How do Hakkas greet their loved ones?

Getting married, the Hakka people in southern Jiangxi call it a wedding, the man calls it "marriage" and the woman calls it "going through the door", which is a climax of the whole wedding. In the traditional wedding custom, the sedan chair is an indispensable prop in the wedding. There are many kinds and styles of sedan chairs, including simple ones carried by two people, medium ones carried by four people, luxurious ones carried by eight people and sixteen people. The sedan chair in Xingguo Tea Garden is made of wood structure, generally made of camphor wood, catalpa wood and other wood. Shaped like the top of a pagoda, it has four corners and eaves. Most of the sculptures have festive and auspicious themes, such as "Kirin to send a child" and "Jinlong Cai Feng". The curtains of the sedan chair are all made of bright red colored silk and embroidered with auspicious patterns such as rich flowers, phoenix rising sun and hundreds of pictures to set off a lively and festive atmosphere.

To marry a woman, dowry is essential. In the old society, ordinary people married women in costumes, quilts, dressing tables, foot buckets, door curtain mats, wooden boxes or suitcases, while rich people added silks and satins, gold and silver jewelry and so on. People often use "a thousand acres of fertile land, ten miles of red makeup" to describe the richness of dowry. The woman has a dowry, and the man should bring tools for lifting (picking), such as lifting boxes, racks, laundry baskets, paper shoulders, red ropes, etc.

The suitcase is mainly used to put the cloth shoes and embroidered insoles made by the bride before marriage. On the top of the box, when children walk through the village, they often put some fruits, such as dates, lotus seeds and peanuts. The carrying frame is also made of wood with red paint, which is similar in shape to a stretcher. Mainly used for carrying quilts, blankets, pillows, sheets and so on embroidered with patterns such as Yuanyang, Longfeng and Double Happiness.