Sanming contemporary marriage custom
1. Get married. Both parties should put their birthdays on the fireplace for three days. After dinner every day, they should hide the fire used in the firewood stove with firewood ash and take care of themselves. The next morning, they will cook with this fire angrily. If the fire is not at home for three days, they will signal that it is stable and orderly, and they can write an order at the beginning to confirm their marriage.
The engagement ceremony should be held within one month after marriage. The man should choose a good date, prepare a pig's foot, 16 Jin of glutinous rice, 9 Jin of dry powder, 16 red eggs, a pair of chickens and other bride price, and go to the house used by the woman for blind date.
3. The day before the wedding, go out with wine and pick up Pucheng. At the same time, you should take the rest of the gift money to the woman's house.
Generally speaking, the wedding team will be ready to relax from men, and before sunset, the team will be arranged according to honest and frank determination. At the front of the procession is a pair of torches, followed by a pair of portable lanterns, followed by a pair of full boxes, and a little woman with a red umbrella. The most distinctive thing is that she also brought a bunch of two gongs, one for playing suona and the other for carrying gongs. Suona all the way, playing high, drumming loudly, playing hard and the waves are magnificent, and I will be rich.
When we arrive at the address of the woman in the S family at the village entrance, the group should first send a member to the meeting, that is, look after the woman's family. The wedding team has arrived and is ready to entertain. This man will come to S's house with a lantern, and the woman will have a poster box in her hand. After the woman fills in the names of the seniors of the two hospitality teams on the poster, she will assign the seniors in charge of welcoming guests to go out to entertain guests. In this way, the welcoming team just entered the woman's house.
6. After the initial stage of the dinner party, the groom will toast the family one after another at the woman's wedding banquet. When toasting, a pack of rock candy will be sent to relatives and elders, indicating that the days will be very sweet.
7. A quarter of an hour before going out, after getting dressed during menstruation, the bride wearing a red veil will be carried from the pavilion to the living room by menstruation. At this time, the bride can't touch the ground from leaving the house to getting on the sedan chair, so she can only step on the rice screen of the Kirin sacrifice map. The elders went to the bride one after another and then held a banquet. At this point, the whole wedding began.