Chapter 300 The Day of Joy 1

1.

October 22, 1996, September 11 of the lunar calendar, is the big day when Spring and Xu Dan were married at the behest of their parents.

On the morning of the 21st, Xu Dan came to the school to find Spring, took him to the barber shop in the town to get a haircut, and told Spring a few words about the matters that need to be paid attention to at the wedding the next day, and Spring promised them one by one.

On the afternoon of the 21st, the spring made separate arrangements for the various tasks that he was responsible for in the school. According to the school's regulations, there are seven days of marriage leave in the spring, and during these seven days, the spring does not want to have any omissions or mistakes in the work that he is responsible for.

When it was getting dark in the evening, I got on a motorcycle and rode back to Shimengouzi Village in the spring. At this time, the family has become a pot of porridge, and the seven aunts and eight aunts, uncles, aunts and others in the spring have gathered from ten miles and eight towns to the spring home, one is to congratulate the old Chun's family, and the other is to wait for the bride's "small meal". "Eating small rice" is the wedding custom that has been passed down for thousands of years in the Hushan area, most of the people who eat small rice are the groom's aunts and aunts, the second day of the bride's passing, these people will receive the bride's distribution of "plates", that is, some biscuits, pastries, "fried flowers" and the like, all of which are brought by the bride from her mother's house, and these old people who receive the "plates" are customary to give the bride money, and the money is not much, twenty, forty, sixty, Eighty yuan is acceptable, but it must be an even number, which means that the newlyweds are in pairs and have been together for a hundred years.

I hastily ate a little dinner, drank two glasses of white wine, and went to sleep in my wedding room in the spring.

The wedding room is the original bedroom of spring, which has been skillfully arranged by the fourth uncle Chun's scholar, and now it has a new look. The doors and glass windows are plastered with bright red letters, and the ceiling is hung with colorful latte flowers; the large iron marriage bed is placed in the window position, and the bedding on it is brand new; the room is full of new fashionable furniture, and on the north side of the room is a circle of new imitation leather sofas and a wooden coffee table, on which are placed a set of tea sets, a candy, and a fruit bowl; on the snow-white walls are hung several paintings and calligraphy works created before the spring, which are now simply framed, In short, the whole wedding room is now filled with a romantic atmosphere of combining modern civilization and art.

2.

The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Spring was shouted by Chun Shuli.

Today is the big day of Lao Chun's family, and there are still a lot of preparations to be done before marrying the bride. As the protagonist of the spring, today must be in accordance with the wedding customs of the Toyama area, according to the guidance and arrangements of the old people, let you do whatever you want.

As soon as the spring was dressed and washed, the wedding car for the bride and the car for video and photo took pictures came, all of which Xu Dan customized in advance from the "Yongfang Studio" in Heishuigou Village. The wedding car is a red Xiali car, the front of the car is pasted with the big red happy word and the satin flower coiled into red silk, the video is a red "Tianjin Dafa" van, the boss of Yongfang Studio personally went out, shouldered the valuable camera running in and out of the field busy with the set, framing, filming, responsible for taking pictures is an experienced professional photographer in the photo studio.

After a while, Wu Xiao took Wang Li to Spring's home on a motorcycle. Wu Xiao was dressed in a blue suit and black leather shoes, looking very energetic, and Wang Li was also dressed in a showy manner. Today, Wu Xiao and Wang Li are the best men and bridesmaids of Spring and Xu Dan, and this beauty difference was requested by Wu Xiao and Wang Li, saying that they wanted to learn the experience of marriage in advance, and Spring agreed.

The personnel have arrived, and the next step is to follow the steps of the wedding customs in the Toyama area.

The first thing to do is to paste the couplet, and the paper used for the couplet must be "double-sided red". According to the customs of the Hushan area, the man's family is generally used to express the wishes and blessings of the newlyweds.

After pasting the happy couplet, the next step is to worship the ancestors, in the spring under the command of his father Chun Shuli, kowtow respectfully to the offering table in the hall and incense, which means to inform the ancestors of the Lao Chun family that today is the day of the great joy of the Lao Chun family, and he is going to get married.

After bowing to the ancestors and offering incense, the next highlight is "making the bed" and "rolling the kang". "Making the bed" is the eldest brother in the family, that is, the son of Chun Shuwen, the eldest uncle of the spring, is in charge, and his job is to spread the bedding of the newlywed in the spring to the marriage bed in the spring. After making the bed, it is "rolling kang", and rolling kang is to find a three- or four-year-old boy in the family to roll around on the bed, hoping that the newcomer will have a noble son as soon as possible. Cameramen and photographers are busy on the sidelines, faithfully documenting it all with their lenses.

When the new house is cleaned up, the doors and windows should be sealed with red paper and red curtains, and wait for the groom to marry the bride. No one is allowed to enter the new house until the bride enters.

After doing all this, in the spring, with a ring in her arms, a bridesmaid holding a bouquet of flowers, and a groomsman holding a gift box, she embarked on the road to marrying the bride.

The wedding car of the bride is gone, and the family has become busier, they have to press red paper on both sides of the main road section of the wedding car in the village to express joy, especially the bridge, the grinding plate, the big tree, the intersection and other places with heavy bad air must be pressed red paper, in order to ward off evil spirits. This work is very heavy, because it has to be pressed from the door of the house to the outside of the village, and the spring home is in the southernmost part of the village, and there are two or three miles long from the entrance of the village.

After pressing the red paper, they also have to prepare for the firecrackers to be set off in the wedding car, which is also from the entrance of the village to the door of the house, and a person must be arranged to pick up firecrackers every few meters.

After doing this, the principal also had to pick a clever young man from the family, ride a motorcycle to wait two or three miles away from the village, and when he saw the wedding car coming, he had to run back as soon as possible to report the news, so that the family could prepare in advance.

After all these are arranged, all personnel must stand by according to the previously arranged positions and wait for the arrival of the wedding car.