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1、 Differences between Chinese and Western Wedding The wedding as an important part of culture, it is also one of the necessary ceremony for us.With the difference between Chinese and western, it presents a different marriage customs. Marriage, it symbolizes romantic and sweet. It is the gate for love
2、rs to marriage. It also signed of established relationship between husband and wife. Marriage is a beginning, from then on husband and wife should encourage each other, support mutually and keep in life. So in such a special day all the best wishes become more meaningful and more precious. It is rom
3、antic and full of nice flavor. Of course, with the blessing it also has all kinds of marriage customs. People always like to make it special for every ceremony. Because of the difference cultural between Chinese and western, the marriage customs and ceremony become different. Although along with the
4、 globalization of economic and communication, some Chinese and western fixed the marriage. But the marriage customs always plays irreplaceable differences. China is a country with an ancient civilization and a long history, and many customs. Among so many customs, there is a particular marriage cust
5、om. This custom goes through various and long stages of development from ancient simple wedding ceremony to later complex ceremony, from feudal marriage custom to the modern free marriage custom. During these courses, peoples ideas are progressing, though we can not say that their ideas are up to th
6、e top of mankinds ideas in all over the world atall over the time because there are still backward ideas existing in many places, in many peoples mind and they maybe will still exist for a long time. However, they are up to the top of mankinds ideas in a certain stage of the uninterrupted developmen
7、t of ideas. Comparing with each other, west are different in many aspects such as in right aspect and in freedom aspect and there are many reasons that result in these differences such as cultural reason and geographical reason. 一Chinese marriage customIn China, marriage has gone through for a long
8、time. As a most grand etiquette, it has always been a high degree of attention. To control the marriage, the family and the whole society, since the beginning of Zhou Dynasty, Chinese marriage should comply with six procedures, which is the so-called six etiquettes. And Later in Tang and Ming Dynast
9、y in China, marriage also complied with the six etiquettes. As time goes by, although many wedding customs experienced various changes Six etiquettes as the basic pattern has not changed much. It is still essential and core in marriage custom.Marriage has changed much today, but in many place there
10、still remains traditional marriage custom.In feudal society, a marriage would be decided not by the youths love, but by their parents desires. Only after a matchmakers introduction and when parents considered the two family conditions were similar and could be matched, would the marriage procedures
11、went forward. Conditions that should be taken into consideration included wealth and social status. If a boys family was well-off or an official family, his parents would never permit him to marry a girl from a poor family. Essential to the marriage process were the commonly recognized three Letters
12、 and six etiquettes. The three letters were the betrothal letter, the gift letter with a gifts list and the wedding letter used on the day the bridegroom met his bride at her home. The book propriety and ceremony, which records earliest wedding ceremony, says that marriage, usually, involves six nec
13、essary procedures, namely, proposing, asking the name, asking for fortune, sending betrothal present to girls family, discussing date of marriage and meeting the bride.In the whole wedding, we should according the certain order: For worshipping, set out, burning cannon, waiting for the groom, denoun
14、ce happy event, strange, go out, the limo, and throw fan, wedding banquet, see, chamber. In China, the entire weddings main colors are red, it also the representative of the traditional Chinese festivity colors. This change will enable the wedding jubilation. In a traditional wedding, the bride gene
15、rally wearing red ROM and the groom wearing red long gown mandarin jacket, wearing a red cap along. Palanquin bride rode in the red, the groom on horseback in front, with matchmaking and domestic-market-oriented team to the grooms house. Parents sitting on the two sides appear, and appear next marri
16、ed bride and groom. Entire wedding presided over by the master of ceremonies, in his command, a bride and groom into the bridal chamber. Noisy wedding is the climax of wedding, the bride and groom first to wait for the wedding, the groom greeted came to the wedding. Everybody started noisy wedding, the bride and groom all stirred up trouble in the next gamedo all this in a whole wedding laughter ended
