In the rural areas of Foshan, what are the customs and traditions when having a wedding?

You don't have to be afraid of receiving a red bomb. Because some areas of Foshan do not receive red envelopes! The scenes often seen in TV dramas such as sedan chair, kicking kiln and chapel wedding are actually a part of traditional Lingnan wedding customs. Foshan, as an important origin and inheritance of Lingnan culture, there are rare marriage customs, traditional marriage etiquette, improved or inherited.

For a brief introduction and talk. The basic aspects of Foshan marriage customs. Formerly known as "Sanshui six gifts", but due to the cumbersome etiquette, modern people generally simplified to a large gift. In any township in Foshan, a man is required to make a deposit to the woman's parents before marriage, the amount of which is mutually agreed upon after communication between the couple and their respective parents. Foshan Marriage Custom 2, Prayer. Before getting married, couples usually go to Foshan Ancestral Temple to pray for blessings, or in the case of village couples, they go to the ancestral hall to offer prayers to their ancestors.

Collecting hair, that is to say, we learned in the West, bachelor knight (bachelor knight), the groom invited all his friends once a day before the wedding, singing and drinking, etc., speechless, and the next day these friends have to help the groom to steal the bride. It must be emphasized that the preparatory groom and the preparatory bride cannot meet the night before the wedding, but nowadays the means of communication are so advanced that it is easy to make a phone call in order to unravel the thoughts. The prospective bridegroom should look for a boy who is blessed to make the bed (parents are required to be alive and the family is happy), and put peanuts, jujubes, walnuts, and other good-natured food such as early-born noble sons on the bed. Upper end. Until the New Year arrives, men and women continue to hold separate ceremonies for the upper end. Heads mark the official entry of a couple into adulthood, to organize a new family and take on the mission of pruning. Elders should choose a good time, the groom should be 30 minutes earlier than the bride, but also by the "Hummingbird" (i.e., "subversive" people, parents and children alive) combing hair

Robbing the bride. It is more fun for the groom to take his own brothers to the bride's house to rob the bride, and the bride's sisters will come up with a lot of strange questions to make things difficult for the groom's group. To succeed in taking the bride, the groom will have to break through the heavy gate, become a stranglehold of the sibling group "weapons of war". The first level: entry words, open the door is the interest, to go through the sisters of the siege to open the door, open the door, the groom to meet the bride with flower ball.