Why did the bride cover her head with a red veil when she got married in ancient times?

In ancient times, when the bride got married, she always wore a fancy red silk on her head, which was called a red headscarf. It's a pity that we can only see the wedding scenes of the bride and groom in TV costume dramas now. Moreover, on today's wedding occasion, the bride wears a white wedding dress, instead of the ancient red makeup and red satin, and the top of her head is covered with white gauze. We know that the white veil represents purity and loyalty. Then, why did the bride cover the red veil when she got married in ancient times? What does it stand for?

There is a folklore that when there were only Fuxi and Nuwa in the world. In order to breed human beings, brother and sister negotiated marriage. But the mother snail is a woman and is naturally shy. In order to hide her shame, she used Cao Jie as a fan to hide her shame, which formed the earliest prototype of the hijab. However, covering your face with a fan is never as soft, simple and beautiful as silk fabrics. Therefore, the fan was replaced by soft silk fabric. So the role of hijab at this time is to hide shame.

There is also a folklore: During the Three Kingdoms period, Huang Yueying was an ugly woman. However, when she heard that Zhuge Liang was knowledgeable and had a good personality, she admired him very much and proposed to her father. But she decided to let her father say he was ugly in front of Zhuge Liang to test whether he was an ordinary person who judged a book by its cover. But to her surprise, Zhuge Liang didn't mind her ugliness at all. However, on the wedding day, Huang Yueying put a veil on her head in order not to expose the test she had set up, and wanted to do the final test. Unexpectedly, he unveiled her veil without hesitation. At this time, the role of the hijab is to test whether a person judges a book by its cover.

In addition, China people have loved and worshipped red since ancient times. When the bride and groom get married, the clothes they wear, the bridal chamber and the place where they worship the bride are all red. In order to match the color, our hijab becomes red, which is what we call red hijab. So when getting married, the custom of covering the red hijab continues. Therefore, when getting married, the bride wears a red hijab for two reasons: one is to hide her shame, and the other is to cover her face and test the man.