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What do you mean by smiling?

A: This is one of the traditional wedding customs, which refers to grooming the bride before the wedding.

Wanmian is a traditional folk beauty technique of Han nationality in China, which is popular in rural areas or some old cities in Chaoshan area of Guangdong [1]. The local girls who love beauty are scrambling to "pull their faces" and glow with youthful elegance. Holding a face is an ancient custom, which is also called "opening a face", "interface" and "shaving a face" in some places. According to traditional customs, women only enjoy this treatment when they get married. That is, the hair on the bride's forehead and temples was pulled out with a thread and a curved crescent eyebrow was repaired. "Face-holding" is no longer the bride's patent. As long as a girl who loves beauty spends a few dollars and is carefully dressed by her grandmother's hands and threads, her face will overflow with youthful brilliance.