Chinese wedding What are the etiquette and manners?

Welcome the bride The auspicious day arrives, the groom should personally lead the ceremonial battle to welcome the marriage. The man to the woman's home to meet the bride. To enter the geese as a gift, "rituals" is called 奠雁. Geese are only married once in a lifetime. In order to express the couple's chastity, the qin and se, the good wishes of old age. Qing Dynasty Beijing wedding. Most of the tendency to imitate the imperial ceremonies, a person at the forefront of the dress horseback riding responsible for the road and then in turn is to avoid the card, drummers, guillotine gongs decorated lights, flags and so on. At the same time the gold melon, battle-axe, stirrups and other weapons are also arranged in the ranks of the honor guard. The groom rides a horse or sits in a green sedan chair in front of the bride's embroidered red sedan chair. The bride's embroidered red sedan chair followed in the back, it is really impressive, here and now the groom is better than the scholar and the first no wonder that said the marriage is a "small Dengke".

The sedan chair arrives at the door of the woman's home, the woman's home must be closed. This is called stopping the door. Male outside knocking, urging the bride on the sedan chair. At this point, there will be some polite reply, the female home must be someone in the courtyard to red through the door. Stop the door to a certain time, the male party can only enter the door.

After entering the door, in addition to the special hustle and bustle, the male party to send gifts. These gifts vary greatly depending on the time and place but all have a festive meaning.

The return journey of the marriage. Must go the other way. That is, "do not go back". If the road encountered temples, wells, shrines, graves, boulders and trees, etc., should be open felt to the sedan chair speed up in order to ward off evil spirits.

Bidding

Marriage sedan chair and ceremonial return to the door of the male family, the male family is also routinely closed, said to be able to brake the bride's nature. After the door opened, the sedan chair carried into the courtyard to be the first over the fire pit. Sending relatives and the bride's brother, with the sedan chair into the eight courtyard to rest the male family to wine feast hospitality.

Old times. After the bride entered the door. To spread some grain, beans, grass and so on. The intention is to ward off evil spirits - the three evils (the gods of the green goat, chicken, green cow) three evils are busy pecking. Will not jeopardize the bride. Now the bride out of the sedan chair (car) to withdraw colored confetti, perhaps from this.

The sedan chair hour to the sedan chair to the door of the hall. At this time the groom first to the door of the sedan chair to make three bow. By the bridegroom's wife to open the door of the sedan chair. By the bridesmaids to assist the bride out of the sedan chair. Then handed the bride a small porcelain bottle bottle filled with grains and yellow and white ring two or four. The bride to the bottle in her arms and then by the bridesmaids and Mrs. bridegroom support, walking slowly. The bride is supported by her bridesmaids and the wife of the bridegroom, who then walks slowly. At this time, the groom has stood in front of the case of heaven and earth God holding a bow and arrow to the bride to shoot three arrows lightly on the body. To drive away evil spirits. Archery posture is to shoot an arrow back a step, and then the bride across the saddle to go basin, after these rituals, in front of the case for the wedding ceremony. Commonly known as "worship heaven and earth". Into the bridal chamber after worshiping heaven and earth, the bride into the bridal chamber. Bride and groom into the bridal chamber. Ceremony is also a series of. The first is to sit on the tent. Also known as sitting in the blessing". Bride and groom sitting on the edge of the bed or the bed in the bridal chamber, the groom will be his left lapel on the bride's right lapel. That the man should overwhelm the woman head to head. But also to spread the happy fruit in the tent called "spread tent" generally scattered items are dates, chestnuts, peanuts, etc., the use of harmonic representation of the "early child", spend with the birth of ".

The next program is to eat the children and grandchildren meat and potatoes. The children and grandchildren of the meat and potatoes is to send the wife from the female family to bring. After eating the children and grandchildren meat and potatoes, and eat longevity noodles, longevity noodles are prepared by the male family, take the children and grandchildren of all generations. Longevity noodles are prepared by the man's family to take the meaning of "longevity". Then there is "fm radio" wine, also known as fm radio. With a red thread rope. Each end of a wine cup, the bride and groom each drink half a cup. Then exchange the cups and drink the wine in the cup. The ceremony is held in the bridal chamber. Then set up a table in the hall. Commonly known as the "reunion dinner". Asked the bride and groom to sit on the seat, other guests are sitting with the seat, said from now on to become a family name.

"Cave" custom since the two Han Dynasty has been prevalent since ancient times. In addition to the cave in addition to amusement. There are other meanings such as the cave to make a lively red-hot, drive away the feeling of coldness. Increase the joyful atmosphere of the newlyweds. Therefore, some places also known as the "warm room in the old days, men and women combined with more than introduced to each other and not familiar with the cave can make them eliminate the constraints.

