Engagement, also known as engagement, is a traditional Chinese custom that usually involves an engagement ceremony before marriage, such as signing a marriage letter, exchanging gifts, or appointing a matchmaker. However, engagement is not a necessary procedure before marriage, and marriages that have not undergone engagement still have the legal effect of marriage.
1、 What is engagement
Engagement is the first step in marriage. In modern times, on the day of engagement, the bride hosts a banquet with her relatives and friends, as well as the groom's relatives and friends who attend the ceremony, to inform the public that the couple has a sense of belonging and is preparing to enter the stage of marriage.
2、 The process of engagement
The engagement ceremony has now been simplified, with most of the time the man brings gifts to the woman's home, and then both parents sit together to discuss the dowry and related preparations before finalizing the marriage.
Of course, sometimes they will bring the dowry directly and give it to the bride. However, this situation can only occur when there is a matchmaker or when both parties have agreed on a dowry. After the marriage is arranged, a wedding banquet will be held, and the bride will invite her immediate relatives to attend and have a family banquet together.
3、 The traditional rules of engagement
Usually, after a man chooses a auspicious day, he brings a gift book, gift money, and gifts to the woman's home to formally present a letter of engagement to her and her relatives, which is one of the traditional betrothal ceremonies.
After receiving the appointment letter, it will be placed on the ancestral case to seek good or bad luck, in order to confirm that there is no conflict or restraint between the two parties' Year Geng Eight Characters. Then the woman will also invite a small number of relatives and friends to attend the banquet, and some men will give the woman a dowry, usually determined by mutual agreement.