Ghost marriage
Ghost marriage is a wedding ceremony between the living and the main card god.
There are two kinds of ghost weddings:
One is a lover who fell in love, and the woman died suddenly for some reason. The man married her home out of friendship and treated her as if she were alive.
The other is that the girl died of illness when she was young. When a girl reaches marriageable age, she will give her dreams to her family and let them find a home for her. Her family had to find a partner for her and hold a ghost wedding ceremony. This ceremony is exactly the same as that of the living.
When family members receive their daughter's dream, they will release her wedding cards (men and women exchange their names, ages, places of origin and third-generation cards) on the way. When young people receive them, they will first marry the "god card" and "paper body" of the deceased bride to the "living bride" (made of paper, about three feet high, with pink velvet inside. Married a "living bride" on the same day. Because the engagement and marriage of the dead bride are before the living bride, the dead bride is nominally Yuan Pei's wife, and the living bride becomes the second wife.
God's main card is the place where the souls of deceased ancestors or family members live, symbolizing their personality, so they can also get married. God's card is the place where the dead are attached and cannot be easily damaged.
In Taiwan Province Province, there is a mysterious and beautiful custom-ghost marriage, which is usually called "ghost marriage". This kind of marriage is also called "marrying God" or "marrying firewood".
There are two reasons for the custom:
First, the lover who has been in love for a long time, the woman suddenly died for some reason, and the man married her spiritual home based on friendship and treated her like a wife.
The other family, from Taiwan Province Province, never worships or worships unmarried women who died young, leaving many dying women in boudoir with nowhere to go and unable to be reincarnated. So they give their dreams to their families, hoping to find a husband for themselves in death. At this time, the family will prepare the woman's birthday and relics in red envelopes, put them on the bridge or on the roadside and wait for the "predestined relationship" to pick them up. If the person who receives the red envelope is willing to marry the woman.
The ceremony of ghost wedding is similar to ordinary wedding. The families of both sides invited a Taoist priest to report the emperor to Dongyue Hall and asked him to be a witness. Families of both men and women will also prepare wedding cakes, candy and betrothal money for each other according to the wedding customs in the world. After the ceremony, they will prepare a luxury car, get the bride's main card in the car, and then marry them home with dignity, and worship their gods at home in the morning and evening.
Generally, people who find red envelopes, if their fortune or physical condition is at a low point at that time, may expect to get the blessing of the other side in the underworld through this special marriage, and this wish can usually be realized. In fact, many people who marry ghost brides will gradually improve their careers and health, but after all, it is a ghost road. Many people who find red envelopes and refuse to marry will become depressed and unwilling to work.
You know what a ghost wedding is. Don't be complacent when you find red envelopes on the road in the future. Unless you want to be married in the underworld, take a detour.