The names for the banquet on the night before marriage include: warming room wine, wedding gift wine, thank you wine, getting into the sedan chair, preparing meals, bachelor party, etc.
1. The man is called Warm Room Wine, and the woman is called Wedding Wine
In some places, there are male and female partners, and the male partner is called "Warm Room Wine". He mainly invites friends who come to help with the wedding, arranges the division of labor for the wedding, and also requires someone with the body of a child to press the bed. Before the bride gets married, relatives and friends such as her aunt, uncle, and aunt hold a banquet to invite the girl, which is called giving wedding wine. On the day before marriage, the bride's family will hold a farewell banquet.
2. Xie Meijiu
For example, in some areas of Hunan, the meal eaten on the night before marriage is called Xie Meijiu. Those who can attend this banquet are the relatives of the male and female parties, and of course, the important figures are the matchmakers, who are the protagonists at this banquet. In general, there are two matchmakers, one is the matchmaker for the woman and the other is the matchmaker for the man, which also means pairing up.
3. Get on the sedan seat
The last meal of the bride before getting on the sedan chair to her in laws' house, there are many other customs in many places. Some regions call this gathering 'sedan chair', although it is no longer popular to ride in a sedan chair, it still means the same thing.
4. Preparing a meal
There are also some places called preparing meals, which means that the wedding is about to begin and we should thank the people who have worked hard for the wedding. Of course, the people invited for this meal are mostly relatives, it's just that their names vary from place to place.
5. The man's name is Xian Xi, and the woman's name is Li Niang Jiu
In some places, on the night before marriage, both the man and the woman will prepare a banquet, and different places have different names for these two banquets. The man's is called the idle banquet or the front banquet, and the woman's is called the wedding wine or the farewell wine.
6. Single party
Young people nowadays like to have a bachelor party the night before their wedding, which means breaking away from the single party and entering into married life.