In the Chengde area of Hebei Province, there is a custom of hanging door curtains for marriage. On the day of the wedding ceremony, the bride's dowry is sent to the man's house first, and then the bride's brother accompanies the bride and the people who sent her to the man's house. After the bride and groom enter the bride's room, the bride's brother takes out a door curtain and hangs it on the door of the new room. The curtains are mostly red or pink, embroidered with mandarin ducks playing in the water or water peaks, colorful, very festive. After the bride's brother hung the curtain, the male family to send a small red paper bag to do the money, the bag is loaded with four yuan six yuan eight yuan, but are even, meaning that I hope that the newlyweds will grow old in pairs.
Paddock places are not the same, like the big call up, generally 6600, 8800, 100001, to the Sihayong even less, the female side of the accompaniment do not have to be special, the family lacks what make up for what is good, the most important thing is that the introduction of the wedding before the wedding must know the full range of people who can open up, customs Well really do not have anything to pay attention to, however, the family and the family is not the same. Some directly over the money to the woman, more than a few, willing to buy what to buy what.
Manchu wedding both with the strong characteristics of the nation, but also the integration of a number of Han Chinese customs and etiquette, generally speaking, to go through the following procedures: betrothal: Manchu young men and women engaged in two forms. The other is that men and women do not know each other, trust the matchmaker for the children engaged, and by the matchmaker to transfer the two sides of the "gateway sticker", open both sides of the flag of the Zuo, curriculum vitae, family name, three generations. The bride left home to the male party to borrow a good apartment to stay, commonly known as "playing the next hair". The next morning, the woman's home color car to send the bride, escorted by her brother. After the worship of Beidou world-famous line "skimming" ceremony. That is, wearing a red head of the bride and groom, face south kneeling in the courtyard in front of the table, the table for a side of the elbow, wine three cups, a knife, shaman kneeling one-legged in front of the table, one side of the Manchu chanting, one side of the knife with a knife to cut the meat into pieces and thrown into the air, while the end of the wine cups to splash the wine on the ground. The main purpose is to pray to God to bless the newlyweds, so that they are full of children and grandchildren, and grow old together.
Mongolians usually start to talk about marriage in August. The parents of the young man entrusted the trusted relatives to choose a good day to take their son to go to the girl's home to talk about marriage. If the girl and her parents like the boy, they accept the offer of khata and a plate of cakes and food, and the matter is settled. Winter is a good day to hold a wedding, after the two sides selected the day, the groom's family in the evening to the girl's home to pick up the marriage, so the wedding has begun, a strong ethnic style, interesting and various wedding programs are staged continuously, until the east of the white; to receive the new team only cross the horse, with the team of the bridegroom's family together to the groom's home to go. Not far from the bridegroom's home to send the bridegroom's party to stop, welcome the bridegroom's party to the home together with the bridegroom's parents and relatives to come to meet a second time. After the mother-in-law lifts the head of the daughter-in-law, the bride and groom kowtow to their parents, the celebrant, and relatives and make a toast. The crowd will also excitedly sing and dance to the toast, and the joy will ripple across the grassland.
In the past, the Mongolian marriage was very solemn and retained the traditional marriage custom of the man going to the woman's house to marry her. The wedding is usually the day before the wedding day. The groom, in a joyful atmosphere, dressed in colorful Mongolian robes, belt, wearing a dome red tasseled hat, high leather boots, wearing a bow and arrows. The best man is also dressed in festive attire. Together on horseback, carrying colorful car and gifts, go to the woman's home to marry. The bridegroom goes to the woman's home, first circles around the yurt for a week and offers "touching the door with a sheep" and other gifts to the woman's home. Then, the groom and the best man holding the khata, wine, to the bride's parents, long relatives one by one toast, kneeling. After the ceremony, the bridegroom and bride's family into the meal. In the evening, and set up sheep five fork feast. And hold the traditional ceremony of asking for the name of the geng. The next morning, the bridegroom departed, the bride by the uncle or aunt to hold on the colorful car. The groom will ride around the bride riding the colorful car three times. Then the bridegroom and the bridegroom depart together.
Nowadays, with the improvement of the living standard and the unity of the ethnic groups, the customs are not always the same, but usually a mixture of rituals between the ethnic groups. In addition to their own ethnic wear in the ethnic integration areas are basically similar. As long as the money bride price in place, all the formation can be negotiated to increase and reduce, there is no set custom. The first thing that you need to do is to get a good deal of money from the government.