Before the engagement, after the engagement can be betrothed. In the old days, before the ceremony, the matchmaker needs to send the birth dates of both sides to each other's home and combine them, and the marriage often ends without success. In modern times, people no longer cancel the marriage because of the "eight characters", the exchange of eight characters and other processes are directly eliminated, as long as the two sides of the French family to determine to become married, the ceremony will generally choose the same day as the engagement, the bride price to the woman's home and then held the engagement ceremony.
The Han people also send a gift before the wedding, that is, a gift. In the old days, the gift was not necessarily the man's gift, the gift should be the initiative of the marriage, such as the marriage is brought up by the woman's family, by the woman to the gift. Now the gift more refers to the man before the marriage agreed betrothal money, betrothal gifts and other gifts sent to the wife's home behavior.
Two, What is engagement