Information about ancient wedding and funeral customs

China's wedding, there are six ancient rituals, namely, ask the name, booking alliance, Na Cai (Na Hire), Na Cai (Na Levy), please period, kiss welcome. Later on, they were merged into four, namely: asking for the name, betting on the alliance (sending the finalization), fixing the hiring (Na Cai, Na Cai), kissing and welcoming (and inviting the period).

One, ask the name

"Ask the name of the main ceremony, is the two sides to exchange the official name, the year, the eight characters of the birth, so that each other to understand the two made family history, to measure the marriage is the apricot "door-to-door". The formalities of the first by the media to send the female "Geng post" in the male family, the male family will be placed in front of the gods and ancestors on the desk, divination. 3 days such as the family safe and sound, then the male Geng post will be sent to the female family, the female family to accept, or to ask the divination in the astrological, or that is to agree to the marriage.

At the beginning of the marriage, the woman's family may ask the matchmaker to ask the man's family to put forward Gengtai (character), as a basis for "probing" the man's side. If the woman thinks it's appropriate and auspicious, she will write a score of the male and female birth dates and send it to the man's family, otherwise the original will be returned to the original.

Zi Zai (Geng Post), written on red rectangular paper. Central straight book, such as the female book "a certain name Kun Zuo so-and-so year so-and-so month so-and-so day so-and-so time Ruisheng"; male book "a certain name Qian Zuo so-and-so year so-and-so month so-and-so day so-and-so time Jian Sheng". The number of characters must be even, if it is odd, the man should add "Jian" to the character "建". For women, add "瑞" to the word "生". And "word boy" and "eight" although both said the year geng, slightly different, that is, the eight of the A geng must be used for the support of the writing, so as to make divination, the word boy is written in the place of origin, rankings, etc., as a check for the use of mining. Commonly known as the "word boy" for the small years of celebration, "eight" for the big years Geng.

△Marriage has not yet been decided, can not be listed in two families, agreed upon before.

Second, the booking of the alliance

Booking, that is, the finalization of the discussion. The ceremony of engagement is called wending, also known as the small recruitment, which is now the engagement of the wedding. Sending fixed, choose an auspicious day, the male family prepared to send the bride price to the female family. The bride-price is: red silk (with gold letters A Geng别在红绸上或安金字在帖内), gold flowers (gold hairpin), gold rings, gold earrings, sheep, pigs, gift candles, gift incense, gift cannons, gift cakes, Lianzhu flower pots (meaning even the birth of a noble son of the ancient omen), pomegranate flowers (pomegranate flowers mean more children).

Matchmaking and the male family parents or their relatives, accompanied by. The woman's family accepts most of the bride-price, and prepares 12 items to give back. Gift cakes are given to relatives and friends as a notice of engagement, which is called "sharing cakes". The recipients of the gift of friends and relatives, later to congratulate the wedding gift.

The engagement ceremony is called "ring ceremony". When the time comes to give the gift, 6 or 12 people from the man's family (even number) go to the woman's home to give the gift in person, and the woman's family places the gift in front of the ancestor's desk at the shrine to pay homage to. The daughters to be married will hold sweet tea in the hall, one by one to introduce and meet, the male family after drinking tea, each sent "pressure tea turn" of the red packet on the teacups. Afterwards, the woman came back out and sat on the chair in the center of the hall (with her feet on a low table to show her nobility; facing outward when she got married, and facing inward when she recruited her husband), and the ring was put on by the head of the man's family. The ring has 2 gold and copper (copper with the same sound, meaning that couples with the same heart), tied with a red thread to show that the couple's marriage. After wearing the ring, clear the male family members to the table, the wedding engagement into. There are also simplified, will be a small hire, big hire and line, but also to booking, Na Cai, Na Coin three rites into one, known as the "sent to the".

Three, finished (Na Cai, Na Coin)

Na Cai and Na Coin two rites known as "finished", or called the big job. With a marriage certificate, bride price, coins and silk (jewelry) and other things, the Department of the "tribute to the coins" sent to the woman's home, the woman's home with the light and heavy return. The bridegroom's gift is accompanied by a matchmaker and sent to the woman's home. The rich and noble family bride price is grand, the order is: blowing class (band), gift card (record gift items, the order of the ceremony), the wedding book, bride price, cakes, rock candy winter claw, orange cake, persimmon kuey teow, Fu

balls (dried longan), pig's feet, noodle threads, sweets, two castrated chickens, two female ducks, a pair of candles, or a number of pairs of gift incense two bunches of dresses (dresses for the new bride), bracelets, gold rings, and so on.

