The dowry is bought by the man or the woman

The dowry is bought by the woman and paid for by the man. One place one custom.

Introduction

In traditional Chinese customs, the dowry is the most important garment in a girl's life, most of them are made by the girl herself or her mother since childhood, until the completion of the marriage, the dowry is also a girl's girlhood all the dreams, and the expectations of the family.

Anciently, the folk custom of the bride's traditional wedding clothes are: head wearing a phoenix crown, face covered with a red square scarf, upper body wearing a red juan shirt, jacket embroidered red robe, neck set collar Tianguan locks, chest hanging demon mirror, shoulder cape, shoulder crossbody a child and grandchildren's bags, arm wrapped in the "fixed hand of silver"; underneath with a red skirt, red pants, red satin embroidered shoes, a thousand charming, a red, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy. A red, joyful.

Anciently, the dowry must be tailor-made, hand-sewn, in order to show its precious and unique, in recent years, the review of traditional Chinese customs for more and more people to accept, dowry customization is gradually into the ordinary Chinese families.

Customs

Fuyang, Zhejiang Province, when the sedan chair carried to the woman's home, placed on top of the dustbin, the bride began to make up and change clothes, change the small shirt and pants, to stand in the steamer trunks above the red cotton jacket and red cotton pants. Interestingly, the head is wearing a good crown, ready to wear a big red skirt, to take 12 eggs from the waist of the pants down, rolled out from under the trouser leg, it is said that this can make the bride after the wedding regardless of the month of the birth of a child are like a hen laying eggs general, fast when, smooth.

Quanzhou, Fujian, the old custom of the bride before the wedding dress called "maturity ritual". When the sedan chair arrives, the bride in the bride's companion guide to the hall combing, commonly known as the "sedan chair combing". By a blessed woman called "Bin" for her plus maturity, and then by the bride to serve the bride back, "Bin" for the bride to wear a belly skirt, belly skirt made of red cloth, skirt inside the bag, the bag into the soap pods, Iron Caiwei, mud children, pork slices and other 18 things.

Guangxi Cangwu a bride to be married to wear black, black pants, black socks, black shoes, peculiarly staggering. Zhejiang Shengxian mountainous area, the bride shall wear plain clothes on the sedan chair, to the male family before changing the wedding ceremony. Jiangsu Jingjiang area of the bride to get married, but also - body plain dress: soil green cloth, soil green cloth skirt, commonly known as "duster grass clothes, duster grass skirt," until now wear even more fashionable, and then the girl, to the wedding also have to try to do a set of soil green cloth dress to put on.

The old custom of the bride's dress in northern Shaanxi is very funny. Prepare for the sedan chair bride, dressed in red, green pants, shoes, flowers on the head, a thousand charming, but the rules to use pots of black to the bride's beautiful face painted black, with the flamboyant costumes formed a big contrast. Superstition says that if you do not do this, the bride on the way to the wedding to be intercepted by ghosts and monsters.