In some places, why do newlyweds hold geese at weddings?

Goose was transformed from wild goose and was regarded as a symbol of good luck in ancient times. However, the wild goose is a migratory bird and a rare thing. In some places, you can't even see geese several times a year. Slowly, people use poultry geese instead of geese, which means that they are lucky and healthy when they get married and never part.

From ancient times to the present, people all want family harmony and happiness. They all hope that the newlyweds can respect each other, be kind to each other, grow old together, take the goose as their ambition and express their good wishes for future family life. Therefore, geese can be used as a symbol of good luck. Goose is a migratory bird, which comes and goes and never breaks its word, so it becomes a symbol of firm belief between men and women.

In fact, this is also consistent with the Confucian thought of "benevolent government". Because sexual desire is the strongest physiological impulse of human beings, when men and women mature, men and women will get married. The so-called "male masters outside, female masters inside" is such a fact. If the marriage fails, there will be "unhappy" and "cheating", which will inevitably lead to adultery and other social problems, and the geese ceremony can undoubtedly express the meaning of marriage. Because geese have this kind of "orderly coming and going" behavior, other migratory birds don't, so geese are valued and regarded as aspirations by the ancients.

Wild geese are migratory birds, not poultry, so they are hard to get. Wild geese rarely appear in some areas, so it is difficult to get them. So use a goose instead, it is called "wild goose". When getting married, the goose was not in the gift book, but was carried by two people on a special colored pavilion. With the procession of the ceremony, it can be seen that the goose received great attention. People regard geese as confidants, expressing the good wishes of men and women to abide by their engagement before marriage, become partners and never part.