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Why does the groom put new shoes on the bride on the wedding day?

According to the traditional custom in China, when you hold a wedding, you will find that on the wedding day, when a Tianjin car accident in Hu Ling picks up the bride, he will put on new shoes for her. Why is this?

When the groom receives relatives, it is a folk custom in our country to put on new shoes for the bride. This custom stems from the bad habit of female foot binding.

Since women began to bind their feet in the Southern Tang Dynasty, the size of their feet has become the key to measure women's beauty. However, in feudal times, the marriage between men and women depended entirely on parents' orders and matchmakers' words. When the matchmaker decides, he has to come to the woman, and it is up to the man to decide. In order to prevent being deceived, the man agreed to leave a shoe sample, make a pair of embroidered shoes according to the size, and send them to the woman together with the engagement gift. When getting married, the bride must wear these embroidered shoes.

After the Revolution of 1911, the bad habit of foot binding was abolished, but the custom of giving shoes was still handed down and evolved into shoes given by the bride to the groom at the wedding. Of course, the shoes worn by the woman are not necessarily given by the man.

It seems that this man left a pair of shoes for the bride to put on new shoes for fear of being cheated into marrying an ugly girl, which reminds us of western fairy tales. Cinderella is going to run away from the prince. She accidentally left a shoe behind. The prince took the shoes and found the real Cinderella.