When everything is ready, I'm just waiting to go to the wedding today.
So Lao Li's house is very lively today, because the banquet needs to be prepared in advance to welcome guests to the wedding banquet.
Several cousins of the same generation in Lao Li's family will have a meal with the groom, Li Wujun.
After finishing the meal, Li Wujun followed the gongs and drums team and the sedan chair and headed towards the county town to Uncle Qin's house to welcome the bride.
And his sister-in-law Yang Yuemei also went with him, because when he went to the bride's house to welcome the bride, one of the sisters-in-law and aunt at home was needed to support the bride.
At Uncle Qin's house, Uncle Qin invited his aunt over, combed Qin Caiyu's hair, used silk thread to remove the hair on her face, and put on makeup, which was called "opening her face."
When Li Wujun and the others arrived, Feng Caiyu, who had already eaten the Hehe meal and put on a hat and a headscarf, covered her red hijab and sat by the bed to wait.
The Qin family had invited some relatives and friends for a banquet the night before, which was a "don't kiss wine" and a "farewell banquet".
In addition, both men and women will kill pigs and sheep at home in advance, and prepare to hire cooks, cooks, bearers and other handymen.
After these people are invited, they all need to go to the host's house to start work the day before the wedding and make preparations for the wedding banquet.
In traditional weddings in ancient times, the bride's family usually prepares the wedding wine in the morning, while the groom's family holds the wedding banquet at noon; if it is a wedding ceremony, the reverse is true.
After everything is ready, the groom's family fires cannons and plays music, and sends a sedan to welcome the bride.
The matchmaker goes first, followed by the groom's official, bride-in-law's sister-in-law, sedan chair, band, and gift box team.
As for the bride's family over there, before the sedan chair arrives, they must prepare the accompanying dowry and the like.
When the sedan chair arrives at the bride's house, cannons and music are fired to welcome it.
After the wedding procession enters the bride's family hall, the groom will bow to his father-in-law and mother-in-law after the sedan has landed, and present a bright red wedding note written in his father's name.
Then came the hostess's feast.
The matchmaker and the groom must be more careful during the banquet, because there is an unwritten custom among Chinese people.
During the three days of the wedding, ordinary and junior teenagers among relatives, friends, and young people can ingeniously choreograph a few little comedies to tease the matchmaker or groom.
Officials call it "washing matchmaker" and "hanging red", commonly known as "greeting new guests".
Matchmakers and groomsmen should tolerate these little farces that can add to the joyful atmosphere.
They can take a small revenge, but they should not get really angry.
Before the bride gets on the sedan, the groom and the bride, under the guidance of the matchmaker, will salute the bride’s ancestors and elders, and then it’s time for the bride to get on the sedan.
At this time, Qin Caiyu was supported by her current sister-in-law, Qin Yushi, uncle Qin's daughter-in-law.
After bidding farewell to her relatives and friends, she was led out of the boudoir by the person holding the sieve and the candle.
At this time, Yang Yuemei hurriedly stepped forward to help the bride and led her onto the sedan chair.
The red scarf used by the bride before getting into the sedan chair is a veil and cannot be removed in the sedan chair.
This is the veil, also known as the hijab.
It is not until the groom's family pays homage to the bride and enters the bridal chamber that the bridegroom's official or the groom's father, who is blessed with both longevity and longevity, can remove the hijab so that the congratulators can see the bride's elegance, which is called lifting the hijab.
There is also a saying about moving grain and beans here, that is, when a woman is getting married, she usually asks a respectable old woman to carry a dustpan filled with millet and beans and scatter them everywhere.
In some places, she spreads grass.
Before the bride gets on the sedan chair, the inside and outside of the sedan chair must be spread.
When the sedan chair arrives in front of the groom's door, the bride must also spread the beans before getting off the sedan chair.
This is called spreading grain beans.
When the groom and the bride enter the bridal chamber, with the girl on the left and the boy on the right sitting on the new bed, the groom's family will also take grains, beans, fruits and coins and scatter them again, which is called spreading the tent.
