中式婚礼介绍.pptVIP

Traditional Chinese Wedding 乐子吴吞 制作 Six etiquettes(礼仪) Proposal (纳采） Birthdates （问名） Engagement （纳吉） Wedding gifts （纳征） Arranging the wedding（定期） Wedding Ceremony（迎亲） When an unmarried boys parents find a potential daughter-in-law. They then located a matchmaker whose job was to assuage the conflict of interests and general embarrassments on the part of two families largely unknown to each other when discussing the possibility of marriage. Proposal If the selected girl and her parents did not object to the proposal, the matchmaker would match the birthdates in which Suan Ming is used to predict the future of that couple-to-be. (Suan Ming is Chinese fortunetelling technique in which the foreteller could predict people’s future by only using either one’s date of birth including year, month, date, and time, or hand pattern. Ancient Chinese people believed that the date of birth determines your future; a good birth date could bring luck not only to his/her own self, but also to his/her family. Stereotype people still believe that is true) If the result of Suan Ming was good, they then would go to the next step, engagement. Birthdates: At this point the mans family let the matchmaker to present their son’s birth date to the lady’s family which is called betrothal letter . Engagement 纳吉：这时候，男方父母将自己儿子的生辰八字交给媒人带给女方，这就是“过大贴”、“换鸾书”，也称为“通书”。 实际上就是订婚的意思。 The grooms family will then send an elaborate array of food, cakes, jewelry and religious items to the brides family. Wedding gifts The essential Bride Price of traditional Chinese wedding 中式传统婚礼必备聘礼 Before wedding ceremony, two families would decide a wedding day through consultation according to Chinese Almanac to make sure the day is good for wedding ,which is in order to assure their good future would not be affected by choosing a bad day of wedding. Arranging the wedding It is a ceremony before the bridegroom go to pick up his bride. When the bridegroom is arrived, there is a little boy waiting for t