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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 ]
The Xiuhefu (simplified Chinese: 秀禾服; traditional Chinese: 繡和服) is a set of attire which follows the traditional yichang system; it is a composed of a waist-length liling dajin ao and a long A-line qun, which looks similar to a mamianqun. [9] The Xiuhefu is typically embroidered with flowers and birds to symbolize love for whole ...
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
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.
A Self-portrait of a Hong Kong bride wearing a Qungua, a traditional Chinese wedding attire, before her wedding in the 1960s. Back in Ming dynasty, the women wedding dress worn by nobles and commoners was known as fengguan xiapei (traditional Chinese: 鳳冠霞帔; simplified Chinese: 凤冠霞帔) composed of the fengguan and xiapei. [3]
Fengguan xiapei (Chinese: 凤冠霞帔) is a type of traditional Chinese wedding set of attire categorized under Hanfu, which was worn by Han Chinese women in Ming and Qing dynasties. [1] The fengguan xiapei attire was composed an upper and lower garment following the traditional Chinese yichang clothing system.
Tuanshan with Chinese paintings and with calligraphy became very popular by the Song dynasty [4]: 8, 12–16 among court circles and artists [1] and even continued to be in use even by the end of the 19th century. [2]: 206 The tuanshan was also used as part of the traditional Chinese wedding and was part of the ceremonial wedding rite. [6]
In Western weddings, Chinese brides or brides marrying into a Chinese family will often wear cheongsam for a portion of the wedding day. It is common for many brides to have both a traditional white wedding dress and a cheongsam or a guaqun (another kind of wedding attire) to be worn during the tea ceremony .