Chongqing wedding customs process what

Summary: Chongqing Municipality is located in southwestern China, the Yangtze River and Jialing River intersection, surrounded by mountains on all sides, the river back around, the city along the water according to the mountains, cascading up, both known as the river city. Chongqing was known as Jiangzhou in ancient times, and later called Ba County, Chuzhou, Yuzhou and Gongzhou. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Ba County was changed to Chuzhou. In 581 A.D., Emperor Wen of Sui changed Chuzhou to Yuzhou, and Chongqing was shortened to "Yu". Chongqing is China's only jurisdiction has a municipality directly under the Central Government of the national autonomous regions, in such a historical place for this about Chongqing wedding customs are more diverse, then Chongqing wedding customs which? Do you know, the following with the editor to learn some of the next Chongqing wedding customs it. Chongqing wedding customs a: Chinese traditional wedding

Entering the 21st century, the era of step by step forward, the wedding is also from the complex to simple and then to the complex, nowadays, Chongqing brides and grooms began to more and more interested in the Chinese traditional wedding. Now, to Chongqing will be held in the wedding of the bride and groom to talk about China's traditional wedding the most important part: worship!

Worship is a necessary process in the ancient wedding, as long as the worship, a new couple has become a real husband and wife, as the so-called worship of heaven, worship, worship parents. A new couple has also gone through the witness of many friends and relatives into fact. Chinese traditional wedding in the day of marriage, the male family sedan chair, the bridesmaid will be in the male family hall set up a good place to worship.

When the sedan chair stops in front of the door of the house, the bridesmaids invited by the man stand in front of the sedan chair, the ceremony has been set up wheat. On the incense burner, incense smoke, red candles burning high, relatives and friends, staff of the Ministry of Justice in their places.

The bridesmaids appeared as "guide" and "passer-by" to start the ceremony.

The Bride and Groom begin to pay their respects according to the hymns of the Invocation and Tongzang.

The procedure of the ceremony is as follows:

Introduction: the bridegroom comes to the position (standing in front of the sedan chair)

Tongzang: the sedan chair is opened and the bride and groom get up.

Citation: the groom bowed (arching his hand to invite the bride)

Citation: the bride and groom in place (to the incense case)

Music and artillery

Tongzan: the bride and groom (to the gods and ancestors) into the incense and candles

Citation: Kneeling, offering incense and candles. Bright candles, burning incense, incense, prostrate, Xing, flat and reset.

Tongzan: Kneel, bow, bow again, bow three times, Xing. Then, the traditional "three worship" - "a worship of heaven and earth, two worship parents, husband and wife worship," and finally "the introduction of the bridal chamber "The ceremony ends here. This is the end of the ceremony.

Chongqing marriage customs two: wedding taboos

Chongqing from ancient to present superstitions, really strange. But superstition to superstition and then do not believe in the face of the wedding, but also can not help but go to respect the tradition, follow the custom. Below are some of the old customs of Chongqing wedding taboos, only Chongqing will be married to the new people reference!

1, after the bed to the night before the wedding, to find a minor boy and the groom to sleep in bed together. Because of the tradition of "sleeping on an empty bed, not dead husband also dead wife" said.

2, the day of the wedding, to the night before going to bed, all the people try to stay away from the new bed, especially the newcomer must not touch the edge of the bed, it will be unlucky.

3, wedding day, avoid letting people sit on the new bed.

4, the wedding day, the bride can not be arbitrary lying in bed, or long sick in bed.

5, the wedding taboo tiger people watching the ceremony.

6, the wedding day the bride out of the aunt and sister-in-law can not send.

7, the bride on the day of the wedding to leave the house, the more crying, the better, because "no crying, no hair".

8, the bride's clothes should not have bags, so as not to take away the wealth of the family.

9, the third day after the wedding, the newlyweds with gifts back to the outside world, that is, for the return of peace. But remember that day need to rush back to the husband's home before nightfall, can not spend the night outside.

10. Within four months after the wedding, the bride is not allowed to participate in any wedding or funeral ceremonies, so as not to jeopardize the wedding.

11, the bride's mirror should not be lent to others.

12, within four months of the wedding, unless necessary (such as honeymoon travel), the bride is also avoided out of the night.

