In the old Luliang area, wedding customs are very complicated. The matchmaker proposed marriage in accordance with the tradition of matching families. Parents ask people to inquire about the home of relatives to be married in detail, understand the background, and ask fortune tellers to get married and tell fortune. If they are satisfied and don't worry, the matchmaker will lead the man to the woman on a blind date on an auspicious day. If a man or a woman is ugly, she often secretly lets others take photos. After the two sides meet, it is agreed that the man's parents will give the woman a gold and silver ring or gold and silver earrings as an engagement. After everything was ready, the man asked the teacher of Yin and Yang to choose a good time and auspicious day as the wedding day. Write the selected date on plum blossom paper, put it in a "paste box" with the bride price, wrap it in red cloth and send it to the woman's house by the matchmaker. When the bride's family learned of the wedding date, please bargain with Yin and Yang to see if it fits. If there is any objection, it will be rescheduled. If there is no objection, the wedding date will be fixed.
When the man goes to the woman's house, the married guests, the groom and the children with wedding bottles go back to the house, and the guests sit in the VIP table. With the help of bridesmaids, aunts, etc. The bride puts on new clothes, dresses up, dresses and decorations. After the bride finishes dressing, a ceremony should be held before getting on the sedan chair, such as "the chair is the rule, the fan is the rule, and the maid is the maid of the maid." After the man gave money to comb his hair and wash his face, the bride's head was covered and carried out of the sedan chair. Set out in the sound of firecrackers and drums. After departure, go around the street and return to the woman's house. The bride should look in the mirror and adjust her temples. The rich will give gold earrings and rings, while the poor will wear silver earrings or rings, commonly known as "looking back at the bright moon" (homophonic Yin Yue).
After the wedding queue left, the woman sent someone to send an invitation, commonly known as "paste", to invite her new uncle to Zhang Yue's house on the third day after the July 7th Incident (changed to the second day after the July 7th Incident) to "meet relatives and friends". The book box where invitations are placed is commonly known as "worship box", which contains a cypress leaf besides invitations, meaning to grow old together; A wormwood, indicating love; There is a cup of honey and a cup of salt, which means fate and dense bumps; There are seven small pieces of gray stones, which represent that love is always rock-solid and rock-solid; There are five walnuts and two red dates, which symbolize the reunion of five men, two women and seven children; There is a pair of red chopsticks, which means ample food and clothing; Another pinch of cowpea, two peppers and two green onions are homophonic, and cowpea means that everything is better than people; Pepper represents happiness; Onion is a metaphor for love in Changchun. In addition, some people put copper, iron and silver thimbles, such as copper steel, iron bottom and silver cover, in the hope that the family business will flourish and future generations will come.
Back to the man's door, with the help of two bridesmaids, the bride first threw away the money for the New Year's Eve dinner, then held the demon mirror and the frame, and the groom, holding the demon-cutting knife and bow and arrow, crossed the sedan chair represented by the saddle and set foot on the red carpet until the courtyard heart was properly arranged. Li Siren sang: "One worships heaven and earth, two worships ancestors, three worships relatives and friends" and so on. After three bows and nine kowtows, the bride and groom left the West Pavilion and walked slowly into the red-carpet bridal chamber. When entering the bridal chamber, the groom bends his bow and arrows to shoot evil. The bride lifted the bedpan buckled on the threshold and took out awl scissors from it to exorcise evil spirits. Later, the groom took off the red veil for the bride, the bride sat on the kang mat, and the children begged for candy, so the wedding was completed.
In the bridal chamber, the lamp of happiness is on day and night, and the wedding chamber goes in the middle of the night. The bride and groom share harmonious soup, children's flat food and lotus seed buns, and then go to bed. Some good young people licked enough papers and peeped at the door to listen to the room.
After breakfast the next day, a congratulatory ceremony was held. The bride and groom thank their relatives and elders, and relatives and friends greet their parents. Dorsey, men bow, women bow.
On the third day, the groom and the bride went to their parents' home to meet relatives and friends with gifts. The groom kowtowed to all the elders and relatives of the woman. After the "July 7 Incident", it was changed to meet relatives and friends the next day, and congratulations were held on the afternoon of the wedding.
On the fourth day, after eating Lamian Noodles, the couple reached their centenarians.
On the fifth day, the bride got up early in the morning and went back to her mother's house for five days without eating her in-laws' meals.
On the sixth day, eating steamed rice or braised rice or steamed rice means a hundred years of harmony.
On the seventh day, eat jiaozi.
On the eighth day, eat fire.
On the ninth day, we ate steamed bread and cooked meat dishes.
Ten days later, eat oil cakes. Day after day, step by step.
As the saying goes, if you go through the door first, you get two congratulations. On the third day, your son-in-law wants to meet relatives and friends. On the fourth day, you will eat Lamian Noodles. On the fifth day, you will go back to your mother's house. On the sixth day, you will eat distilled rice. You will be a good couple for a hundred years. Seven jiaozi, eight fires, nine steamed buns and ten cakes. This is also the bride's 10 day menu.