This year's spring came very early. It was already spring in early February. The willow trees on the river bank sprouted early and dropped thousands of green silk ribbons.
Next to the rockery in the Liu Mansion Garden, winter jasmine flowers are everywhere, including two purple magnolias, trees full of flowers, plum blossoms, plum blossoms and peach blossoms in bud. Hong Ying's mood is as bright as these flowers.
The first day of March is a good day for Dongmei to get married.
These days, the Liu family in the small town of Jiangnan Water Town is even more busy. Liu Yong's eldest daughter is getting married, and her husband's family, the Jiang family, is also a respectable family in the area, so the wedding is particularly grand.
Some people were killing pigs, others were moving stools and tables, and four palace lanterns hung high in the hall. The candle sparks inside the palace lanterns danced in the breeze, exuding dazzling brilliance.
The busiest person is Hong Ying. Dongmei is not her biological child, but she brought her up after all. Now that her daughter is getting married, there is no one to talk to in the family. The joy is inevitably a little sad. Think about it, sometimes she will secretly miss her.
Tears. Even though she is a stepmother, it is her honor to marry a daughter. One moment she is busy sewing quilts with red silk thread, and the next moment she invites neighbor aunts to help make cakes, rice dumplings, dumplings, and garden, symbolizing the artistic conception of high school reunion. The girls are busy
The big red characters "Happy" are pasted on the doors and windows, creating a lively scene.
It is a custom in Nanxun to marry a daughter. Guests come from all over the night before, and the host family starts a banquet for dinner, which is called table dinner.
Song Hongsheng became a well-deserved uncle. His niece was getting married and his uncle was the eldest. Song Hongsheng specially ordered a load of Shangtou cake, with cakes, rice dumplings, dumplings and garden on top, symbolizing the artistic conception of high school reunion. Early in the morning, Liu
Yong sent someone to pick up the cake from Song's house. He took the cake and placed it in the center of the hall. A big red word "hi" in the middle showed the grand and warm atmosphere.
Almost everyone in Nanxun came to congratulate and send gifts. Qiu Xiancha also came with his wife and daughter Yanyan.
When Liu Yong saw Qiu Xiancha coming in with his family and daughter, he bowed his hands and said: Thank you for your help, brother.
Qiu Xiancha also smiled and said: My niece is very happy, how can an uncle not come to congratulate her?
Liu Yong pointed at Yanyan again and said: This is your beloved Yanyan. We haven't seen you for a long time and she has grown into a big girl. Hey, if I am willing in the future, you should be my wife.
Qiu Xiancha laughed and said: Your young master is handsome, smart, talented and handsome, and with your current family background, I think you will be able to reach a higher level.
Liu Yong said: Hey, brother, what are you talking about? We grew up naked together. We quarreled when we saw each other, and thought about each other when we didn't see each other. We were friends in times of need. Two reed mats were spread equally flat on the ground. What's the point of trying to compete with others?
, you must keep your word.
Qiu Xiancha smiled and said: How can I, A Liang, say anything that doesn't count?
Mrs. Xu, Qiu Xiancha's wife, also smiled and said: That's all because they know the basics.
The three people laughed loudly as they talked, which made Yanyan blush, holding her mother's arm and lowering her head.
Seeing this, Hong Ying came over and said: Oh, you are such a person. If you let them stand and talk to you, why don't you let them sit in the room quickly?
Several people entered the house at the same time.
On the next day, there will be a banquet at her mother's house at noon, called the dowry meal, and the husband's sedan will not come to welcome the bride until the afternoon.
Dongmei's face was made up by her mother, she was dressed up, wearing a jewel-encrusted ring given by Hong Ying and the jade bracelet she bought specially this time; a bright red trimmed jacket, an embroidered red skirt, and a green jacket underneath.
, all made by Hong Ying himself. Wearing a phoenix crown on the head is the biggest custom of the people in the water town.
Dongmei sat uneasily in the boudoir, while Qiumei accompanied her sister. From now on, the sisters would have to leave the Liu family and go their separate ways, so it was inevitable that they would be reluctant to leave.
After noon, firecrackers went off outside the door, and the team to welcome the bride had arrived. Liu Yong ordered his family to fire eight firecrackers to express their welcome.
