What are the Han wedding customs

Summary: Han Chinese ancestors believe that dusk is an auspicious time, so the ceremony of marrying a wife will be performed at dusk, so the ritual of the union of husband and wife is called the "dusk ceremony", which later evolved into a wedding. Han Chinese believe that red is a symbol of good luck, so the traditional wedding customs are always big red to create a festive, warm atmosphere. Auspiciousness, blessing and filial piety become the main theme of the wedding, and almost every etiquette in the wedding is permeated with Chinese philosophical thinking. What are the Han wedding customs? The following and small make up to understand it. Han-style wedding, is the Chinese Han traditional wedding scene majestic, solemn ceremony of a kind. The overall structure of the general wedding is divided into three parts: the pre-wedding ceremony, the wedding ceremony, after the wedding ceremony.

I, Han-style wedding process - pre-wedding ceremony

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

1, Nacai

Male to the female side of the marriage proposal to the geese as ZhiXi gift. Rituals - Shi evening rituals: "evening rituals, under the Nacai. With geese."

2. Asking for the name

After the marriage, the man asks for the woman's name in order to divine whether the marriage will take place or not, and what the fate will be. Rites of Passage:

"The guest holds a goose and asks for the name; the master agrees, and the guest comes in to give it to him."

3. Naji

After asking for the name, the man "will return to the temple, and when he has received an auspicious sign, he will again send a messenger to tell him" ("Rites of Passage: The Rites of the Shih"). After the man asks his name, he divines the birth dates of both men and women, and if he gets a good sign, he sends a messenger with a wild goose to the woman's house to report the good news, and the ceremony is like the Na_.

4. Najing

The man sends a messenger to the woman's family to announce the betrothal. Rites of Passage - Shihwangli: "Levy, into also, so that the messenger to the wedding into the coin." After the levy is paid, the marriage enters the stage of formal preparation.

5. Invitation

The man chooses an auspicious date for the marriage, formally agrees with the woman, and takes a goose as a gift. Rituals - Shi Fengli: "Please period, with geese." Zheng Xuan note: "the husband's family must first divining, get an auspicious date, is to make messengers to the speech, that is to say."

Second, the Han-style wedding process -- the wedding

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

1, welcome

The new husband goes to welcome the new wife.

2. The Rite of Fellowship

The Rite of Fellowship is the basic etiquette of a traditional Chinese wedding. The bride and groom kneel on the mat facing the podium, expressing their gratitude and commitment to heaven, earth, parents and each other.

3. Ceremony on the mat

The newlyweds stand opposite to each other, with a few cases in between, and the newlyweds kneel opposite to each other, wishing to have one heart and never to leave each other, and to be husband and wife, and never to move away from each other in love.

4. Wo Wash Ceremony

Wo Wash Ceremony refers to pouring water for the bride and groom to wash before entering the banquet, which expresses the solemnity of the newcomer's love for the wedding. The new son-in-law wipes his hands and face clean, then wets a towel for the bride, wipes his hands, and cleans his face. It represents the moment when the two newlyweds devote themselves to a new life with a pure and clear heart. The term "fm radio" refers to the new husband and new wife *** eating meat from one tripod. "Fm radio" refers to the new husband and new wife each holding a fm radio cup and drinking wine relative to 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 pours the wine, and the two drink half of it each and then exchange the drink, the two put the gourd together, and the bride quickly wraps the gourd tightly. The 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 the red rope will be tied together. 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 promised tassel. "Knotting hair" refers to each cut a bunch of hair of the new husband and new wife, to the 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 ceremony

Rise, the newcomer hands look at each other. Holding hands, and son *** chopsticks; 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 joy; Holding hands, and son with the old

Three, the Han-style wedding process - post-wedding ceremony

Also known as the into the women's rites, and it's the basic process: the woman to see the Auntie, Auntie sweet women, women feed Auntie, temple see into women

1, women see Auntie

Wife called father-in-law as "uncle", called mother-in-law as "aunt". Early the morning of the second day after the wedding, the bride woke up early, bathed, carrying a bamboo vessel containing jujube, chestnut and _______ 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 "_______" means to cheer up.

2, women feed aunts and uncles

The new woman personally serve the in-laws to eat, to wait for the two old people to eat, women should symbolically eat the rest of the in-laws to show filial piety. Another said, "women feed the aunt" refers to the third day after the bride after the door, you have to cook cooking, 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 and uncles sweet woman

An in-laws for the new woman food rinsing, and "a gift" to reward the new woman, to show the care of the elders.

4, the temple to see the woman

Three months after the wedding, the husband's family chose 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.