
¡@¡@£á The phase 1 of the marriage
(1) Fetching the bride motorcade
1. For the groom side, it shall gather even number of members and take six ceremonial vehicles to depart for the bride¡¦s house. The door of ceremonial vehicles will be tied up with color ribbons and bride limousine will be added two big red belts in addition.
2. The matchmaker should seat on the front seat and be in charge of igniting firecrackers along the way. Besides, the rear seats were for the groom, the bride and flower girl & ring bearer.

(2) Heading for the house of the bride.
1. Parents of the groom would accompany with the groom to worship to their ancestors by sticks of incense, and report to go out for fetching the bride and pray for the safe and sound. Besides, they will leave at an auspicious time.
2. When approaching to the house of the bride, it is necessary to inform them by igniting firecrackers.

¡@¡@ £á The phase 2 of the marriage
(1) Entry into the house of the bride.
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A male of junior generation will be on behalf of the bride side to carry a tea tray full of tangerines or sunflower seeds and candies to welcome the groom. He opens the door for the groom and the matcher will accompany with the groom to enter the door after the groom distribute a red envelope to the male. |

The bride's sister ask the groom to promise some condition |
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The groom carries the wedding flower to the bride in the room. At the moment, the sisters or good friends of the bride will obstruct him on purpose or ask the groom to promise some conditions. Usually, a red envelope with 999 dollars will be dealt, which means the love will last forever. |
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After the bride treat the groom to eat rice ball, and the matchmaker will support the bride with hand to go out to living room. |
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The bride and the groom worship to the god and ancestors by sticks of incense and bow to parents for three times for saying good bye. Father of the bride side will cover up the wedding veil for the bride at the moment.¡@Usually, the bride cannot help but crying before she goes out of the door. Traditionally, crying means to be reluctant to part with her parents. Further, it is said that the more you crying with grief, the more happiness you will be in. Nevertheless, it is seldom to see that a bride crys with bitter tears nowadays. |
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The auspicious time is up
When the auspicious time is up, the groom supports the bride by hand to step out the hall (cannot not step on threshold) and the matchmaker will carry a rice sieve or black umbrella to shadow the bride¡¦s head (As the bride¡¦s post is top one on that day, but it still cannot be greater than the god, therefore, the head cannot be contact with sunshine without a shade.
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the matchmaker will carry a rice sieve to shadow the bride¡¦s head |
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(2) Leave the bride home
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When the bride and the groom are on board, a sugar cane prepared from the bride will be tied up with the roof of the limousine as well as a slice of pork and a red envelope will be hung up on the bottom of the sugar cane. |

To tie up a sugar cane with the roof of the wedding vehicle |
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Before departing, the bride will throw out a fan out of the window of limousine (which means throwing out bad temper and bring kindness¡uthe same pronunciation with ¡§fan¡¨ in Chinese, ¡vwhile another version is to give up the bride¡¦s original family name and changed with the groom¡¦s name from now on). |
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When the limousine is on the move, parents of the bride will hold a tub with water and spill out the water behind the limousine (which means split water cannot be gathered up and the bride cannot turn her head to look back). All people must not to say goodbye to the bride¡¦s family when leaving.
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¡@¡@£á The phase 3 of the marriage
(1) Turn back to the groom¡¦s house |
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It should ignite firecrackers while the limousine is approaching to the home of the groom. A boy will carry a red plate with two big tangerines circled by a red paper with his two hands and open the door of limousine to welcome the bride. The bride shall still sit in the limousine, stretch out her hand to touch on the citruses and exchange their position with a red envelope on the bottom of the citruses for acknowledgment.
(The two citruses should be let for peeling off their rinds for praying for longevity.)
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¡@a fire pan with fire and tile |
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The matchmaker prepare a rice sieve and black umbrella to shelter from the sun , and the matchmaker should support the bride to the hall by hand. |
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The threshold presents in front of the house, the bride and the groom must not step on the threshold and cross over instead accordingly. |
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In the front of the door, the matchmaker put on the rice sieve and the black umbrella.¡@The bride should cross over a fire pan with fire with her right foot and then step on the cracked roof tile, which called stepping over the fire and breaking malignant deities, standing for expelling evils and ¡§the past time is just like the cracked tile¡¨. |
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After the bride and her female accompanies enter the door, the groom side will take down sugar cane to hang on the door. |
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(2)Making formal bow by the bride and the groom |
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After the bride and groom entered the hall, they shall worship gods and ancestors and pray for their blessing and protection. Later on, the groom will lift up the wedding veil of the bride and make a bow to each other. The rite is to recognize the bride to be a member of the family. |
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Parents of the groom are sitting in the hall and the bride holds the tea tray on her both hands and presents each member in the groom side with tea. |
(3)Entry into the bridal chamber |
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After the tea ceremony is finished, the bride and the groom will enter into the bridal chamber. |

The groom jumps onto the bed |
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The bride and groom should sit on the bench laid on with long paints of the groom, which stands for one hear together from now on and pray for a boy in the future.
Then the groom will lift up the wedding veil and have arm-crossed drinks together. Further, they eat sweet soup with black jujubes, dried longan pulps and lotus seed, which stands for having baby as soon as possible. |
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The groom side will let a boy with dragon sign or the groom to take off shoes and roll over or walk and jump on the bed for one round. It symbolizes that ¡§roll down from the bed, you will have a girl; roll over here, you will have a scholar; roll over there, you will have a presented scholar. |
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The bride cannot lie down on the bed at the moment, or she will lie down on the bed with sickness for a year. |
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The matchmaker carry pork heart and rice ball to the bride and groom.¡@The pork heart means the two people will be jointed together with the same heart, while the rice ball stands for sweet as honey and reached to perfection. |
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