Chinese Traditional Wedding: Chinese Traditional Wedding
Chinese Traditional Wedding Summary: Chinese Traditional Wedding Summary
Pre-Wedding: Pre-Wedding 1.Request for Marrying the
Bride (提親)：
☻matchmaker(媒人)
☻negotiation (persuation)
between the two families
2.Request for Bride and
Groom’s Birth Dates(問名)：
☻eight letters(八字，the year,
month, day, and hour of the
groom and the bride’s birth)
Pre-Wedding: Pre-Wedding 3. Formal Gifts for the Bride's
Family(過大禮)：
☻bridal cakes
☻cash, wine, tobacco,
☻sacrifices for ancestors
4.Select the Wedding Date(請
期)：
☻contacting with the fortune
teller
(according to the groom and
bride’s birthdates)
Pre-Wedding: Pre-Wedding 5.Set up the Bridal Bed(安床)：
☻moving the bridal bed to the right
place
☻place certain good fortune food
and fruit on the bed
☻untouched till the wedding day
Pre-Wedding: Pre-Wedding 6.Dowry(嫁妝)：
☻the bridal gift for the groom
(arriving in the groom’s home
before the wedding day)
☻dowry list:
♥24K gold or jewelries
♥1 pair of chopsticks to
indicate “fast son”
♥bed spread, pillows, quilt
with dragon- phoenix design
Pre-Wedding: Pre-Wedding ♥lucky money (Li Shi)
♥maid (wealthy family)
Pre-Wedding: Pre-Wedding 7.Combing Hair(上頭)：
☻finding a good fortune woman and
man with living children and spouse
Pre-Wedding: Pre-Wedding ☻combing the couple’s hair 4 times：
♥first: from beginning to the end
♥second: harmony from now till old
age
♥third: sons and grandsons all over the
place
♥fourth: good wealth and long-lasting
marriage
Wedding Day Activities: Wedding Day Activities 1.Hair-dressing for the Bride：
☻dress up the bride’s hair
☻tying up the hair in bun
(a style of married
woman)
☻auspicious words while
dressing
2.Fiesta in Honor of Ancestor (groom)(祭祖)
Wedding Day Activities: Wedding Day Activities 3.Picking up the Bride：
☻Chinese bridal
sedan chair(花轎)
↔flower car(禮車)
Wedding Day Activities: Wedding Day Activities 4.Setting of Fireworks
5.Door-opening Game：
☻the groom and the groomsmen
will be block by bride’s a lot of
tricky questions about the bride
☻pay Li Shi money to the
bridesmaids
(usually 999 dollars)
Wedding Day Activities: Wedding Day Activities 6.Tea Ceremony：
☻serving tea to the superior
in bride’s family
(the couple)
☻Li Shi money in return
(parents and relatives)
7.Red Head Covers：
☻red silk veil
Wedding Day Activities: Wedding Day Activities 8.The Bride leaving home(出門)：
☻red umbrella
(protecting the bride from
evil spirit)
☻throwing rice, beans
(attracting attention of the
golden chicken)
☻the matchmaker will carry
the bride on her back
Wedding Day Activities: Wedding Day Activities ☻ the bride’s farewell is forbidden
☻Fan(扇子)：
♥receiving the fan
♥throwing away the fan
(a farewell to the bride’s bad habits)
☻ spilling the water(潑水)
Wedding Day Activities: Wedding Day Activities 9.Bride Arriving the Groom’s Home(過門)：
☻going across a bowl of fire(過火盆)
☻stepping the tile into pieces(踩瓦片)
☻three bows：
♥first bow to heaven and earth(一拜天地)
♥second bow to the parents(二拜高堂)
♥third bow to each other(夫妻對拜)
Wedding Day Activities: Wedding Day Activities ☻bridal chamber(洞房)：
♥sitting on the groom’s pants
(together with one heart, fertility)
♥ exchange cups
Wedding Day Activities: Wedding Day Activities 10.Chinese Wedding Banquet(喜宴):
☻roast sucking pig(烤乳豬，virginity)
☻fish (plentiful)
☻noodles (long life)
☻sweet red bean soup with “lian zi”
(蓮子)(sweet life, fertility)
☻tea (respect)
alcohol (celebration)
7-up (seven happiness)
Wedding Day Activities: Wedding Day Activities ☻retreating line (送客)
(candies, tobaccos served by the couple)
Post-Wedding: Post-Wedding 1.breakfast of the next morning
2.three days return visit
Do’s and Don’ts: Do’s and Don’ts 1.Li Shi Money
2.Don’t give a fan (means “apart”)
3.one boy sleeping with the groom the
night before wedding calls “壓床”
4.the mother-in-law and sister-in-law
shouldn’t face the door watching
the bride walk in
5.certain people shouldn’t attend
wedding
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Chinese Wedding Invitation: Chinese Wedding Invitation 中式婚禮喜帖內容
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農曆_______ 年____ 月_____日 (星期____)
為(長)男________(二)女_________
在________________行結婚典禮
並於是日下午_______時假座___________市__________________酒樓敬備喜筵
____________時恭候____________時入席 __________________(出喜帖人姓名)
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黃孟僑(Leah) &
張方維(Michelle)