The wedding is a happy event in life, do you know Wenzhou wedding customs?

Marriage is a happy event in life, but before the preparation process is indeed complicated and trivial, as the saying goes, "ten miles of different winds, a hundred miles of different customs," in our Zhejiang Wenzhou is a very polite group, which is often reflected in the marriage customs, Wenzhou's wedding customs and other not too different, but rich in its own characteristics. But it is rich in its own characteristics.

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1. In Wenzhou wedding customs, the custom of sending "six samples" has been passed down for a long time and is still retained today. As for why "six"? Probably and Wenzhou preaching "six six big smooth", "good things to be linked with six" idea related.

2. Wenzhou city people marry, the day of the engagement of the man to the mother-in-law's home to send six: two carp, two cuts of meat, a chicken, a pair of pig belly, five pounds of longan, ten pounds of flower arks.

3. Then the woman back to the plate: Jiangxi bowl, lychee, cinnamon, jujubes and so on. The reason why we should send Jiangxi bowl, one is because of the good quality, more importantly, "bowl" and Wenzhou "steady" of the word "steady" homophonic, is considered to be the embodiment of good luck. It is said that when a man receives a Jiangxi bowl from a woman, he has to keep it until the wedding day before he can take it out and use it.

4. Pre-marriage "test child", Wenzhou wedding customs of the pre-marriage "test child" test is over the door daughter-in-law can not have children. Here "before the wedding" of the "wedding" generally refers to the wedding wine, rather than referring to the civil affairs department to receive a marriage license. So under the influence of this wedding custom, sometimes there will even be a child first set up the right wine and then set up the parents of the wedding wine situation, some of the flower girl or the new couple has reached the age of 6 years of age children.

5. In the past, Wenzhou wedding customs also have to firecrackers as a way to celebrate. In the 70's and 80's, because there was no refrigerator food is easy to rot, so usually choose in the winter time to eat the banquet. Early in the morning, the sound of firecrackers was already crackling outside the window, very lively. First, the man will put on three firecrackers as the opening, followed by the groom's table of friends and family will be followed by someone to buy a firecracker to put, another table will be followed by someone to see who put the firecrackers to put loud and long and more, the longer the firecrackers ringing time shows that the guests of the bride and groom's blessings for the longer and more.