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How about the Xi'an wedding customs?

Ancient weddings have

Six Rites

" (

One Nacai, two ask name, three Naji, four Naji, five please period, six to welcome the bride

)

Proposal of Marriage

Men and women marriage event, according to the parents' order, by the matchmaker collusion

Gung sticker

(age, birthdate eight

words)

Pressed on the Zaojun statue in front of the bottom of the net teacups,

To measure the divine will.

If there are no bowls and lamps cracked,

rancid meals,

family quarrels,

dogs and cats disturbed, etc.

anomalous

circumstances in your home within three days, then please ask the fortune-teller to

Platoon eight characters

, to see whether the year geng match, Zodiac resonance. In the old days, some people

superstitious so-called six years of big rush, three years of small rush; male marriage age meets double, the woman nineteen do not get married; said the chicken and dog

(

Chicken and dog do not and

)

, dragon and tiger

(

Dragon

Tiger fighting

)

, tiger and goat

(

Sheep fall into tiger's mouth

)

Snake and rat

(

Snake swallows rat

)

It is difficult to match them, so wait until you think it is a good idea to talk about marriage.

Being engaged

Before being engaged to discuss marriage,

Beginning to discuss marriage

Small Gift

In the era of buying and selling marriages are bargained for.

Generally

four yanghong

six yanghong

" (

silk

satin garments four to six pieces

)

, two gold rings and a pair of gold earrings; bride price, thirty-six small, sixty-four medium, and one hundred

twenty

(

silver won

)

; food, number

Tan ranges from 2

tan to 8

tan, which is why Sangnang is known as

Old Wine Beng Beng Beng

. After the betrothal, the man carries the above gifts to the woman in a bar box. The woman returned the gifts

mostly gold balls, oil bags and embroidery made by the girl. The proof of betrothal, the man sent

over the book

, commonly known as

Red and green paper

(two layers of paper)

red on the outside and green on the inside

)

The woman sends

Return Post

recognition,

commonly referred to as

Wen Ding

So in the old days when couples quarrel, the wife used to say that I have

Red and green book paper

, as a way to inhibit their husbands. Following

Wen Ding

after choosing an auspicious day for the wedding, the day is picked by a day-changing shop

Good Day

. Gifts from family and friends, weddings are mostly

cash, or a happy hanging scroll, happy shaft, and written with

100 years of good luck, five generations of prosperity

Heavenly love

and so on. Most of the wedding gifts are embroidered or silk

satin quilt tops, quilt heads or daily utensils, but there are also red dates, peanuts, cinnamon, lotus seeds, which imply

Early child

meaning.

In the old days, it was customary for the matchmaker not to drink tea when he first entered the house,

Matchmakers don't drink tea

Saying that drinking tea would dilute the marriage.

Also known as matchmaking

Matchmaking Hundred Cupboards

, matchmaking into being able to eat

Hundred Meals

, to be rewarded with

Thanks to the matchmaker wine

, but after the marriage, such as husband and wife do not get along with or mother-in-law and daughter-in-law do not get along with, the matchmaker has

mediation responsibility.

Bridal

Please eat wine

The day of welcoming the bride is called

Good Day

. As the proverb goes

Please eat wine and brandish your birthday

, before the good day the groom takes the red paper

Chee-sheet

Invite elder

relatives and friends to have wedding wine

(

Good Day Wine

)

, and the elders have to write a

Knowing

word under their names. Before the wedding day, the custom of waiting to be married, both

parents invite their sons and daughters to eat buns, arkshells, elbows, chestnuts, and lotus seeds, and to ask for

five sons to get into the world

lots of money. Three or five days before the good day,

the man sends the woman

palanquin front stanchions

, usually geese

only, meat

square, fish

tails and so on. p>tails, etc.

Looking at the dowry

The man goes to the woman's side to carry the dowry

(

Dowry

)

, and the woman puts the dowry in the hall and lets people look at it, which is called

Looking at the dowry

. .

