Chapter 1052: Engagement (3)
In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, after the matchmaker has "seen" the appearance of both men and women, the marriage customs and etiquette should be "Wending" ceremony, and the eight characters of the respective birthdays of the men and women should be exchanged, and the man will hand over the dowry to the woman to point it out in person.
The dowry is mostly local specialties, mulberry linen fabrics, Jiluo satin, tea and gift money. The more the dowry the woman has, the better, and takes the opportunity to show off her wealth. Weddings and subsequent greetings are similar to those in the North.
Uncle Zhao Chaogang and they checked for fifteen minutes before confirming that the things in the dowry were ready, including the traditional nine dowry combs, embroidered shoes, rulers, money boxes, ruyi scales, mirrors, buckets, scissors, and abacus.
But I believe that if Jingjing looks at the scissors, rulers or something inside, she will definitely have a headache, Liu Jingjing will not be a female celebrity, only Li Liping is a little better, and she will be a little female, but since Zhao Chaogang said that she wanted to wear the clothes made by Liu Jingjing herself, Liu Jingjing has begun to learn how to be a female celebrity.
Seeing her husband wearing clothes made by herself, how Liu Jingjing felt, how comfortable and warm.
In addition to these nine traditional dowries, the others are some modern social dowries, such as dowry and three golds, which have long been prepared.
The origin of the three gold dowry gifts: In China, it is natural for a girl to receive a dowry gift, and the value of the dowry represents the strength and sincerity of the man in a certain way, and it is also related to the woman's face and glory. Therefore, the three golds have become the highlight of the dowry, the man's family uses it to show his family background and sincerity, and the woman's family uses it to earn face for himself and show off happiness and sweetness.
Preparation and use of the three golds: the "three golds" are: bracelets, earrings, and necklaces. There are also rings, bracelets, and necklaces, and it's good to have three categories anyway. The material can be gold, white gold, and colored gold, depending on what you like.
The quantity can include two gold necklaces, two bracelets (bracelets), a pair of earrings, etc. Anyway, if the number is even, it has the implication of being in pairs, which is auspicious.
In terms of use, according to the ancient custom, the bride on the wedding day is to wear all the "three golds", which is said to show respect for the in-laws, but the customs vary from place to place, and they can be worn according to local customs. This matter is true to the elders.
Although the dowry can be gold or silver, or even platinum. However, Zhao Chaogang still prepared gold as a dowry three gold, if it were not for the Chinese minds, gold is the most precious and most representative of wealth. Zhao Chaogang would never use gold as a dowry price. How to use gold essence is, something like gold is too ordinary.
However, in the minds of all Chinese now, gold is still a symbol of wealth, so Zhao Chaogang still uses gold as three gold, which is good. Pinkie and Jingjing are also very fond of gold.
Of course, Zhao Chaogang will not make such outrageous things as the couple of married people who went viral on the Internet some time ago, just get married. In order to show off, he directly brought more than a dozen catties of gold jewelry to the bride, and directly made a beautiful bride into a gold statue, which made people feel that this was not marrying a daughter-in-law, but marrying a gold statue.
Zhao Chaogang also understands these people, after all, for many people, marriage is only once in a lifetime, so no matter how grand it is, it can't be too grand, but this must also have a degree.
Your bride's body is full of gold jewelry, which of your relatives in the family dares to come to the cave room or something, in case after the hole room, find that many gold jewelry is missing a few of them, then the wedding banquet will definitely be overshadowed, and if in order to prevent the safety of gold jewelry, do not let other people come to the cave room, then this marriage is still marriage, without the procedure of the hole room, marriage is not marriage.
What's more, if the news that the bride is going to bring more than a dozen catties, or even dozens of catties of gold, spreads out, God knows if there will be any daring guy who organizes a group of people to rob it, and then the wedding banquet will become a 'mixed banquet', full of fleeing guests, and the scene is chaos.
Therefore, Zhao Chaogang would not do the stupid thing of bringing gold jewelry to the bride, and he married Pingping and Jingjing, not two 'golden statues'!
