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3 LETTERS AND 6 ETIQUETTES
Posted on August 4th, 2009 15 commentsChinese Traditional Wedding has a long history that goes back thousands of years in China. The rituals like the “3 Letters and 6 Etiquette s“. Well, before this, I have only heard about it. What is the 3 letter means? Nowadays, I really don’t think any of the Chinese people are practicing this in Malaysia. I don’t know whether there are any in China right now? Let us just have a little more understanding about it before we move on.
The 3 Letters consist of the following: The Request Letter, Betrothal Letter and Wedding Letter.
The 6 Etiquette s consist of the followings: Proposal, Dates of Birth, Betrothal Gifts, Wedding Gifts, Wedding Dates and Wedding Ceremonies.
First, the Proposal, is one of the 6 Etiquettes. Back in those days in China, when a gentlemen needs to get married or their parents have somebody they know and wanted to have her as daughter in laws, they will send a matchmaker to girls house to propose for their intentions to seek the chances of succeeding. Once they agreed, a formal letter will be sent by the Groom’s parent to the Bride’s parent as we called it the Request Letter. This is only one of the 3 Letters. Then, the Chaperon will get both of the Groom and Bride’s Dates of Birth to check whether they are match in terms of their dates of birth for luck and prosperity once they are married. Once confirm okay, the Groom’s parent will send another letter which called the Betrothal Letter. The Betrothal Letter will go together with the Betrothal Gifts, the second Etiquette. The third Etiquette will be the Wedding Gifts, which also be sent to the Bride’s family. Then for the fourth Etiquettes, both of their families will have to look for the Wedding Date or the Auspicious Date. On the Wedding day itself, the final letter which is the Wedding Letter will be given by the Groom’s parent to the Bride’s family confirming their acceptance of the Bride as their daughter in law. Finally, we get to the 6th Etiquettes, the Wedding Ceremony. In Wedding Ceremony, there are a few more rules that needed to perform. The first one is the Receiving the Bride’s ceremony. The Bride will be carried in a chair and they will be a band playing Chinese Wedding Traditional tunes or music as they march along until they reach the Groom’s house. The Bride will also bring along her Dowry. Once they reach the front door, the Groom will have to come out to kick the sedan chair’s door in order for the Bride to come out. The chaperon then will carry the Bride on her back to get into the Groom’s house. She is forbid to step on the ground when she got out of the sedan chair. According to their belief, the ground is not clean enough or the evil spirits are all over the places. This is also why that had somebody throwing out rice all along the path form the Bride’s house until they reach the Groom’s house. The rice was to use to spell off evil spirits. Once she is being lifted inside to Groom’s house, the Wedding Ceremonies will begin upon reaches the Auspicious time. Both of the Groom and the Bride will have to start serving the Tea Ceremony for paying respect to all the elderly and people in the Groom’s house. Hierarchy otherwise, will be from the oldest family member. Once completed, the Bride will have to wait inside the New Room, means the newly wedded couple’s room by herself while the Groom will be entertaining in the Wedding Banquets with all the relatives and friends that his parent has invited. Once the banquet is over, then only the Groom will go in the New Room and have a drink with the Bride and have dinner with her inside the room. The next and the most important task for the couple to achieve are to try to get a son soonest possible to inherit the family’s Last Name.
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