Can get married.
On the marriage of a man and a woman, according to the orders of their parents and through the matchmaking, if they think they are a good match, they exchange "geng stickers" (age and birth date) and press them on the bottom of a clean teacup in front of the statue of the God of Kitchen God to test God's will. If there are no "abnormal" situations such as broken bowls, rancid food, family quarrels, or uneasy cats and dogs in the home within three days, ask a fortune teller to "lay out the horoscopes" to see if the year and age are compatible and whether the zodiac sign is compatible. In the old days, some people believed in the so-called big conflict in six years and a small conflict in three years; men marry at double ages, and women do not marry at nineteen; they called chickens and dogs (roosters and dogs do not get along), dragons and tigers (dragons and tigers fight each other), tigers and sheep (sheep fall). Tiger's mouth), snake and rat (snake swallowing a rat) are difficult to match, and we should wait until everything is considered before discussing marriage.
Discuss the marriage before getting engaged, discuss "little gifts" before getting married, and bargain over the price in the age of buying and selling marriages. Generally, "four to six pieces of magenta" (four to six pieces of silk and satin clothing), two gold rings, one pair of gold earrings; betrothal gift, thirty-six small gifts, sixty-four medium gifts, and one hundred and twenty big gifts (silver yuan) ; Food, the number is "sixty-four", that is, 64 pairs of Baotou, 64 oil buns, 64 sesame cakes, etc., and there are 2 to 8 dan of old wine, so Shengnan is called "Old Wine". After the engagement, the man carries the above-mentioned gifts to the woman in a box. The girl's return gifts are mostly gold balls, oil bags and embroidery made by her daughter. For the engagement certificate, the man sends a "letter of approval", commonly known as "red and green paper" (the two layers of paper are red on the outside and green on the inside), and the woman sends a "reply note" to confirm the engagement, commonly known as "wedding paper". Therefore, when husband and wife quarreled in the old days, the wife would often say that I had "red and green writing paper" to restrain her husband. After the "wedding", the auspicious day is chosen to marry, and the day shop is chosen to choose a "good day". Relatives and friends give gifts. Most of the wedding gifts are in cash, or wedding silk curtains or wedding axes, with the words "A happy marriage for a hundred years, a prosperous marriage for five generations", "A marriage made in heaven", etc. Most of the wedding gifts are embroidered or satin quilts, quilt heads or daily utensils. Some also give red dates, peanuts, longans and lotus seeds, which means "having a precious son early". In the old days, there was a custom that matchmakers were not allowed to drink tea when they first entered the house. It was said that "matchmakers do not drink tea", as drinking tea would dilute the marriage. The matchmaker is also called the "matchmaker's cupboard". The matchmaker can eat "a hundred meals" and must be rewarded with "wine to thank the matchmaker". However, if there is discord between the husband and wife or the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law after marriage, the matchmaker has the responsibility to mediate.