In the dowry prepared by Zhao Chaogang, in addition to the three gold dowry, it is the dowry money, this gift Zhao Chaogang is very well prepared, Pingping and Jingjing have a gold card, which is 8888888888 yuan Hongtongtong. Anyway, Zhao Chaogang still has tens of billions of red tongtongs in his current card, and taking out more than ten or two billion red tongtongs is trivial for Zhao Chaogang.
However, Zhao Chaogang will not announce this money, just let Liu Mingxin and his wife, as well as Li Bin and his wife, know it, Zhao Chaogang took out so much money, but also wanted them to show that they valued their daughter, and Pingping and Jingjing's gift money was the same, indicating that he would treat the two of them equally. I believe that when the time comes, Liu Mingxin and his wife, as well as Li Bin and his wife, will feel at ease.
Parents always want their children to be happy all their lives, although money is not everything, but enough money is the guarantee of a happy life. Zhao Chaogang is telling Liu Mingxin and his wife, as well as Li Bin and his wife, that he can give happiness to Jingjing and Pingping, and they can rest assured.
In addition to these dowries, other dowry Zhao Chaogang has also been prepared for a long time.
For example, a tale of bread (50 kilograms)
Seafood: There are four, six or eight styles, and the style and quantity depend on the economic situation of the man's family. Each style usually comes in two packs. Among them, fat cabbage is necessary to take its meaning of wealth, and other seafood include abalone, oysters, scallops, mushrooms, dried shrimps, squid, sea cucumbers, shark fins and fish maw.
Three animals: two pairs of chickens, two males and two females (if the parents are incomplete, this pair is enough);
Fish: big fish or dace, which means fishy (sound) atmosphere, and also means that there is a head and a tail, and there is more than one year after another.
Coconut: two pairs (parents are not all available for one pair), that is, there is a father (coconut) and a son.
Wine: Four sticks, indicating strong love.
Sijing fruit: that is, dried longan, dried lychee, dried walnut and shelled peanut. In order to bless the prosperity of the descendants, it also contains the meaning of perfection and blessings, and the meaning of endless life.
Shengguo: That is, the meaning of being vigorous and vigorous.
Four-color sugar: i.e. rock sugar, orange cake, winter melon sugar and golden canopy. It means like sweet and dense, white-headed to old.
Tea and sesame: Because seeds must be used to plant tea, tea is used as a gift, which is a metaphor for a woman who must be trustworthy and have no regrets once she signs a marriage contract, that is, "oil hemp tea ceremony".
Gift box (gift box): There are lotus seeds, lilies, green wisps, cypress, betel coconut two pairs, sesame, red beans, mung beans, red dates, dried walnuts, dried longan, as well as red bean rope, lai, dowry, gold, dragon and phoenix candles and a couplet.
Incense cannon bracelet gold: incense (boneless through foot green). Cannons (large firecrackers and large artillery), bracelets (dragon and phoenix pairs of happy bracelets).
The preparations for these dowries are all even-numbered, in order to take the meaning of "good things come in pairs".
Seven o'clock in the morning. All the preparations were ready, and Zhao Chaogang and they set off for his godmother's house.
In the countryside, as long as it is a village, it is generally necessary to walk to get engaged. Tie the knot. The bride and groom also walked, so it was more festive and lively.
This time, Zhao Chaogang went to his godmother's house and walked, and the matchmaker led the way in front, but Zhao Chaogang and Pingping, Jingjing didn't know each other by the introduction of the matchmaker, so this matchmaker Zhao Chaogang invited the youngest grandfather in the family to be his matchmaker. Anyway, this kind of thing is very common in the countryside.
With a matchmaker, the guide boy is also indispensable.
Of course. There are also requirements for such a guide boy, at least the children of their own relatives, one on each side, and one boy and one woman. In the end, Zhao Chaogang's second brother and eldest cousin became the guide boy, Zhao Chaogang followed behind the guide boy at this time, and the dowry prepared by Zhao Chaogang followed behind Zhao Chaogang.
The dowry prepared by Zhao Chaogang was all carried by people, all of them were packed in some baskets, and they were all open for everyone to see. This is done to show the good or bad conditions of the man's family, and it is also for the woman's family to show others that their daughter will never suffer if she marries, which is an indispensable procedure for engagement.
