Do you know the etiquette and dress code for weddings in Hong Kong?

Wedding is everyone's dream. Marriage represents two people who love each other and have been a family ever since. But the wedding customs are different in every place. Then Hong Kong, a metropolis, not only inherits the ancient traditions of China, but also blends some western cultures of Britain. So in Hong Kong culture, what is the wedding custom in Hong Kong? Let's have a look.

Wedding customs in Hong Kong

Hongkong, a metropolis, is the Oriental Pearl of China. The traditional wedding customs in Hong Kong are both traditional and fashionable, combining the spirit of Chinese and Western cultures.

Send a marriage to a sister group

On the eve of the wedding, the bride's girl friends is concentrated in the bride's home, forming a sisterhood, which is called a wedding. Because in ancient China, women didn't go out after marriage, so it was a farewell ceremony with fat friends. Now Hong Kong is a dual-income family, so the phenomenon that married women no longer leave home no longer exists, but this custom has always been preserved. The night before the wedding, there are other customs. One of them is called "Shangtou", which is a ceremony of combing hair. Every mother combs her married daughter and son. "Comb to the end" means forever. Another custom is to eat glutinous rice balls. Grind rice into powder, add sesame stuffing, make a thumb-sized dumpling, and then cook it with sugar juice, which is very sweet, indicating that the newly married life is sweet, complete and happy.

Lucky to open the door, the two brothers were busy from morning till night on their wedding day. First, the groom will go to the bride's house to marry the bride. This is the first little climax. Just like the sister group of the bride's family, the groom's family should form a brotherhood and meet together. The sisterhood blocked the way at the bride's door. If you want to go through the door, you need to pay the toll, and both parties will negotiate. The number "nine" means forever. Therefore, the gift starts at 99,999 yuan and 90 minutes. After negotiation, the two brothers paid the bill in cash, and the gift money went to the sister group. This originated from the custom of buying and selling marriages in ancient China for thousands of years, and now it has become an interesting game. Pour tea to worship ancestors

Finally, the groom who enters the bride's house must first stand side by side with the bride and offer tea to his parents. This ceremony is called "pouring tea". The groom will offer tea in the order of father and mother, and the bride will accompany him in turn. At this time, the person in charge of pouring tea is called "Sister Jin", a middle-aged woman dressed in black. After the ceremony, go to the groom's house to pour tea. The groom, bride, sister group, brother Gang, sister Dajin and other family members have to take a car with ribbons to the groom's house. In the groom's house, the first ceremony is to worship the ancestors, to offer tea and snacks to the ancestors who worship at the altar, and then to worship the land god at the gate, and then to pour tea for their parents.

Mahjong and Shao Xi

After the ceremony, the wedding banquet named Shao Xi began. Before that, it usually started around 5: 00 p.m., and people started playing mahjong, playing cards or singing karaoke and chatting in groups of three or five. Generally, red envelopes are distributed by checks called gift certificates. Because of the poor law and order in Hong Kong, the wisdom people get from life is to send checks. But some people think it is more convenient to send cash. Generally, the red envelope depends on the distance between relatives and friends and the wedding location, generally 400-500 Hong Kong dollars. At the wedding, the bride and groom have to greet the guests and take pictures. They are very busy. Generally, the bride and groom will not be seated until around 9 pm, and the banquet will not begin until the dishes are served. At the beginning of the banquet, there was no speech, no speech, and a special meal. Halfway through the shark's fin soup, the host began to make a speech, and all the seats began to toast. It was time to "make new people". Weddings usually last until eleven o'clock at night.