Wedding customs

Author: Linzi
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: The bright red lanterns hang high, let us lift the mysterious veil and catch a glimpse of the bride's shy face. "The wedding night under the red lantern" is a major event in life, let us raise our glasses and celebrate this wonderful time. This book discusses Chinese folk marriage from the perspectives of matchmakers and tokens. Detailed content includes: "No matchmaker, no marriage," matchmakers as the "source of all evil," only the conveys emotions, longing red beans with poetic meaning, loveless fate and expensive dowries, zodiac signs causing harm, incompatible eight characters making marriage impossible, daughters once being "expensive dowries," various forms of dowries, the bride and the wedding chamber, beautiful faces pleasing the groom, various wedding dresses, and creating a sweet nest.