The bride combs her hair with ten jingles: comb it to the end; Two combs for white-haired Qi Mei; Three combs for children and grandchildren; Four combs of good luck, the way out meets the nobles; Five combs and five sons went to the branch to get the contract, and five silver bamboo shoots were all the same; Friends and relatives comb six times to entertain, and the boudoir mirror is red; Seven combs under Seven Sisters and Yong Dong, and the bridge is elevated and flat; Eight combs and eight immortals come to celebrate their birthday, and Jane ducks swim outside Lianhua Road; Nine combs and nine sons, a string of everything; Ten comb couples grow old together.
Getting married on the head is one of the more important customs, also called combing the hair on the head. It is a ritual to change a woman's hairstyle before marriage. It refers to changing the bride's braid into a bun and wearing a headdress before the wedding. At present, the ceremony is usually completed on the night before the wedding, which not only brings blessings to the bride, but also symbolizes that the couple have grown up and started to form a new family.