Baitang is also called "Baitiandi", one of the ancient wedding ceremonies, also known as "Bai Gaotang" and "Baihuatang". When weddings were held in the old days, after the bride and groom visited the world, they would return to the ancestors, the husband’s parents, and the elders. There are also people who call Baitiandi, ancestor worship, parents and husbands and wives collectively as "the worship hall. The worship hall is the most important ceremony in the wedding process. After the worship hall, the husband and wife are officially married.
Nowadays, for the "baitang" The origin is untestable. In the existing historical data, there is no record of husband and wife worshipping before the Han Dynasty. There is only a story in the book "Shi Shuo Xin Yu" of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, which proves that the custom of worshipping church has existed in the Jin Dynasty.
At that time, there was a Xuzhou provincial governor named Wang Hun. Yuan Pei’s wife died and married another. His wife was Yan clan, a commoner with a lower status. When they came to the church, the Yan clan first worshiped the king. Hun then Wang Hun was ready to answer. At this time, someone said to Wang Hun: You are a state-level high-ranking official, how can you worship her? Wang Hun did not answer. For this, Yan clan was very angry.
Although this couple’s The worship was not finalized, but it shows that there was indeed a worship custom in Xuzhou at that time. If it was not instigated by someone, Wang Hun would still have to answer the worship. This also shows that the custom of worship between husband and wife has just started, and Wang Hun will not worship if he does not worship. Later, when the customs became mature, no matter how old the official of the bridegroom was, he had to worship.
According to "Sui Shu·Li Yi Zhi" records, when the Northern Qi Emperor held a marriage ceremony, the husband and wife also worshiped each other. However, it was still the woman who bowed down first, and then worshipped. Qi; the male queen bows and bows first. It began in the Tang Dynasty, from the imperial family to the princes, and it was generally practiced. After the Song Dynasty, it was popular throughout the country, worshipped as heaven and earth, ancestors, uncles (in-laws), and husband and wife worship, indicating that from then on The woman becomes a member of the male family, and thus becomes the most important gift in the wedding process.
On the wedding day, after the male’s sedan chair, the bridesmaid will arrange the place of worship in the male’s hall. When the sedan chair stops. At the door of the hall, the bridesmaid invited by the man stood in front of the sedan chair, and the ceremony had begun. On the incense table, cigarettes were swirling, red candles were burning high, and relatives, friends, and officials were in their respective positions. The two bridesmaids named praise and praise respectively. The identity of "Tong Zan" appears, and the praise ceremony begins. The bride and groom press the praise and the praise ceremony to start the chapel.
The worship ceremony procedure is as follows.
The praise, the bridegroom attends the seat (stand in front of the sedan chair).
Tong praise, start the sedan chair, the newcomer starts.
Introduce praise, the groom bows (hands over to invite the bride).
Introduces praise, the bride and groom are in place (until the incense case).
通Praise, the bride and groom (to the gods and the ancestral tablet) put incense candles.
Introduce praise, kneel, offer incense candles. Bright candles, burn incense, incense, prostrate, prosper, flat body reset.
通赞, Kneel, kowtow, kowtow again, the third is the first, Hing
Then, it is the traditional "three worships"-worshiping the heaven and the earth, the parents second, and the husband and wife worshipping each other before "introducing the bridal chamber" at the end. The worship ceremony ends here.
