The pure Chinese wedding process includes accepting gifts, asking for names, receiving gifts, offering gifts, inviting dates, and welcoming guests.
1. Na Cai
Na Cai is the first of the six rituals, which refers to the groom's family inviting a matchmaker to propose to the bride's family. After the bride's family agrees to negotiate, the groom's family prepares gifts to propose. When the groom's family receives gifts, they need to give about thirty auspicious gifts to the bride's family.
2. Ask Name
The question is called the second ritual of the six rituals, which means that after the bride's parents accept the proposal, the bride's family will bring her daughter's Niangeng Bazi back to the groom's family, so that the male and female families can match and predict good or bad luck.
3. Najib
Najib, also known as the Vinaya, is the third ritual of the six rites. After receiving the Geng Tie, he will place it in front of the gods or on the ancestral table to seek blessings and inauspiciousness, to confirm that there is no conflict or restraint between the eight characters of the year Geng. After learning that there were no signs of conflict or restraint between the two parties, Bei Li notified the woman's family and decided to enter into marriage.
4. Na Zheng
Na Zheng, also known as Na Cheng or Na Yin, is the fourth ritual among the six rituals, in which the male party delivers the betrothal and ceremonial documents to the female party's home. One month to two weeks before the wedding, the male family will invite two or four female relatives (who must be fully blessed) to arrange a matchmaker and bring the bride price, gift money, and dowry to the female family; At this moment, the female family needs to reciprocate.
5. Please wait
Request period, also known as announcement period, commonly known as selecting a date, is the fifth ritual of the six rituals. It refers to the auspicious day when the male family chooses to get married and prepares a ceremony to inform the female family and seek their consent.
6. Welcome personally
Qinying, also known as welcoming the bride, is the sixth ceremony of the six rituals. It refers to the groom wearing formal attire personally accompanying a matchmaker and relatives to the bride's home on an auspicious wedding day. The groom needs to pay respects at the ancestral temple of the bride's family before taking her to the groom's house in a sedan chair. After completing the ceremony of worshiping heaven, earth, and ancestors in the male family, they are sent into the bridal chamber.