Chongqing wedding custom three: the cave

China since ancient times has been the custom of the cave. In our Chongqing city, the caveman in addition to the young people now in order to figure out a fun, the newcomer to play some other than the old custom of the caveman has been in gradual decline. In ancient times, "caveman" is the representative of the joy, so as long as the family marries a daughter-in-law, we must make a caveman, and make the more hot the better, neither time nor space, the public are "make"! In the past, because the new people in the pre-wedding are not familiar or even do not know each other, and the wedding night, let them live in the same space, the psychological may not feel at ease. Caveman, no doubt through the public's laughter so that the new couple to eliminate barriers, completely pierced the shy "windowpaper". Today, the cave-in is a blessing to the newlyweds, but now it has also become the best time for young men and women to tease the newlyweds. Ancient customs, during the wedding, three days regardless of size, meaning bucket is, as long as it is the groom's what son brother, cousin, nephews, cousins, etc., can play with the bride, and even sleep in the same bed, of course, can not be out of character. Over there in Shanxi, there are listening to the bed, brother bed, in the wedding night and the bride and groom to sleep together. Fortunately, Chongqing is not such a custom, otherwise, according to the Chongqing girl child N many years of character, not out of the subject is strange!

Tongliang County, Chongqing, the cave, huh, where the custom of the cave, the continuation of Chongqing's ancient wedding customs, not only the bride and groom were teased out of shape, the bridegroom's parents are their friends and relatives and close friends playful and suffer, was lifting the bucket pocket, sitting on the shoulders of the mikoshi, the flower face, wipe the bottom of the pot of ash, pretending to be a flower girl, bundled red rope, back bamboo poles, etc., excitement and joy, and some parents, even if they were nearly old! The parents, even in their old age, can not escape the fate of the whole. Until the bride and groom were made to stop, out to the elders and close friends to send cigarettes, send red envelopes to stop! In Chongqing Tongliang, the caveman, regardless of the rural areas, or status of the family, whether in the dam, or the magnificent hotel, will be staged!

Marriage Customs in Various Regions of Chongqing

1. Marriage Customs in Chongqing Urban Area

The bride is from Nantong, Jiangsu Province, and the groom is from Dadukou District, Chongqing, and the customs in the two areas are very different. In the bride's home, before the wedding needs a more grand wedding planning, relatives and friends should be present, the man should pay about 8-10 million bride price, at least 4 pieces of gold and silver jewelry. The woman's parents and all the relatives have to pay a meet-and-greet gift to the boy. After 1-2 years of engagement, the marriage will be formalized. Chongqing only 4 gold, there is no bride price, usually the man will give 1-2 million to the woman, less a few thousand, do not give can also be, and then do not need to be engaged, directly on the marriage. In addition to the marriage of the new house is the two sides of the money to buy, if the man does not have the money, the woman out a little more is also no matter.

2. Marriage Customs in Rural Chongqing

The marriage takes place over two days, with the first day being spent on miscellaneous wine and the second day being spent on formal wine (in the rural dialect). The first day is both men and women's relatives and friends come to dinner, after dinner to talk about family life and so on, in fact, it is also a mutual get-together. The next morning the male relatives and friends will carry the bride price to the female, which is also called marriage. The bride price depends on the economic conditions of each family, to 12 noon after the woman was married to the man, the woman's relatives and friends of all the bride with the bride to the male side to go. After the bride married to the home of the relatives and friends of both sexes to eat dinner together, eat dinner after the female relatives to go home, the male relatives in the evening to help haunt the new house.

3. Chongqing Tujia wedding customs

Chongqing wedding customs, Tujia clothing features a unique style, with records, Tujia clothing "common check simple", "without all the luxury of the wind"; "men and women make bitter and ****. "Men and women make bitter and ***, the custom is not fashionable clothes and crowns"; Tujia people "do not fashionable clothes and ornaments"; "men and women hanging buns, short clothes and bare feet, to the cloth le forehead, like spotting rotten clothes and colors." It can be seen that the Tujia people's clothing has the general characteristics of "still check the simple".

Crying marriage -- Tujia girl's wedding day is ushered in by crying. Bride in more than half a month before the wedding to cry, some to cry more than a month, at least three, five days. Tujia people also can sing the wedding song, as a measure of the woman's talent and virtue of the mark. Crying marriage songs are "crying parents", "crying brother and sister-in-law", "crying uncle", "crying sister", "Crying for matchmaker", "Crying for combing hair", "Crying for flowers", "Crying for resignation of father and mother", "crying ancestor", "crying on the sedan chair" and so on. In the old days, the cry for marriage originated from the unfree marriage of women, who used the song of crying for marriage to accuse the sinful marriage system. Today, marriage is free. Tujia girls in the marriage also want to cry marriage, but now the cry marriage is only a ceremony.