Korean traditional wedding
1. To talk about marriage
In the traditional Korean wedding ceremony held before both men and women through the family matchmaker mutual understanding of each other’s family status, knowledge and character, and so on. If you have a good opinion of each other, then parents must first meet, so sometimes I get married before and had not seen each other. Agreed to marry each other, the first man in general “marriage” to the woman. If the woman has put the idea of marriage, “Xu marriage” to man, and then proposed the establishment of the marriage.
2. Satisfied mining
Xu received a marriage, family man will be the letters “satisfied to adopt the text” and “four-post” red Buguo loaded to the bride home. Receive a “four-post” will give serious consideration to the bride’s family will hold the wedding the bride and groom’s date of birth, to choose the date and time of the wedding, and then write on white paper, “Juan nothing” to groom home again.
Note:
- Four-post: according to 60 Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches of the cycle, a record time of birth and date of birth of the letter.
- Mining satisfied: the marriage of many articles and thank each other so that the election date and time of the wedding greetings.
- Juan Kyrgyzstan: the traditional wedding to accept four-post list of the bride home to choose to list on the groom’s family, and asked the man told the woman to hold the wedding when the groom’s wear clothing number (size) of the letter.
3. Satisfied currency
The groom her family received a letter from the new (Juan Kyrgyzstan), the bride at a wedding when they wear the “satin mining” and “marriage” marriage certificate with me at home to the bride. The general mining satin wedding in the previous month to send. Prior to the wedding held in the “currency” and “marriage” and “closure” is fitted together with the “catalog items” sent together, which is called “letter.” The bride and the marriage, as well as the cost of needed items along with the receipt of “marriage”, “Mining satisfied” and “four-post” will be a lifetime of custody of sincerity, that he was her husband’s loyalty, until life come to an end, these things She will be accompanied into the coffin.
Note:
- Steiner currency: the exchange of marriage when the four-post after the end of the list to prove that the bride price engagement, the groom give the bride a gift to family homes.
- Satin mining: in the currency satisfied when the bride and groom to the family home of gifts, mainly with blue and red silk, satin therefore called mining.
- Mining closures: general conditions of well-off family, then loaded more than some other material, the closure is called mining.
- Currency: A gift to the bride.
- Marriage: a marriage ceremony with the family when the groom to the bride’s home along with single letter.
- Letter: marriage ceremony and packed in a single box to the bride’s home. Around the different customs, currency or satisfied most of the call letters to adopt. Letter back (box) to the bride’s home were generally older, have a son of the woman Fook and more people. Received a letter (box) of the bride’s mother’s first marriage custody, until an unmarried daughter gave birth to a child, respectful father-in-law and mother-in-law, that her daughter will not return to the marriage certificate will be sent to her daughter.
4. Chiu-li
Prospective groom according to the traditional courtesy of the two activities after the wedding, held in the same day, the groom to get up early, if the ancestral hall, then there first, if not, let the parents seated, solemnly kowtow to them. Kowtow After the groom to kneel in front of their parents to thank the parents of ex-rearing, and to meet new people (his wife) seriously good life, to the parents thanked favor, and then came to the Office of the wedding.
To be held in the bride’s wedding day in the morning expressed his gratitude to the parents and bowed, and then to the Office of the wedding.
5. Dien Yan ceremony
After the care of the groom, under the guidance of the family to the bride’s family held a wedding ceremony. “Married daughter-in-law,” the general was walking to the bride’s home, but it can also allow people to the bride and groom riding a horse at home. The bride and groom arrive at home in front of a large, the bride’s family on behalf of the guests come out to greet them into their homes.
The groom into the door should be placed in the yard across the “fire” basin, which means that out of evil means.
Dayan brought to the groom’s on the table, and then bowed twice. Dayan mother-in-law when carrying out the table walked into the room.
Dayan Xielao a symbol of old age, said a life-long Jieyuan unchanged. In the past used the live geese, wood is now used to do the wild.
Note:
- Dian-Li Yan: the marriage ceremony of the first procedure, the groom’s ceremony to send Dayan called Dian-Li Yan. Dayan have to let people learn from the three German:
First: Dayan once the agreement on behalf of the love will never comply. If the lifetime loss of his partner will never find another partner.
Second: Yanfei when a row up and down the ranks to comply with the rules and regulations, flying in front of the Dayan called back to speak out in response Dayan also expressed respect for the ceremony.
Third: Dayan would have been to a place left to their own marks, from Dayan’s such a habit that should be left for their outstanding performance in life, never more than the blessing of life.
6. Baili pay
Dien groom Yan after the end of the ceremony, the bride stood at home or in the yard of the hall has prepared a wedding gift of the Office of the eastern side of the table. In the house waiting for the bride, the groom into the door after the child wearing cluster (also known as cluster crown), in order to celebrate the day of evil from close to the bride, bride’s face, but also about using paste made of red paper The rouge, Meixin to a paste, and then prepared to go to the Office of the wedding. The bride and groom at the wedding of the Office to meet each other after the end of the worship of the bride and groom, according to Eastern philosophy and world view of the principles of yin and yang, the number of single-yang, the number of two-yin, yang for the groom, the bride was overcast, especially in the “marriage crown Ceremonies “big time, we should double the number of victims, so the bride and groom to worship twice a Huibai a groom, the bride and groom can repeat it.
7. Co-Jin Lai
Bai Li paid after the end of the ceremony to start co-Jin, the bride and groom sat down, in others around the Qing Si, around the wine light on the Hong Si Zhen Jiu, the bride bent Yi-li. Others tip to the wine gift table lamp on the left and then to the right-to-before-to-face gift to the groom on the table, then the groom must give the bride Tianyi Tian liquor, wine last light away. This time the wine called Wine Trail, with Jin after the end of the ceremony, the guests on the big table jujube, chestnuts are housed in the groom’s pocket, indicating small children as early as husband and wife.
8. Wedding night (Droit de seigneur)
At the end of the wedding ceremony the bride home after a night to arrange for them to live in a room called the “new house.” Droit de seigneur they had when there is a custom that is new peep. Peep at the origin of many new houses, one of which is: as soon as possible in the past in order to carry on the family line, there is the custom of early marriage, the bride usually unrequited love or have slipped between the youth, in Droit de seigneur, when the bride away, the guardian of the beginning of a new house; there Is a “good number of demons,” happy when close to the fear of evil, the guardian of a new house.
9. In the new line
In the bride’s home after the marriage ceremony, the bride’s family to remain in the 3 day stay, with the bride and groom and then go home together, or called in to the new line. In the days before the bride’s family to prepare her and the date of such meat diet Bibo. When almost all of the new bride to the groom must sit sedan chair at home. To groom a home, people spread out beans, small red beans (red beans blog, news red beans, red beans say), seeds, salt and so on, and ignite fuel inside the door, so that cross-bride in the past, which means that hybrid drive away ghosts mean These customs are now able to see.
- Bibo diet: The bride’s parents-in-law when they meet for the first time on the table before the date of the diet, and so on.
10. Bibo ceremony
New parents bring food on the table, the elderly couple in front of salute, and introduced the family and relatives in the order. Only this time the bride to the family and bowed while standing on a table next to the groom to the bride’s family to introduce. If the grandparents, then they will prepare a separate table, and then give parents kowtow kowtow to the grandparents, brothers and bowed to the immediate after the uncle and the family will kowtow.