One of my friends told me he will marry soon when we were talking today, and it made me so surprised that I could not believe it. After that, I remembered an article which I wrote when I was new here. I read it again and I found many mistakes. I corrected them and put it on my blogs because I want to share this culture with my friends. I hope you guys can enjoy it.
In every culture, weddings are always very important events, so both of the bride and groom spent a lot to prepare their wedding.
Before the wedding, bride’s parents always prepare bride’s wedding clothes（Red cheongsam）. At the same time, they will buy many goods for the bride’s life, such as cabinets, pans, and desks and so on. They always make cotton blankets with jujube and chestnut since it has a special story. In Chinese, jujube pronounces “ zao”, and chestnut pronounces “li zi”；In English, zao means early, and li zi means to born a son. They want the new couple to have a son soon after they marry since it is a masculine society in traditionally Chinese social system. Meanwhile, the groom’s family will prepare a house for the new couple.
On the morning before the wedding, the bride often cries because she will leave her parents and they will live by themselves. Meanwhile, the groom’s family will very happy, because their family will get a new person.
During the wedding, the bride wears red cheongsam and red veil; the groom wears black upper cloth and red down cloth. There are a lot of fireworks when the bride gets out of the sedan chair which is similar to car. They always worship earth, heaven and their parents on bended knees. Their parents usually give them some money or some gifts. After that, sometimes, the groom will hold his bride in the arm and take her to their bedroom. And then, the groom will lift the veil away. Sometimes, the new couple will join hands to go to their bedroom. People generally will kid the new couple, and they think the more they kid around with the new couple, the better friends. Then, they will go to lunch together. Generally, there is a lot of food in the wedding lunch, such as fish, pork, chicken and seafood and so on.
After the lunch, the bride’s family will go home, the rest of people and their neighbors will go to their house to congratulate their wedding and held party in there. Sometimes, the party will not finish until midnight. Usually, they will kid new couple again and talk some thing and enjoy their happy life. Sometimes, the new couple’s home have a little people to congratulate their wedding, and party is finish in early times because they haven’t many friend or they had a bad relationship with their neighbors. People always wish that many people go to their home to congratulate their wedding and enjoy their happy life.
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Different place has different culture or wedding manners, people whom has different faith have different wedding manners. My narration is the general wedding manner in our city.
It's interesting how weddings are celebrated in your culture! It looks like there is a lot of work and organization involved. What I don't understand though is why male babies are much preferred in China. If everyone just has boys, where are the women these men can marry later?
Congratulations to your friend!
It is only a chinese culture. In fact, more and more families want to have girls as well.
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