Marriage customs in Hong Kong

Most Chinese in Hong Kong still follow customs and traditions in marriage. Usually, after a successful proposal, both men and women will inform their parents. Parent-teacher conferences will be arranged for the wedding. First, discuss the wedding date. Generally speaking, a fortune teller should be arranged for both men's and women's birthdays to choose a good day.

Most Chinese in Hong Kong still follow customs and traditions in marriage. Usually, after a successful proposal, both men and women will inform their parents. Parent-teacher conferences will be arranged for the wedding. First, discuss the wedding date. Generally speaking, a fortune teller should be arranged for both men's and women's birthdays to choose a good day. Then discuss the wedding ceremony, wedding venue and the number of seats. Then discuss gifts, cakes, weddings and other matters. Traditional wedding etiquette generally includes the following important links:

First of all, it's a gift.

Wen is designated as a small engagement, and Li is a big engagement. Guo means that the man's family sends clothes, jewelry and other dowry to the woman's family as an engagement ceremony. Big gifts, men bring gifts and various gifts, such as cake, coconut, tea, chicken or goose, wine and so on. To the woman's house, the number of gifts is all even. Once the tea party is secretly engaged, the woman will never go back on her word; Coconut has father and son; Gift cake is the main item in the bride price. The woman gave the gift cake given by the man, the so-called "pie cake", to relatives and friends and announced to them that her daughter was getting married. At present, most people feed their relatives and friends with cakes and biscuits. However, as a Chinese-style gift, the gift cake is more popular with the older generation, especially the respect for the elders. Chinese-style gift cakes are generally made of "loads" (100 kg), and there are 4 cakes per kg. There must be two pairs of dragon and phoenix cakes from the man's family to the woman's family, and the woman's family will send them back after receiving them-for the man's family to "climb the summit" and sacrifice on the wedding day. The distribution of Chinese gift cakes depends on the closeness of relatives, and the number of gifts must be even. The dowry also includes seafood and Beijing fruit.

Second, put the bed and the top.

Settling down in bed means that the man's parents or "blessed" elders and couples with sons will properly arrange the couple's bed on the selected auspicious day, say something auspicious and put something kind. Some families even let a little boy sit in bed for a while, suggesting that the couple will have a child after marriage. Above, in the early morning of the wedding day, at a beautiful moment, the parents of the bride and groom or the "blessed" elders comb their hair for their soon-to-be-married son or daughter and say some auspicious words while combing their hair. This ceremony means that the children have really grown up since then.

Third, greet the bride and return the door.

On the wedding day, the groom will personally go to the woman's house to pick up the bride for the wedding or go straight back to the man's house. Traditionally, on the third day after a woman marries her husband, accompanied by her husband, she takes the roasted pig fruit back to her family. But now Hong Kong people simplify it to "return to China on the same day". According to custom, the bride's father or brother takes the bride to the church and gives it to the groom. But according to the general custom, Hong Kong people usually go to the woman's house to pick up the bride first, and then go to church together.

Fourth, the wedding banquet.

There are both Chinese and western wedding banquets, but most of them are Chinese wedding banquets. A wedding banquet usually has eight courses, including the first course, hot meat, large dishes, rice noodles with one tail, dessert and so on. Fruit is usually brought by the main family. The dishes in the banquet are similar, but the price will vary according to the location of the banquet and the grade of the food. No matter where the wedding reception is held, even if no guests are invited, invitations or notices should be sent out to inform all relatives and friends of the wedding date of men and women. When relatives and friends receive the invitation, they should give gifts to congratulate them. At present, Hong Kong sends more cards or gifts to those who don't invite guests, and more bank gift certificates to those who attend banquets. Because the people who accept it are different, the words of congratulations are different.