Draped in red colored threads, the clothes were perfumed with sandalwood incense, and several silver dollars were placed in the bottom of the box, commonly known as

Pressing the box of money

. The dowry money is moved to the man's side and displayed

in the hall for viewing, also called

seeing the dowry money

. By the grandmother to take the woman's key bag, take the key to open the box, commonly known as

Take out the box

Anchor the bed best man

Welcome to the first day of the marriage, the male party to

Anchor the bed

, by a

Quanfu

woman, take

pairs of chopsticks tied with red thread,

placed under the groom's mat,

Called

An bed

one to three nights before the wedding,

by a small ingenue

(

boy

)

accompanied by a bridegroom sleeping with him,

sleeping in the the inside of the bed,

called

Best Man

This little ingenue is to be given buns,

peanuts, and

eggs at night,

the fable

bao to have a son

meaning,

to be

good

day

when you leave on that morning, you have to give a red packet, which is commonly referred to as

Taking out the bottle of urine

Opening the face

Women's household bridesmaids use five-color cotton yarn for the bride's family to strand sweaty hairs on the face, commonly known as

Opening the face

contains now beauty meaning

)

Guests Xing eat

Kaemin soup fruit

. Sedan chair door, the woman's family put cannonballs to welcome the sedan chair, then the false door

stop sedan chair door

, to be stuffed into the red packet

began to open. The sedan chair shall be parked sedan chair door facing outward, the woman's home, someone burning red candles, holding a mirror, to the sedan chair to shine, said the expulsion of hidden sedan chair

within the ghosts, said

Search the sedan chair

. The woman's family at noon for the main wine, commonly known as

open face wine

, also called

starting marriage wine

upon the sedan chair

The bride on the sedan chair before,

Three times by the male bride,

feigned unwillingness to get married,

Lazy grooming

(of course, there are also feudal marriages

Marriage really do not want to be), and then sit on the mother's lap, the mother for the daughter to feed the sedan chair rice, meaning do not forget the grace of nurturing. More different customs are

three: one,

Crying on the sedan chair

. Daughter on the sedan chair, the mother cried to send, crying words are mostly praise, exhortation words, there are:

nui ah nui, nong lift

to go heh, baking sound ah! You're going alone, and you're going to lead the way

! "

You honor your in-laws, honor your blessings, honor your husband with food

etc.,

The bride was moved to emotionally tearful goodbyes. Secondly,

Hold the sedan chair

. The bride is carried to the sedan chair by her elder brother, and after sitting in the sedan chair, her buttocks are not allowed to move casually

, which implies that she is safe and sound. Third,

Pouring fire chimney ash

. The bride put under the seat of a burning charcoal, spices, fire chimney, sedan chair

after the sedan chair bar resting on a mat, commonly known as

sedan chair fire chimney, sedan chair mat

. When the sedan chair, the woman's family set off cannonballs, and tea, rice

granules sprinkled sedan chair roof. The bride's brother with the sedan chair, called

Send the sedan chair

. In the city, the sedan chair is carried around to places such as Chitosebang or Sanfaxing

(

place name

)

in order to ask for

chitose

Three hairs

Colorful head. Brothers sent to the midway that is to return, and should be packaged point fire chimney ash back, and from the kindling of incense or

cigarettes, return home to the fire bowl, commonly known as

pouring fire chimney ash

, also known as

catch the kindling of the fire, and the fire bowl.

Catch the fire

Worship

The sedan chair enters the door,

and the man's family plays music and releases cannonballs to welcome the sedan chair.

Palanquin door unloaded after the stop,

by a five or six-year-old young girl in full costume

(

commonly known as

out

palanquin little girl

welcome the bride out of the palanquin, the bride with the hands of the slightest pull on her sleeve three times! The bride will then leave the sedan chair. The bride out of the sedan chair door first across a red lacquered wooden

made

saddle

, step red felt, by the bridesmaids to help stand on the right side of the Hall of Happiness position. At that time, the groom heard the sedan chair into the door, that is, pretending to hide elsewhere,

By holding the flower candle small ingenious please

(

Find

)

Back to stand on the left side. The Hall of Happiness layout is the same as everywhere, the worship ceremony is slightly different, there is the main incense Gong Gong, more

by the groom's grandfather or granduncle as. The main incense and the groom, the bride are to follow the sound of praise action. The chansei shouts: "Let's perform the temple ceremony and play

music

! (

Music

)

