Marriage taboos are manners circulated from the ancients, they have been converting little by little between the young generation. Marriage taboo is no longer significant to them and even the measure of marriage is becoming trendier increasingly. It can be concluded some common marriage taboos hereunder, for your reference.
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To avoid holding marriage in July on lunar calendar. |
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It is better to avoid that the groom-to-be sleep alone before the day of marriage (after the bed was settled down), you should find a boy with dragon sign or under adult’s age due to the ill omen of ”sleeping alone brings either the bad luck to the wife to die or the husband.
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To avoid people who has a tiger sign will join the wedding, or it will lead to out of harmony or barrenness.
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After the banquet of engagement, both sides cannot say goodbye to each other, or there may be another possible to remarry again.
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When the bride leaves her home, the sadder she cries, the happier she will be. It stands for “tear” is a luck to the bride home.
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When on the way to fetch the bride, it runs into another motorcade. It will lead to offset the happiness of each other due to “joyfulness counters joyfulness”. Thus, it needs to shoot off firecrackers.
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It is better to avoid people facing the mirror in the room of the bride and groom within the first four months after the wedding. Therefore, all wardrobe and dressing table with mirrors should be covered up with red paper, and it can be torn up upon reaching to the first four months.
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To avoid wearing a cloth with pocket as pockets stands for bringing away the property of the bride’s family.
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To avoid staying over night outside in the first months of marriage. |
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To avoid any wedding, funeral affairs, celebration or ceremony because it will lead to a counteraction on luck.
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Anyone cannot contact with the new bed for the bride and groom on the date of wedding, especially the bride cannot touch with the bedside.
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It is better to avoid that the groom-to-be sleep alone before the day of marriage (after the bed was settle down), you can find a boy with dragon sign or under adult’s age due to the ill omen of ”sleeping alone brings either the bad luck to the wife to die or husband.
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The bride leaves on the date of wedding, all her aunts and sisters-in-law should avoid seeing off due to the pronunciations of “aunt” in Chinese is the same with “alone” as well as “sister-in-law” in Chinese is the same with “wipe out”, both are ominous.
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A pregnant woman and people who are under the mourning period cannot see the bride and groom leave the door or cross over the door. Besides, they cannot touch any clothes of the couple as well as any goods in the room of bride and groom. |
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The bride needs to avoid wearing old shoes on the date of wedding. All wedding shoes, embroidered shoes or banquet shoes should be whole new. |
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The bride should be careful to step over the shoes of bride, which means it will lead to humiliate her husband someday. |
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It is better to avoid stepping on the threshold when the bride enters the groom’s house; they should be cross over it instead. |
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At the night of wedding, it should let a elder sister who has not married yet sleep on the bride’s original bed, and put fresh fruits and red envelope on the bed to bless the bride will have a lot of babies and everything go smoothly with her. |
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To avoid holding the wedding in June on lunar calendar, or it will cause to a short marriage with a half of a month.
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Everyone who attends the engagement ceremony should not fan up the fan no matter the weather is how hot on the date of engagement. Otherwise, it may lead to break up the bride and groom.
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