What are the wedding customs in Hong Kong? 1. What exquisite wedding gifts are there?
About half a month before the wedding, the man's family and the matchmaker go to the woman's house with gifts and various gifts to discuss some specific matters in the wedding. What is this called? A gift? . It should be noted that the number of gifts should be even, which means in pairs. Among them, gift cakes are essential, and then the woman's family will distribute these gift cakes to a group of relatives and friends. What is this called? Pie? Announce to relatives and friends that her daughter is getting married. Moreover, there must be two pairs of dragon and phoenix cakes in the gift cake, one for the bride's family and one for the man. Top？ For sacrifice.
2、? Blessed? Anchuang
Do you want boys in the wedding bridal chamber? Blessed? Someone arranged the wedding bed in advance on a good day and put red dates, peanuts and longan seeds in the bridal chamber? Have a baby early? Food, when decorating the new house, is still in your mouth? A hundred years together? Lucky words like this
3. Good sisters get married
On the eve of the wedding, the bride's girl friends is concentrated in the bride's home, forming a sisterhood, which is called a wedding. Because in ancient China, women didn't go out after marriage, so it was a farewell ceremony with fat friends. Now Hong Kong is a dual-income family, so the phenomenon that married women no longer leave home no longer exists, but this custom has always been preserved. The night before the wedding, there are other customs. One of them is called. Top？ It's a ceremony to comb your hair. Every mother combs her married daughter and son. ? Comb to the end? , which means forever. Another custom is to eat glutinous rice balls. Grind rice into powder, add sesame stuffing, make a thumb-sized dumpling, and then cook it with sugar juice, which is very sweet, indicating that the newly married life is sweet, complete and happy.
4. Above the elders
On the day before the wedding, a long-lived and happy elder will be specially invited to be the bride's head. Specifically, the elders say auspicious words while combing the bride's hair, indicating that the bride has accepted the blessing and will start her married life happily.
Brothers help welcome the bride.
The wedding day is busy from morning till night. First, the groom goes to the bride's house to marry her. This is the first climax. Just like the sister group of the bride's family, the groom's family should form a brotherhood and meet together. The sisterhood blocked the way at the bride's door. If you want to go through the door, you need to pay the toll, and both parties will negotiate. ? Nine? This number means forever. So the gift starts at 99,999 yuan and 90 minutes. After consultation, the two brothers paid the bill in cash, and the gift money was divided equally by the sisters. This originated from the custom of buying and selling marriages in ancient China for thousands of years, and now it has become an interesting game.
6. Pour tea and see both parents.
Tea pouring is a formal ceremony to meet both parents and relatives.
First of all, when marrying the bride, the bride and groom offer tea to the bride's parents and formally meet their in-laws.
After marriage, the bride should also accompany the groom, offer tea to the groom's parents and formally meet her in-laws.
7. Worship ancestors
Before offering tea to your in-laws, you should first offer tea to your ancestors, then offer tea to the gods of the earth and heaven and earth, and finally pour tea for your parents.
8. Go back to the door
Three days after the wedding, the bride, accompanied by the groom, returned to her parents' house with roasted pig fruit. Back to the door? .