Shoes In Chaoshan Marriage Etiquette And Custom: "Upper Sedan Shoes".

　　 shoes In addition to its function of decoration and warmth, it also serves as a silent language and symbol, a symbol and symbol that permeates many aspects of human social life. In Chaoshan area, shoes are related to people's social life more or less, either directly or indirectly, or directly or indirectly.

　　 Shoes in etiquette

In Chaoshan area, babies are born to the full moon, commonly known as "to the moon". Grandma's home sends waist pockets, red shoes, cat caps and shirts and square skirts to show affection for grandchildren. When the baby is full of one year old, the grandmother will also have a new chair and chair. clothes A set of new shoes is given to the little grandson. Shoes become a mascot for children's healthy growth and longevity.

　　 Shoes in marriage etiquette and custom

In the old Chaoshan area, the marriage between men and women was fastidious about "matchmaker's words". In the Book of Songs, there is "how to get married and no one can help others". We can see that the matchmaker became an important condition of marriage in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Because matchmakers play an important role in the progress of marriage, and often need to run between men and women, therefore, if the family can be negotiated, both men and women must buy shoes for the matchmaker, indicating that things are going to be difficult. This custom is still preserved in Chaoshan area.

stay Chaoshan In the area, brides are prepared to carry special items before they get married. Among them, there are "upper sedan shoes", usually 5 pairs. According to the seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, they wear different shoes according to different seasons. Another pair of water shoes, so that the rainy days of action, indicating that the husband and wife together, together to take the road ahead. Through the bride's preparation for the 5 pairs of "upper sedan shoes", the bride's clever wisdom is shown to the people.

The shoes of this phase are a kind of courtesy gift prepared by the girls in Chenghai area before they get married. When a girl decides a family, she will start sewing cloth shoes carefully in the boudoir. When I get married, I take these shoes to my husband's home and give them to my mother-in-law, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, uncle. Taking shoes as a gift, one takes the meaning of "harmony" and hopes that everyone will live in harmony. Two shows that the bride is ingenious. Therefore, there will be exquisite designs embroidered with five colored silk threads on the vamp, so it is also called embroidered shoes. Nowadays, girls do not need to make shoes themselves, but they still buy shoes.

On the day of the wedding of the old and old daughters of the urban and rural areas in Jieyang, the married family had to arrange for an envoy to connect two relatives, commonly known as the "uncle of oil", usually by the younger brother of the married person. If the married person is the youngest in the family, the elder brother and his minor child will go together. If the elder brother's son has grown up, he will be "Uncle Yu" with his minor son. As an emissary of two messengers, he was warmly welcomed into the bridegroom's house and sat at the luncheon. In the afternoon, when they left their relatives, they received "lead chicken" and make-up oil, and the rest returned to their mothers. The bridegroom and the bridegroom are warmly sent off, and the bridegroom will also give a red envelope, commonly known as "planting money". If you are a brother of the bride, the bridegroom will send a red envelope with leather shoes and wish the uncle to get rich.