The process of marriage includes pre-marital engagement period, bride price, wedding ceremony, marriage, marriage and other activities. Although today's young people are not superstitious and pay little attention to the taboos and rules of the older generation, they will still do every step according to customs. The following is an introduction to Suining's marriage customs:
First, before Suining people get married, they need to invite people with eight characters. If the two characters don't match, there will be some cracking ceremonies, and then the wedding date will be selected according to their characters, written on red paper, and sent to the woman's house by the groom himself. This is the delivery note. When the wedding date is set, we will begin to prepare to inform our relatives and neighbors. The day before the wedding, the groom needs to go to the woman's house to send red envelopes to express his gratitude to the people around him for taking care of his future wife.
Second, on the wedding day, the bride can't eat. My brother gave the bride a big steamed bun, and the bride took a bite and spit it out. Then the bride is ready to go out. The groom needs to carry the bride all the way to the sedan chair (now mostly by car), and the bride's feet can't touch the ground. When the bride goes out, the bridesmaid opens the red umbrella. Someone scattered rice on the umbrella, indicating that it was "spreading branches and leaves". The bride must cry when she lifts the sedan chair.
At the man's house, the bride must cross the brazier, not the threshold of the house, but the groom's father wearing a hat to accept the toast of the couple. Someone will rob the bride after the meeting. At this time, the groom will hold the bride into the wedding room. He couldn't hide from his friends, so he was disturbed in the wedding room, and everyone had a lively reception after the meeting. After the wedding reception, the bride and groom put on new clothes to see the guests off and send them to the intersection until the guests go far away. Different from other places, Suining's wedding customs have very low requirements for bride price, generally not exceeding 50 thousand. Some families don't even want a bride price, and the woman will bring a part of the dowry, which shows that the daughter-in-law is not measurable by money. Therefore, local daughter-in-law is highly valued in her husband's family.