One is that grain beans can ward off evil spirits, and the other is that plant seeds are used as a metaphor to wish the bride an early child.
This folk custom has existed as early as the Han Dynasty.
A lot of peanuts and red dates should also be sprinkled on the bed, which means giving birth to children early, and boys and girls should be born together with the flowers.
The bride usually cries before getting into the sedan chair to show her attachment to her parents, brothers, sister-in-law and other family members.
After the bride gets on the sedan chair, music is played and cannons are fired, and the bride gets up from the sedan chair for the wedding ceremony.
The band is in front, and behind the band is the groom.
If possible, he must ride a horse, so Chunyu specially borrowed a horse from Uncle Guo's family.
Then came the sedan chair and other people sending the bride off, as well as the dowry accompaniments.
When the wedding procession leaves the bride's house, it must take another road on its way back.
Therefore, sometimes we have to take a detour, which is commonly known as "no turning back".
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If you encounter temples, wells, ancestral halls, tombs, big rocks, big trees, etc. on the road, you must cover the wedding sedan to avoid evil spirits.
If you meet someone getting married from another family, the bearers will compete with each other on their skills and try to make the sedan as stable as possible, and the groom and the bridegroom will still need to change corsages.
If you meet a funeral person, the bride and groom should say: "Today is auspicious, you will find a treasure."
Along the way, when passing by crowded places, people should be sprinkled with wedding candies, peanuts and the like.
When the procession for welcoming the bride is about to arrive at the door of the groom’s official home, the groom’s family will fire cannons to welcome them.
When the sedan arrived at the door, Li Wujun got off his horse and kicked the sedan door three times, then opened the curtain and carried the bride off.
Li Wujun carried Qin Caiyu across the brazier and through three doors before arriving at his living room.
At this time, the incense table in the hall of the house was already filled with cigarette smoke and red candles burning high.
Relatives, friends, and the matchmaker in charge of the ceremony were also waiting on the right side.
Chun Yu and Liu Zhi appeared as "Yin Zan" and "Tong Zan" respectively and began to praise.
Li Wujun and Qin Caiyu received the praises from Yinzan and Tongzan and began to worship.
First, Li Wujun and Qin Caiyu went to the incense table, played music and fired cannons, and then they placed incense and candles on the gods and ancestral tablets.
Then he kneels again and offers incense and candles.
Light the candle, burn the incense, add the incense, store it, revive it, and reset it.
The next step is the traditional three bows to heaven and earth, two bows to parents, husband and wife bows to each other, and finally the introduction to the bridal chamber.
The new house is the Beitang house that Li Dajun's family used to have when they lived in the old courtyard.
It has two rooms and one living room, and it has been renovated some time ago.
The furniture is completely new and has been painted with a layer of white ash.
A square lantern is hung high in the middle of the hall.
The four sides of the lantern are painted with "Luan Feng He Ming", "Guanyin Sends a Child", "Number One Scholar and the First Prize", "Family Fun" and other beautiful patterns.
The bridal chamber was also decorated by the eldest sister-in-law Yang Yuemei, the third sister-in-law Guihua, the second sister Xiuzhi and the youngest sister Liuzhi.
But during the process of decorating the new house, Guihua's old habit relapsed and she kept talking about the fourth brother getting married this time.
The eldest brother's family has a lot of extra boxes, but the third brother, who is also his younger brother, doesn't have many.
However, no one took her word for it.
It was a good day for the fourth child to get married.
As the third sister-in-law, Guihua still said many things, which was really speechless.
A pair of huge red candles are also placed on the incense table in the new house, and a pair of "opposite" candles are posted on the wall on both sides.
On the "golden wall" of the new house, six characters "Heaven and Earth, Lord, Relative, Master" are posted, written directly from top to bottom.
There are particularities in how to write these six characters: the sky should be flat, that is, the two horizontal lines of the word "平" should be written flat and not curved; the earth should be wide, that is, the word "地" should be written wider, not too narrow; if you don't open your mouth, That is, the "口" character of the character "君" must be completely closed without leaving any gaps; if you do not close your eyes, that is, write the traditional Chinese character "〓".
