What are those ancient Chinese wedding etiquette?

Ancient Wedding Etiquette Wedding marriage, both ancient and modern, is considered the biggest ritual in life. Compared with other customs, wedding etiquette varies with world conditions. From a certain degree reflects the degree of civilization and indoctrination of mankind at that time. In ancient times, there were many complicated procedures in the middle of the marriage, but despite this, people were serious, never sloppy, with only two purposes: one is to make the marriage recognized by the society, and the other is to remove the evils for the newlyweds, praying for a full and happy life. Nowadays, some young people are getting married, in order to make their wedding unique, and some of them are beginning to go to the traditional. Here I will be our country's ancient wedding etiquette with you to do a little introduction, in order to serve as a reference for you. First, matchmaking "no clouds in the sky does not rain, no matchmaker on the ground is not a marriage". In the traditional marriage, men and women must go through the matchmaker's talk to tie the knot. Matchmakers can take the initiative to solicit work for men and women to matchmaking, can also be entrusted, the beauty of adults. There is a saying that "parents' orders, matchmakers", said this is the truth. Second, batch of eight and push the Chinese zodiac Ancient people are very concerned about marriage, if the male family to marry a daughter-in-law, first to the female family to get the woman's eight characters, and then they will be handed over to Mr. Fortune-teller projections to see with the son of the fit, commonly known as the "clip my clip". If the woman's life or son's husband with the eight characters collision, the two families will not be able to form a marriage. You can also write the woman's birth date and eight characters of the post placed in the man's home in front of the gods and ancestors on the case, divining auspicious. Within three days, if the family is safe and sound, men and women can become in-laws. On the push of the Chinese Zodiac, folk have many popular rumors, compatible with: green rabbit and yellow dog ancient, red horse and yellow sheep life long, black rat and yellow cow two prosperous, green cow and black pig joy, dragon chicken longer ...... snake pan rabbit, must be rich and so on. Not in tune with: the white horse is afraid of the green cow, sheep and rats a pick, snake and tiger as a knife frustration, dragon and rabbit are afraid of exchanges, the golden chicken is afraid of the jade dog, pigs and monkeys not to the head, and so on. Third, fixed hire fixed and fixed discussion, hire also known as small hire, which is the equivalent of the current fixed wedding. Fixing must use a big post, the hometown people called the fixed date for back to the big post or pressure big post. In addition to the post and the book of engagement, commonly known as the wedding book. The book of engagement is usually prepared by the male family. All the gifts have been finalized into a gift list before the engagement. The man's family only pays a small portion of the gift, commonly known as the first half of the gift. The bride price can also be set with a gold ring. The day of the betrothal of both men and women set up banquets, banquets for friends and relatives, participants only to join in the fun, and do not give gifts. Fourth, gifts Gifts about 20 days before the wedding or one or two months, the most important gift is to send the gift of gold. Because the fixed engagement has taken the first half of the gift, this time all finished commonly known as the second half of the gift. The other gifts are listed in the gift list, which is enclosed in the gift book. Gift list must have above the cloth, silk, satin, gauze and so on, these fabrics are for the newlyweds sewing clothes. The woman's family should also return some gifts, repair the book of gifts to the people to bring back. After the gift, from the wedding date is not too far away. Fifth, welcome the bride The day of the wedding, the male family sounded the cannon and played music, the sedan chair to welcome the bride. Matchmaker pilot, followed by the groom, bridesmaids, sedan chair, band, box team, voluminous, fish line to. Sedan chair arrived, the female family music and artillery to welcome. Welcome the bride's team into the female family room, the sedan chair landing, the groom bowed to the father-in-law and mother-in-law adults. And under the guidance of the matchmaker to the bride's ancestors and elders have saluted, the bridesmaids on the bride on the sedan chair. On the sedan chair, the bride generally have to "cry marriage", expressed attachment to parents. Marriage of the way back, must go the other way, also known as the road not to go back. Six, worship the wedding day, the bride and groom held worship ceremony. The bridesmaids and groomsmen appear in the capacity of "citing praises" and "passing praises" respectively. Worship awareness programs are as follows: Citation: the groom stands in front of the sedan chair. Tongzan: the sedan chair is opened and the bridegroom rises. Citation: The groom bows (and invites the bride with an arch) Citation: The bride and groom go straight to the hall. Praise: The bride and groom take their places. The bride and groom enter the incense. Praise: Kneel and offer incense. Tongzan: kneeling, kowtow, and then kowtow, three kowtow, and then it is common in the TV series inside the three worship: a worship of heaven and earth, two worship hall, couples worship, and finally into the bridal chamber. Seven, the cave Alarm The cave is mainly due to the ancient marriage are parents arranged marriage, men and women in the marriage before there is no contact, some have not even seen a face, not to mention understanding and familiarity. Now all of a sudden become husband and wife, must be very strange, with such a process of the cave, can change that kind of cold atmosphere, so that the newcomers as much as possible to reduce the feeling of rawness, as soon as possible to make the young couple into the state of intimacy. So far, the folk are still rumored to be more and more happy, do not make a fuss, the more the more hair as well as the newlyweds three days without size of the saying.