The famous scenic spots in Kunshan include Forest Park, Tinglin Park (Yufeng Mountain) and Peonica Garden. Huazang Temple Temple, Chongning Temple and Yanfu Temple. Guzhen Ancient City Zhouzhuang, Qiandeng, Jinxi and Zhengyi. Resort Yangcheng Lake Resort, Dianshan Lake Resort. Marriage custom in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province; ancient marriage etiquette. It refers to six kinds of etiquette in the process from marriage negotiation to marriage completion, namely, accepting gifts, asking names, accepting gifts, inviting guests, and welcoming people in person. This wedding procedure,
acceptance: that is, the man's family invites the matchmaker to propose marriage to the woman's family, and the woman's family promises to propose marriage, and the man's family prepares a gift to propose marriage.
name asking: the man's family asks the matchmaker to ask the woman's name and date of birth.
Najib: That is, after the man's family gets a good omen, he prepares a gift to inform the woman's family and decides to get married.
collecting money: also known as collecting money, that is, the man's family gives it to the woman's family as a dowry.
invitation date: that is, the man chooses the wedding date and prepares a gift to inform the woman's family for her consent.
personal wedding: that is, the groom goes to the woman's house to get married.
the completion of the six rites only means that the ceremony of becoming a wife has been completed, and the ceremony of "paying homage to my aunt and uncle" must be completed the next day, that is, the ceremony of becoming a wife; If the in-laws are deceased, they will visit the in-laws in the temple after March, which is called "seeing at the temple".
At present, every ceremony in Kunshan's water village wedding custom is basically followed by the "Six Rites", the backbone of China's ancient marriage ceremony system.
The wedding customs of water villages in Kunshan have distinct local characteristics: Kunshan is the center, and it is passed down orally in Wu dialect, which is continuous and original. The marriage custom in water villages is a systematic custom, which runs through with the "six rites" and is like a complete life sitcom with plots and contents and profound implications. The wedding customs in water towns are like a long poem, which not only records the details and process of the wedding, but also has lyrical romance, and integrates the pursuit of children, blessing and exorcism, which embodies the simple and happy ideal of the people in water towns. At the same time, the marriage custom in the water town is an encyclopedia reflecting the life in the water town, covering the historical origin, folk customs, social structure, religious beliefs, clothing, food, housing and transportation of the residents in the water town of Han nationality.
The wedding customs in water towns show the joyful scenes in the marriage of Han men and women, and reflect the unique cultural and regional characteristics of rice cultivation in water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. During the wedding ceremony, there is a custom of worshipping and worshipping tea. Because "every plant of tea trees must have children", using tea as a wedding custom prop means that "plants must have children", which implies the wish of having children and delaying heirs. A few days before the wedding, the bride will "cry and marry", even her mother and relatives will cry together, and the sadder she cries, the better, and she will sing a long-standing crying wedding song. Lyrics are popular and easy to understand, and are generally passed down orally by the folk people. Folk customs regard whether or not a woman can sing a wedding song as one of the criteria to measure her virtue or laziness, intelligence or stupidity. The wedding songs, which are lyrical by crying and endorsed by songs, not only have the simple nostalgia of the traditional extended family for their families, but also express the inner feelings of the newly married bride when she gets married. The custom of rocking the clippers and blocking the relatives' boats not only reflects the unique boat culture in the water town, but also reflects the family's pity and respect for the bride when she marries abroad.
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