The character "〓" on the right cannot completely seal the last horizontal line of the character "目" above it. live.
Moreover, a pair of couplets are pasted on both sides of the door frame of the new house with a horizontal inscription, usually with the four characters "Luan Feng He Ming" written on the horizontal inscription.
Big red Double Happiness characters are posted on the door, and colored lanterns are hung in the middle of the new house.
Paper-cut red Double Happiness characters are pasted on the windows, and paper-cut butterfly patterns are pasted on the four corners.
Couplets are pasted on both sides of the windows, and calligraphy and paintings are hung around the walls.
There is also a pair of couplets and horizontal inscriptions posted on the main entrance, a red word "happiness" is posted on the door, and a word "happiness" is posted on the door of all the rooms in the old courtyard.
After the worship service was over, matchmaker Yang Yuemei and her group sent Qin Caiyu into the bridal chamber.
Then he just waited for Li Wujun to finish socializing with relatives and friends, and then come over to drink Hexin wine and eat red eggs with Qin Caiyu.
The custom of drinking Henu wine began in the Zhou Dynasty.
The book of rites and rituals record: The husband and wife eat together in a prison, and hold the nuptials together.
Hexin is actually a gourd cut into two scoops called "卺".
During the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom each rinse their mouths with wine, which is called "Hexi".
Most of the candles used in weddings here were decorated with dragons and phoenixes, and people in later generations also used candles as a symbol of marriage.
He Xun read Fulang's wedding poem and said: "Since the night of flowers and candles, I lightly fanned my red clothes."
On the wedding night, the bride and groom stayed up all night, which is called "keeping flowers and candles."
If you do not keep the flowers and candles, after the newlyweds go to bed, the assistants, bridesmaids, etc. must come into the room from time to time to check whether the flowers and candles are damaged or leaking, as this may be an ominous sign.
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Superstitious people have a saying that "the groom dies first when the left candle is exhausted, and the bride dies first when the right candle is exhausted."
Therefore, when one candle is extinguished, the other candle will be extinguished.
Next comes the most exciting part, the wedding ceremony.
This can be said to be the climax of the wedding ceremony.
In addition to being amused, making trouble in the wedding ceremony also has other meanings.
It is said that foxes and ghosts often cause trouble in the bridal chamber.
Trouble in the bridal chamber can expel the yin energy of evil spirits and enhance people's yang energy.
According to this, there is a saying: "People are not haunted by ghosts."
In a positive sense, having a wedding ceremony can add a lively atmosphere and get rid of the deserted feeling, so some places call it a "warm house".
In ancient times, the union between men and women was usually introduced by strangers to each other.
Having a wedding ceremony can help them get rid of the strangeness and make a good start for their newlywed life.
In addition, having a wedding ceremony can also make relatives and friends familiar with each other, show the prosperity of the family, and enhance the relationship between relatives and friends.
When the bridal chamber activity reaches a certain point, the groom will lead the bride to "make a bow and acknowledge the bride."
All the elders of the groom's family must come in one by one to greet the bride and groom amidst the praises of the groomsmen, and they must give a red envelope to the bride as a meeting gift, which is called "making a bow envelope".
At the same time, the elder should give a "half salute" in return.
This kind of ceremony can show the unity of the family.
The wedding ceremony is "no matter how big or small" it is for three days.
The bride and groom and even the groom's parents are often teased by others and even younger generations.
Those who are teased and teased should not get angry, so as not to ruin the festive atmosphere of the wedding.
Of course, those who make noise in the wedding ceremony should not be too outrageous.
If they make noise for too long, it will also affect the rest of the newlyweds.
It's a pity that Chunyu and the other little girls can't go to the fun, so they can only stay at home and feel depressed.
By this time, the wedding feast was already over, and all the relatives and friends had left.
So just waiting for them to finish the wedding ceremony, it would be over for today.
Lao Li's family now has a new daughter-in-law, and Chunyu and the others also have a new aunt.
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