Dongmei said goodbye to her grandma and paid homage to her mother's memorial tablet. Then she was carried out of the boudoir by Liu Yong, wearing only socks. She sat on a chair in the center of the hall, with her feet on a pair of covered boxes. The boxes were filled with various kinds of things.
Planting candies means that the days to come will be harmonious and sweet.
The hall was crowded with people watching the fun. At this time, the band started playing. Liu Yong and Hong Ying stood on both sides of Dongmei. Liu Yong took a pair of embroidered shoes brought by the man, raised them three times on the flame of the big red candle, and then
Putting them on step by step on the ladder behind her means that she will be promoted step by step in the days to come. After Liu Yong completed the set, he handed it to Hong Ying. Hong Ying also completed the set and the two of them gave the shoes to Dongmei respectively.
Put it on. This is called dowry.
After the dowry was over, Dongmei was carried out by her uncle Song Hongsheng. The groom's uncle took the bride from Hongsheng and sent her to the sedan chair. From the boudoir to the sedan chair, Dongmei's feet could not touch the ground, even if she had put on the shoes brought by her husband's family.
, which means that you cannot bring the dust from your mother’s family to your husband’s family.
Next comes the wedding ceremony.
Dozens of people of the same generation from the Liu family lined up, handing things out, and the men came to pick them up outside the door. At the front were An Lan and An Jiang, each carrying a quilt, which is called the 'number one scholar bag'.
Yanyan, who was standing aside and holding her mother to watch the fun, looked at a handsome young man walking in front of him who was delicate and elegant. She often played with him when she was a child. They were childhood sweethearts. Now she has a good-looking appearance. She thought of her parents and Uncle Liu yesterday.
During the conversation, she was in love for the first time, and she couldn't help but feel the little deer in her heart pounding, and her face turned red involuntarily.
The dowry delivered to the door by the woman will be picked up by the man's peers.
Then, it immediately aroused the exclamation of the onlookers. A complete set of mahogany boxes, cabinets, chairs and carved bed and dressers, kitchen pots, pans, silver chopsticks, thirty-six silk satin quilts, sixteen boxes of clothes for all seasons, two boxes of jewelry,
Rouge pollen was everywhere, and there were four boxes of pressed silver. Almost all of Dongmei’s life’s food and drink expenses were used as dowry, as well as the sandalwood crutches she would use when she got old. Hong Ying made a special trip to Suzhou to inquire about this ten-mile red makeup.
After that, the last eight pieces of nanmu of the same size were wrapped in red cloth, which would be used as a dowry in old age.
All this made everyone watching the excitement feel dumbfounded.
Some people said: My family's eight lifetime possessions are not worth this.
There is also a saying: These are the hairs plucked from the body of the Liu family's bull.
These dowries are on the surface, and secretly there is a farm and shop purchased in Tongli in advance. The meaning of Shili Hongzhuang is to tell the husband's family that although my daughter marries into your family, you don't need to raise her, so that she will have confidence in her husband's family.
When everything was ready, Zhuanghua's mother helped Dongmei sit firmly. She grabbed both sides of the sedan with both hands and supported it with her feet to prevent the sedan from becoming unstable. Then she shouted: Lift up the sedan -
Then there was the sound of the suona, the bang of the suona, the sound of firecrackers, and the crackle of thunder. The gong was sounded in front to clear the way. This is called passing the gong. It means to notify the road ahead that if an official's sedan happens to be coming, no matter how big your official is, if you encounter
When the bride arrives in a sedan chair, the official's sedan must step aside to give way. This is because officials ride in a sedan every day, while the bride only rides in a sedan once in her life.
In front of and behind the sedan, a pair of boys and girls are holding red lanterns.
Mother Zhuanghua walked in front of the sedan chair carrying a copper foot stove. Sandalwood was constantly burning in the foot stove, symbolizing the bride's prosperous life after marriage.
The team is huge.
Both sides of the road were full of onlookers, some of whom were running over from far away and were panting.
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After the wedding team left, Hong Ying hugged Qiu Mei and cried heartily. Qiu Mei was moved by the scene and thought that she would leave the Liu family in half a month. She was very sad and clung to Hong Ying every day, asking her to sleep with her.
On March 16th, Qiu Mei got married, and the ceremony was the same. This chapter has been completed!