I have a friend who is going to marry a girl from Shaanxi, and I don't know the customs there.

Shaanxi wedding customs since ancient times, men married women married, cave flower candle is a great fortune in life. Zhidan people in the old days pay attention to the marriage of the family, parents' orders, matchmakers, men and women do not meet, as the "pocket sell cat", there are nipple pro, finger for marriage, doll pro, child bride and marriage and sale of marriage and other bad habits, destroyed people's physical and mental health, resulting in many marital tragedies. After the liberation, marriage autonomy was practiced. Men and women should be routinely engaged, negotiated, registered, married and returned to the door and other procedures.

Engagement, generally by the introduction of legend, the two sides questioned each other, to understand the age of men and women, birth, character, appearance, culture, occupation and family style. If both sides are willing, the man choose an auspicious day, with the bride price, and the matchmaker to the woman's home to hold an engagement ceremony; business talk, by the male parents, the matchmaker with a goat, cigarettes, alcohol, clothes, bride price to the woman's home, the woman invited the family and the family's main personnel to participate in the gift to the financial enough to be agreed to the time of the marriage; registration, each with a letter of introduction to do the marriage formalities in the woman's township government to get a wedding certificate; to marry, in the past, the general preparation for a donkey or a child's horse, the head of the red cloth strips and red flowers. Pull the red cloth and red flowers, commonly known as "hard horse". In recent years, some conveniently located rivers and towns have also used tractors or automobiles to marry people. Marrying people by marrying in-laws (bridegroom's sister-in-law or aunt), pulling the horse (groom's brother or nephew), on behalf of the affairs of the pack box, blowing hand and so on 5 - 7 people.

Before the trip, the groom will ride a horse called "pressure horse", to the woman's home to ask the number of doubled to send people relatives, collect boxes that are dowry items, spread the box that is the woman a man two, the number of money agreed upon, and finally held a ceremony on the horse in a piece of oboe, firecrackers in the sound of the go. In the twilight in the village courtyard. In the torchlight, firecrackers burst in the new couple "dismounted", worship heaven and earth, holding a "treasure bucket" into the bridal chamber around the kang for a week, choose the direction and put, said "step on the four corners of", the bride The bride "sits on the tent", and gives the relatives who gave her away a "door-stopping wine" to drink. Cave flowers and candles, to the newcomer and head, turn the bed, and finally the most exciting cave, laughing and playing, a variety of tricks, until the newcomer is exhausted, haunted the room before taking advantage of the fun and go.