The main celebrant goes to the incense case and kneels, all of them kneeling! Bow down, bow down again, bow down again, bow down again, bow down again! Kowtow, kowtow again, kowtow three times! Those who praise the ceremony

then sing: Rise, level your body, and reset your position! Kneel, all crisp! And then he sang: "Rise, worship! I, worship! Rise and worship! And again: Kneel, all

crisp, and read the blessing! A young ingenue of thirteen or fourteen years old kneels on the right side of the worship bench and reads it

(

Read it beforehand, don't misread it

)

. The praiser then

sings, "Rise, worship! Rise, worship! Rise, worship! The whole process is collectively known as

Three prostrations, nine kowtows, six ascending obeisances

. Finally the praiser sings:

After the ceremony, he retires from the class and is sent to the cave! In the meantime, the groom, the bride in the hall, there are robbing the front kneeling custom, who knelt in front, to

after the latter can be controlled, to make a side worship kicking cushions, the groom whisked his sleeve and refused to worship jokes.

Endurable worship ceremony,

By two small ingenious holding the dragon and phoenix flower candle guide line,

groom color balls and ribbons to lead the bride into the bridal chamber.

Feet

should be stepped on the sacks walking,

general

only,

there are also

only sacks,

walked through a,

Happiness bridesmaids and so on and passed in front of the paved the way,

means

Passing on the family

Five generations meet

. After entering the bridal chamber, sit on the edge of the bed according to the left side of the man and the right side of the woman, called

sitting on the bed

, by a woman of blessed longevity

weakly knocking on the bride's head with a scale rod, and then picking off

, meaning

Weighing the heart

, which means

Please square scarf

. Groom slightly

sitting that is out, the bride change makeup, guests eat

change makeup soup fruit

. And then, the bride and groom perform

Baying ceremony

, on the affinity, generation in order

kneeling to meet, said

Meet the size of

. Worship when the music, the hall set up a large seat two, the couple to worship the same seat, such as a deceased, it is also

according to the male left and female right seated,

the other hand empty.

By the gift of red envelopes to the bride,

Commonly known as

Meet the money

In-laws may not pay out red envelopes,

Said

daughter-in-law

Women's own family

The bride meets with her peers and bows to them,

and if the younger generation meets with her,

the bride also gives

Meet the money

After the

Holding

To be feast

The bride sits at the head of the banquet, and is accompanied by

women to advise the bride to eat, but the bride does not really eat. After the feast, the bride accompanied the bride to the kitchen line

pro-cutting ceremony

The custom of fishing for vermicelli, touching the loach, etc., so-called on the kitchen.

Helang wine

Baidang night, the male family for the good day of the main table wine, called

Helang wine

, the bride shall be table by table and place by place for the elders and the guests poured

wine, wine should be poured full and can not be trickled out. Drink wine, dishes more mandarin ducks name, music playing hundred birds to the phoenix, dragon and phoenix to present good luck. During the banquet, the new

mother on the hot dishes

(

change soup

)

when the bride shouted: bride for soup

(

change makeup

)

give your hands

After the banquet, the happy family invites two blessed and virtuous guests

to the bridal chamber to perform the

Three Sips of Wine

ritual to the bride and groom, and every time they enter a bottle of wine

(

the bride and groom take only one sip

)

(

the bride and groom take only one sip

)

The bride and groom are invited to the bridal chamber.

)

exchanging the next glass of wine with each other. The main celebrant

has to sing the words of the bridegroom's congratulations, which are both playful and peaceful, such as: "The first cup of wine is for the bridegroom, if you have anything to say, I'm afraid that people will want to

listen to the room". The second cup of wine is to congratulate the bridegroom, to discuss things in the room in secret, so as to prevent others from coming to Zhang

(

see

)

. The third cup of wine to congratulate the groom, wishing the husband

wife to reach old age together, and giving birth early to a noble son, the scholar.

It is the night, there is the custom of noisy new room, the proverb:

three days without size

. The bride on the day of the wedding not much to speak with the guests, noisy room first

tease the bride to open up, look at the buttons of their clothes, five buttons said

five sons of Dengkuo

, look at the condyles of their feet, said to look at the old birthday boy. To

midnight to disperse. Groom with out to see off the guests, the bride began to bedding, the bride that is rewarded with a red envelope, the bride is not enough to pretend to stand not to go, to be increased

After the increase before going out. The bride closed the door to the room, the newcomer **** eat

Bed fruit

. The groom goes to bed, the bride

sits on the flower candles

, the flower candles must not be blown out, and the candles

exhausted before going to bed.

