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The six traditional rites involved in a Chinese wedding are as follows: [2] 納采 (nacai) – formal proposal; 問名 (wenming) – "ask the name", the groom's side ask the bazi (birth time) of the prospective bride for fortune telling; 納吉 (naji) – placement of the bazi at the ancestral altar to confirm compatibility
In contrast to Western wedding pictures, the Chinese wedding album will not contain pictures of the actual ceremony and wedding itself. In Mandarin Chinese, a mang nian (盲年), or 'blind year', when there are no first days of spring, such as in year 2010, a Year of the Tiger, is considered an ominous time to marry or start a business. [24]
A honggaitou (Chinese: 紅蓋頭; pinyin: hónggàitou), also shortened to gaitou (Chinese: 蓋頭; pinyin: gàitou; lit. 'head cover') [1] and referred to as red veil in English, [2]: 37 is a traditional red-coloured bridal veil worn by the Han Chinese brides to cover their faces on their wedding ceremony before their wedding night.
Decorations at a traditional Chinese wedding banquet. Traditional Chinese marriage is a ceremonial ritual within Chinese societies that involve a marriage established by pre-arrangement between families. Within the traditional Chinese culture, romantic love was allowed, and monogamy was the norm for most ordinary citizens. A band of musicians ...
A bizarre wedding tradition in China sparked a heated debate online after images of a woman, taped to a telephone pole, circulated on social media. Dressed in traditional Chinese wedding attire ...
Ming dynasty noblewomen wearing a blue embroidered xiapei over her red robe. The fengguan xiapei (Chinese: 凤冠霞帔) is a type of wedding set of attire categorized under Hanfu. It was worn in Ming and Qing dynasties. [6] The fengguan xiapei attire was composed an upper and lower garment following the traditional yichang system. [7]
Traditional Chinese wedding dress; X. Xiuhefu This page was last edited on 2 March 2023, at 17:46 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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