one child, only by cousins or best man to do the work, usually also changed to carry the back to hold. Sedan chair's journey is currently only a formality, unless the two families are particularly close, or from this end of Shanghai to that end, certainly exhausted. But in accordance with the custom is to give the bearer of the red envelope, otherwise they will intentionally shake the sedan chair, so that the bride "good".

3. Across the fire pit and archery: the ancient ritual is the bride sitting in the sedan chair over the charcoal fire pit, but now it is usually the bride in the matchmaker's help directly across. Then before getting out of the sedan chair, the groom must also pull the bow towards the door of the sedan chair to shoot three red arrows, used to drive away the bride along the way may be contaminated with evil spirits.

4. Worship and cross the cup of wine: after the fire bowl, some still have to cross the saddle, sign of the new couple's peace after marriage; and then only by the bridegroom with a strip of red cloth wrapped scales to pick open the bride's head of the handkerchiefs, this time, a pair of newcomers should be formally worship. The most important part of the worship is not a cup of wine (fm radio), but to both sides of the high tea, usually this time is to make a group of people in tears, the scene of the touching, in a warm atmosphere of celebration is also penetrated by a strong sense of kinship.

5. concentric knot hair and thank the matchmaker: modern marriage ceremony, many of which is to move out of the cave in the show. For example, the knotting of hair, should be the new couple in the cave room to cut some hair each other, as a token of the relationship between husband and wife put together to keep, but now it is performed in public. Afterwards, both mothers light the dragon and phoenix candles together, the newlyweds exchange fragrant books and jades as tokens, and then the matchmaker is invited to present the hooves.