Why do jujube chestnuts always take part in the newly-married sheet rolling activities with a sense of ceremony?

There is a custom of bookkeeping in traditional wedding customs. Now many young people also like Chinese weddings and practice bookkeeping etiquette. The most common are jujube and chestnut. Before the newlyweds entered the bridal chamber, relatives, elders or elderly women were lucky enough to have a room full of children and grandchildren, holding plates full of dates and chestnuts and throwing them into the account. Sing "Song of Scattering Accounts" while dispersing: "A handful of chestnuts, a handful of dates, and the small one runs with the big one." Because jujube is homophonic with morning, chestnut is homophonic with lizi and lizi, which contains a good wish to have a baby early.

Jujube chestnut is a widely planted plant in the north, which enriches people's diet. "The Warring States Policy" records: "There are dates and chestnuts in the north. Although the people can't cultivate it, jujube chestnuts are solid enough to feed the people. " Every family collects dates and chestnuts and plants elm willows everywhere. Jujube chestnut has largely replaced the function of grain. Jujube chestnut is a common food among the people, and it has no special meaning of having children.

"Yili" records the etiquette of the new wife to meet her in-laws, "Be happy, take a bath, change clothes, so as to meet each other as soon as possible. Clear quality, praise a woman to her aunt. Sitting in a pheasant. My uncle improvised. Seats outside the house, Nan, aunt improvise. Women hold bowls, dates and chestnuts, enter through the door, and from the west stage, worship and feast. " When a woman sees menstruation, she must use dates and chestnuts to show that she respects herself. In other words, the daughter-in-law is filial to her in-laws.

It should be too late to tell stories with dates and chestnuts. When many items are suffixed with "Zi", such as dates, chestnuts, pears, peaches, etc., jujube chestnuts are homophonic with "Jujube chestnuts", which has auspicious meanings in folk marriage customs. Jujube and chestnut symbolize beauty and are also good wishes for newly married men and women.