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Chapter 240: Marriage Customs

I visited Tengtou Village in Fenghua during the Chinese New Year. Xiao Jin has a good memory. This time I arrived at the village with ease. I drove very slowly along the way, just to take care of the two pregnant women, and to enjoy the scenery outside the car and cultivate my sentiments. , good for your health.

The Fang family already knew the news, but Fang Dayu stood at the door and looked around. When he saw Xiao Jin's license plate, he waved quickly.

After the car was in good condition, Xiao Jin got out of the car first and greeted the prospective uncle-in-law. Then, the Fang family's parents came out of the yard to greet Xiao Jin, the prospective son-in-law.

This time, Xiao Jin prepared some gifts, so he couldn't come empty-handed.

Later, Xiao Jin introduced Li Tao and Pan Ningyun to the Fang family, saying that Li Tao was good at weddings, so the Fang family naturally welcomed them.

In fact, they were also confused. With Zhejiang on one side and Guizhou on the other, how to balance the wedding customs. Now, with Li Tao, everything depends on him.

Because we arrived in the morning, it was almost lunch time, and the Fang family prepared a sumptuous meal to entertain the prospective son-in-law.

Li Tao also learned on the road that Fang Siyu's hometown turned out to be the famous Tengtou Village, which is one of the richest villages in the country. After entering the village, he found that it was indeed well-deserved. Every house is a small western-style building and high-end cars can be seen everywhere. , although the people here are dressed a little rustically, this is a rural area after all.

The most important thing is that the environment here is really great and the air is fresh.

Pan Ningyun said to Fang Siyu: "If my hometown was like this, I wouldn't go to Shanghai. If I want to buy things or go shopping, it wouldn't be a good idea to go there. It's so close to Shanghai!"

She said this because Pan Ningyun and Fang Siyu had talked about how her family had not allowed her to go to Shanghai before. They said that she wanted her to go home and follow her cousin to invest in stocks so that she could make money without getting tired. Have a lot of free time.

But Fang Siyu just wants to be busy with her career. No matter how good her family is, she doesn't want to come back. Shanghai is too attractive to her.

Pan Ningyun sighed secretly in her heart, wishing she could exchange lives with Fang Siyu. This is why people have to die more than others. Some people have struggled all their lives and still haven't reached the starting point of others' lives.

This is so frustrating!

During the lunch reception, Xiao Jin and Li Tao didn't drink much wine. They only tasted it briefly. After all, they still had things to discuss in the afternoon.

The Fang family's parents kept urging Fang Dayu to contact the wedding company in the village and ask them to come over and contact Li Tao in the afternoon to discuss their daughter's marriage.

Fang Dayu is a bit like Xiao Qian, relatively dull, but after being at home for a long time, he still knows a lot of people in Shiliba Village. The biggest difference between Fang Dayu and Xiao Qian is that one was born in a wealthy environment, while the other was born in a poor mountain.

This creates two different lives, even though they are very similar.

In the afternoon, as expected, a head from the wedding company came. He looked like a veteran of weddings.

Li Tao actually felt an inexplicable intimacy with him.

Fortunately, the eldest brother spoke Mandarin, otherwise Li Tao would have been really worried. During the whole lunch, he could not hear clearly a few words spoken by the Fang family's parents, thanks to Fang Dayu and Fang Siyu's "translation".

Li Tao was shocked when he chatted with the manager of the wedding company.

The marriage of Ganqing Fenghua was quite complicated, so complicated that Li Tao, who was familiar with weddings, became a primary school student.

Fenghua's marriage customs had been finalized in the Qing Dynasty. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was advocated to change customs and conduct new marriages. However, the concept of marriage customs that had been formed since the Qing Dynasty has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the main line is still advocated and used by today's people. Today's living conditions Well, I picked up the same old tradition.

The fixed procedure of Fenghua’s marriage customs is divided into nine steps:

They are matchmaking, blind date, courtesy, choosing a good fortune, getting married, visiting the hall, wedding banquet, bridal chamber and returning home.

Matchmaking, that is, the parents of young men and women ask a matchmaker to go to the other party's home to talk about matchmaking, which is also called "matchmaker's talk."

Blind date means that the parents of both parties meet and talk. If they are both satisfied, the marriage is agreed, which is also called "parents' order";

Guoli, that is, after the man and woman are determined to be "unable to get married" by someone, the man will send a betrothal gift to the woman, which is also called "making a decision";

Choosing auspiciousness means that the man chooses an auspicious day in the zodiac to hold the wedding at an auspicious time and informs the woman;

Marriage, commonly known as "carrying the bride", requires the use of a "dragon and phoenix sedan chair" commonly known as a "half pair of luan rides" and a "Shili Hongzhuang" team carrying the dowry. The bride wearing a "phoenix crown and harem" is greeted with a lot of blowing and beating. This is praised by others. It is famous throughout the country as "Zhejiang women are crowned kings" and is the biggest highlight of eastern Zhejiang's wedding customs;

Worship is when a couple worships heaven and earth, parents and each other;

A wedding banquet is a banquet held to entertain relatives and friends who come to congratulate them, and the newlyweds toast one by one to express their thanks;

The bridal chamber consists of activities such as the newlyweds "serving tea" to the elders present, "congratulations" to relatives and friends, and "making love";

On the day after the wedding, the groom prepares gifts and accompanies the bride back to her parents' home to thank her parents-in-law for raising her.

The above are just large programs. Each large program also contains a dozen or even dozens of small programs.

For example, just the "He Lang" process after worshiping in the church has many red tape-like operating customs. One more time is fine, but one less is not.

The whole process of marriage customs is extremely complicated, but the scene is grand and lively, and the etiquette is festive and thoughtful. Almost all unmarried men and women in the old days in eastern Zhejiang entered the marriage hall through such procedures.

Boy, this is too complicated.

The parents of the Fang family on the side nodded repeatedly. This was how they got through it when they were young. This time it was their daughter's turn, and they didn't want to miss out on anything.

And secretly, the Fang family's parents are thinking about having a wedding at their own home, yes, at the bride's house. After all, Guizhou is too far away for her daughter to get married. It doesn't feel right to hold a wedding in their hometown. .

Li Tao left the phone number of the manager of the wedding company and then discussed it with Xiao Jin.

"Old Xiao, what is the wedding in your hometown?"

"Um, well, I know a little bit about this, but it's definitely not comprehensive. How about I make a call?!"

Li Tao smiled bitterly and thought, the matter here has not been settled yet. Your wedding in Guizhou is probably very traditional and complicated.

Xiao Jin was not as good as Duan Duo, so he called his parents at home. His father answered the phone. After understanding, he said that he was not professional and wanted to ask someone from the village to inquire.

More than half an hour later, Xiao Jin called again, and the sensible Murakami began to introduce Xiao Jin again. In the same Guizhou dialect, Xiao Jin once again translated for Li Tao, and Fang Siyu translated for her. Translated by parents.

This call lasted nearly an hour before everyone understood.

Li Tao concluded that the more traditional a place is, the more complex its marriage customs are, especially in rural areas, which are even more sophisticated than in cities.

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