Marriage custom Sanming marriage custom

After the parents of both men and women reached an agreement on the bride price and marriage, the man "settled down" and gave the bride price. Rich people will also send "Geng Xu" and gift lists. Generally, only 4 packets of sugar (rock candy, biscuits, rice cakes, sugar tea or Polygonum multiflorum Thunb) and fixed money are sent. The bride's family needs to return the gift money after accepting the dowry.

Before marriage, the man needs to send "three gifts" to his wife's house. In addition to rice noodles, pork legs, japonica rice and glutinous rice, one hundred zongzi will be distributed during the Dragon Boat Festival. Send moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival; Send chickens to pigs during the Spring Festival. The bride's family returns the gift: the Dragon Boat Festival is a pen and ink, a paper fan and a summer cloth; During the Chinese New Year, pants 1 piece and 3 pairs of cloth shoes (parents-in-law 1 pair). The son-in-law invited his parents-in-law to visit his home, calling it "the full moon". Rosty Yi Concert Hall is full of boxes and wine, and the floor and the top floor seats are covered with red carpets. The son-in-law invited his father-in-law and mother-in-law to the class to give gifts in parallel. Father-in-law, mother advised to avoid it, opened a corner of the red carpet and said thank you for sitting down. Please accompany your relatives and elders to the banquet. In the afternoon or the next day, my parents-in-law came home and my son-in-law saw me off with a gift. My parents-in-law thanked me with red envelopes. Special marriages mainly include child bride, remarriage, mother-in-law and aunt exchange. The Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China was promulgated in 1950, which abolished the old marriage custom, made young men and women independent in marriage, kept dowry and wedding simple, and the bride took steps to replace the sedan chair when she entered the door. In the 1960s, a dowry of one or two hundred yuan was needed, and watches and sewing machines were very popular as dowry. In the 1970s, young cadres and workers got married, and many government agencies held collective weddings. In the 1980s, some people traveled to get married. The man must give his wife a certain amount of money before he can marry a car, not a sedan chair. Bandan and wedding banquets are getting richer and richer. In the 1990s, it was popular for the groom to go to his wife's house to meet him. My wife's house is equipped with color TV, refrigerator, washing machine, tape recorder, bicycle, gold necklace, ring and high-grade cloth.