As we all know, marriage is the most solemn thing in everyone's life path ceremony, and marriage means that one says goodbye to one's life period and enters his thirties. Therefore, wedding banquets have always been highly valued by everyone. The wedding banquets in Xinzhou area, in addition to following the ancient "Six Rites", have experienced the baptism of time and body, and gradually tend to be concise, with the characteristics of the region. There are roughly four procedures for regional marriage in Xinzhou: marriage negotiation, betrothal, marriage and returning home.

discussing marriage is the first step in the marriage life of boys and girls. Therefore, "no marriage without media", the two sides can not meet, all depends on the intention of parents, and whether they can get married depends entirely on the result of "marriage". Later, blind date was promoted, in which the introducer took the men to the women's house to see the women's appearance and figure. Women's fathers, or women themselves and their mothers sometimes go to men to look at their houses and bedrooms and inquire about their social media popularity and personality. When the marriage is completed, the two families choose an auspicious day to exchange Geng posts. Prepare red book stickers for each other, which once again indicate the date of birth of boys and girls in many ways, and exchange them with each other, indicating that they are faithful. The old saying of the locals is that women are "taken."

betrothal, usually before the age of fifteen, or even at the age of five or six. When engaged, the man should send bride price money and a lot of money to his wife's family, which is called "accepting employment" in ancient times. All gifts are specific to the family. For example, the types of bride price money in Baode and Hequ are "three sets and two pairs", that is, three pairs of collars and two pairs of bracelets; "Bonus bride price money", that is, the red cloth and the blue cloth are sewed up one foot and two feet each; "Raw rice pig rolls", that is, a bucket of rice, a bucket of black beans, a bucket of jujube, a mouthful of pigs with white stripes, 24 steamed buns, and Yinyang wrapped in red paper. However, the only representative gifts given to her children by her family are a hat, a pair of boots and a "hard waist". In the early days of liberation, poor families could not give money for bride price, so they had to sell their houses and land, and they were in debt, so that they could not make a comeback for life.

getting married is also called marrying a wife. When the two sides reach the marriageable age recognized locally, they will discuss the date of marriage. Generally, the man first asks Mr. Yin and Yang to choose the date, and the introducer takes the gift to inform the woman's family, which is generally willing to date the man. However, a careful woman needs to ask Mr. Yin and Yang to change the date to see if there is any "taboo". In Baode area, you can choose any day after the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, which is called "getting rid of the chaos".

the wedding guests don't return on the same day. After the bride-taking team arrived at the women, the younger brother of the bride went out to meet the bride in Daixian area, and "inserted flowers" on the groom's head. After the groom enters the hospital, he should drink tea and eat nuts and snacks, which is called "waiting for the children." In Hequ area, children are invited to have a "small meal"-four dishes of cold salad, noodles and white wine. After eating, the bride is urged to get on the sedan chair. The bride wears a crested comb, a gown, a jade waist and a red silk veil, and goes out with the groom. At this time, the bride was crying and making trouble, her mother's cheeks were full of tears, and the mother and daughter were hard to argue and even cried. The bride's family uses this small standard of commission, which is habitually called "the first blow of the adopted daughter", and the man gives some money, wheat flour or meat, which is called "leaving the mother's fee", "leaving the mother's face" and "leaving the mother's meat".

Go home. On the second day after marriage, in some areas, it is the fifth or ninth day. When the bride and groom return to their parents' home, the groom's official should kowtow to the elders of the father-in-law's family, alias "recognizing the size". Uncle and sister-in-law in Baode area want to make fun of their cousins, and most of them put more spices in the food, such as pepper, vinegar and sesame pepper. You also need to give the groom a dumpling, called "pinch your mouth and eat flat food", in order to avoid the uncle saying that it is not very good. On that day, the bride and groom must return to the man, and they should not stay at their parents' home, which is called "round trip". The whole process of the wedding reception was over here.