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The Traditional Chinese Wedding Ceremony

There are many things that go into the traditional Chinese wedding ceremony that if you are going to do a traditional wedding you need to know and understand.

Preparations are always made before the wedding day because a wedding is considered a joining of two families instead of just the bride and groom. The groom’s family will have given gifts to the bride’s family for the betrothal and the bride’s family would have presented a dowry.

As they are getting to the wedding day this dowry would be taken to the groom’s house so it can be displayed to show that the bride’s family has wealth.

When they get to the wedding day the groom will need to fetch the bride which means he will go to the bride’s house and be put though several questions and other tasks in order for him to get to her.

Usually this is done in the morning because of the schedule of the wedding. This is all done in fun and everyone in the wedding party participates. Before the influence of the western world a bride would have worn a traditional tea dress called a kua and it would have been red. This would be covered with a red handkerchief for the full day of the wedding.

Today, those families who have adopted the western culture will wear a white wedding dress and will wear the kua when they return home to their parent’s house after the wedding ceremony. The kua is a red dress in the traditional fashion.

The couple goes to the groom’s family next so they can have a tea ceremony. This is a time that they will serve the older members of the family and also their close friends to show that the family is blessing the couple and have accepted their bond.

Of course when you have people who are older and wiser at this event they will not be able to reframe from giving the couple marriage advice and they will also congratulate them with money and jewelry. After this ceremony the couple will go to the bride’s home and serve tea to the bride’s family.

The next event is the wedding banquet and there is a lot of food served at this time. There is a multi-course wedding feast with traditional Chinese food. The food that will be served will be associated with good health, prosperity, abundance, long life and so forth.

Usually you will see a lot of fresh fish, roasted suckling pig, noodles and other Chinese delicacies. The wedding is always a joyous occasion with plenty of toasts and champagne.

There will also be wedding cake that needs to be cut and wedding gifts will be given. Sometimes there may be more than one wedding feast if the couple has a large group of different friends.

Next, they will want to avoid the wedding taboos from both the bride and groom and the guests will want to avoid them also.

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2 Responses to “The Traditional Chinese Wedding Ceremony”

1. BellaB Says:
   December 21st, 2008 at 6:36 am

   I have been to a few Chinese weddings here in the States and the best memories I have, aside from the happy couple, is the food! OMG it was almost non-stop. I do remember that in all of these wedding banquet I attended, the last main course is a noodle dish. Is this also traditional?

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   December 22nd, 2008 at 2:59 am

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