What "Six Rites" were needed for marriage in ancient Western Zhou Dynasty?

During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the conditions for the establishment of marriage, that is, six rites, were formulated in the Duke of Zhou. The content of six rites includes six aspects, which are actually six procedures for the establishment of marriage:

The first is to receive a bride price, that is, the man gives the bride a bride price to propose marriage.

The second is to ask the name, that is, the man's matchmaker asks the woman's name and date of birth, and then divines good or bad luck in the ancestral hall. Only when the result is good can we proceed to the next step, and the intense one will stop here.

The third is Najib, who decided to get married after divination.

Fourth, the man sent someone to send the bride price to the woman's house.

Fifth, invitation, that is, asking the woman to set a wedding date.

Sixth, kiss and greet. On the wedding day, the man must meet the woman in person, and then the man will go back first and meet him outside the door.

Every procedure, the man should send a wild goose, because the wild goose is a migratory bird, so it is punctual and trustworthy, the wild goose is faithful, and the widowed one is single. It turns out that officials send lambs, doctors send geese and scholars send pheasants. Later, they were all unified into geese. If you want to send more goods, you can send more when you receive them. Other procedures to send geese are only symbolic.

The marriage procedure of Six Rites is very complicated, ordinary people have no time and financial resources to bear, and only officials and nobles strictly abide by it. However, folklore also uses this as a reference to merge some procedures, for example, the first and second can be completed at one time, and the third and fourth can also be merged. The folk wedding customs can still see the influence of the Six Rites in the Western Zhou Dynasty.