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In today's Eastern European countries, most brides wear white wedding dresses. From 65438 to 2009, since Queen Victoria led the fashion in the 1940s, white gauze skirts with soft flounces have been popular in Europe, and finally replaced the traditional bridal costumes.

Family heirloom:

In Slovenia, wedding dresses are passed from mother to daughter as a symbol of good luck. So a wedding dress can be handed down for many generations and become very old. Obviously, you can't start such a transmission easily. However, if your great-grandmother didn't think of this idea, you might as well set a precedent. Even if your mother or grandmother doesn't have a long skirt that you are interested in, maybe your aunt will. If you want to buy a new wedding dress, you must choose one that can be passed down from generation to generation.

Unveil the veil:

According to the traditional Latvian wedding, the bride didn't change her wedding dress until midnight, when she left home and became a young woman. Before she leaves, she will take off her veil and give it to an unmarried woman (usually her or her husband's youngest unmarried sister).

Once the bride lifts the veil, she ends her role as a bride. After that, a relative with a female surname usually gives her a special square towel or hat to wear on her head to show that she is no longer a bride but a wife. From this point of view, their veils have roughly the same function as American bridal bouquets. Some Latvian brides even wear veils and garlands. This custom has a long history. At first, this wreath was tied by the love tree planted by the bride herself. According to the ancient tradition, girls have cultivated this kind of flower on their windowsill since childhood for their wedding day.

Tear open the wedding dress:

In many European countries, the bride herself is regarded as a very lucky symbol. In ancient times, in order to get some luck to go home, wedding guests really tore a piece from the bride's wedding dress. Today, people tear off the bride's bouquet from this custom, which is much more civilized than tearing off the bride's wedding dress.

Lucky shoes:

Other customs of taking things from the bride can be traced back to a long time ago, when the bride was symbolically kidnapped or bought by the groom. For example, at a wedding in Croatia, guests will try to steal the bride's shoes, and then the best man must pay to buy the shoes from the robbers and return them to the bride.

There was a custom at a Serbian wedding: the bride's prospective mother-in-law wanted to give her a necklace made of gold coins, but now this gift has been replaced by "stockings and a pair of fat shoes". Perhaps this gift is used to remind the bride that she has to be a busy wife after a day of public attention.

The crown of luxury:

Traditional weddings in Romania, Turkey, Georgia and Armenia all have crowned ceremonies, which is also the climax of the whole wedding. The role of the crown is to symbolize the luxury and dignity given to the newlyweds by God at the wedding. The bride and groom are crowned king and queen in their territory (their family), where people expect them to manage the family with their wisdom and sincerity.

At the wedding in Romania, the priest put a crown, usually made of gold and Shenmu, on the heads of the bride and groom. During the whole wedding, he exchanged the crowns of the bride and groom three times to symbolize their union. At weddings in Georgia, newlyweds also wear veils and wreaths on their heads. According to Armenian tradition, after the wedding, the bride and groom will wear the crown for a week and last for eight days. During the ceremony, the priest bumped the heads of the bride and groom together (gently, of course), and then put two wreaths decorated with gold thread on the newlyweds.

At Cossack weddings in eastern Russia, the groomsman and emcee sometimes hold the heavy and gorgeous crown on the heads of the bride and groom for a few minutes until the priest hints that they will put the crown on the heads of the bride and groom.

That thing on your head:

When it comes to what the bride wears on her head, the Russian bride wears a cake on her head. In the traditional three-day wedding in Russia, the bride can pile all kinds of things on her head, such as a veil, a gold-plated or silver-plated crown, a few pieces of satin or taffeta, and at the banquet on the eve of the wedding, people will also mix silver pieces, barley and oats on the heads of the bride and groom. On the wedding day, the priest first holds high the head of the couple and the statue of their protector, and then puts a wreath made of rue and absinthe on the head of the bride and groom. Later, he sprinkled hops on the bride's head as a symbol of improving her fertility. At the same time, he called the female guests attending the wedding to come forward and sprinkled flax seeds and hemp seeds on the bride and groom's head, wishing prosperity. So the wedding was over.

Various traditional customs and habits in Nanjing

"Long summer and three new tastes"

At the beginning of April in the lunar calendar, spring goes to summer, the weather gets warmer and everything is thriving. Three wheat rape has matured, cherry, green plum, loquat and other fresh fruits have been listed one after another, and various vegetables have been born in time. At this time, people naturally need to change their tastes, and Nanjing has the custom of "tasting three new things in the long summer". "Sanxin" refers to cherry, green plum and shad.

Cherry, also known as Han Tao, has two kinds, Zhu Ying and Ziying, which are sweet and delicious, and can adjust the middle and strengthen the spleen, beauty beauty. In ancient times, it was often used as a tribute to the ancestral temple, and the court also used it to give it to officials.

Plum refers to immature plums, which are sour and crisp and can be eaten with honey.

The shad swim back to the river from the coastal waters to lay eggs at the turn of spring and summer every year. The history book says: "shad leaves the Yangtze River in March, which tastes sweet, but it is bony and decays quickly." It is one of the rare fish in the Yangtze River.

"send summer"

In summer, not only the weather turns hot, but also various infectious diseases increase, and some people's digestion drops sharply, so they don't think about eating. This is called "summer". Nanjing customs include "sending summer clothes" (parents send cool pillows, feather fans and summer clothes to their married daughters) and weighing (it is said that after Chang Xia weighed himself, he would not be in summer). People in Nanjing also like to eat pea cakes. "Jinling Age" said: "Long summer tells children to ride the threshold and eat pea cakes, which means it is not summer."

"Silkworm Moon" is closed

In April of the lunar calendar, Jiangnan people also call it "silkworm month", so it coincides with the cocoon formation of silkworms. In order to avoid silkworm diseases, sericulture households in suburban counties of Nanjing are forbidden to communicate with each other during the long summer. There was a custom that "the silkworm house was forbidden to close".

Eat "black rice"

On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, farmers in suburban counties of Nanjing usually cook black, shiny, fragrant and delicious rice unique to the south of the Yangtze River, commonly known as black rice, also known as "Ami rice". It is made by mashing the stems and leaves of Celastrus glabra (Celastrus glabra), soaking in glutinous rice, and then drying and cooking. When the ancients cooked it, they had to "soak nine times, steam nine times and dry nine times", and the rice grains were tight and blue as pearls. Cooking a bowl every day can strengthen the bones and muscles, benefit qi and nourish the face, and is known as "the fairy family brings food".

Legend has it that the eighth day of April is the Buddha Bath Festival (Sakyamuni's birthday), where Buddhist disciples in the western regions worship with black rice, and Buddhists in China follow suit. Because black rice is delicious and healthy, people scramble to cook black rice and give it to relatives and friends, so it has become popular. Farmers in Lishui and other places also use black rice to make wine. Lishui black rice wine usually makes an altar when a girl is born, and can't be drunk until the girl grows up and gets married, so this wine is particularly mellow and delicious.

In the past, Nanjing people had to catch up with temple fairs, watch Buddha baths and pray for peace. Every temple fair is crowded with people and very lively.