Drinking "cross-cupped wine"
Funeral Customs
Humans
Tomb Sweeping Day |
Drinking "cross-cupped wine" is one last interesting custom in the bridal chamber before consummating. The bride and the bridegroom each holds a wine-filled cup, standing face to face, with their cup-holding arms crossed and drinking from each other's cup. The cross-cupped wine symbolizes the previously two separate individuals are joined as one by the wedding. |
PRINTER FRIENDLY
Traditional Chinese Weddings
Details
-
- Matchmaking
- Matchmaking is a process of making a match of unmarried man and woman by a matchmaker...
-
- Birthday Matching & Auspicious Day Choosing
- The record of a person's horoscope indicates the sun's position at the time when the person was born. Therefore...
-
- Sending Dowry & Betrothal Gifts
- When the two families agree to the marriage, the man's family is supposed to send some betrothal gifts to the woman's family...
-
- Sitting in the Bridal Sedan
- In former times, rich families would use a bridal sedan to welcome the bride, while poor families which couldn't afford a sedan would use a cart instead...
-
- Performing Formal Bows
- Performing formal bows by the bride and bridegroom is also called "worshipping the heaven and earth"...
-
- Lifting the Bridal Veil
- Also called "veil" or "square veil", the bridal veil is an important article for the bride at the wedding...
-
- Bridal Chamber Pranks
- It's an important part of a traditional Chinese wedding originated in the Qin and Han dynasties in order to drive out evil spirits and bad luck...
-
- Visiting the Parental Home
- According to ancient customs, three, six, seven, nine, ten days or one month after the wedding, the husband should carry some gifts and visit his wife's parents' home...
Other Topics
-
- Ice Lanterns
- An ice lantern is a wintertime work of art widely created in north China...
-
- Festival Markets...
- In the Song Dynasty, the commodity economy enjoyed booming development and therefore the material...
-
- Folk Customs of...
- Densely distributed bridges in the "water country".
-
- Temple Fair
- Temple fair was originally a showing activity entertaining the people by the Buddhism and Taoism...
-
- Lantern Festival
- Lantern Festival, also called Shangyuan Festival, is celebrated on January 15 of Chinese lunar...
-
- Spring Festival
- The first day of the first lunar month is regarded as the New Year of the Chinese - the Spring...
Books
TRADITIONAL CHINESE CULTURE
Professor Zhang Qizhi was born on November 12, 1927 in Nantong City, Zhejiang Province. After...
Chinese landscapes (Cultural China)
The essays in this book, spanning eighty years of the 20th century and several generations of...