The Wedding Day #1

On the actual wedding day, the bride would take a bath infused with pumelo, a variety of grapefruit, to cleanse her of evil influences. She puts on light make up, most likely, only for the skin, and sits in front of some Dragon and Phoenix candles. A 'good luck woman' comes to the wedding preparations and spoke auspicious words, and does her hair in the wedding style. Her hair is a very important part of the wedding, because it symbolizes her entering adulthood. After her hair is done, she climbs onto the back of either her eldest sister in law, or her 'good luck woman' and is brought into the main hall. She then puts on her jacket and a skirt and some red shoes. Her face is covered with either some red beads dangling from her Phoenix bridal crown or a red veil. After the preparations, she bows to her parents, and awaits the the bridal procession from the groom’s house.

The groom dresses in a long dress a red silk sash and red shoes. On his shoulder is a silk ball. The groom kneels at the family altar while his dad places a cap decorated with cypress leaves on his head. He then bows first before the tablets of Heaven and Earth and his ancestors, then to his parents and the assembled family members. His father then takes the silk ball away from his shoulder and places it on the top of the bridal sedan chair.