Marriage sedan chair is a wedding form of Chinese national wedding culture. In the groom to meet the bride to carry the sedan chair, and accompanied by the sedan chair suona music songs, to show the joy, is to meet the bride on the way to the most lively and spectacular scenes.
First, the origin of the sedan chairThe sedan chair is a Han Chinese folk wedding culture and customs of a form of expression, in Shixing not only has a long history, but also has a unique fun. With the development of society and the progress of the times, this custom has been replaced by the colorful car to meet the bride, however, this long and unique historical and cultural flavor, but left an unforgettable impression on people.
In the old days, due to underdeveloped transportation, marriage, are to sedan chair instead of walking, one is to appear grand style, the second is to express the lively and festive. Sedan chair, also known as sedan chair, that is, made of red satin sedan chair clothes, embroidered with colored thread around the "Hundred Years of Happiness", "flowers and moon", "dragon and phoenix", "Double Swallows fly" and other festive patterns, and then set on the wooden sedan chair that is. The number of people carrying the sedan chair, generally 4 people, there are 8 people, sedan chair before the sedan chair after the half, and is equipped with colorful flags, suona, gongs, high lights and other objects with the sedan chair.
Second, the categories of the sedan chair
The sedan chair is divided into flat lift, raise, play lift three kinds. Requirements for the same pace, the action is unified. Wedding on the way, such as turning, ditch and other obstacles, are by the front line sedan chairmen shouted out a variety of "color" to be prompted.
(1) flat lift, that is, carry the sedan chair and road, so that the bride sitting in the sedan chair feel comfortable;
(2) raise the noise, shouting the horn, playing music, firecrackers, so that the welcome to the marriage scene seems lively;
(3) play lift, that is, the sedan chair is about to close to the male door, the sedan chairman to take the shaking, swinging, shaking and other actions, so that the sedan chair is in the unstable state, used to tease the sedan chair The bride in the sedan chair.
The entourage accompanied by shouting, coaxing, for the bearer to cheer; the band also followed by drums and music, for the bearer to encourage; the bridegroom also threw out the colorful gift money, in order to show that the celebration, so that it has become the most lively and spectacular scenes on the way to meet the bridegroom.
Third, the basic process of the sedan chair
1, before the wedding, the male side first asked the matchmaker to the female side to discuss the period and conditions of the wedding. The happy period established, the first two days to kill the pig to do wine.
2, the first day of the male will be the female side of the required clothes, jewelry, chicken, duck, fish and meat and cigarettes, alcohol, cakes, sweets, etc., with the box to the female side; the female side of the dowry to the man to carry back to the male side, commonly known as "auxiliary box". The evening of this day, the groom in the home to perform the crown ceremony, also known as the "ancestral ceremony"; the bride is also in the day to dress up, sit down and practice rituals.
3, the day of the wedding, the male party to carry the sedan chair, open high lights, drums and gongs, blowing the trumpet, the formation of the bride team to the female side to meet the bride, the groom accompanied. Sedan chair to the woman, to the woman carried into the house door, to receive the bride on the sedan chair, the bride band is standing outside the door playing music, firecrackers, so-called catalytic sedan chair. To be the bride on the sedan chair, carried out by the female side and then to the bride to carry back to the male side.
Fourth, the development of the sedan chair
1, to do a lively wedding is everyone's wish, but the pursuit of "platitudes" and "swollen face" then, it is not worth it. Then it will not be worth the loss. "Sedan chair" wedding, full of traditional cultural colors, although simple and simple to do, but not lose the lively scene.
People advocate green low-carbon life, do such a "green low-carbon" wedding is not lost as a good way, new life, should give this new form of praise. As people's consumer attitudes are changing, the new era of young people's view of marriage has also been enhanced. In rural areas, the red color is festive.
2, simple and meaningful wedding is the trend of social development, from the "low carbon from the simple" point of view to look at the marriage of this major life event.
In fact, the significance of simplicity is self-evident. For a city, civilization is not only manifested in not spitting, not crossing the road, not littering the surface of these, the core values of the public can best reflect the degree of civilization of a city. In the increasingly serious tendency of money worship today, such a grand, warm, simple, serious and solemn "sedan chair" wedding, in fact, is also the power of the media to promote the civilization of the city.
V. Carrying the sedan chair suona Song Lyrics
"Carrying the sedan chair" Fragrance Sachet Records Selection
Genre: Yu Opera
Lyrics: Jinsong
Performed by: Zhou Fenlian
Outside the government door three (ah么)三声炮
(ah) flower (ah) flower
The sedan chair started (ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah.
The three cannons outside the government gate started the sedan chair,
Zhou Fenglian which,
Zhou Fenglian sat in the sedan chair, I am full of joy.
All the deacons sounded a gong and lined up in a neat line,
The drums blew,
Tick tock, tick tock,
Tick tock,
Tick tock,
Tick tock,
Tick tock,
Tick tock,
The music was very pleasant.
The birds are blowing in the direction of the phoenix,
and the winds are blowing in the direction of the luanfeng.
The city was shocked by the arrival of Mr. Wushu to meet his wife,
and the townspeople stood by the roadside and praised the song.
This one said that the new son-in-law has a good character and good looks,
and that one said that the new daughter-in-law has a good look and is very smart.
The villagers all praised my son-in-law,
I saw him through the curtains of the palanquin,
and I couldn't make out the shadow of the palanquin.
Look, look, look,
Look, look, look, look, look.
In front of the sedan chair, there was a high horse,
and on the horse, there was a gentleman sitting.
He was wearing a red robe and a gold helmet,
with a gold flower and a red cross on it.
Needless to say, I know,
it is my that he came to bring that kiss to welcome (ah).
The little brother who urged his horse to escort me,
wearing a head of silk and a red robe, full of spring winds.