Shandong wedding custom culture with local characteristics

In China, which has a long history, many traditional cultures have been circulated since ancient times, and these traditional cultures have been completely preserved. Marriage culture is also an integral part of China traditional culture. Every city has different wedding customs. The following Shandong culture brings you Shandong wedding customs. Let's have a look.

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Wedding etiquette, usually called happy event, daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law, should ask friends and relatives or neighbors for help before the wedding. The leader who presides over the wedding is called the general manager, or the big general manager. In order to distinguish it from the general manager who handles the funeral, it is also called General Manager Hong. He arranged various matters according to the intention of the host family, such as writing couplets, sending invitations, activating sedan chairs, inviting bands, chefs, bookkeepers, office workers, arranging weddings, funerals, banquets and so on.

Whether this happy event is prosperous, whether the host spends money properly, whether the in-laws are satisfied, and whether the etiquette is thoughtful depends on General Hong's ability. Therefore, Hong is always a very important person, usually served by the elders in the village who know this etiquette. Guests should be invited before the wedding. If some guests can't move, they should use carriages, row cars or rubber-tyred trolleys to move. At this point, the preparations for marriage are basically completed.

Getting married is the most interesting part of the whole wedding process. The day before the old wedding, the groom had to put on new clothes, play drums and walk from house to house. This is called an expert ceremony, which means that relatives and neighbors should be invited to help him a lot on the wedding day. In some places, people only salute their families, which is called performing family rituals. A man in Dongping county saluted his relatives and friends the day before he married the bride, expressing his coronation. The gifts from relatives and friends are also called crown respect.

Emperor Wu is getting married in the evening, and my husband is dressing up in the temple; Lingxian county will get married, adults will be crowned, and parents, brothers and sisters will be worshipped; When Huantai wants to get married, she should wear an adult crown, sue the temple, worship her parents, uncles, brothers, aunts, clan elders and Mr. Xiang; Both Tai 'an and Dong 'e take wedding as the crown ceremony, that is, adults get married and boys are unmarried.

The day before the wedding, the relatives and friends of the woman's family also arrived to warm the bride's wedding, or warm the sedan chair. Warm wedding is to invite a group of trumpeters to play in the evening, and some even invite a small troupe to sing some songs. On this evening, the bride will hold a "farewell ceremony" to her parents to thank them for their kindness. Linyi area is used to "seeing off relatives", and the sedan chair hired the night before the wedding came to the woman's house. The bearers attended the warm wedding together. At this time, we should treat them well so that they can lift the sedan chair safely and stably the next day. In Laiyang area, the afternoon before the wedding, the man's house sent the sedan chair to the woman's house. When delivering a sedan chair, the groom first sits in the sedan chair for more than ten steps, and then comes down, which means pressing the sedan chair.

On the wedding day, there are many customs and habits. The first one is to greet the bride. There are great differences in the ways and times of getting married in Shandong. There are three main ways to get married: the first is that the groom personally goes to the woman's house to pick up the bride, which is called marriage, or it can be called marriage; The second is that the groom does not go in person, but sends his brother or uncle to the bride's house to pick up the bride, which can be called equal relatives; The third is that the man does not send someone to the woman's house, and the woman sends the bride, which can be called "sending the bride".

The wedding ceremony is called "big wedding" in some places, which is often adopted by wealthy families and ordinary families living in wealthy areas. The place where people send their relatives off is called "small marriage", which is suitable for the economic situation of ordinary families. Linyi, Jining, Tai 'an, Zibo, Binzhou and other regions use this form. Most poor families in Liangshan get married by car with a simple ceremony, commonly known as "one car, two cows and two lamps". The bride usually enters the house at noon, but it is midnight in Qufu, Tai 'an and Boshan, and the sunshine is mostly in the afternoon. For those who get married at noon, the first person who comes to the wedding banquet in the morning is the trumpeter. They preached at the main entrance with a big pole and called "Drum Gate" at Longkou.

When the master heard the sound of the trumpet, he opened the door to welcome the drummer into the house, and then went to the "Drum Cave". After a short rest, I began to play music. The band usually has two classes, thick and thin, which take turns to play, and sometimes there are operas and oratorios. At this time, the bearers came to the door with flags, gongs, umbrellas, fans, lights and other deacons, and the helpers were in place. The yard is full of joy and joy. After breakfast, the bride's sedan chair will leave. The groom put on new clothes. In the past, he used to wear a robe and jacket, a melon hat or top hat, a big red flower pinned to his chest, and get on the sedan chair. There are two sedan chairs at the wedding. The groom sits in an official sedan chair and the bride sits in a sedan chair.

The bride's sedan chair should not be empty. Generally, a little boy with both parents should be found to press the sedan chair, commonly known as "sedan chair boy", "sedan chair boy" or "sedan chair student". There should be a rooster in the sedan chair, a red sign of "Lucky Sunrise" should be affixed to the door of the sedan chair, and the words "Little Deng Ke" should be written on the deacon's big fan. In Rizhao, the wedding sedan chair is followed by people who carry the "head gift". Everything is ready, three shots, a few gongs, and accumulated music are played together, and the wedding team will set off in a mighty way.

On the wedding day in Texas, men should write wedding invitations. The wedding procession was led by a man with a red belt on his shoulder, and the drummer played festive music loudly. Then, the flag gongs and umbrellas lined up on both sides and followed closely. The groom does not sit in a sedan chair, but rides a burly horse with golden flowers on his head. After the ceremony, the sedan chair carried by the last four people carried the "sedan chair" and the rooster. In front of the woman's house, in the sound of firecrackers, the sedan chair door is set in the direction of the Western God. Someone took the money and let the child get off the sedan chair. The deacon took the "wedding invitation" and led the groom to see Yue Weng.