Why do we need to wear red shoes for marriage?

In the traditional Chinese wedding customs, the bride must wear red shoes, because the red shoes are linked to the connotation of our entire Chinese culture, the Chinese people take red as an auspicious color, but also symbolizes the Chinese ancestor fire god! For the Chinese people, red represents fire, prosperity, and is an auspicious color. In ancient times every bride to get married, need to personally do a pair of shoes, but must choose the red fabric made of red shoes, but also embroidered with dragons, phoenixes have this symbolic auspicious patterns, which is also a symbol of the marriage, the family is full of harmony, happiness.

Wedding customs in the wedding shoes

In China, marriage is regarded as a ruler and subject, father and son, the hierarchy of the fundamental, the key to the rise and fall of the family, unmarried men and women's lifelong affairs, not only by the court, the government, parents, matchmakers, and the interference of the whole society attaches great importance to the widespread concern. This is highlighted in the grand and cumbersome ceremonies of Chinese weddings as well as the specific dress.　Shoes for the old wedding mascot, mainly focusing on its sound, "shoes" "harmony" harmony, is a couple of two love harmony, harmony and good luck symbol. Old wedding customs, the bride dowry often have a bronze mirror and shoes, meaning "together with the old" meaning.

Traditional wedding customs in the wedding shoes are mainly three kinds:

One is the zodiac shoes. Ancient marriage to choose the auspicious day of the zodiac, the bride in the sedan chair to wear a yellow cloth folded into the shoes, called "sedan chair shoes", also known as "Zodiac shoes", to the husband's home and then change the red wedding shoes.

The second is to step on the shoes. In some places, it refers to the shoes worn by women when they get married, and in some places, it refers to the shoes worn by the bride from the head to the open face. After the open face, to change another new shoes, will step on the shoes to the bottom of the bed, let it rot in the bottom of the bed, no longer see people, in order to show that the bride will not be married twice in this life. Another said, step on the hall shoes early rotten early child.

Third is the sleeping shoes. Sleeping shoes is the old women's cavernous bedtime shoes, because it is a pair of thin and lightweight soft-soled shoes, it is also known as the "soft shoes", bedtime needs to be taken off by the groom himself. The rich and noble families also hidden in the shoes to men and women as the content of the painting, after taking off the shoes to bed by the bride and groom to see.

Shoes and the relationship between sex

Feet and shoes can be associated with sex and reproduction, mainly for the following reasons: First, from the appearance of the characteristics of the bottom of the foot as the female yin, and the formation of the feet and feet together with the aperture can be seen as a "tool for illegal sperm". Therefore, the shoes, together with the feet, have a sexual meaning.

Shoes and taboos

In Shandong, the bride is taboo to wear red shoes, because red symbolizes the fire pit, wearing red shoes to get married, is to jump into the fire pit, over the days of hot water, inauspicious. Hebei and other places to wear red shoes, symbolizing the first marriage; remarried women, not allowed to wear red shoes, only green shoes. In some places, the material of happy shoes with satin, which has a direct relationship with the breeding of offspring. Because the "satin" and "broken son" harmonics, symbolizing the severance of children and grandchildren, and therefore very unlucky.