What do you say about making trouble in a new house? How did you make trouble?

The traditional marriage in China is quite distinctive with its grand etiquette and exquisite scenes. It usually goes through "procedures" such as proposing marriage, engagement, marriage and having sex. Among them, it is the climax for the couple to go to bed hand in hand after relatives and friends frolic in the bridal chamber on the wedding night. In the old days, some mischievous and unreasonable behaviors were bred in this process, mostly in the bridal chamber, so it was called "disturbing the bridal chamber", "disturbing the bridal chamber" and "disturbing the new house"; Because this custom takes the bride as the main funny object, it is also called "teasing the bride" and "playing the bride", and it was also called "playing the woman" in the old society.

According to the descriptions in The Book of Songs, Nine Songs, Yili and Book of Rites, the prototype of disturbing a new house should be "meeting the bride" as a wedding etiquette. For example, in Zuo Zhuan's Twenty-four Years of Zhuang Gong, when Zhuang Gong married Mrs. Ai Jiang, he allowed courtiers and women with the same surname to see the bride together. In the early days, seeing the bride was probably out of politeness and politeness, but there was no strict boundary between "seeing" and "making trouble". Making a new house is to see the development of a bride. The time from "courtesy" to "vulgarity" was at least half a century earlier than Yan Taizidan's foster teacher, and its embryonic form was formed in the Spring and Autumn Period.

According to China folks, it originated from exorcising evil spirits and avoiding disasters. Legend has it that a long time ago, one day Zixing came to earth. On the way, he met a woman who was riding a horse in Dai Xiao. She followed a group of wedding teams. Seeing that the devil was waiting for an opportunity to do evil, he followed him to the groom's house, only to find that the woman had already arrived first and was hiding in the bridal chamber. When the bride and groom were about to enter the bridal chamber after worshipping heaven and earth, Zixing said that there was a devil inside. They asked him how to exorcise demons. He put forward: "The devil is most afraid of many people, and the devil will not dare to do evil." So, the groom invited people to laugh in the bridal chamber and drive away evil spirits with laughter; Sure enough, in the fifth watch, the devil finally escaped. It can be seen that the noisy room was shrouded in the color of exorcism and disaster avoidance from the beginning. There are also differences in customs around the bridal chamber.

In fact, the origin of the custom of disturbing new houses is still a mystery, and I believe there will be a scientific explanation soon. However, the custom of building new houses continues to this day, with more varieties, such as asking the bride to light a cigarette for the guests, and the bride and groom biting apples and eating peanuts, which are full of fun. Of course, there are also uncivilized behaviors that should be abandoned.