Men should marry when they are young, and women should marry when they are young. This has been an unging principle sint times. Although it is now advocated to ge s and engage in new weddings, pared to the 1960s and 1970s, it has beore luxurious and the simple s of people no longer exist. I am from Zhuzhou, Hualk about the wedding s in Zhuzhou.
isiting and Engaging
Matchmaker es to propose marriage
When men and women reach the age of marriage, their parents first find a matchmaker. Whechmaker discovers that there is someone of appropriate age in the family, they first unicate with their parents and then schedule a date te a blind date location, usually a market pce. On the day of the market, both the man and the woman go to the designated location, take a look at each other, say a few words, and show their cheerful personality on the spot. Generally, they will return home and talk to the matchmaker. After agreeing, the man will choose a date fagement (we call it Dingshi there). There is also a type that is favored by oneself or by parents, such as cousins. If they are reted, parents will entrust an acquaintao act as a matchmaker. In the 1960s and 1970s, many cousins got married in rural areas, and the third representative of siblings getting married was more. This is called "new retives getting married with old retives", which is even more joyful, but this kind of close retives getting married is still not good.
The e requires four kinds of gifts, that is, a few pieces of cloth. Det families will use da and da fabriylon socks, and those with poor eiditions will use khaki cloth and cotton socks. In this way, even if the e is successful, the man go to the woman's home and send some gifts to the woman's home for the New Year holiday. Generally, the four kinds of gifts are the same, namely, the Beginning of Summer Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumival and the Spriival. Meat, eggs, noodles And a piece of fabric, after a year or two, when both parties have no objes, the woman tells the matchmaker that they cut the shoe sample (that is, the man tells the woman the size of the shoes worn by his family). The man gives the woman some money for cutting the sample, which was only a few tens of yuan at that time. The womao make a pair of shoes for each member of the man's family and match them with hand-embroidered insoles.
Preparation before and after marriage
A necessary dowry for women
Before marriage, the man gives the woman some moo buy a dowry. Depending on the family's eiditions, he give the woman three to five thousand yuan at once, and regardless of how much money she receives from the man, these things must be allocated. e wardrobe or binatio, oable, four chairs, oable, one food et, one washbasin rack, twe wooden cases, one small wooden case or leather case (simir to the rger travel case at present), two hot water bottles, cups and toothbrushes, aluminum pots for boiling water, pressure cooker and other daily ies, four quilts and a pair of pillows. Those with good family ditions will be equipped with a men's bicycle, a sewing mae, a bd white TV set, ari, et fao matter how muan gives the woman, the woman's parents basically don't use much of the money, and they return it to their daughter to make tainer money.
What the man must prepare
In addition to giving the woman three or five thousand yuan, the man only o prepare one or two new houses and doesn't care about anything else. If the man's family is poor and there is no dowry for the woman, the woman will als all the daily ies.
On the day before marriage, the man must pay a gift to the woman. The gifts include: half or one pig, chi, clothes or fabrics, shoes and socks of the woman's parents, brothers and sisters. All things should be put in pce. A big rack should be used to carry them to the woman, so that the woman's onlookers know what's ing at a gnce. If the man's family dition is not good, he will borrow something to put on it to save face, Because all the things that went through the ceremony, except for the food, returo the man the day.
The woman should prepare as follows
Put red packets in the quilt, usually two packets, each of which is 40 ts for the bed maker. The big wooden box is full of fruit, peanuts, sweet potato chips, eggs, dy biscuits, and clothes, shoes and socks when you see the man's parents, brothers and sisters in the man's side. In addition, the parents also o give the daughter some box money (huo thousands depending oions). Because after marrying the man, the mother-in-w will open the box the day, and people in the vilge will e around to see the excitement, The purpose is to see if the woman has given enough money for the tainer.
On the day before marriage, the woman will notify the man hoeople will e to lift things the day. Generally, eight or more men are required because the womao carry everything to the man, and the man's room only o be prepared with ay house. The m, a wedding procession was arranged for the man to go to the woman's house to wele her. The men had to go, including the groom, two brides (women), five to six gongs and cobalt teams, and people carrying things. They all went to the woman's house to have breakfast together, blowing and pying. After dihe woma off the wedding, with one man and two women seeing off the bride. The procession carrying things took a step first, and then the groom and bride followed with umbrels. Regardless of the weather, each person had an umbrel, Blowing aing all the way to the man for lunch.
After dihe wedding se is also the most lively se during marriage. The purpose is to help the groom and bride elimihe feeling of shyness. Various programs try to make their body and skin tact, such as mouth to mouth eating dates, two people lighting firecrackers, kittens fishing, and ash pig. The more tricks, the better. No matter how big or small, they make as muoise as they want. After the 1980s, the habit of making wedding ses gradually ged to watg movies, videos, and singing.
clusion: Marriage in that era was the simplest, especially for office workers and workers who ate the national food, let alone worry about anything. They had free love, and when they got married, their unit had a share of the house. The unit leaders would personally hold the wedding for the young couple, and after marriage, the young couple slowly made some furniture. Unlike now, houses must be bought by themselves, and some people would bee property sves for a lifetime. That era was truly socialist!
Later, with the development of society and the improvement of material living standards, betrothal gifts emerged, starting with three major items: bicycles, watches, and sewing maes. Later, it developed into four major items, five major items, and so on, until now, I won't say much about it.