Please answer from Luoyang: Is there a saying of "happy felt" when you get married? Please be more specific, thank you!

Adding felt is an essential element of the Luoyang wedding. In the old days with the sedan chair to meet the bride, need to be sent by the groom's side of two people, chest tie red line, hand holding a red felt cloth, walking in front of the sedan chair on both sides, encountered wells, ponds, rivers, bridges, trees, boulders, forks, graves, etc., need to use the red cloth to cover a little bit, and firecrackers, in order to get rid of the evil, to protect the newcomer from the impact. Meet the same wedding party, to stop and ask each other who's "together" big, small party to the chest of the red line to the other. When they arrive at the bride's house, they will set off firecrackers to let the bride's family know that the bridegroom has arrived. When they leave, they also set off firecrackers. Bride to the groom's home, before the sedan chair, plus felt people want to point a relatively long firecrackers, in the sedan chair around the firecrackers, around the sedan chair is three times, inverted three times. Called "prairie sedan chair". In the bride's home, plus felt people to protect their felt, because the family can then grab felt, once the felt was snatched, the bridegroom will not be able to take the bride away from the bride's home. At this point, it is necessary for the man to pay to redeem the felt.

The main job of the felt is to ward off evil spirits for the newlyweds. Arguably, this is a clear example of the Chinese lack of security. Because marriage is a big event, it is important to remove any distractions that might come up in order to ensure that the matter goes smoothly. Trees, boulders, water, forks and other locations, there may be evil demons, ghosts and spirits, they are ready to harm the newcomer, so it must be ruled out, and then there is the emergence of the custom of adding felt.

The suffering of the Chinese people always feel that there are countless mysterious forces around, may affect people's normal life at all times, in this "the outside world is dangerous" under the influence of the idea, the Chinese people do things carefully, for fear of a little bit of carelessness, so that the evil invasion, so a variety of taboos, a variety of tendency to auspicious sorcery has been spread. So all kinds of taboos, all kinds of witchcraft to avoid evil will be circulated. There are also some rumors, for example, there are bad people want to collect people's souls, the reason why the rumor spreads quickly and is believed by the people, is the influence of this "the outside world is dangerous" idea. (Thank you. The answer can be referred to the next ~~ I do not know if my answer is worth 10 points it hehehe~~)