There are still in the daytime to do a good job,

night prying door jump window into the new room to move away from the groom's clothes,

Noisy room success,

newcomer to

punish the money out of sweets, cigarettes.

After the marriage

Return to the door

The day after the marriage to get up, the groom shall open the door of the room. On that day, the male party prepared a sedan chair to invite A-Uncle, A-Uncle received refreshments after three,

retreat to A-mei's new room to rest. Luncheon, please A-Uncle sitting in the chief, called

will kiss wine

, avoid hairy crabs

(

niang-uncle banter called hairy crabs

)

. After the banquet,

with a portable sedan chair to pick up the groom to accompany the bride back to her mother's home,

called

returning to the door

with the sedan chair to send

watch the mother's plate

One quart.

Feast at the in-laws' home

Birth head son-in-law

Do not use the ice-sugar turtle.

Banquet return,

The bride out of the sedan chair door,

guests who love to make a mess in advance to twenty or thirty benches from the sedan chair in front of the pavement to

new room door, set up as

Fairy Bridge

The bridegroom to assist Bride from

Bridge

over, guests laugh and urge, if the step is steady, then in front of the new house

Bridge

Stool and then stacked bench a bench, and handed an oil bag, to the bride's mouth to bite the oil bag to walk through, beautifully called

Carp jumping

Dragon Gate

. On the third day,

Three days in the kitchen, wash your hands and make soup

, the bride goes into the kitchen and cooks sugar noodles to be distributed to the four neighbors.

Full Moon Plate

Newlyweds in a month,

Parents-in-law send a gift of a quart,

Said

Full Moon Plate

And a number of gift certificates,

Various amounts,

for the son-in-law's family to thank you for the gift.

For the son-in-law's family to thank the wedding staff, commonly known as

Flower smile ticket

In the old days there was a great disparity between the rich and the poor,

Above all, it is the affluent and middle-class people.

As for the poorer families, they cut a double happiness character out of cardboard,

paste

golden paper on it, hang it on the wall, a pair of candles and a lame sedan chair, and then they will be married.

And nowadays, Xi'an people organize weddings,

from the ancient times inherited some old customs,

of course, there are also a lot of complicated things gradually

was simplified. Xi'an wedding customs in the "four kinds of rituals", is a man and woman in the family elders attach great importance to a ritual; whether you are

, or

; whether you do Chinese, or Western style, the "four kinds of rituals" are all part of the wedding program. "

An important part of the wedding program that cannot be

missed! Send a good, satisfied with the family, send a bad, the family angry not to mention, I'm afraid it will also affect you today

after the small life.

"Four gifts" one: "heart meat"

As the saying goes, "a knife cut, six pounds or so, four ribs, three layers of five flowers and even with the skin." This piece of meat is quite a story

The, called "heart meat". According to research and evidence, the general family of the girl child at birth, are almost six pounds or so; this

six pounds but from the mother's body dropped, naturally, is the mother's "heart meat", not easy to raise adults, and now once married, this "six pounds

around "

This is the first time that a new son-in-law has to return to his mother-in-law's bar.

Therefore, when the groom buys meat

(

food market

)

, be sure to specify that it is the "send four

kind of gift" with the meat, pick fresh, with ribs, five flower three layer also with the skin with the meat,

. "Four kinds of gifts" of two: "lotus dishes"

(

also called lotus root

)

This lotus root is not used for cooking, the shape of its two roots are also to be born together, the growth of strong, nodes born twigs, branches to branches, the roots of the root

This lotus root is not used for cooking, its shape is also to be two roots, the growth of strong, nodes born twigs, branches to branches.

