Each local customs are different, Kaifeng wedding customs also have some streamlining, Kaifeng wedding customs are how?

Wedding day, the wedding banquet residence to post a large red "happy" word, and to calculate the time to receive the bride, but also with "pressure sedan chair children" to the female home, the bride's family but also to these children! Red packets, to seek a lucky color, the male party also killed a pig, prepare a piece of "away from the mother meat", the bride to bring a "carry-on rice", before entering the new house but also "across the fire pit", meaning life Before entering the new house, the bride has to "cross the fire bowl", symbolizing that life is getting more and more prosperous. Afterwards, there will be a ceremony to change the bride's name, and both parents will prepare red envelopes for the newlyweds. There are also "in-laws", "spread happy bed" of some links, the scene is very lively.

China in the early years of some areas of the matchmaking, also known as the "visit to the matchmaker", the first called the "small meeting", usually the man with some candy melon seeds to the matchmaker's home, the two sides of the family and friends chatting, if the other party is interested in, it will be the second meeting, also known as the second meeting, also known as the matchmaking. If the other party is interested, the second meeting, also called "big meeting", give the woman some gifts, that is, betrothal. After that, the man has to send some gifts to the woman on New Year's holidays, which is called "going to the relatives". And before the wedding, the man will also give the woman to prepare the bride price, once for the bride-to-be to buy clothes, usually two dresses, two pairs of shoes, the second is to buy home appliances and other big things. And the woman should also have "accompanied by" the dowry, usually including bedding clothing and "box, table, cabinet, chair" four big pieces.

Kaifeng wedding customs and another is the bride in the door to "cross the fire pot", symbolizing the future of the days of red-hot, in the hall after the change of mouth called both parents "Mom and Dad", the old man also want to give the new couple a red packet, which is the "change of mouth fee". "After the wedding banquet, friends and relatives began to "make trouble with the in-laws", the old couple was out of shape, but they can not be angry, to be cheerful. The cave in the "spread happy bed" is essential, the groom's family to select the son and daughter of the person, will be some good meaning of dried fruit lightly sprinkled to the bride, are symbolic of the early birth of a son of good meaning.

Customs vary from place to place, Kaifeng wedding customs also have some streamlining, but no matter how the evolution of the local people for the blessing of the wedding, but also means the beginning of a happy life, we have to respect the traditional culture, and do their best to pass it on.