Of course, there are some relatives of Zhao Chaogang, such as Zhao Chaogang's eldest brother, second brother, eldest cousin, second cousin, etc., these relatives follow Zhao Chaogang's surroundings, along the way, these Zhao Chaogang's relatives will keep putting two kicks and firecrackers, on the one hand, highlighting the festive and lively, on the other hand, there is a sign of auspicious prosperity, as well as in order to drive away the evil spirit on the road, the meaning of peace is in it.
As soon as the sound of two kicks and firecrackers sounded, Zhao Chaogang and they officially set off, of course, as soon as they heard the sound of firecrackers and two kicks, the villagers in the village also went out to see the excitement, many people in Zhao Chaogang passed by their door, they would send a blessing or something, and Zhao Chaogang would also be very friendly to give the villager a bag of candy, send a bag of incense or something, this is also a kind of etiquette.
The more people come to congratulate you, the better your life will be.
There were even some villagers who took the initiative to set off firecrackers when Zhao Chaogang and they passed by, these were all to work in Zhao Chaogang's restaurant, or they had received the favor of Zhao Chaogang's love clinic in the village, so they wanted to express their gratitude to Zhao Chaogang in this way.
Not to mention how grateful the villagers of Zhaojia Village were to Zhao Chaogang in the restaurant they opened by Zhao Chaogang, the old people in Zhao Jiaku's were more sincere and strong in their gratitude to Zhao Chaogang.
Once a person is old, such and such diseases in the body will follow, and many times, these diseases will not only make the old people's later life very painful, but most importantly, it will greatly drag down the family, so many old people are actually very worried about their illness or something, but this qiē is not at all in Zhaojia Village now.
The love clinic established by Zhao Chaogang completely eliminated the worries in the hearts of the old people in Zhaojia Village, and the old people in Zhaojia Village no longer dared to speak out after they got sick, and they could go to the love clinic in the village to see a doctor.
If you choose to use Chinese medicine and your family is in difficulty, you can take medicine first, and then after you are cured, you can go to the village to do some volunteer work, or go up the mountain to collect some common Chinese herbs to cover the medical expenses.
Of course, if you are too old to do these things, you can let your son replace you.
It is these humanized measures that allow all the villagers in Zhaojia Village to no longer have to worry about seeing a doctor, coupled with Zhao Chaogang's extremely strong medical skills when he lost to that puppet man, no matter what disease the people in Zhaojia Village have, they are all cured by medicine, even if it is a terminal illness, they can also be controlled by you, which makes the villagers of Zhaojia Village thank Zhao Chaogang from the bottom of their hearts.
Therefore, the last time the police came to arrest Zhao Chaogang, the villagers of Zhaojia Village would come together to help Zhao Chaogang, and this time when Zhao Chaogang got engaged, they also set off firecrackers to congratulate Zhao Chaogang, which is a good reward for Zhao Chaogang's sincere work for the villagers of Zhaojia Village.
Good deeds are rewarded, this sentence is really good!
In the sound of firecrackers along the way, as well as the farewell of those villagers in the village, in less than five minutes, Zhao Chaogang and they came to the godmother's house thirty meters in front of the house, just saw the godmother's house, Zhao Chaogang's firecrackers began to sound violently, this is to tell Liu Jingjing, Li Liping, Zhao Chaogang They arrived, and with the violent sound of firecrackers on Zhao Chaogang's side, the godmother's house also sounded fiercely, and Zhao Chaogang and they entered the godmother's house in the sound of firecrackers in the sky.
As soon as he entered the godmother's house, Zhao Chaogang came to Li Bin and his wife, as well as Liu Mingxin and his wife, kowtowed to them, and then the matchmaker on one side put the gift list of the dowry prepared by Zhao Chaogang, as well as the day before yesterday, he asked someone to approve Zhao Chaogang and Li Liping, Liu Jingjing's eight-character documents were handed over to Li Bin and Liu Mingxin, and Li Bin and Liu Mingxin handed them to the people on the side after taking these two things, also to earn face for the woman's family, showing off happiness and sweetness.
Of course, the amount of money for the two gold cards prepared by Zhao Chaogang was only written on the gift list of 8,888,808 yuan, in this way, everyone can accept it, if the actual amount is really written, the villagers of Zhaojia Village really can't accept it. (To be continued......)
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