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What was the custom of marriage in the Tang Dynasty? Must be orthodox

The ancient wedding was also called "Six Rites". The so-called "six gifts" refer to the six procedures after the success of matchmaking: receiving gifts (the two sides meet), asking the name (asking the girl's name for divination), concubinage (informing the other side of the divination result), receiving gifts (giving bride price), inviting guests (setting a date) and welcoming the bride personally.

By the Tang Dynasty, the above rules were basically handed down. Most of the marriage customs in the Tang Dynasty were inherited from the Northern Dynasties. In the Northern Dynasties, when the bride was married, her husband's family, led by the groom, came to the bride's door and shouted in unison: "Bride!" At this time, the bride's house is often closed, which means to show the groom some color. This daughter-in-law is finally married, so dozens or even hundreds of people in her husband's family form a circle and call outside the gate until the door is pushed open to welcome the bride to get on the bus. It was called "promoting makeup" in the Tang Dynasty. Wedding ceremonies in the Tang dynasty were often held at dusk, and it was not until after the middle Tang dynasty that someone changed the time to early morning. Pick up the bride, it's not over yet. The woman often gathers a large number of people and gets in the way. She refused to let the groom's car pass. She can go if she wants and stay to buy road goods. This is called "stopping a car". New marriage customs in the Tang Dynasty are recorded in Youyang Miscellaneous Notes:

In modern weddings, when marrying a woman, three liters of millet are used to fill the mortar, one seat is used to cover the well, three pounds are used to plug the window, and three arrows are placed on the door. The woman got on the bus, and her husband rode around the car three times. A woman will get married tomorrow, and the family will be a millet. The woman will get on the bus and cover her knees and face. When a woman is introduced, Uncle menstruation knows that she went out through a side door, or even went in through the door, which is a sign of the bride. Another woman's introduction, first thanks to pigs and stoves. Marry a woman. Couples worship or tie the knot. He also married a husband's family, got a bride, and married a woman in the twelfth lunar month, but didn't see menstruation.

That is, before marriage, the man must fill the stone mortar with three liters of corn, cover the wellhead with a mat, plug the window with three kilograms of hemp, and put three arrows at the door of the new house. After receiving the bride, when the bride gets on the bus, she should block her knees and put on a hijab. After the bride gets on the bus, the groom needs to ride around the car three times. When the bride first enters her husband's house, she worships the kitchen first to show that she will become a good housekeeper in the future. The man's parents and other relatives go out from the side door and then enter from the main door, in order to step on the bride's footprints and get lucky.

Weddings in the Tang Dynasty are very interesting, which contains a strong folk culture: the Tang people have many customs of marrying new people in spring and summer, while the wedding in the twelfth lunar month has a rule that the bride can't see her aunt (Tang called her in-laws aunt). On the wedding day, the couple can't live in the house, but must live in a tent built with green curtains outside the house. This tent is called "Lu Qing". The newlyweds completed the worship ceremony and spent their wedding night here. In "Lu Qing", couples pay tribute to each other. Everyone cuts off a strand of hair and puts it in a toolkit, symbolizing a married couple. After the wedding, the son-in-law came back to visit her parents-in-law, and all her relatives and friends came. At this time, a fun game appeared, in which the girls enjoyed beating their son-in-law with wooden sticks and bamboo poles until they knocked him out. This can be understood as the woman's demonstration: it's up to you if our daughter can get married! In addition, there is a new joke in the Tang Dynasty wedding, that is, "lay down the mother and son", that is, the day before the wedding, the woman sent a senior woman to the man's house to "lay down a room" to show her dowry. This is not unnecessary. The Tang dynasty followed the legacy of Wei and Jin dynasties and emphasized the nobility of family. Xue, a scholar in the Tang Dynasty, once said: "It is too much to be incompetent and rich, but I have three hates in my life: I didn't respect scholars at first, I didn't marry women with five surnames, and I didn't study national history!" Here I mentioned "five female surnames", that is, five wealthy families with a long and glorious history: Wang of Taiyuan, Boling, Cui Shi of Qinghe, Lu of Fanyang, Zheng and Longxi of Xingyang, and Li of Zhaojun. All the above five surnames rely on famous families, and even the royal family (they questioned that the royal family named Li was not Li of Longxi and Zhaojun) did not take the initiative to marry them. Scholars in the Tang Dynasty were proud to marry these five surnames. If you are not a woman with five surnames, you should pay attention when you get married. In order to live comfortably after marriage and not be angry with her husband's family, she can only show her parents' strength when shopping.

I wonder if the landlord is satisfied.