What is the wedding custom in Harbin?

When the child is underage, parents will find a matchmaker. Once they like it, the two sides visit each other and watch each other. In the meantime, the blind date eats eggs and noodles made by the other party, even if she is married. Then, the two sides discussed the bride price, dowry, bride price and other conditions.

Step 2 break the eight characters

After the pairing of men and women is arranged by the matchmaker, the matchmaker will send the birthday stickers of the birth dates of both parties, and ask the fortune teller to decide whether it is good or bad.

3. Appointment

After the two sides agree on the terms, the man will choose an auspicious day, prepare gold rings, jewelry, some bride price money, candy, cigarettes and other gifts, and send them to the woman's home. The woman's parents accept gifts and distribute them to relatives, friends and neighbors, indicating that her daughter has been betrothed to others.

Step 4 choose a day

The man wrote the chosen wedding date on a red paper post and sent it to the woman's house. Both men and women began to choose their own luck and tailor their clothes.

5, send to marry

When a girl gets married, relatives and friends send a batch of clothes or daily necessities to congratulate her, which is commonly known as "sending marriage". After the girl accepts the gift, she should give "pomegranate" bread, white cake, red rice balls and pork to her relatives and friends to show her gratitude.

Step 6 urge marriage

Commonly known as "lifting the foot of the sedan chair", that is, two days before the wedding, the man should send all the gifts to the woman's house according to the agreed items and quantities, with a maximum of eight gift plates.

7. Wedding ceremony

On the eve of the wedding, the bride and groom should take a shower and fast. The bride's head is to open her face (twist the hair off her face with a string), dress up and tie a high bun; The groom only cuts his hair, shaves, wears a hat, ties a red bun on the hat, inserts two red roses, and wears a dress and coat. On the morning of the wedding, the man used a red sedan chair or sedan chair and colorful flags to invite ten tones and eight tones to marry him.

8. Visit the church

When the bride's sedan chair hits the groom's head, all family members except the groom should avoid it and put out the firewood in the kitchen hall, which means that "the bride will not be angry when she enters the door, and her relatives will not make the sedan chair head rush", so that the whole family will live in harmony in the future. After the bride got off the sedan chair, she was led into the hall by the matchmaker and two children.

Extended data

Wedding dress: the groom wears a championship robe and the bride wears a crown. The champion robe is a change from the red nine-grade official uniform. The hat is a black hat with palace flowers. The rockhopper is a phoenix model decorated with silver or other textures, and the Bi Xia is a red shawl. Generally speaking, the bride wears a red silk coat and trousers, embroidered shoes and embroidered auspicious patterns, such as mandarin ducks, plum blossoms and lotus flowers.

Chinese clothing can be customized, rented in clothing stores, or reserved for wedding photos in photo studios. Some photo studios will borrow wedding day clothes for free in the shooting suite.