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 bee more luxurious and the simple s of people no longer exist. I am from Zhuzhou, huna me talk 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 municate with their parents and then schedule a date te a blind date location, usually a market place. 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 related, 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 relatives getting married with old relatives\", which is even more joyful, but this kind of close relatives 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. one large wardrobe or bination et, oable, four chairs, oable, one food et, one washbasin rack, twe wooden cases, one small wooden case or leather case (similar to the larger 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 blad white tV set, ari, et fao matter how much mohe man 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