There are "six rituals" in wedding etiquette, namely, receiving gifts, asking names, Najib, receiving gifts, inviting parties and welcoming relatives. This folk custom reflects the Hakka people's expectation for a prosperous population. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), this bad habit was broken. However, due to the great importance attached to marriage, there is still a set of customs that pursue beauty and pay attention to auspiciousness.
Dress up the bride. Before the bride gets married, she should dress up as her mother. Please dress up as a mother must be "four pieces" (that is, son, grandson and husband are alive and famous in the village). beat
Dressing up as a bride requires combing your hair three times. Say an auspicious word every time you comb it: comb it to the end, comb it to Fu Lushou, comb it three times, and your children will be full. Then dress the bride in a dress, trousers and shoes.
Beat rice and sift flowers. Before getting on the sedan chair, the bride should invite her prestigious uncle to play with rice screen flowers and say
The ceremony of "four sentences" is to put a "touch bar" (a bamboo weaving tool shaped like a plaque but larger than the plaque) in the ancestral hall, with a square stool in the middle and a laundry basket outside. After choosing the right time, the bridesmaid will help the bride sit on the basket first, then sit on the stool and say auspicious words, such as "sit on the basket, sit on the stool,
I am older than Xingning County. "The thresher holds a rice sieve in hand, puts it on the bride's head to make the shape of a rice sieve, and says four auspicious words, which means to sieve the auspicious beauty on the bride.
Get on the sedan chair. After the rice is screened, family members, relatives and relatives will give the bride a red envelope called "sedan money". Parents will also send a bag to their married daughter. The bag contains lotus seeds, dates, early rice grains, longevity grass, sugar pills, onions, garlic and other things that symbolize beauty. After that, the bride quietly got into the sedan chair (generally, firecrackers are not set off, thinking that marrying a woman is a loss and not worth making a big splash. This concept has changed, but customs still exist.
Pull the moon (pull, meaning to inspect and visit). When the bride gets married, the family organizes a farewell party to the man's house. There are seven people in the farewell party, of which the matchmaker and the young man must attend, and the others are women such as aunts, sisters-in-law and grandmothers (widows are not allowed to attend). If you want to send a dowry at the farewell party, you must match a lamp (with the same lamp), a copper pot (with a mouth, symbolizing a boy), cakes, square mirrors, sugar cane, cypress branches, long-lived grass and nine eggs, all of which are written in red, forming "a hundred children and a thousand grandchildren, long life and wealth."
After the bride got into the sedan chair at the wedding ceremony, the married man of the man's family led the way. At the groom's house, a happy cannon was placed in front of the door, and a fire was lit with straw and peach symbols. The "bridesmaid" took the bride out of the sedan chair and crossed the fire into the ancestral hall to salute her ancestors. In some places, after the bride goes through the fire, she will scatter some peanuts, sweets, dates, lotus seeds and coins on the ground for the children to eat, which means that there are people everywhere in Five Blessingg.
Make trouble in the bridal chamber. Interesting but not rude. Friends, relatives, brothers, uncles, sisters and newlyweds are laughing and enjoying themselves. Although it is playing with filters, it does not lose etiquette; Although it is interesting, it has profound meaning.
With the implementation of new civilization, the number of newlyweds is increasing day by day, and new fashions such as men settling in women's homes, group weddings, and traveling weddings are increasingly accepted by people.