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Chinese Marriage Customs　 中国婚俗 China is a large country with 56 nationalities. Different nationalities have different marriage customs, but whatever the nationality is, the wedding ceremony is usually very complicated. The traditional Chinese marriage usually involves 6 necessary procedures, namely: match-making, engagement, betrothal presents, meeting the bride, three bows, and drinking wedlock wine.(说媒、定亲、聘礼、迎娶、拜堂（三鞠躬）、喝交杯酒 ) In addition, a typical Chinese wedding nowadays goes like this: when a new couple is engaged, what followed is a choice of the date of their marriage. Most people would favor a bank holiday or special Chinese festival for their relatives and friends to attend the wedding.  However, quite a few others, especially those in the countryside, would probably ask a fortune-teller for a lucky date (usually an even number) so that their marriage would have Double Happiness. The wedding ceremony is usually presided warmly ,and the wedding ceremony very often ends with a very extravagant banquet. Toasts are made to wish the new couple long life, eternal love and happiness, early birth of a healthy baby and so on. Because China comprises 56 ethnic groups, Chinese marriage customs are an important part of the countrys folk culture. Different ethnic groups have different marriage customs: During a wedding day in Bulang communities, the brides companions will steal the bridegroom and carry him off to the brides home at dawn and the bridegrooms companions then carry off the bride to the bridegrooms home at dark; For the Dai people, finding a mate by selling chicken soup is done at every festival: girls will stew a pan of chicken soup to sell. If the boy is well-satisfied, she will hang her head shyly; if the boy also takes a fancy to her, they will carry the chicken soup to a quiet place to confess their feelings; during the Folk Song Fair of the Zhuang nationality, girls carry colorful embroidered balls while singing songs. A girl will throw