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Ancient women get married, what will accompany the dowry

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Ten miles of red makeup? In ancient times, the man to prepare the bride price usually act in accordance with the following rules:

1, ruler: measuring device, married life, derived from the standard for measuring happiness, refers to a hundred children and thousands of grandchildren, happiness from a long time to come, but also for the newcomers to the future life and career step by step the blessing of the newcomers.

Ancient dress code for newcomers

2, comb: the so-called "comb comb in the end, comb comb white hair eyebrows, three comb grandchildren," the comb has a "knot hair" meaning, you white head of the Zhuang, referring to the couple's lifelong love for each other, grow old together.

3, embroidered shoes: shoes and "Kai" homophonic, meaning that couples love each other, long-lasting relationship, in the beautiful years of flowers and embroidery together, **** bathe in the magnificence of life and fragrance.

4, the pressure money box: nine treasure in the ninth treasure is the pressure money box, is one of the wedding ceremony in the woman to give the gift of marriage, to show that the woman's family wealth, but also after the marriage of the woman used to collect the collection of beloved treasures of the thing.

Newlywed jewelry

5, mirror: represents the perfect, complete, as well as a symbol of the bride's beautiful posture, is the bride's wish for a sweet and happy married life; even if time passes is still forever young, the beauty of the good wishes.

6, Ruyi scale: taken from the traditional wedding ceremony for the groom to lift the bride's red head of the Ruyi scale, is now one of the nine treasures of the wedding ceremony as a gift from parents to their daughters, hoping that their daughters' future life is as good as it can be, and couples as they wish to be in the same heart.

7, Du Dou: the original amount of food utensils, in the wedding rituals used to highlight the wealth of the man's strong, wealthy family, the daughter married to the past can also live a well-fed, easy and carefree life of wealth.

8, abacus: life used to calculate the income and expenditure calculation tool, wedding ceremony in the gold abacus, implies that the newcomer to the future of the ideal of a peaceful and affluent life and planning, to be able to rationally invest in financial management, to win a wide variety of sources of wealth.

9, scissors: the traditional wedding in the "six certificates" one of the life of the main garment cutting, wedding etiquette implies that the bride after the wedding life of silk and satin, the future of silk and embroidery, **** enjoy the glory and wealth of life.