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The custom of wringing faces everywhere.

It is a custom for Bozhou local women to twist their faces when they get married. Before the bride opens her face, the groom must first tie three hairs on her face. This move sounds scary. How can the bride stand it with three hairs? ! It's just a statement, but it's only three times, symbolic. What is the symbolic meaning here? Anyone who knows the local customs knows that the groom is willing to do it, which means that everything is fine on the wedding night. It was he who opened the bride's new life. Of course, the groom doesn't do it easily, and the bride doesn't just let you do it.

If you want to do it, you must use the shelled cooked duck eggs and put some wet wipes on the bride's face first. What the bride wants to say and the groom's approval are actually hidden here. The bride asked the groom to do this to show that she was as perfect as a duck egg, and it was the groom who made her no longer a yellow flower girl.

However, when the bride was busy showing herself, she forgot one thing. Check whether the groom's official follows the rules before marriage. I'm afraid there was no ready-made method at that time. It seems unfair to the bride. I don't know if brides care about this now, and if there are any new methods. I haven't explored it. I don't know. In the past, women used a twisted face to beautify themselves.

Early pre-marital facial wringing is to make the bride's face smooth and beautiful, and let the groom fall in love at first sight. In the old society, it was a traditional ceremony for women in China before they got married. With the appearance of various beauty products, facial beauty method gradually disappeared.

Nowadays, in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, high-rise buildings have gradually replaced the old platform doors, and the "mother-in-law" who once walked into the platform doors has disappeared. Nowadays, young people can only appreciate their charm in works of art. In the urban area, there is a young man who is proficient in facial contouring. This is Zhang Hong.

Two years ago, a beautician from a mountainous area in Yunnan came to a beauty salon in Zhang Hong. When chatting with the customer, she said that she would wring her face and give it to the customer on the spot. The customer is very satisfied. This reminds Zhang Hong of the scene he often saw when he lived in the old balcony door of Chengnan Street when he was a child: elderly women would smile at each other every once in a while and glow. Nowadays, few people know this skill. "Distorted faces should not be lost, let alone extinct." Thought of here, Zhang Hong learned the skill of wringing face from a Yunnan beautician. From then on, every beautician who wants to learn to grin will be patiently taught by Zhang Hong.