The main process of Chinese wedding

Prenuptial ceremony: accept → ask the name → Najib → accept → invite party.

Wedding ceremony: kissing → * * * knot → untie tassels and tie hair.

Wedding ceremony (ceremony of becoming a woman): A woman meets menstruation → menstruation marries her → menstruation feeds menstruation → A woman meets her in the temple ★ Prenuptial ceremony.

1. The vegetable man proposed to the woman and took the goose as a gift. Yi Li Shi's Faint Rites: "Faint Rites, Order to Receive Gifts. Use geese. "

2. after asking the name, ask the woman's name again, so as to predict whether she is married or not, and how good or bad it is. "Ceremony of the Soul": "What's your name, Bin Zhi Yan? Master Xu, guest admission. "

3. After Najib asked his name, this person "returned to the temple for good luck, so he sent an envoy to tell him" ("Ceremony of the World Soul"). After the man asked the name, the date of birth, the man and the woman were all divined. If he gets a good sign, he sends a messenger to the woman's house with the goose to report the good news.

4. Invite the man's emissary to the woman's house for engagement. "Yi Li's Wedding": "The levy was also successful, so that the messenger could collect money to get married." After the conscription, the marriage entered the formal preparation stage.

Ask the man to choose the wedding date, formally agree on the woman, and regard the goose as the donkey. "In the Soul of Li Yi's Poems": "Please invite, use geese." Zheng Xuan's note: "My husband's family must predict first, and it will be a good day. It is to make the messenger go and say goodbye. "

★ Zheng wedding

1. Kiss the bride and get married.

2. "Being in the same prison" means that the bride and husband eat the meat in the tripod. "Couple" means that the bride and groom each hold a couple's cup and drink it relatively. "Book of Rites": "When a woman arrives, her husband enters, eats in prison, marries and dies. Therefore, she will blend in, respect her and kiss her. "

3. untie the knot "untie the knot" means that the newly married husband personally unties the bride's head. "Knotting hair" refers to cutting a bunch of hair from the bride and groom and combing it together with red tassels.

★ Wedding (bride ceremony)

1. When a woman meets her uncle, her wife calls her father-in-law "uncle" and her mother-in-law "aunt". The next morning after marriage, the bride got up early, bathed and waited outside her in-laws bedroom door with a bamboo tube full of dates, chestnuts and decorations. "Jujube" means getting up early, "chestnut" means trembling, and "Xiu Xiu" means cheering up.

2. The woman feeds her aunt and uncle, and the bride personally serves her in-laws for dinner. After the two old people have finished eating, the woman should symbolically eat the leftovers of her in-laws to show respect and filial piety. Another way of saying that "the woman gives gifts to her aunt" means that on the third day after the bride enters the door, she will cook and give gifts to her aunt to show that she will be in charge of the gift money and show filial piety. In the Tang dynasty, there was "the third day, cooking instead of me, washing hands to make bride soup;" I decided that it wasn't my mother-in-law, and my first task was to let my sister-in-law taste Folk Records.

Aunt and in-laws rinse their mouths for the bride and give her a "gift" to show the care of their elders.

Three months after seeing the married woman at the temple fair, the in-laws chose a day to lead the bride to the ancestral temple to worship her ancestors, to show that the woman has officially become a member of her in-laws.