Why did ancient people get married at dusk?

The ancients believed that dusk was the time when yin and yang communicated, and the same should be true for the union of men and women, so it was performed at dusk.

In ancient times, there were many etiquettes for getting married. The betrothal letter refers to the letter that the man gave to the woman when he proposed marriage. The letter of gift is the list of the betrothal gift given by the man. The document is the document that the man gave to the woman when he came to welcome the bride. These are the so-called three letters.

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1. Six wedding etiquettes: A marriage must go through six etiquettes, that is, six etiquettes, before it can be counted. These etiquettes are the six etiquettes of nacai, asking for names, naji, nazheng, asking for date, and welcoming in person.

After the man completes the preparations for the proposal of marriage, the man’s family needs to prepare gifts for the woman. Then the girl’s birth horoscope is used for divination to ask for her name. After the divination shows that there is nothing wrong with the two parties’ horoscopes, they prepare a gift and inform the woman’s family that it is Najib before the wedding.

The groom's family will bring the bride-price, gift money and betrothal gift to the bride's family, which is called the collection. All the previous steps have been completed, which is to choose an auspicious day to get married, which is called the invitation period, and take the mother-in-law to the groom's home in a sedan chair, and then complete the prayers and prayers at the groom's home.

After the rituals of the earth and ancestors, they are sent to the bridal chamber before the ceremony is completed.

2. Bride's sedan chair In ancient traditional weddings, there was almost always a sedan chair. Except for some poor families, or those who wanted to keep concubines, they usually used a sedan chair to take the bride to the groom's house. In ancient times, there were horse-drawn carriages.

Horses and other means of transportation, but after the Tang Dynasty, there were clear regulations that horse-drawn carriages could not be used for marriage. By the Northern Song Dynasty, flower eaves appeared, and this method has been used ever since. Gradually, more and more people used it, that is,

It’s been passed down.

3. Bridal Room Etiquette Regarding the etiquette, it was really complicated in ancient times. The bridal chamber etiquette also includes sitting in the tent, spreading the tent, and scattering the lucky fruits into the tent, which means "early establishment of a son". It is a very important etiquette in ancient times.

Secondly, there is the etiquette of joining the wedding ceremony, which is the so-called handing over a cup of wine. In some dynasties, there is also the process of tying hair. The hair belonging to the newlyweds is tied together with a rope, which means that the couple has a beautiful life as husband and wife.