Anhai Customs in Jinjiang, Fujian Province

Make a gift for the sedan chair. When two surnames get married, the man will make a crown gift for the married person and the woman will make a gift for the married person. This is an indispensable etiquette in a wedding. Jinjiang folk custom, the mother presided over the ceremony for the married girl and chose the lucky woman in the harem as the guest. The lucky ones among the aunts can also do it. Girls' ceremonies are held at dawn, just like men. Later, it was changed, and only when the man went to the woman's house, the eloquence was held. Folklore calls it "dressing up a sedan chair", which means "reaching the top" for her daughter. The items used for the ceremony are the same as those used for the male crown ceremony, but a bowl of noodles and a bowl of white rice are needed. Set the top chair and several cases in the hall. On the cases, the iron, wooden comb and mirror are displayed, and a crown is drawn in the middle, which is held by the deacon. As soon as the bride's sedan chair arrived, the wedding mother led her daughter to the hall, and the aunt combed the girl three times with a wooden comb. At this time, the wedding mother read auspicious words: three wooden combs, three lice grates, wishes from adults; Newcomers head flower arrangement, a good couple to get started; The newcomer's head is stuck in the moxa stick, and it hurts to get started; Black towel covers the head, and the husband and wife are transparent (good feelings); Before the black towel guy, Weng was idle; After the black towel guy, Weng ate the old man! At this time, the daughter-in-law added a crown to her married daughter, sent her married mother to dress her daughter in a gown, and the daughter-in-law tied her daughter with a belly skirt. The so-called "belly skirt" is sewn into a half-moon shape with red western plain cloth, and a red bun rope is sewn at each end to tie the waist. There is a bag in the middle, which contains Gleditsia sinensis, rice, wheat ears, pigskin, pig bones, pig hearts, clay figurines and iron colored tails (a thin steel bar wound with a hand-spinning wheel, about eight inches long, with a bead at each end). If a maid of honor is not invited, the biological mother will tie her daughter around her waist. At this time, the daughter's father told him to burn incense in front of the ancestral temple and made four obeisances. Later, he sent his married mother to lead his daughter forward and made four obeisances to his ancestors. There are two in the hall, where parents sit and are enshrined by their daughters. The parents admonished each other several times. The daughter met her uncle's parents and aunt in turn, and then the female father covered her head with a black towel. The mother who sent her daughter away led her daughter out of the gate, boarded the sedan chair and read the following auspicious words: the newlyweds left home and went to the door to be their wives; Today, worship the old bed and go out happily; When a newcomer leaves the house, Weng will cover it for a long time. Send the married mother to lead her daughter to the sedan chair and read a few auspicious words: please go out for the couple, Weng Changgai; Newcomers please enter the sedan chair, Weng is joking; It hurts to sit in a sedan chair and get off it. The bride sat down in the sedan chair, sent her married mother to read the auspicious words, and then knocked on the corner of the sedan chair with an umbrella, commonly known as "knocking on the corner of the sedan chair", and read the following auspicious words: an umbrella knocks on the corner of the sedan chair, and the family is rich; Pick up the good things and put them in your stomach, and stuff (discard) the bad things. After reading Kyrgyz, the family brought a four-inch wide red paper seal with a writing brush and the name of a famous minister. If the married person's surname is Shi, you can write "General Jinghai Waiting for Seal", and so on. Up to now, the bride's father (if his biological father is deceased, he can be replaced by his parents) spouts a sedan chair horn with wine in his mouth. Because wine is easy to happen, it means "getting rich", "getting rich" and "getting rich". The bride is sitting in a sedan chair with a folding fan in her hand. When the door of the sedan chair closes, the sedan chair will be carried away. When the bride is about to leave, the fan in the sedan chair will quietly extend from the window of the sedan chair and fall from the side of the sedan chair, commonly known as the "rest assured fan". At this time, the woman's family picked up the fan and closed the door, in order to let the married bride stay at her husband's house with peace of mind and not always have the idea of going back to her family. However, some areas have another explanation for this, saying that "the newlyweds put down their fans and meet again tomorrow". This meaning seems to mean "head down" after marriage, so this custom varies from place to place. When her daughter "went online" to accept her parents' advice, she began to cry. I stayed in the sedan chair and cried all the way. Because the old saying goes, "If you don't cry when you get married, your wife will fail." . This may be because the daughter has money at home, and her parents love her and make her cry when she leaves home. If the parents are poor and don't cherish them, and the daughter has nothing to miss, and she doesn't cry when she is about to get married, the family will give her a hard squeeze and make her cry.