Chinese Wedding Traditions

Nowadays young people get married like held western style wedding, the traditional China wedding are poorly understood, in fact Chinese traditional wedding than western style wedding more lively, here to take you look festiveChina wedding etiquette.
Preparations before the wedding
Marriage dowry: man will wedding dowry to the bride's family, each place to send the species are not the same: Guangdong customs send chicken,coconut, cake and gifts, chicken meaning alive, coconut meaning has long haveshort, enjoy the blessing, cake is used to let the woman's relatives, gift is a symbol of marry multi gold, implying that the bride married in the past can enjoy,let the woman's home at ease.
Return: the woman to receive the betrothal gifts return, in some places the bride's family will give an engagement ring, some places will give Betel nut, aLang to the tail mean.

 The bed: the day before the wedding night, to the marriage bed a harmonious family, parents, son male marriage room installation from the woman's home,then the implication of early Takako four products: walnut, lotus seed, red jujube, peanut shop in a new bed.

The woman's dowry: the house will give the bride to take to her dowry, all to the bride in the red box.

Above: the night before the wedding, to choose an auspicious worship for the peace of happiness, and the man will at the same time in their own bowed.

Hair: the bride get slicked up, will ask a fortunate elders to give the bride hair,meaning and truth similar bed.

Eat Glutinous Rice Balls: Glutinous Rice Balls, meaning happy reunion,blessing the couple may consummation.

The day of the wedding ceremony

Wedding: the wedding day in the morning, the man will take the procession tothe bride's family received close. The bride is absolutely is a climax of the whole wedding. First, "Introduction". The groom to successfully answer thebride to the door, can not bring out so easily, through the sister group of the test, not only is the intelligence is better, strength is better, if there arerequirements have to sing love songs, words of love, but these are not the most important, to give red envelopes only then has the possibility to move the bride's sister, this is called the door red. And the groom also flowers to marry the bride (the bride not self-made bouquet).

Find the red shoes: the groom after the door also can not immediately take the bride, also find ready to give the bride red wedding shoes in the bride room for the bride to wear before they can take the bride.

Tea: two new bow down to parents, elders drink tea until to stand up (previouscustom is, the couple in the woman's home stands to serve tea, because not to meet Weng Gu's family. But now about not so much, both sides to bow to show the same respect.

Red umbrella, rice: when the bride and groom out from the bridesmaids red umbrella, to accompany, but also to the roadside rice, meaning is not to let thechicken pecked to bride.

Around the auspicious Road: new not wedding after the car directly to the destination, must open a circle around the local all auspicious road nameroad.

Intro: refers to the bride was received the man home, meet the parents and other elders in the family customs.

Wedding: lace with western style wedding, held a ceremony in the hotel,please master of ceremonies presided over the wedding ceremony.

Jing Ke: after the wedding ceremony, the banquet began, when the fish, the bride to change traditional dragon and Phoenix coat with the groom together to each table guests tea, the guests have to say the blessing.

Into the wedding: the bride and groom will bring friends to bridal chamber, or do the bridal chamber of entertainment. Small make up remind don't too whenthe bridal chamber you oh, happy event oncomfortable is not good.

Three toward the back door: in third days after the wedding, the bride,accompanied by her husband to return home, to bring the whole pig burn and gifts went back to her parents, and to worship.