The Evolution Of Chinese Wedding Dress From Traditional Phoenix To Western White Wedding Dress

< p > the marriage custom of China has formed six rites since Zhou Dai. The procedures are: Nu Cai, ask naming, Naji, Nanzheng, invite time and welcome.

Nash is asking for marriage; ask for the name of the woman; Naji is for divination; Nash is to pay the bride price; the period is to confirm the date of greeting; welcome to bride.

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During the period of P, the wedding began to be lively.

Emperor Xuan Xuan of the Han Dynasty issued a decree, announcing the legality of marriage.

However, the custom of going to dusk at dusk is still unchanged.

Before the wedding of the northern and Southern Dynasties, "the house is the house, inside and outside the door, it is called the green Lu."

At that time, the groom's dress was black with his attendants, and his escort carriages were painted black.

And at dusk, no drum music, no relatives and friends to congratulate.

Because in the ancients' concept, women belong to Yin, and twilight is "Yang comes to Yin", and everything in the wedding ceremony follows the meaning of Ying Yin.

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< p > during the Tang Dynasty, all the families who took their wives were colored lanterns.

Some of the weddings also changed in the morning.

After the Southern Song Dynasty, the bride's < a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > dress > /a > formed a phoenix crown, a red cover, a red sweater inside, a coat embroidered red robe, a necklace collar, a heavenly palace lock, a chest hanging mirror, a shoulder padded Xia, a red skirt, a red trousers, and a red embroidered embroidered a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/".

The bridegroom is also a red, red crown red robe.

Everything is red, red candle, red sedan chair, big red Xi character, noisy gongs and drums, jubilant crowds, and the groom holding the red silk seems to constitute an invariable wedding scene.

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< p > the feudal dynasties of China have strict dress regulations. Only the concubines of the imperial concubines are allowed to wear the Phoenix crown. Why do the folk women wear them when they get married? The legend is related to Emperor Kang Wang of the Southern Song Dynasty, and also related to Ming Tai Zu Zhu Yuanzhang. The content of the story is basically the same. It is because the emperor was saved by the women when he was in distress. After the emperor ascended the throne, the special girl wore a phoenix crown and a four person sedan chair when he was married.

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In the second years of the Qing Dynasty, Manchu established the system of shaving and easy clothing. < p >

The Qing government accepted Jin Zhijun's "ten no" suggestions from the Ming Dynasty. One of them was: "official marriage does not follow", that is, marriage custom follows the Han tradition.

Therefore, the Qing Dynasty's Han wedding "a target=" _blank "href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/ "clothing" /a "is still the same as the Ming Dynasty.

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From the end of nineteenth Century to the beginning of twentieth Century, the wedding ceremony was obviously accepted by western style from P to form.

Generally speaking, the wedding ceremony between China and Western countries is usually the same, and the wedding procedure is much simpler than before.

In the choice of objects, it broke through the tradition of parents arranged, realized or partially realized the free love and independent marriage of men and women. Some advanced personages even took the form of newspaper marriage, and sought for a like-minded person with a completely new concept.

These changes broke the old tradition of marriage in the late Qing Dynasty.

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< p > people call this new marriage custom "civilized marriage", and wedding dress also presents a combination of Chinese and Western styles.

The bride usually wears a Chinese dress dress, a head and white gauze, and the groom wears a long gown and a Western hat.

It has been reported that the folk wedding in Yixing, Jiangsu: "the groom's top boots are still there, but there are also those who are fashionable to dress up and wear top hat to show them.

The most ridiculous person is the groom's high Emei and the sound of his feet. In front of him, he looks like a new figure. He knows that the dolphin tail is still behind, the red green braid line, the fall and the ground.

There are also so-called "escort guests", the guardians of the bridegroom, and many friends and relatives, usually four. Four of them have Western-style clothes, have casual clothes, and still have full dress.

This explains the change of the wedding dress and the mix of the dress at the time.

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< p > in the early days of the Republic of China, few brides wore white wedding dresses.

Because there are no factories to make wedding dresses in China, some government officials or large family capitalists and large capitalists often marry their children to buy money from abroad when they are married.

In general, new couples can't do that.

But after 1927, the concept of wedding dress was completely changed.

Getting married in wedding dress became the most important idea of girls.

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< p > this happens from the wedding of a great man, namely Jiang Jieshi and Song Meiling.

In December 1, 1927, the wedding between Jiang Jieshi and Song Meiling was held in Shanghai.

Jiang Jieshi wore black tail coat, white shirt, striped trousers, silver tie and snow-white gloves.

Song Meiling wore a long white dress and a long white yarn embroidered with silver thread, holding a bouquet of carnations.

On the same day, the two wedding photographs of Chiang and sung were published in major newspapers in China.

In the photo, song Mei Ling's white wedding dress is superb and brilliant, which makes countless young women admire her.

Since then, the domestic wedding dress manufacturers have been established, and the wedding dress has become popular in the society.

Prior to this, only women who thought highly of their families and had strong economic strength were married in western style.

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After P, after 1935, group wedding became fashionable, and the wedding dress became popular among the people.

Group wedding originated from the new life movement advocated by the Republic of China.

In February 7, 1935, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of social affairs began planning to organize a new group wedding with the aim of simplicity, economy and dignity.

In April 2nd, 57 pairs of bride and groom were held in the auditorium of the new Shanghai municipal government for the first group wedding ceremony.

The groom wore blue tunic and black jacket and wore flowers on his chest.

The bride wore Pink Satin cheongsam and a white wedding dress.

More than 100 journalists from all over the country were carrying their cameras to the scene, and the people of Shanghai came to a grand occasion.

Perhaps because of the first group wedding, the dress of the bride and groom is a little conservative.

After the wedding of the group, the wedding dress of the bride and groom was completely westernized, the groom's suit was worn out, and the bride's white dress was white.

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