The bride price to the female family burning incense and sounding cannons, to inform the gods and ancestors, feast on the male family gift givers. To Kunshu (female wedding book) delivered to the matchmaker. The male family to send ungifts, according to its species to receive a part of the wall or the original wall back, such as the blessing of the pill, castrated chickens, ducks, are the male family blessing, should be returned. Pig's feet only take its meat, pig's feet bone should be returned. And to the groom's dress, hat, shoes and socks, bell embroidery and so on for the return gift. "Bride price": bride price items are recorded in the red paper gift post, the name of the appropriate double taboo one, and more than happy, into, double and other auspicious words. Bride price post: I would like to have a wedding book into the pass, Kai Shu into the seal, the bride price double seal, box Yi into the seal, training Yi into the seal, Jinlin into the pillar, Shoupa double blessing, color fairy into the end, the golden pig into the first, the joy of the sheep into a only, sugar screen eight pick up, Fukumaru full of hundred, dream sugar into the box, dragon candle double glow.

Four, please period

Please period for the marriage of one of the six rites, commonly known as "send the day" or "mention the day". That is, by the male family to choose a good time to get married, with a red paper writing male and female birth date, which is called the invitation to the book of rituals, by the media to the female family, and the female master to discuss the date of marriage. After the woman's family agreed, the man's family and gift books, gift candles, gift cannons, etc. sent to the woman's family, the woman's family that is a gift cake distributed to friends and relatives, told the date of return.

Five, welcome

Personal welcome is the groom personally to the woman's home to meet the bride, or to meet, that is, today's wedding wedding. In the old days, the top of the family in the line to meet in person, but the middle and bottom of the family more from the omission, only by the matchmaker to meet the marriage. And the ceremony of the welcome, with the progress of the times, there are many changes.

The day of the wedding, the groom, along with the matchmaker and friends and relatives six or eight people as a welcome guest (commonly known as "marriage", that is, bridesmaids) accompanied by peers. When you arrive at the woman's home, you are invited to eat "egg soup" (sweet soup with a built-in hard-boiled egg in its shell). Egg soup is eaten (only the sweet soup is drunk, and the egg is poked or stirred with chopsticks). At the same time, the women's families have a reunion dinner, called the "Sisters' Table," which is a farewell dinner. The father admonished, "Be diligent and careful, listen to your aunts and uncles and your husband in the morning and evening"; the mother admonished, "Be respectful and vigilant, and obey the Four Virtues." The bride inevitably reluctant to part with, the matchmaker urged to the sedan chair. The bride kowtow to the ancestors, kowtow goodbye to parents, choose the moment with the groom from the west step out, and there is a high years of good fortune of the "good fortune" support on the palanquin. The bride on the sedan chair when sighing and crying a few times, commonly known as "crying good fortune", to show good fortune. Sedan chair not far from the place, the bride should put down the paper fan or handkerchief, commonly known as "put fan", "send fan". To show that the marriage of the parting memorial. Also said: this means that the abandonment of bad "sex" addiction, in order to seek harmony, commonly known as "put sex ground" (sex and fan with the sound). Along the way, marrying Binbin mutual firecrackers, for the meaning of the evil. Sedan chair to stop in front of the men's home, choose an auspicious time to enter the door, the groom with a fan on the top of the sedan chair knocked three times, and with the feet of the "sedan chair door" three times to show the majesty of the groom, so that the bride is obedient and easy to drive. And then by the "good fortune" to take the bride out of the sedan chair, matchmaker umbrella to cover the sky, the groom escorted into the bridal chamber.

After the wedding banquet, food bridal tea, commonly known as the "bride", that is, drink sweet tea, the bridal chamber, in order to get together. At this time to congratulate the newlyweds, so that the bride to open laughter for entertainment, and a variety of comical forms, to test the bride's patience or its temperament behavior, but its purpose is still to take the opportunity to watch the bride. The so-called "bridal tea" is accompanied by a matchmaker or family member, and the bride and groom carry a tea tray with sweet tea, winter melon, and candies to honor the guests. Guests accept the sweet tea and read the happy words, drink, the bride and groom to retrieve the tea cup, congratulations guests should be placed in a red envelope on the tea cup as a gift of congratulations, also read the happy words to wish. Read the happy sentence for four rhyming, commonly known as "read four sentences", the sentence meaning in addition to the expression of congratulations, mostly for the auspicious or funny humor of the shooting meaning, there are ready-made sentence, there are also improvised chanting, and often more than one wonderful sentence. As for the "bride", its tricks are endless, every bride and groom and their families are embarrassed, but the guests instead of the hustle and bustle.

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