enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Chinese pre-wedding customs - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_pre-wedding_customs

   The betrothal (Chinese: 過大禮; pinyin: guo dàlǐ, also known as 納彩 or nàcǎi) is an important part of the Chinese wedding tradition. During this exchange, the groom's family presents the bride's family with betrothal gifts (called 聘礼 or pìnlǐ) to symbolize prosperity and good luck. [3]

3. Chinese wedding door games - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wedding_door_games

   In Chinese communities, especially in China, [1] Hong Kong, [2] Malaysia, and Singapore, [3] wedding door games are challenges set up by the bridesmaids for the groom as a ceremonial demonstration of the groom's love for the bride. [4] These games typically take place in the morning of the wedding at the bride's family home, before the groom is ...

4. Traditional Chinese marriage - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_marriage

   The wedding ceremony consisted of six basic procedures: making a proposal of marriage (nacai), requesting the bride's name and date of birth (wenming), sending news of divination results and betrothal gifts (naji), sending wedding presents to the bride's house (nazheng), requesting the date of the wedding (qingqi), and fetching the bride in ...

5. Wedding customs by country - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_customs_by_country

   Handfasting is a wedding ritual in which the bride's and groom's hands are tied together. It is said to be based on an ancient Celtic tradition and to have inspired the phrase "tying the knot". "Handfasting" is favoured by practitioners of Celtic-based religions and spiritual traditions, such as Wicca and Druidism.

6. Jiaobeijiu - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiaobeijiu

   The early form of the Jiaobeijiu was known as Hejin in ancient times and probably started in the late Neolithic period. [3] As a wedding custom, the Hejin can be traced back the Zhou dynasty where the newlywed bride and groom would drink wine together in the bridal chamber according to the Liji, the Hejin and was used to symbolize the confirmation of marital union. [4]

7. Dowry cake - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowry_cake

   Dowry cake. Marry girl cake or dowry cake is a traditional Chinese cake that was once a ceremonial cake used as a wedding gift in the traditional Chinese wedding ceremony, hence the name. Today, this cake is known more as a classic Chinese pastry rather than a wedding gift because it has lost most of its original significance due to cultural ...