Blind date, including proposing relatives, seeing each other and changing the eight-character stickers.
Make decisions, including small decisions (small tea) and large decisions (big tea).
Marriage includes choosing a date, giving gifts, inviting guests, making up, getting married, and getting married.
Back to the door, including ancestor worship, family recognition, living in the moon and so on.
Nowadays, many customs have changed and new things have appeared, but some traditional marriage customs still exist in Manchu inhabited areas in eastern Inner Mongolia.
Archery at the unique wedding of Manchu brides. When the groom is newly married, he must sit in a wedding sedan chair to marry the bride. When the sedan chair will arrive at the door of the bridal chamber, the groom will not wait for the bride to get off the sedan chair, but will shoot three arrows at the bride, which means to remove the bride's "red evil spirit", but this is a false shot, and the arrows only hit the front of the sedan chair. Then the groom will shoot four arrows at the four corners of the wedding room. After the filming, the bride was allowed to get off the sedan chair and get into the saddle (meaning peace). After worshipping heaven and earth, the groom must take off the bride's hijab with his arrow. Shooting the bride with an arrow bears traces of the ancient custom of the Manchu ancestor, Nuzhen. This kind of marriage custom is typical in Caonian Manchu Township in Liangcheng County, Inner Mongolia and Shi Jia Manchu Township in Harqin Banner, and it remained until the 1960s.
Eating descendants is one of the traditional marriage customs of Manchu. The bride and groom need to eat children's cakes after completing all kinds of etiquette on the wedding day (jiaozi). The baby of the child is prepared by the woman's house and sent to the man's house by the wife with the dowry. It's slightly smaller than the usual jiaozi. Dumpling stuffing is made of pork, onion, ginger, oil, etc. Dumpling skin is made of fine powder and wrapped in a crescent shape. There is also a kind of common name called roe deer, which needs to be divided into two to take the meaning of harmony between husband and wife.