How many categories of ancient Chinese weddings are there?

2 types.

1, Zhou system wedding

Wedding Zhou system, starting from ancient times to the Xia Shang, integrated in the rituals and music of the Western Zhou, carried forward in the gentleman's style of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, stabilized in the final formation of the Han nation of the Chinese ethnic groups, in the long three thousand years has always been the blueprint for the wedding of China, and ultimately into the splendor of the clouds. At that time, the wedding was still called a fainting ceremony. There was no extravagant bride price, no ostentation, no noisy feasts.

Weddings emphasize the righteousness of husband and wife and the gift of marriage, and do not consider it a thing to be noisy and noisy. In those days, the ceremony was simple and clean, without the latter's elaborate picking the cover, the cave and such complicated things, couples "**** fast and food, fm radio", and then hand in hand into the cave. The next day to see the aunt and uncle, after three months to see the family temple, from then on, the bride officially into the husband's family.

The Shang and Zhou period of the faint dress is not now people misunderstand the big red piece, but a dignified dress of basilica (basilica, black in the red color, according to the idea of the five elements, is symbolic of the sky, the most sacred color).

The bridegroom's family does not extinguish the candle flame for three days, thinking of their daughter in the light of the fire; the husband's family also does not raise music for three days, comforting the bride who misses her parents, and the whole ceremony is quiet and peaceful, but there is a shocking power in the quiet and meticulous ceremony. The quiet and beautiful ceremony that begins in the dusk reflects the breath of a long-lost civilization -- the pure, beautiful and great Han civilization that speaks directly to the heart.

2. Developmental Weddings

The term refers to later Chinese weddings that evolved gradually on the basis of the Zhou wedding system. It is a mixture of many other sources of wedding etiquette, there are many variations, so it is called "developmental".

When the wedding was slowly put in the daytime is not known, perhaps because of the war after the Han Dynasty, the night is not safe, perhaps because of the infection of Hu customs, coupled with the later wedding ceremony gradually become bigger, longer, and gradually put in the morning, so that the ceremony often lasts a day of celebration.

Unlike later weddings, pre-Qin to two Han weddings, the female father to welcome the son-in-law at the door, the etiquette is very heavy, not to mention the son-in-law of the difficult things, Tang "Feng's wenshimianlu" 6 Volume 5 cloud: "modern marriage has a barrier car, son-in-law under the son-in-law, but the fan and the view of the flowers and candles thing." Since weddings have had congratulatory guests and wedding banquets to begin with, the secular and celebratory atmosphere of weddings has gradually expanded.

The festive atmosphere of weddings was the norm for the people, but it also came from the immersion of customs around China. Hu custom wedding more festive, many of the later wedding miscellaneous customs, such as the cave, is the wedding customs of the Khitan. Crossing the fire bowl, on the other hand, comes from the Manchu. According to the Zhou ritual, the wedding is not covered, but the red head has become a symbol of the secular wedding.

Weddings in the rituals were not performed with music, there was no banquet for the guests, and there was only a special table for the bride and groom in the new room. In later times, a banquet for the guests would become an essential part of the wedding, and the haunting of the room also became a reserved program. Perhaps, we are more familiar with the wedding is: a worship of heaven and earth, two worship high hall, husband and wife to worship.

Expanded:

Chinese Wedding Wedding Taboos:

1, raw flowers are easy to wither, so the wedding taboo, only Lianzhuohua and pomegranate is not prohibited. Because the former red petals open from the heart of the leaf, the shape can be a metaphor for the intercalary woman married, honestly waiting for a husband, the latter is an oracle of many children and grandchildren.

2, the bride's clothes do not have pockets, so as not to take away the family fortune.

3, after the bed to the wedding night, the groom-to-be avoid sleeping alone in the new bed, to find a minor boy, and the groom sleeps in the new bed. Otherwise, it is commonly known as "Sleeping in an empty bed, not dead inibs, also dead some" as a bad omen.

4. On the day of the wedding, when the bride leaves the house, the aunts and sisters-in-law are to be shunned, and are not allowed to see each other off. Because "aunt" and "lonely" homophonic, and "sister-in-law" and "sweep" homophonic, both inauspicious.

5, the day of the wedding, the bride left her mother's home, everyone should cry as fast as possible, "cry hair cry hair, do not cry not hair ″ do not cry words instead of taboo.

6, three days after the wedding, the bride and groom back to the door, must be rushed back to the husband's home before sunset that day, can not stay overnight. In case there are special reasons can not go home, couples should also sleep separately, so as to avoid the bride's honeymoon blood light, rushing the mother's family to make the mother's family bad luck.

7, on the way to the wedding, if the sedan chair and the sedan chair meet, called the "happy rush", will bring bad luck. The solution is so necessary to each other firecrackers, or both sides of the matchmaker to prepare for the exchange of flowers, which is called the exchange of flowers.

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