Chinese wedding contains a strong traditional culture, and now attracts more and more couples to hold Chinese wedding, but do you really know what PROPS Chinese wedding needs to prepare?
1. Flag gongs and umbrella fans
It is located in the bridal team, before the flowers, can make the whole bridal ceremony lively and spectacular.
2. Phoenix Crown and Xia Pei
The people who marry their daughters, whether rich or poor, are very particular about their wedding clothes. She wore a red jacket, embroidered SHOES, tassel streamers on her waist, an embroidered colorful skirt, a phoenix crown woven with pompom, pearl, jade pendant and other ornaments, and a brocade embroidered with various auspicious patterns on her shoulders.
3. Firecrackers
On the way, firecrackers should be set off all the way to celebrate.
4. Cover your head
In ancient times, brides used red cloth to cover their heads while wearing their phoenix-crown and xipei to hide away shame and evil spirits.
5. Weighing straw
After entering the bridal chamber, the groom uses the weighing rod to pick out the bride's red cover and take the meaning of satisfaction.
6. Bridal Chair
The bridal chair, as the core part of the traditional wedding, has been popular since the Southern Song Dynasty. It is divided into four people carry, eight people carry two, and there are dragon sedan, phoenix sedan. Car body red mantle Cui cover, above inserted dragon phoenix Chengxiang, four corners hanging silk.
Rich people marry for five cars, three cars, on the way to marry the woman to welcome the bride to sit on a car, the other two by the pressure car boy; When the bride, the welcomer and the giver sit one each, and there are two blue sedan, covered with a blue cloth and inserted with a copper top, and the groom and the best man sit one each.
7. Candles
In the wedding ceremony, pairs of bright red candles are used and lit in the hall and the bridal chamber. Because there are many gold and silver dragon decorations on it, it is called anthurium.
8, Xiuhe clothing or Longfeng jacket
Longfeng coats are divided into: small Wufu, middle Wufu, big Wufu, after the coat, the coat emperor, the more gold line, the higher the price, the more rich and gorgeous, Xiuhe is generally printed, does not collect the waist, wide double-layer cufflinks are the characteristics of Xiuhe clothing.
Xiuhe clothing is generally more suitable for mothers-to-be to wear, but Xiuhe clothing can not choose the small Phoenix fairy, because in the past, the small phoenix fairy is the second room to wear, so we must pay attention to this point.
9. Saddle
Saddle and Ann homonym, take its peace for a long time. More placed on the threshold of the bridal chamber, indicating that the bride straddles the saddle and is safe for life. When the bride's front foot enters the threshold, the back foot has not yet fallen, then the whole person who has parents and children on the top pulls the saddle off, which is exactly in line with the meaning of the warrior does not marry the second husband, and the good horse does not deserve the double saddle.
10. World table
More placed in the courtyard, the table magnifying bucket, ruler, scissors, mirror, abacus and scale, called the six certificates. It means: you can know how much food you have at home, how much cloth you have, how good or bad your clothes are, how you look, whether your accounts are clear, how heavy you are.
It is often said that only the three media (matchmaker) with six documents can say that the marriage is reasonable and legal. Wait until the auspicious time to hold the marriage ceremony, commonly known as the worship of heaven and earth, presided over by the officiant, one worship of heaven and earth, two worship of the high hall, the third is the husband and wife worship.
11. Brazier
It is a pot of fire placed at the gate for the bride to walk past, implying the prosperous days after marriage.