What is borrowing marriage?

In Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, there used to be a custom that a woman's son was divined by a fortune teller before he got married. If she is sentenced to "breaking her mother's family", then she can't sit in a sedan chair at home when she gets married.

A few days before the wedding, the Li family was called to pick up the woman to go out. At that time, the woman was dressed in rags, carrying a broken umbrella and a broken rice basket with a broken bowl and a pair of bamboo chopsticks. She pretended to beg, secretly went out, went to the temple or buddhist nun, or went boating in the river. This is the so-called "borrowing marriage".

When you get married, put on a sedan chair at the temple, and it will be in the middle of the night. The parents and relatives of the woman's family have to avoid it, and everything is taken care of by her husband's family. The woman blew out the lamp, put on her clothes and was accompanied by her mother. After a step or two, she got into the sedan chair. There is also a portable bamboo basket for picking vegetables, and it is also stipulated that you can return to your mother's family after marriage 126, thinking that if you don't do this, your mother's family will be destroyed or suffer misfortune.

When a woman goes back to her parents' home, she must give her parents, brothers and sisters jiaozi in the kitchen before the whole family can welcome her back. This custom is also called "carrying a lantern".