What time did the ancient Chinese weddings take place?

In ancient China, the bride was married after dusk. The same sound of "marriage" and "dusk" in "marriage and dusk" is also an example of ancient people getting married at night, which means that women changed their family names after getting married at dusk.

1, according to historical records, "the wedding, that is to say, the ceremony at dusk, so it is said to be married". That is to say, it is the wedding at night is the Chinese people's long history of wedding customs. Read ancient books, common description of the wedding of the ancients, although since the Western Zhou down, the ancients wedding basic formation of the stereotypes, such as the "rituals" in the special "Shi Fengli", "Li Ji" also special "faint righteousness" chapter, but due to changes in Chinese society, coupled with the different nationalities of the However, due to the changes in Chinese society and the continuous integration of different ethnic groups, differences in folk wedding customs have always existed.

2. The Tang Dynasty's Duan Chengshi's "Youyang Miscellany Chopping Block" has this record: "The Northern Dynasties wedding, the green cloth mantle for the house, inside and outside the door, known as the green Lu, where the worship. Welcome the woman, the husband's family led more than a hundred people, or dozens of people, with their luxury and frugality, hostage car called the new woman son, urging out, to the new woman boarded the car is stopped. Son-in-law worship day, the women's family family guests women gathered, each with a cane to beat the son-in-law as a play music, to have a big committee." "Green cloth mantle" Yunyun solid and traditional Han Chinese wedding house is different, the ceremony is also very different from the Han tradition.

3, "Li Ji. Fainting Yi" in the rituals of welcome: "Father Biaozi and order to meet, men before women also. The son of the order to meet, the master of the feast in the temple and worship to meet outside the door. Son-in-law to carry geese into, greeted to rise to the hall, and then worship laying geese, cover the pro-received by the parents also. The son-in-law is invited to the temple and is greeted by his parents. He comes out of the temple and is greeted by his son-in-law, who is given a three-week tour of the temple and waits outside the door. Women to, son-in-law greet women to enter. *** Fm radio and fm radio, so that the body, the same honor and inferiority, in order to kiss also." From the record of "Youyang Miscellany Chopper", it seems that the wedding in the Northern Dynasties, the ceremony of handing over the worship in the door of the woman's home that is completed, and then the ceremony of welcoming the woman, more of a relic of the primitive society of bride kidnapping. This point can be confirmed from the subsequent "son-in-law worship day, the women's family relatives and guests of women gathered, each with a cane to beat the son-in-law as a play music". "Baige" is probably the son-in-law after marriage with the woman back to the door (back to the in-laws) of the meaning of the day, the woman's family and friends cane son-in-law, the righteousness of anger.

4, "The Book of Rites", the marriage, the former has been "natsui, ask the name, naji, nazheng, please period" and so on the links, the wedding day, the son of the father's orders to meet the woman, the woman's father (master) feast in the temple (ancestral temple) to tell the ancestors and to welcome son-in-law outside the door, son-in-law with the geese (now the day of the chicken), "the goose" (today's chicken), "the geese". "Mr. Wang Funshan said that it was "a great gift of the doctor", which shows the grandness of the ceremony. As for the "laying of the goose", it means that the marriage contract was accepted by the parents, and of course, it would not be like the primitive era of bride kidnapping. Welcome the bride out of the car, son-in-law need to drive and "Royal wheel three weeks", that is, let the wheel turn around three times. According to Mr. Wang said, "wheel three weeks" distance of about five feet six feet four inches. Then the man goes home first and meets him at the door, and then the fm radio (a gourd is disemboweled and one of the fm radio is fm radioed) is performed.

5. From the material quoted above, it can be seen that as late as the Northern Dynasties, the marriage customs of the barbaric era, at least in terms of ceremony, still existed, so much so that, at times, "the son-in-law was beaten with a cane...". . to the extent that there were great commissions", which is appalling to hear.

