Marriage

In the project we made about marriage I did a research on the marriage of China. And what I found was that the traditional marriage in China has different procedures: matchmaking, engagement, betrothal presents, meeting the bride, three bows and drinking wedlock wine. The first, the matchmaking is that a matchmaker woos the girl in the boy’s behalf and asks the age and year of birth of the girl and then goes to a fortune-teller to predict their future. After that comes the engagement which is a ceremony involving an exchange of certificates which tells the birthday of each other, including the hour of birth. Then comes the betrothal presents that are gifts sent to the girl’s family. Then the groom goes to her house to meet her, and the bride is veiled and carried with the sound of drums and in a sedan-chair for the wedding. After that comes the three bows also called bow to the heaven and earth. This is the most important rite ceremony; the couple must stand side by side and tell three bows, one for the earth, heaven and ancestors, second to their families and third to each other. And finally the most exciting procedure of all and is drinking the wedlock wine.

I choose this type of marriage because I found really different to what we are used to. I mean the couple will no meet each other until tat day in which they are getting married. If that marriage begins to be practiced here people could no make it, because we are used to choose our couple, not that our parent choose them. So I think that that should not be done because everyone has the right to be happy with their decision.