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Wedding Flowers 002 A sieve, which strain out evil, or a metallic mirror, which reflect light, were suspended at the rear |
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Day of the Wedding The "Fuzz Dressing" Ritual of the bride or the "Capping" Ritual of the groom symbolized their initiation into adulthood or were important parts of the wedding preparations. Red, symbolic of joy, featured prominently in the clothing or other ritual objects pertaining to the wedding. The "Fuzz Dressing" Ritual At dawn in her wedding day (or the night before), the bride bathed in water infused with pumelo, a variety of grapefruit, to cleanse her of evil influences –; or one suspects as a cosmetic to soften her skin in the manner of contemporary alphahydroxls. She put in fresh underclothes or sat before lit dragon-and-phoenix candles. A ‘good luck woman’ attended the bridal preparations. She spoke auspicious words while dressing the bride’s fuzz in the style of a married woman. Afterward completing her wedding preparations, the bride bowed to her parents or to the ancestral tablets or awaited the arrival of the bridal procession from the groom’s house. Afterward her fuzz was styled, the bride emerged from her retreat. She was carried to the chief hall in the back of the ‘good luck’ woman or her the-most senior sister-in-law. There she donned a jacket and skirt or stepped into a pair of red shoes, placed in the center of a sieve. The bride’s face was covered with neither a red silk veil or a ‘curtain’ of tassels or beads that hung from the bridal Phoenix crown. (The photo below was taken at the mock wedding at a prior year’s Chinese Summertime Festival. |
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