Hometown Composition-Filial Piety Custom

In the territory of Xiaoyi, the marriage customs handed down from generation to generation are complex and tireless, vulgar and interesting, and have a long history because most of them seek auspiciousness, hope for success, promote harmony, pray for family prosperity and are entertainment activities. Now select the * * * point at the back.

Cake delivery and delivery date

On the day of the engagement of unmarried men and women, the man goes to the woman's house with an introducer and brings the bride's wedding dress, gifts, bride price and banquet money. Have breakfast to prepare for the wedding reception. Then, the woman took her cousin and introducer to the man's house for lunch and a wedding reception. In addition to the clothes that the woman's family gave her son-in-law, she must also bring a set of "He Bing" engagement evidence. The so-called cake combination symbolizes that both parties are willing to marry each other. The whole set of cakes, including two scones with a diameter of two feet, are made of crispy noodles with mixed fillings such as white sugar, green and red silk and roses. Carve a circle in the middle of the cake and a square in the middle of the cake, indicating that the sky is round, the man is the sky and the woman is the ground. In addition, there are a pair of ruyi and a pair of fenugreek chess pieces. In this set of cakes, the man's family left a whole cake with a circular pattern, and cut another cake with a square pattern according to the square line and added a handle to return to the woman's family, so that both parties had the handle of the engagement token. As for Ruyi and Hulu, both men and women have one. Moral, have a son and a daughter, good luck. On the second day after the engagement, the man's family will cut the cake into finger-wide strips, and every household in the village will send one called "Eat Sweetness" to inform relatives and friends in the village that my son is engaged.

It usually takes a lucky day to get married. After the date is selected, the man will "send the date" with the consent of the woman's re-examination. As early as the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, on the day of marriage, the introducer should bring the wedding date table and take a small pocket sewn with red cloth with seven fingers in it.

A small silver-plated ingot named "descendants' library" was sent to the woman's house. The bride brings the lotus sentence embroidered by the bride to the groom, commonly known as "sending a bag" and "hooking money" back to the man's house, even if the wedding date is fixed.

2. Drum beating and cake base

Before and after the liberation of Xiaoyi, the two sides held a wedding custom of beating drums and cakes the afternoon before the wedding. Knocking at the door is to put a door drum on the left outside the gate of the men's college. The groom's mother is wearing a red coat and a silk handkerchief. The groom likes the gun bag on his back and the heel. The gun bag contains a spoon, a knitting stick, eighteen walnuts (symbolizing boys) and eighteen red dates (symbolizing girls). Mother and son came to the door drum and put walnuts and red dates on the drum surface. Mother took a spoon in one hand and a woven stick in the other, and beat them twice in her mouth. Finally, I hit it twice under the drum and said, "giggle, hit it twice again and go home with my mother." After that, collect the walnuts and dates that fell on the ground and put them in the quilt corners and urine helmets of the newcomers.

The cake base was made in the afternoon before the woman's wedding. Before steaming the cake, the woman's mother wore a red coat and a red silk handkerchief, holding offerings around the house and yard, and then sat in a chair in the yard. In the sound of firecrackers, the chef put the cake noodles on the pot, and mother went to the steamer and took off the red handkerchief on her head and covered it. The chef in the cage took the red handkerchief. At the same time, the married girl bathed herself in the room, changed into new clothes and sat on the thick kang mattress, ready to get married. The country calls it "building a cake base and climbing the peak."

Third, greet the bride in a sedan chair, hold a buzzer waiter, and wear the crown of wind and summer.

Before liberation, all the people in China used sedan chairs to meet their relatives. As early as before the Tang Dynasty in China, enlightened monarchs hoped that people would take marriage as a happy event in their lives. When they got married, they were specially allowed to enjoy the same ostentation and extravagance as the king's horse, named "Little Deng Ke". Since then, people have started renting shops. The rental store is modeled after the style of the imperial palace, with 65,438+008 full-length drives, such as sedan chairs, lanterns, gong flags, colorful flags, sun flags, golden guns, inserted into the sky, melon embroidered umbrellas and five hand-held longevity dragons. The rental store also has the champion hat or top hat worn by the groom, honeysuckle, robes, mandarin jackets, squatting shoes and red and green colored silk inserted in the hat. There are also small ornaments such as wind crowns, palace flowers, gowns and silver nails worn by the bride when she gets married. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, only rich and powerful families could rent four sedan chairs, and they wore full helmets to show off their ostentation and extravagance. The people only rented two sedan chairs and a dozen Cai's sedan chairs.

Fourth, pinch the wedding double box

When getting married, both hosts should pinch flour flower patterns and flower rolls with various patterns for relatives and friends to eat, small round patterns are used to worship ancestors and roads, and tribute flower patterns are used to worship gods. In particular, men have to pinch the patterns of three kinds of flowers. One is the pony design, which is placed on the table in the yard on the wedding day for neighbors to snatch. It is said that an unhappy daughter-in-law can get pregnant after eating this steamed bread. The second kind is flower cake steamed bun, also known as "jujube" and "mildew". Its shape is as big as a washbasin, with a layer of skin and a layer of dates, which are heightened layer by layer, shaped like a tower and dates like flowers. It means that my son got married today and it blossomed. The third type is the pulse root mold, which is smaller than the flower cake mold and has the same practice. After steaming, insert a flower on it and put it on the windowsill of the couple's room, which means "on the wedding day, early birth of your son comes down in one continuous line." Give more!