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Shoes - Mascots In Wedding Customs

2008/8/16 14:02:00 7

Olive shoes

In traditional Chinese wedding custom, shoes are a mascot. This is a symbolic folklore produced by the two pairs of shoes and the homophones of "shoes" and "Xie".

There are also gifts for marriage; there is a necessity for getting married; there are congratulations on being happy.

For example, Maonan youths and youths enjoy each other's goodwill. On the night of the moon, they invite each other to the flower yard to talk about each other's heart and love their affection. They call it "sitting on the night". As long as the two sides wish to make a hundred years of good luck, they will give each other token when they are sitting at night.

Girls generally give the boys a pair of "olive shoes", that is, using the white line of soles to form a group of square cloth shoes.

A young man usually gives the girl a "flower bamboo hat". After exchanging gifts, he shows that the two have been fixed for life.

Annual shoes

In the Mu nationality, shoes are also a token of affection for girls.

The girl is on the "walking slope" activity.

Secretly measure the size of the lover's feet, stitch them according to the size of the fine needle thread, make the shoes and cook them in a steamer for more than ten minutes to dry them, and give them to him when they meet with him later.

Because the gift is the same age, so this shoe is commonly known as "the same year shoes".

Flower clogs

The folk customs of the Jing nationality are more interesting.

After the love between men and women, the man asked the matchmaker to send a self made love silk and a colorful wooden clogs with flowers into the woman's house.

The girl also took out a flower crow from the girl's room.

If the two sides match the right and left sides of the crow, this is a natural match for the lover; if it does not match, it means that there is no relationship between lovers.

After the matching of flower cages, the gift box is selected for the selection period, which is called "flower delivery cages".

Silk shoes

In the Han and northern parts of the country, when men are married, men must send silk shoes and shoes to women's homes. Shoes must be in pairs, auspicious and harmonious.

At the same time, it also contains a new woman wearing silk flax shoes, toughened with silk flax, and the meaning of "Mama".

So as a gift for marriage, shoes also contain auspicious harmony.

Pair shoes

In Wuhu, Anhui, when a girl marries a girl, she prepares a bridle. She must make a pair of shoes for the bride and groom, and bring the bride's shoes into the shoes of the groom.

When the bride gets married, she brings her shoes to her husband's home.

In Hefei, on the wedding day, when the bride enters a bridal chamber, she exchanges shoes with the groom. The bride and groom wear each other's shoes, "homing shoes" and "homing" homophones.

Son-in-law shoes

The "Dao son-in-law shoes" of the Han nationality in the south of the Yangtze River is the ceremony for the bride to enter the sedan chair for the first time to enter the husband's house. That is to say, the bridal sedan chair must be replaced by the shoes of the groom, so it is also called "stepping shoes".

"Shoes" harmonics.

Symbolize the meaning of "old age".

Shoe changing

When the Naxi people do their wedding in Lijiang, when the man welcomes the bride into the house, the bride first gives her parents a pair of shoes.

At the entrance to the bridal chamber, the woman delivered a pair of shoes to the bridegroom and threw them to the bottom of the new bed, forcing the bridegroom to bend over to the bottom of the bed to remove the shoes and then pull them on.

This shoe is called "changing shoes", and it also takes the meaning of husband and wife.

Bride shoes

In the civil society, there is another saying that wearing bride shoes to worship the heaven and earth will bring auspicious benefits to the husband's family, and then gradually evolve into an activity in making new houses.

For example, in Anhui, Huizhou and other areas, girls marry and their wives make shoes for brides.

Before the bride did not worship the heaven and earth, she always tried to get the bride's shoes, forcing the bridegroom to change their shoes with happy cigarettes and wedding sweets, so that everyone could laugh.

There are many ways, such as Qian County folk, "take off" shoes people hesitate to climb over mountains and mountains, rather than staying up all night in the bride's way to the husband's family, so as to seize the opportunity to rob shoes.

Xiuning County folk, in the bride's bridal sedan into the mother's house, take the bridegroom to the bride from the back of the chair, the house owner deliberately crowded before squeezing, the bride is not ready to take off the shoes.

Because the bride's feet were taboo, the bridegroom had always carried her on her back.

Huai Huai shoes

In the Haizhou area of Jiangsu, there are also wedding customs to solve the problem.

When the couple went into the bridal chamber and the delivery room was withdrawn, the groom released a button for the bride, commonly known as "Huai Huai" (also known as "happy").

It is commonly known as women who begin to have children.

After the solution, the bridegroom sits on the edge of the bed, and the bride takes off shoes and socks for the bridegroom. It is commonly known as "take off boots" to show respect for her husband and to take care of her husband's life for life.

The bride wears tiger shoes. What is more interesting is the custom of wearing tiger shoes in Chongming Island.

On the island, when a woman gets married, she must wear a pair of tiger shoes.