Engagement custom in Handan

Matchmakers are mostly enthusiastic people. Locals often say that there are three couples in marriage, and dogs don't bite after the last day. This legend encourages people to be beautiful as adults. Of course, afterwards, the man should prepare gifts and thank the matchmaker.

2. Bride gift?

The old custom of giving bride price before marriage is still prevalent in urban and rural areas. Before 1990s, men sent ham, tobacco, alcohol, fruits, dried fruits and health products. Since then, it is common for parents to give their daughters-in-law rings, necklaces and fashionable clothes, while high-income families give gifts such as gold and silver jewelry and high-end clothes.

Step 3 ask for the key

The bride's wedding key is in the hands of any of her siblings or nephews. Before meeting the bride, the groom sends a package to the bride-to-be and asks for the key, so that after meeting the bride, he can open the box and show Gu Mi's money, symbolizing a bumper harvest after marriage and a rich family. There were too few relatives to see me off, and the groom added many times. Farewell Lang took the parcel, and the groom got the key and went to see the bride happily.

4. Home Economics

When the woman's relatives and friends ask for gifts, the man will generally promise to give the guests "money" at that time. The next day, the two sides negotiated through the matchmaker. In some places, it is also allowed to enter the inner room of the man who is proposing marriage to check the real situation and then propose marriage through the matchmaker.

5. Send a dowry?

Before the wedding, the man will send the quilt and some furniture and appliances to the woman's house on the other day. When the wedding is held, he will take the woman's dowry to the man's house. At present, some high-end products are bought by both men and women, or a few pieces are bought by both men and women, and then directly transported to the new house by the merchants.