Nanchang marriage custom

1. Engagement: After the marriage is confirmed, the man chooses "Lingdong wine", also called engagement wine. At the banquet, the man will give the agreed engagement money, gold and silver jewelry and it runs in the family to the woman. The woman gave all her stickers to the man. After the banquet, the man will also ask the matchmaker to give the "dragon and phoenix stickers" to the woman, and the marriage will finally be settled here.

2, employment: before marriage, the man gave the woman a bride price, commonly known as the bride price, also known as receiving money. Bride presents include dresses, cloth, clothes, fish, meat, noodles, cakes and so on. If the family is well-off, there should be hundreds of kinds of fish, meat, noodles and cakes, which are commonly known as "all kinds of meat and noodles".

3. Sitting on the bed: The couple entered the bridal chamber with five men and two women sitting on the bed. The singer sang "Sitting on the Bed", throwing red dates, peanuts, longan, melon seeds and other foods on the bed while singing. The children grabbed food to show that they had a baby.

4. Wedding: The day before the wedding, a wedding will be held. The man wears a crown and the woman wears a crown, so it is also called a crown ceremony. The bridegroom kowtows to heaven and earth and ancestors first, thanking them for their blessing, then kowtowing to parents for their nurturing grace, and then kowtowing to elders of the same race, thanking them for their care and teaching.

5. Wedding: On this day, the man greeted the bride with a sedan chair. Sedan chairs are divided into three grades: high-grade sedan chairs are luxuriously decorated, surrounded by HongLing, embroidered with dragon wind, mandarin ducks playing in water, magpies playing with plums, peonies and other patterns, and the deacons and bearers are all dressed in red.