How can there be a hundred pieces of love in pinghu city, Zhejiang?

The customs of Pinghu, Zhejiang Province are as follows:

"seeking eight characters"

In the old society, when children were in their teens, enthusiastic matchmakers came to match them up. The matchmaker takes war as his profession, trying to hide, cheat and please, telling the woman how rich the man is and how handsome and smart the official is. Go to that man and tell him how beautiful the girl is and how good the family rules are. Then he asked the woman for birthdates, called "begging for eight characters", and asked Mr. Wang to write eight characters on red paper with a brush, that is, a certain month and a certain time, also called "eight characters". The man put the "eight characters" brought by the woman under the incense burner on the stove for three days, burning incense and praying silently. The man took a fancy to a girl and took the initiative to find a matchmaker (commonly known as the "central matchmaker") to ask for the "eight characters". If the woman knows the details of the man's family or other reasons and is unwilling to give a "eight-character" and thinks that the portal is improper, she will politely refuse on the grounds that the girl is young.

When the man brought the eight characters from the matchmaker, he asked the fortune teller to "match the eight characters" (or "choose the eight characters"). Marriage is decided when the woman and the man get along well. The old engagement is basically "the life of parents, the words of the media burn." Most men and women have never met before they got married. Because of this old custom, many marriage tragedies have arisen.

"take sugar"

"Taking candy" means that after meeting relatives according to the eight characters, both men and women agree that the man asks the matchmaker to give the woman gold rings, gold earrings, candy and other gifts. Then the woman gave these sweets to her neighbors, indicating that her daughter had promised others. This is called "taking sugar".

Marry Sambo:

There is a saying circulating in Pinghu countryside: "Marry for three days, go to three dynasties, and marry a girl without forgetting the three treasures." When a girl marries, no matter whether her family is rich or poor, no matter how busy things are, she should do three things for the married girl.

Red eggs, when the daughter got married, the woman's mother had quietly put eight red eggs in the new toilet (commonly known as "children's bucket"), which meant that eggs were passed down from generation to generation and children and grandchildren flourished.

Carp, on the wedding day, the man prepares "six gifts" (chicken, carp, meat, cigarettes, wine and "gifts") to be sent to the woman's home to thank her mother for giving birth. It's called "stomachache", but the carp in "Six Rites" can't be accepted, so I have to go to the man's house with the girl, which means that after both men and women get married, that's it.

Evergreen, dug by the bride's foster mother or parents when getting married, is usually put in a rice bowl with the roots wrapped in red paper, and planted in front of or behind the man's house in the future, symbolizing the love of the newlyweds, evergreen and auspicious. This custom has been passed down to this day.