Chapter 871: Three Books and Six Rituals
As Yuanyuan forgives Hongtu, things begin to develop in the direction that Yuanyuan's parents originally discussed with Hongtu's mother, and a grand wedding is imminent.
When I told this paragraph, I found that Yuanyuan's eyes were full of happy memories. In addition to sighing helplessly, I still seemed to sigh.
After all, I myself am a wedding company, and I am familiar with the various customs and forms of weddings, but personally, whether two people are happy or not has nothing to do with the grade and cost of the wedding. But in business, I still hope that more couples will spend more money on weddings, so that I can earn more, hehe!
Writing here, it is necessary for me to explain the wedding ceremony in Chinese culture to the majority of readers, and it should be popularized knowledge.
Wedding is a kind of etiquette about marriage in ancient times, which belongs to a kind of Jiali. Marriage has been a major event in life since ancient times, so wedding was a very important etiquette in ancient times, and it should not be sloppy at all.
By the time of the Zhou Dynasty, China had already formed a complete set of wedding ceremonies, which were detailed in the "Rites".
Let's put it simply, the whole wedding can be divided into "three books and six ceremonies".
The three books refer to the letter of appointment, the letter of ceremony and the letter of welcome.
The six rites refer to the six general steps from marriage proposal to marriage. Specifically, it is divided into: the first is to accept the lottery, that is, the man's family entrusts the matchmaker to propose the willingness of the woman's parents to marry, which is commonly known as the "matchmaker". Don't we always watch the TV series act: the words of the matchmaker of the parents' order, to put it bluntly, it is the acceptance of the six rites.
Because Nacai is not empty words, but to give gifts to the woman's family. In the pre-Qin era, wild geese were used as a bride price, and when it was passed down to later generations, sheep, deer, ejiao, and pu wei were used as gifts. Like the so-called engagement dinner in our Northeast, to put it bluntly, it is a Nacai ceremony.
The second is to ask for the name, if the woman accepts the gift when the lottery is accepted, it means that she has agreed to the marriage. So the matchmaker had to ask the woman's name, age, birth date and family situation in detail to prepare for the next Najib.
The third is Najib, which is the man's parents asking a folk master to calculate whether the birth dates of both men and women are compatible. Because the ancients believed in the Mandate of Heaven (modern people recognize power and money), the words of fortune tellers also played a very important role in the success or failure of marriage. Digression: This rule has been passed down to the Republic of China period, after the establishment of New China, after several movements, there is basically nothing left of people who can do this, so Najib slowly withdrew from the stage of history and became a term in Chinese studies.
The fourth is the levy, which is the dowry as the common people say. This is not something that a wild goose or a sheep can send away, but something that can only be done with real money, and the number of dowries in all dynasties has been increasing (I personally understand that it is caused by more and more material abundance). The so-called 100,000 gold in our northeast, with the garage outside, belongs to the category of levy.
The fifth is the invitation period, which is very easy to understand, that is, the two parties set the marriage date, generally the man symbolically solicits the woman's opinion, in fact, to put it bluntly, after the man decides, politely inform the woman to know, so this is also called the notice period.
The sixth is to welcome a man, which is the last step for a man to marry a daughter-in-law. The main steps are to greet relatives and worship the church, but the specific steps are quite cumbersome.
On the first day of the wedding, the female family should "open the face" and "go up" for the daughter, and these two steps are mainly for the married woman to begin to distinguish her from the unmarried girl in terms of hairstyle.
Then it is to worship the church to get married, worship heaven and earth, worship parents, husband and wife worship, and then enter the cave room to perform the ceremony of Zhou Gong.
Finally, on the second day of the visit, the bride has to meet with her in-laws and other male elders, and the wedding is not officially over until she meets these elders. Strictly speaking, on the third day from the wedding day, the wedding will be completely over. This is what we ordinary people call a three-day return to the door, which was called Guining in ancient times.
After talking about three books and six ceremonies, let's go back and talk about Yuanyuan's wedding of the century. If you want to say that the other party's parents are enough, it's too unreliable, don't care why your daughter married into the Deng family, anyway, she has climbed to the top of the branch, so as long as it is someone who has something to do with her family, they all change the law and notify it.
"Oh, this isn't Mama Liu!" "Ah, who are you?" "You don't remember me, my mother was neighbors with yours." "Oh, remember, what's the matter?" "On the eighteenth of next month, my daughter will get married, married to the son of the boss of a certain group, and you must come to have a glass of wine when the time comes." "Okay, then I'll congratulate you in advance."
To put it bluntly, Yuanyuan's parents are not the purpose of inviting these people to the wedding, the main purpose is to show off to the outside world, what shameless parents, I am speechless!
Because he has Deng Hongtu's pigtail (that pair of underwear) in his hand, these two are definitely lions with a big mouth, the dowry costs 999,999 yuan, nine cents and nine cents, and the gold costs one kilogram, and it is also called beautifully: a thousand gold, a thousand gold, without a kilogram, how can it be regarded as a thousand gold! Look, Dot's shamelessness!
The hotel chose the most famous local presidential hotel (a name on the vulgar), and it is both men and women dining at the same time, to put it bluntly, I want to take advantage of the man's family, but fortunately, the other party's family endures, if I change me, I will not do it, what is this!
Deng Hongtu's family is also a very face-saving family, even if the woman doesn't want it, her own family has to do a big job. What big, medium and small violins, what pianos, all kinds of acting stars, and even the two of them who pull Da Chun to sing, anyway, there is everything, and the cost of the whole wedding is conservatively estimated to be more than three million, and friends in Shijiazhuang in the group should have heard of it.
On the day of the wedding, Yuanyuan came to the Deng family's villa for the first time, and the girl was dumbfounded in an instant. How magnificent and luxurious the villa is, everyone can refer to the TV series "One Servant and Two Masters" in Meng Laicai's house, it's OK, too lazy to describe it.
For Yuanyuan, he is just like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, which is an eye-opener. Where is this villa, the whole palace is a palace! Coupled with the grand wedding in the morning, Yuanyuan felt that he finally agreed to this marriage, maybe it was right. The persuasion of parents is not unreasonable. Thinking about the sisters around me, how many of them can have such an awesome and magnificent wedding? How many more villas can live in such luxury?
Although all this is still the property of Deng Hongtu's parents at the moment, the other party's family is such a precious son as Deng Hongtu, and he is the daughter-in-law of the other party's Ming Media.
Thinking of this, the round heart flew up, and the unbearable past at the beginning also turned into wisps of smoke and dissipated without a trace.
to be continued