What is the wedding custom in Suzhou?

Marriage has always been listed as a major etiquette in life in China. From Qin and Han Dynasties to Ming and Qing Dynasties. The wedding of the Han nationality basically follows the pattern stipulated in the "Zhou Li San Li", but the people continue to add content to express people's moral sentiments and good wishes, and they are used to each other. This is the wedding scene of a middle-class family in Suzhou at the end of feudalism.

A wedding was grandly held in the sound of drum music. The yard was decorated with lanterns and lanterns, and the trumpeter was surrounded by sedan chairs. Sedan chairs were popular in marriage in Song Dynasty. Pagoda sedan chairs are popular in the wedding customs here in Jiangnan. On one side of the hall is the wedding hall, with a portrait of Hehe Erxian hanging in the middle, which symbolizes the hundred-year harmony between husband and wife. Above the altar, the offerings are complete, the red candle has a high fever, and the fruit bowl is full of dates, walnuts and longan, taking advantage of their auspicious taste of "early birth", "harmony" and "reunion". A couple got married in red and green handkerchiefs at the wedding ceremony. The wedding mother helped the bride, clapped her hands and shouted auspicious words, and the drums sang with the music, which was full of festive and warm atmosphere. On the other side of the hall is a new house, complete with Soviet-style furniture, with exquisite workmanship and meticulous carving. The slope of tables and chairs, as well as the hand-made rural embroidery when waiting for marriage, are dazzling. After the bride and groom enter the bridal chamber, there are ceremonies such as sitting in wealth, picking square towels, spreading accounts and drinking. Suzhou custom uses scales or red-skinned sugar cane to pick the bride's hijab, which means that contentment is always happy, stability is rising, and tofu pudding fruit is used to spread the account, indicating the blessing of exorcism; Drinking this wine symbolizes the happiness and sadness of the couple from now on. At the end of Guping He Jiang, a flower boat is coming from a distance, accompanied by a long pingtan sound. A couple stood at the bow with each other's hands, and the groom's chest was decorated with red flowers, which was handsome and natural. The bride wears a phoenix rosy cloud and smiles like a flower. The bride, the servant girl and the servant girl carried the bride's dowry and followed the couple closely. A group of people walked on the stone road in the ancient water town, as if taking people back to ancient times.

The traditional sedan chair carries the bride across the small stone bridge in Suzhou Old Street, and a "wedding" full of traditional water town folk charm is staged in Pingjiang Road, Suzhou, showing the traditional folk culture of Suzhou water town to tourists. My uncle and aunt walked in front of the sedan chair.