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		<title>Ancient Chinese Wedding Custom &#8211; Post-wedding Ritual</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day following the wedding ceremony, the bride would serve tea to the groom&#8217;s family. At that time, she would be formally introduced to all the members of the groom&#8217;s family. She would serve tea in order, starting from the groom&#8217;s parents then proceeding from the oldest family members to the youngest ones. Lucky red [...]
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		<description><![CDATA[Compared with the complicated preparations, the wedding ceremony was quite simple. The newlyweds were conducted to the family altar, where they had to kneel three times. First, they would kneel to the heaven and the earth, then to the ancestral tablets and their parents and at last they would kneel to each other. This official [...]
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		<title>Ancient Chinese Wedding Custom &#8211; Obtaining the Bride</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firecrackers, loud gongs and drums meant the start of the procession from the groom&#8217;s home to the bride&#8217;s home. It was believed that doing this could ward off evil spirits. Accompany with a child (as an omen of his future sons), the groom would lead the procession. The bridal sedan chair, attendants, musicians, and sometimes [...]
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		<description><![CDATA[As marriage also meant that the bride would leave her former life behind, she had to live for a while in seclusion, always in the family&#8217;s cock loft, with only her closest friends. During this period, they would mourn, or curse, the loss of the former life. For this reason, the bride&#8217;s emergence on the [...]
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