Similarities and differences between Russian and Chinese wedding customs

Weddings for Russian families should be considered the biggest family celebration. In the past, as in China, the parents decided to marry their children, but now it is the children themselves who decide. This is very similar to China. In ancient times, China's feudal patriarchal system of arranged marriages developed into the current free marriage. The legal age of marriage in Russia is 16 for women and 18 for men, while in China it is 20 for women and 22 for men.

Russian weddings now go to the civil registry office, as in China, but unlike us, the Russians are used to having the couple go with their parents, relatives and friends, and then the wedding is held right away. At the wedding banquet, the newlyweds sit in the upper seat, the left and right are colleagues and friends, facing the newlyweds sitting parents. When the guests shout (горько) "Bitter!" When the guests shouted (горько) "Bitter!", that is to say, asked the new couple to kiss, and this custom has been inherited from ancient times, including the anniversary of the wedding after the wedding, must have been influenced by the Russian culture to a certain extent. There is also a point in the Russian wedding is the most interesting, after finishing the congratulatory speech toast to the glass thrown to the ceiling, the glass fell into pieces, symbolizing that the new couple will have a happy marriage. Another special thing is the decoration on the head of the float, if you see the decoration as a bear it means they expect their first child to be a son, if it is a doll it means they want to have a daughter. Of course, in the past, the Russians also preferred divination, such as the well-known Pushkin's "Yevgeny Onegin" in the text has this example, they are also more taboo is the wedding ring on the ground, and that is, after the wedding, the newlyweds should not return from the original way. This all means a bad day. Here we must add that modern Russians must go to Red Square to lay flowers on the tomb of the unknown martyrs when they get married, which must be not only a kind of respect for those heroes who once sacrificed their lives for their motherland, but also reflects the character and heart of the Russians. They will never forget those unsung heroes who swore to defend their country for the happiness of their descendants.

Now, let's talk about Chinese weddings. In ancient times, there was a saying that "the order of parents, the words of matchmakers", and in the past, it was all about the right match, mostly for the parents to come forward, and then the bride price was given, and then the betrothal was finalized, and so on. Married with Russia is different from the parents sitting in the high hall, the new "three worship", according to the relationship with the new guests were seated in the seat, by the new to the parents and elders and guests from all sides of the toast to return the favor, the past is also concerned about the cave, the plot must be readers in the television, novels and so on can be seen. China's modern wedding, a combination of Chinese and Western characteristics, so it can be said that the wedding is the happiest moment in the life of the new couple. In addition, due to the large number of nationalities in our country, it is impossible to introduce to you here the wedding customs of each nationality one by one, and only two are mentioned here. One is the Korean people, I once learned from my classmates from the Korean people that one of the most important features of the Korean marriage is that the bride has to sew a dress for the groom when she gets married, and the newcomer will be sprinkled with chestnuts and jujubes when she gives a gift to her parents, etc., which expresses the blessing that the newcomer will live to be old and will give birth to a son soon; the other is the Russians in China, who are very serious about the marriage issue. Young people get married superficially although it is free love, but still must seek parental consent, the same blood can not be married, and other ethnic groups can be intermarried, but need to pay attention to the family (which is probably also influenced by the traditional Chinese culture). One of the characteristics of the man's marriage proposal is to ask the matchmaker to bring bread with a pinch of salt to the woman's home to propose, if the woman does not accept the bread, it means that she refuses; if she accepts it and opens it with her own hands, it means that she agrees. Wedding day first to the woman's home, the guests dined, danced and sang to celebrate some, and then to the man's home, only when the groom to a group of children sent out by the woman to ask the groom for red envelopes distributed red envelopes before the bride can be taken away, which in turn is the same as modern weddings, last year, I participated in the wedding of a relative to see the same scene (relatives for the Han Chinese), and the ceremony of the witness is the same as in the West. Our Russians are Orthodox, as are the majority of the Russian population, so the divorce rate is small and marriages are more stable. Russians, on the other hand, generally have a higher divorce rate.