The saying goes, "Ten miles of different winds, a hundred miles of different customs." But in southern Fujian, no matter how many miles apart in the village, have been continuing the cultural customs of our country for thousands of years, I believe that these good cultural traditions must be inherited by the people.
So what are the wedding customs in the rural areas of southern Fujian? The culture of southern Fujian is also a very important part of China's traditional culture, some customs in southern Fujian are also very unique, the next will give you an introduction to it.
In the southern Fujian region of the wedding customs, although different places in some procedures, but in general, there are generally six rites, namely: ask the name, Na Cai, Na Zheng, Na Ji, please period, pro welcome.
One, preparation
by the matchmaker or by the groom recommended a person to the bride's home to talk about the bride price and shirts and pants money, Department of red envelopes, the two sides of the family will be for the situation of the bride price for a negotiation, the general situation of the woman's family put forward the conditions are not too much if the man's family will accept, you and I situation is also often the case.
The amount of bride price depends on the negotiation. Nowadays, the general rural bride price ranges from 100,000 to 500,000 yuan.
Shirt and pants money including the bride's wedding dress and three gold jewelry and so on. Male family. Generally 50,000 to 100,000 yuan.
Pick a good day to go to the woman's home to tie the red packet, tie the red packet means to bring a part of the money and gifts to the woman's parents first.
Tanpan, lifting pan is a very important wedding custom in southern Fujian. The so-called carrying plate is: pig's feet, sesame cheese, red candles and other wedding necessities in southern Fujian, brought to the woman's home, the woman can not receive all of them, but only a part of them, and then add some sesame seeds, grains and cereals to be carried back.
On the head, the day of the wedding, the bride and groom's parents, need to comb their children's hair comb three times, a comb respect for each other, the second comb children and grandchildren, three comb the meaning of old age.
In Minnan this place, many people basically do not understand their dialect, so the dialect is also a threshold Oh, fortunately, this wedding there are two people originally Minnan can be used as a translator, a sibling of my sister-in-law is a bride's maid of honor. With the reform and opening up, Minnan people need to speak more and more opportunities to speak Mandarin, so we do not have difficulty communicating.
Second, welcome the bride
The groom with a colorful car and red envelopes (10 yuan, 20 yuan, 50 yuan, 200 yuan, etc.), and a group of brothers, led by the matchmaker to the bride's home, with red envelopes "smashed" open the bride's door, ha ha, this time, I also cleverly snatched 300 yuan of red envelopes. The groom's brother looking for the bride's embroidered shoes, the person who protects the bride's embroidered shoes think the red envelope (50 yuan) is too small, the handsome man pulled out two more. I said, come show me, he handed me a look, I pinched it, said, well, is a little small, take a bigger one! Handsome men turned to discuss a little, and took out a red envelope, to shoes, I grabbed it, pinched, well this is still a little thick, and then add a sheet will be able to, in the process of stuffed into their purse. The other party demanded, I said, sent out the red envelope, which have to come back yo! The little handsome boy's face red.
It's just not like us Hubei people to welcome the bride, all the way to the firecrackers, maybe it is the reason why the city banned whip it!
Before leaving the house, the photographer asked the groom to accompany the bride's family and friends to take a group photo. I thought like Hubei people to hold a marriage ceremony to recognize relatives, and are recognized elders have to give red envelopes bride and groom, but Minnan people married without this link, perhaps afraid that we do not have red envelopes it!
Afterwards, we as the bride's family all the relatives and friends ride the groom called to pick up our bus along with all the colorful car to the groom's home.
Three, marriage
With the reform and opening up and the development of the times, the concept of changing customs is also gradually changing the customs of the people of southern Fujian, a lot of complicated rituals and customs in the wedding are also omitted. However, in this wedding, the most unique is to welcome the ancestors, ancestor worship and seafood feast. In order to pay homage to the ancestors, the groom's family prepares well, such as setting up an altar, arranging offerings, and preparing a lot of paper gold dollars. Before the feast, the bride and groom, under the guidance of the matriarch, offer incense to the ancestors, perform rituals, make wishes, and then set off firecrackers and burn the gold dollars to the ancestors. Then came the seafood feast, I have never seen such a big lobster, pure wild sea, one loaded a plate, how big is it? One has about 1.5 pounds, in about 500 yuan, and abalone, earth dragon, sea cucumbers, sea crabs, gentian grouper, bamboo shoots seafood soup, jade fat cream, leaf ginseng pigeon soup and so on.