Visiting the church is also called worshipping heaven and earth. China's marriage customs originated in the Northern Song Dynasty. Popular all over the
Visiting the church is also called worshipping heaven and earth. China's marriage customs originated in the Northern Song Dynasty. Popular all over the country. At the wedding, after the bride and groom worship the heavens and the earth, they will go back to worship their ancestors, parents and elders. The following is the information I compiled for you about the eight steps of ancient marriage, hoping to help you.
Eight steps of ancient marriage
Meeting the bride is an important procedure of ancient wedding, and it is the * * * stage of the wedding. On TV, we often see that when ancient people and modern people get married, there is a link of paying homage to the church. So when did worship begin and what was the whole process?
brief introduction
Meeting the bride began in the Tang Dynasty, when the bride met her in-laws. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the bride and groom had to worship the temple first. The next morning, the bride put the mirror on the table and bowed down. This is called meeting the bride. It was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that the bride's wedding ceremony was changed to the wedding day, and the groom lifted the bride's veil and began to pay homage. The custom of worshipping in the Southern Song Dynasty continued, and then worshiped on the wedding day.
origin
In the existing historical materials, there is no record of couples paying homage before the Han Dynasty, but there is a story in Shi Shuo Xin Yu, which can prove that the custom of paying homage began in Xuzhou in the Jin Dynasty.
According to the book, there was a Xuzhou secretariat named Wang Hun. Yuan Pei's wife died and married another man. The remarried wife is Yan, a civilian with a relatively low status. When they visited the church, Yan first worshipped Wang Hun, and then Wang Hun was ready to answer. At this time, someone said to Wang Hun: You are a national official, how can you worship her? Wang Hun didn't answer. Therefore, Yan is very angry. Although the couple's worship was not finally completed, it shows that Xuzhou did have the custom of worship at that time.
If someone hadn't stirred it up, Wang Hun would have answered and worshipped. This also shows that the custom of mutual worship between husband and wife has just arisen, and Wang Hun will not worship if he does not. Later, when the custom is mature, the groom's official should be worshipped no matter how old he is. According to "Sui Shu Etiquette", when the Northern Qi Emperor held a wedding ceremony, both husband and wife should worship each other. However, it is still women who bow their heads first and then bow their heads; The male queen bows down and gets up first.
Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been widely practiced from the royal family to the common people. After the Song Dynasty, it became popular all over the country and was worshipped by heaven and earth, ancestors, aunts, in-laws and couples, indicating that women have since become a member of the male family, thus becoming the most important gift in the wedding process. In modernization, the scope of "worshipping the church" has expanded. In addition to the ancestors of heaven and earth, we should also worship the Bi family and be friendly to guests and friends. On the second day after the wedding, the village paid a visit to the ancestral temple, but before the wedding, it was still necessary to pay a visit to the neighborhood of the cultural station.
(of the bride and groom) salute to heaven and earth.
After the bride and groom enter the door, they will then "worship the church", also known as "worship heaven and earth" Generally, the place to worship the church is in front of the bridal chamber. There is an altar with the tablets of the monarch and the teacher of heaven and earth on it, and the curtain of the ancestors is hung behind the altar. After the bride and groom are in place, they are guided by two male guests, kneeling three times and knocking nine times to pay homage to heaven and earth, ancestors and parents. Then the woman is east, the man is west, and the husband and wife pay homage. In the Datong area of Yanbei, the bride doesn't worship when the groom visits the wedding, which is quite different from the usual custom.
Worship the church is also called worship the high hall, worship the flower hall and worship the heaven and earth. On the wedding day, the man's home has been decorated, and the hall is a place to worship the bride. Red candles are lit, ancestral tablets are placed on the table, and grain barrels are placed, which contain whole grains and are pasted with red happy characters. When the groom greeted the bride with a sedan chair at home, the ceremony officially began. The sedan chair carrying the bride enters the yard and then passes through the brazier, symbolizing burning unlucky things, and the future will be very prosperous. After that, the bride got down from the sedan chair, but her feet could not step on the ground directly, and she had to step on the "seat" to enter the main room. Next, light candles and incense, and then shoot for fun. Then began to worship the church, a worship heaven and earth, a worship hall, husband and wife worship, and finally sent to the bridal chamber. So the worship ceremony is over.
On the wedding day, the bride and groom held a ceremony to pay tribute to the bride. The two bridesmaids appeared as "Zan" and "Zan" respectively.
The procedure of meeting the bride is as follows: praise: the groom stands in front of the sedan chair.
Tong Zan: Lift the sedan chair and the couple will get up.
Zan: The groom bows * * * and invites the bride * * *
Zan: The bride and groom went straight to the front of the drawing room.
Zan: The bride and groom are in place.
Tong Zan: The bride and groom go on a pilgrimage.
Zan: Bow down and burn incense.
Tong Zan: Kneel down, kowtow, kowtow again, kowtow three times,
Then there are the three common worships in TV series: one worships heaven and earth, the other worships Gao Tang, and the husband and wife enter the bridal chamber after two worships.