Dress and process of ancient princess wedding

China's wedding can be divided into three stages:

Premarital ceremony, that is, "engagement"

Formal wedding, that is, the etiquette of "getting married" or "getting married", means the combination of husband and wife.

The wedding ceremony is a ceremony of "becoming a wife", "becoming a wife" or "becoming a husband", which shows the role played by men and women after marriage. In China's traditional wedding customs, premarital ceremony and formal wedding are the main procedures, both of which originated from the Six Rites of the Duke of Zhou.

These six ceremonies are accepting gifts, asking names, Najib, accepting gifts, inviting dates and welcoming people.

In the third year of Emperor Ping of Han Dynasty, Liu Xin and others arranged the wedding, and the fourth assistant, Dr. Lang Junqing, told the family of Qianlang to marry him personally. The next year, the queen was also appointed to accept Cai and Buji. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the wedding of the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess came uninvited, and from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, many times they did not marry according to the six rites.

After the Tang dynasty, the crown prince began to marry, and the prince's wedding would follow six rites. Later, the premise of "asking names" was "acceptance", and the premise of "invitation meeting" was "acceptance"; Therefore, although the concept is still in accordance with the Six Rites, in fact there are only four Rites, namely, accepting talents, accepting the pole, Zheng Na and kissing. Zhu Xi's family gifts combined "Naji" and "Zheng Na" into one, so there were only three gifts.

In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a ceremony to discuss marriage.

In the first year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, the wedding was held according to Zhu Xi's family ceremony.