The traditional happy events in China are as follows:
Sit on the bed and spread out the bill.
Sitting on the bed is also called "sitting on the bill", "sitting on the fortune" or "sitting on the wealth". In the traditional wedding custom, after the bride enters the bridal chamber, she should sit on the wedding bed or cross-legged in the tent, and can't walk around at will. The bride should pay attention to her position and face the west god. XiShen, also known as the auspicious god, is the auspicious god who wishes the new couple happiness. The specific orientation of the Western Heaven can only be guided by the Yin and Yang Master. Spreading accounts refers to a couple sitting on the wedding bed, and the host scatters money, happy fruit and so on. Sing songs or say auspicious words to them, such as "touch a jujube and take a small one;" Sprinkle a chestnut and get a nickel; A handful of chestnuts and a handful of dates, the small one runs with the big one.
Weighing cover
It is said that the hijab is the first ceremony after the newlyweds enter the bridal chamber. Taking off the hijab and calling it a red scarf means that the groom takes off the red scarf that the bride used to cover her head with a beam. Why did you weigh the lid?
The folk saying is that the scales on the scales are astronomical phenomena, that is, the Big Dipper, Nandou, Jiafu, Lulu and Shousanliu. It is very lucky to pick the hijab with the scales. Another way of saying it is that the scale is homophonic with the scale, and the scale can be satisfied by picking the cover.
* * * Prison marriage
* * * Prison marriage is the most solemn ceremony in the wedding ceremony, and * * * prison is also called cellmate, that is, husband and wife eat livestock together, which means that husband and wife are "integrated" from now on. Descendants gradually evolved into children, that is, descendants of couples who ate together after marriage. Couplets, also known as gourd ladle, acacia cup or toast, split a gourd into two gourd ladle, and each couple takes a gourd ladle for drinking. After the Tang Dynasty, the ceremony of tying the knot was changed to drinking a glass of wine, usually with two wooden wine glasses tied with red lines. The bride and groom each drink half a cup, then exchange with each other and finish it at the same time. Then the two of them threw the cups on the bed together. It's a good sign if two cups are tilted back and closed. "Book of Rites" wrote: "When a woman arrives, a married woman enters, and she is fed in prison, so she fits in, respects her and kisses her."
true lover's knot
Cai Chao, a poetess in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in the first poem of "Eighteen Songs at midnight": "Nong not only cuts the clouds, but also divides his hair. Find a place where no one is, and concentrate on it. " This is the heart of the bridal chamber. According to the description in the poem, the ceremony of tying hair is that the bride and groom each cut off a lock of hair to form a concentric bun and tie it up with blue silk. But in fact, the specific operation mode of the hair-tying ceremony has been different in past dynasties.
The knot in the pre-Qin, Qin and Han dynasties was that the groom untied the bride's wedding vows himself when the bride was at home, combed her hair again and tied it. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the knot evolved into a lock of hair cut by both men and women and tied into a "bun" to show that they would grow old together.
The "knot" is usually given to the bride for preservation or carefully placed under the bed. In ancient times, only people who got married for the first time were eligible to attend weddings.