Shanxi marriage customs process is what?

1. Catch the fixing, catching the fixing means actually engagement, the matchmaker sends the man's birthday horoscope and dowry to the woman's house, and then brings back the woman's birthday horoscope and gifts. The man's dowry includes red and blue fabrics, jewelry, wine, and meat.

2. To give gifts, the man decides the good day for the marriage and will give gifts on the auspicious day before the marriage. The man will give all the groom's preparations and gifts to the matchmaker and then to the woman. The money for the gifts is decided by the woman.

3. Welcoming the bridegroom, there are two kinds of welcoming in Jincheng, Shanxi, one is welcoming the bridegroom and the other is counter welcoming the bridegroom. Beiliu and Runcheng area, the groom are not to meet the bride, only to send a sedan chair to carry the bride. In other places, the bridegroom would meet the bride in person. Both the bridegroom and the bride are accompanied by a procession of drums and music. Both men and women should steam more than five kilograms of pomegranate cake with white flour in advance, and put a pinecone on top of it with a pinecone.

When married, the man sent a man to bring his one to the woman's house, then he brought back one of the woman's shoulders and walked in front of the drum. When marrying an official the, there are wooden plaques labeled with the official title of the ancestor. After the drum, the bride will make three beeps in front of the limousine chair and three beeps in front of the man's door, then the bride will scatter over the head of the limousine chair. Grain.

4, welcoming the bride, also known as welcoming the bride and marrying the bride, is the six rites of passage of the pro-welcome. The groom himself goes to the woman's house to marry the bride, but in some centers in Xinzhou and Luliang, a matchmaker or uncle instructs the welcome group to go to the wedding while the groom sits at home.

5, the wedding, the welcome team to the man's home to the future, drums and music, firecrackers, male relatives and friends, neighbors flocked out to entertain the bride. Southeast Jinqin County area, the bride's sedan chair fine fall on a bed of red quilt, the bride to discuss the sedan chair money, assisted by a full of people, stepping on the red carpet into the door.

Preparation list before the wedding:

1, sugar

Men need to prepare a good sugar as a return gift in advance, you can buy ready-made has been loaded with sugar sugar candy box, you can also buy a single box of sugar candy, and in addition to buy bulk sugar to load.

2, concierge flowers, ribbons

Ribbons are best bought flame retardant, to prevent accidents.

3, the happy word, happy word pull flower, etc.

These can be used to decorate the home. The word of joy is usually the door, the newcomer's room door each stick one, the other depends on the newcomer's own customs, the main thing is to celebrate.

4, balloons

Balloons can be used for home and hotel decoration, the wedding car can also be decorated with some small balloons.

5, cigarettes and matches

Smoke can be based on the newcomer's own ability to choose, the wedding banquet is generally 2 packets per table, the wedding car driver 1-2 packets per person, brothers 1-2 packets per person, but also for the family and friends to leave some home, signing on the top of the packets of cigarettes and matches to be left on standby.