Chinese wedding characteristics of Chinese wedding must know customs introduced

Traditional Chinese weddings are loved for their simplicity, comprehensive etiquette, joyfulness and warmth, and warm publicity atmosphere. Especially many foreign couples especially like this form, which is also the concentration and essence of wedding customs in northern China.

The sedan chair is the core part of the traditional wedding. There are two kinds of sedan chair: the four-person sedan chair and the eight-person sedan chair. There are also dragon sedan chair and phoenix sedan chair. In addition to the sedan chair, there are, umbrellas and fans. General sedan chair team from a dozen to dozens of ranging, spectacular. Now the sedan chair is not much, want to do this kind of wedding must be booked in advance. This service is available at some wedding companies. Choose a place in a park or away from major traffic routes to leave plenty of empty space for your sedan chair, as the scene of the sedan chair jumping will attract a large number of tourists and cause traffic jams.

The bride and groom are dressed in phoenix-crowned robes and gowns, or robes and coats. The bride, clad in a red veil and accompanied by her bridesmaids, is slowly boarded onto the float, led by a red damask held by the groom. When they reach the position of the sedan chair, the couple sits in the sedan chair instead.

Essential Chinese Wedding Customs

Departure of the Sedan Chair:Accompanied by gongs and drums, suona and lion dances, the sedan chair begins to depart. Traditionally, the bride is carried out in the sedan chair by her brother. However, most modern people have only one child, so the cousins or best man can only take over, usually replaced by a back-to-back carry. Currently the sedan chair is just a walk in the park, and unless the two families are particularly close, carrying from one end of Shanghai to the other is sure to be exhausting. But give the sedan chair red envelope is customary, or will deliberately vibrate the sedan chair, so that the bride "mood a little better".

Shooting arrows across the fire bowl: In the ancient ceremony, the bride sat in the sedan chair across the charcoal fire bowl, but nowadays it is usually the bride who crosses it directly with the help of the matchmaker. Then, before disembarking from the sedan chair, the groom will draw his bow and shoot three red arrows at the door of the sedan chair to ward off any evil spirits that the bride may have contracted along the way.

Worship and Toast:After the fire bowl, some of them have to cross the saddle, which signifies that the couple will have a stable family after marriage; then, the groom picks the sipa on the bride's head with a scale wrapped in red cloth. This is the time for the couple to officially welcome the bride. The most important part of the meeting is not to ask for cups of wine, but to offer tea to both parties. Usually at this time, a group of people are in tears, the scene is touching, and a strong sense of kinship pervades the warm festive atmosphere.

Fa, thanks to the media:In modern weddings, a lot of things that should be in the cave room are moved out to show. For example, hair tie, the couple should be in the cave room to cut each other's hair, stay together as a token of the relationship between husband and wife. Now it is performed in a public ****ing occasion. After that, both mothers light the dragon and phoenix candles together and the couple exchanges fragrant books and jewelry as tokens, then ask the matchmaker to give the hooves.