The kind that is wrong with the roots

, there are big and small, but there must not be broken. This lotus root has a "succession of children" meaning to symbolize the successive birth of his

a "five sons to ascend to the top" or something, however, family planning is the basic national policy, this has a "even child" effect The lotus dishes have a new idea,

that is, even the son, and piggyback on the grandson; I have no intention of promoting the "son preference" of the old traditions, but you

have to admit: this idea is y rooted in the minds of many people! It's hard to change it overnight. In the same way, when you buy a "lotus vegetable"

(

root

)

(

food market

)

, you have to specify that it's for the "four gifts". " used.

Four gifts "of the third: smoke

Smoke means: take "smoke" and "marriage", meaning the marriage of beauty. It's best to buy two of them, in pairs, for good luck

The fourth of the four gifts: wine

Wine: meaning "forever"; it is also best to buy two bottles, in pairs, for good luck;

Marrying the bride

Early in the morning to welcome the bride caravan is already waiting outside the door

(

Generally, to welcome the bride, you need to buy two bottles of wine, and then buy two bottles of wine. p>

Generally, the number of vehicles in the caravan is odd and there is a beautifully dressed

float

Just wait for the groom and his entourage to get on the car

and then you can go straight to the bride's home and go.

Departure time is usually around

6,7

points

that is, early in the morning

Preceding the release of firecrackers

One of the first is for luck

Two are meant to inform the public of

(

The procession has already

departed

)

. When you get to the bride's house and set off a firecracker

meaning

(

the procession of welcoming the bride has arrived

then

the bride's relatives and friends will have their gates closed

and their doors closed

and waiting for the bride to ask for a share of the wedding price. waiting to ask for a share.

Caravan to the bride's home and then set off a firecracker

started to think of ways to open the door

jokes

call mother-in-law to open the door

give

Subjects of

There was a mess

A little while later the door opened

but the door to the bride's room was not yet open

and still had to go to give the portion

to say good words.

They are the ones who call the door open, and they are the ones who open the door. On the other side of the bride's home to prepare a simple breakfast has begun

Welcome to eat a few small dishes

Drinking a few mouthfuls of wine

Waiting to open the door to the bride on the float. Usually the bride is carried by the groom to the car

Of course, there is also walking to the car

There may be places where the bride from the door to enter the door feet do not touch the ground.

Here

The bride has been received

Only to go home to the door

The caravan back to the groom's home

The beginning of the bustle

The firecracker sound

for

The doorway is full of people watching

The bride is usually not easy to get out of the car

To ask for a portion of the

And it may be a big portion of the

500

blocks

1000

blocks. That kind. By this time, the groom's friends

had already prepared

there are those who blocked the door to keep out

there are those who playfully waited to take off the

groom's shoes

there are also those who waited to spread the fireworks. After the bride gets off the bus,

a small fire will be built in front of the door

the bride will have to jump over it

(

over the fire

meaning that the days are red hot

nowadays, girls are very smart

the bride is a good person,

the bride is a very good person,

the bride is a very good person.

When the fire is small

even no fire

only to jump over

What's more

The groom is directly embraced by the past. Until the bride sat on the bed in the new room

,OK,

Welcome to the end of the marriage.

Haunting the bridal chamber

The custom of haunting the bridal chamber to ward off evil spirits is found in both the north and south.

Before the newlyweds enter the bridal chamber,

in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River,

the bridegroom is required to sleep in the bridal chamber the night before,

and two girls are asked to hold red candles in their hands to illuminate the bridal chamber once beforehand;

Tianjinese people ask a team of blowing players to play inside the bridal chamber,

in order

to seek good fortune.

After the newcomer enters the room,

it is still very important to drive away the evil spirits in the room.

such as in the east rise,

the groom into the house to symbolically shoot an arrow to each of the four corners of the new

room, or holding a single knife towards each corner of the virtual cut a knife, and the song said: "a cut demon, two cut monster,

three cut demon

ghosts bad head, the four cut the God of Mourning quickly leave, laughing at the unicorn to send a son to come. " A more common custom is to build a long-lasting lamp into the new house. This is what is meant by the so-called

"Candlelight Night in the Cave Room". Some scholars say that

the custom of "listening to the room" is essentially a protective measure against ghosts and monsters entering the

cave.

Now not only is the cave happy,

cave friends and relatives,

also happy to take the opportunity to make some noise,

make all kinds of new tricks,

so that the bride and groom "sitting in the city of worries" crying and laughing.

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