Recognize relatives before marriage

1. What do you mean by getting married and recognizing relatives?

Marrying and recognizing relatives refers to the first visit of family members when men and women get married in the old society, that is, the first meeting of relatives of men and women at the wedding. The source can be seen in the third and second story of Legend of Heroes of Children: "There are still aunts and in-laws to recognize their relatives, so knock again!" .

Generally speaking, it is to meet each other's parents and relatives. It was meant to let you get to know each other better before you get married. Now it's just a formality.

Second, the process of marriage and recognition.

The betrothal is that after the two sides have confirmed their wishes to get married and the matchmaker has made clear the ideological work, the two sides can begin to prepare for the betrothal.

And "recognizing relatives" means meeting each other's parents. Some places are called "housekeeping". In most areas, recognizing relatives means that the woman goes to the man's house. On the wedding day, the woman, the introducer and her relatives will go to the man's house together, just in time to get something for the man's parents. Met, the man's parents to give the woman a red envelope, generally not less than 200 yuan. The wedding is not held immediately after the approval of relatives. The wedding date is discussed at the time of "looking at the house", and it is not necessarily decided at that time, mainly because of intention.

The process of recognizing relatives and offering tea:

Male left female right kneeling, the groom kneeling in front of his father, the bride kneeling in front of his mother;

Respect the parents of the bride first, and then respect the parents of the groom;

The bride and groom have served tea to their parents;

After drinking tea, the elders will send red envelopes or jewelry as a blessing to the couple, and the couple should accept it with both hands.