In the modern Chinese wedding. Drinking the cup of wine and cave customs basically retained but have been moved to the wedding ceremony. For example, the wedding game is the inheritance and evolution of the custom of the caveman.

According to traditional Chinese etiquette, a man and a woman need to get married in the "three matchmakers and six hires", also known as the three books and six rites. The "three books" refer to the documents exchanged in the process of the rituals are the "book of appointment" - exchanged at the time of betrothal, the "book of rites" -- exchanged at the time of the big ceremony, "welcome book" -- handed over by the man to the woman at the time of welcoming the bride. The "six rites" refers to the formalities from the marriage proposal, matchmaking to the wedding and marriage consummation. Specifically: Na Li. The man's family invites people to prepare gifts to the woman's family to propose marriage, matchmaking. Ask the name: the male family in the big red posters written down on the man's name, ranking, the eight characters of the birth date, sent by the matchmaker to the woman's home. If the woman's family is interested in marriage, the girl's name, eight characters, etc. written on the please account for. Naji: If the eight characters of the man and the woman do not collide with each other, the marriage will be initially agreed upon. Naji: This is also known as the ceremony. Similar to today's engagement. Please date: choose an auspicious date to finish the marriage. In the old days, choosing an auspicious day is usually a bi-monthly double day. Do not like to choose three, six, November.

Welcome: wedding day. The man with the bride to meet the book from the woman's home to marry the bride.

Towel wedding customs

Bed

A few days before the wedding. Choose an auspicious day. The new couple's new bed will be placed in the new room, the bedding, bed sheets laid out. And then laid on the dragon and phoenix quilt, was sprinkled with various kinds of fruit. Such as peanuts, jujubes, cinnamon, lotus seeds and so on. Means that the newcomer early birth.

The cave

Old provisions. Groom's peers brothers can make the new room, the old people think "new people do not make no hair. The more they do, the more they do". And can drive away evil spirits for the newcomers. After the wedding as auspicious.

Dowry

Dowry is the woman's family accompanied, is the woman's family status and symbol of wealth. The dowry is sent to the husband's family no later than the day before the wedding. Of course, the customs and instructions are different from place to place.

Red umbrellas

On the day of the wedding, the bride's sisters or bridesmaids assisted by the bride out of the door of the mother's home to stand in the open air. Sisters or bridesmaids in the bride's head open a red umbrella. Meaning. To spread branches and leaves． And to the sky and the top of the umbrella to sprinkle rice.

The sedan chair

The sedan chair has been a central part of traditional weddings since the Southern Song Dynasty. Sub-four people carry. Eight people carry two kinds. There is a dragon sedan chair, sedan chair. Sedan chair body red mantle Cui cover, embroidered above the dragon and phoenix. Silk spikes hanging from the corners.

Flags, gongs and umbrella fans:

In the welcoming team, before the sedan chair. So that the whole ceremony to meet the bride lively, spectacular.

Firecrackers:

Welcoming sedan chair on the way, should be all the way to firecrackers to celebrate.

Cape:

Married women's families, rich or poor on the wedding clothes are very elaborate, wearing a red jacket. The footsteps of the embroidered shoes, the waist tasseled belt. The waist is tied with a tasseled belt. Under an embroidered colorful skirt. Wearing a "phoenix crown" decorated with pompoms, beads and jade pendants. Then draped over the shoulders of a brocade embroidered with a variety of auspicious designs "cape".

Covering the head.

Anciently, the bride was wearing cape at the same time with a red cloth cover. To cover the shyness and evil spirits, the red take the meaning of good luck. This piece of cover to eight cave by the groom to open. Saddle "saddle" "safe" the same sound, take its "peace" long meaning. More than placed in the bridal chamber when the threshold of the bridal chamber. Let the bride across, said the bride across the saddle. A world of peace.

Fire bowl.

Placed outside the door of a pot of fire, so that the bride across the past, implying that the wedding day red hot.

The heaven and earth table is placed in the courtyard, the table on the big bucket, ruler, scissors, mirror abacus scale. Known as "six evidence". Meaning "six evidence can know how much food in the family, how much cloth, clothes, good or bad, how to look, whether the accounts clear things light and heavy and so on. Folk say that only "three matchmakers and six certificates" means that the new marriage is reasonable and legal. Waiting for the auspicious time to hold a wedding ceremony commonly known as "worship heaven and earth". Weighing rod eight after the cave. The groom used the scale pole to pick off the bride's red head to mean "good luck".

Candles

At the wedding, the use of large red pairs of candles lit in the hall and the cave room. They are called "flower candles" because they are decorated with gold, silver, dragon and phoenix paintings.