In the Tang Dynasty, "when welcoming a woman, three liters of corn were used to fill the mortar, a mat to cover the well, three pounds to plug the window, and arrows to cover the well. Three pounds to plug the window, three arrows on the door. The woman on the car, son-in-law riding and ring car three turns. The next day after the woman's wedding, her family will make millet. The woman will get into the car, and she will cover her knees with a cloth and put it over her head. When the woman is about to get into the car, she covers her face with her knees. When the woman enters the house, all the aunts and uncles go out from the door, and then enter through the door, saying that they will trample on the bride's traces. And women entering the door, the first worship pig Huo Ho Ho and stove. Marrying a woman. Couple and worship, or *** knot mirror button. And marrying a woman's home, get a new woman, Lunar month to marry a woman, do not see the aunt." (see "Youyang miscellany") in the Northern Dynasties and different, and "Rites of Passage" regulation is also very different.

6, the ancient rituals of marriage to be more complex, "Li Ji - Zeng Zi asked" said: "Women did not see the temple and died, buried in the party of the female, showing that the woman has not become a woman." Marriage of the vassal, there is also a woman to the ceremony, after three months, sent to the doctor to perform rituals, see the "Gongyang" into the ninth year of the Duke. He "note" said: "must be three months, to take a moment, enough to separate the chastity of the letter." However, in ancient times, the wedding ceremony was not really established until three months after the wedding. If separated within three months, according to the intention of the ritual, still only counts the marriage is not fully established, not counted as divorce. From this we can see that weddings are changing all the time.

In fact, the legend was written in the Western Zhou Dynasty "rituals" contained in the "Shi Fengli" is not too old, in the ancient times, marriage is simply not considered a happy event, which is why until later generations have been the faint instrument listed in the cause of the yin rites. In ancient times, only in the night to welcome the bride, car and horse dress must be black. Therefore, the wedding of the wedding writing "faint", must be in the sunset before the ceremony.

7, when the rites of passage, it is called "wedding"; women made because of their husbands, it is called "marriage". Ancient people have "faint things do not congratulate, the order of people," said, can be seen from its own. By the time of the week, this situation has changed, "the Shi faint ceremony" is included in the "five rituals" in the Jia Li, to the Han Dynasty, the emperor even want to issue an imperial edict to prohibit the civil marriage prepared food and wine to congratulate.

8, to the Tang Dynasty, "the wedding, Nacai have Acacia Jiahe, gum, nine children bushes, Zhu Reed, double stone, cotton wool, long life strands, dry paint. Nine things have words: glue and lacquer to take its solid; Mianwu to take its tone of softness; bushes and reeds for the heart, can be flexed and stretched also; Jiahe, share the blessings also; double stone, the righteousness of the two solid also." The many beautiful symbols given to weddings show that they are not the same as they were in ancient times.

Ancient wedding etiquette order:

1, negotiation of marriage: the man's family to ask the matchmaker to the woman's family to explain the request for marriage to the geese as a gift, called Nacai. Dispatched by the execution of the goose, to the parents of the female family to ask the woman's name, called the name, when the female family to set up wine for hospitality.

2, Naji: the male family learned the woman's name, that is, divination, to see if the marriage is auspicious. When they get an auspicious sign, they have to inform the woman's family and still use geese as a gift, which is called Naji.

3. Engagement: The man's family will give the woman's family a bunch of silk, deer skin (two) and other gifts, which is called Nawei. Finally, the man's family will ask the woman's family for the date of the marriage with geese, which is called the invitation period.

4, meet the bride: to the wedding date, the bridegroom personally to meet the bride, riding in a black lacquer car, in front of someone to hold a candle in front of the guide, behind two from the car. To the woman's home, the bride has been dressed, standing in the room. The father of the bride meets her at the door and takes the groom into his home. At this time, the man still has geese to the woman, the groom salute out, the bride accompanied, her parents do not send out. The groom himself drives the car and invites the bride to get into the car, and then a special driver takes the place of the groom to drive the car on the road. The groom then gets into his own car and waits outside his house first.

5, ceremony: the bride arrived, the groom received into the home, set up a banquet **** food. After the banquet, the groom, the bride to remove the dress. Groom into the room, personally remove the bride's tasseled ornaments, then withdraw the indoor candle, the wedding was completed.

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