People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — CHINESE NUPTIALS. [ARTICLE]

CHINESE NUPTIALS.

A Wedding Is Not I’uro Enjoyment for a Celestial Bride. It is no joke to enter the holy estate of matrimony in China, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. After the sale of the bride has been concluded, when the wedding morning arrives, the bride is dressed in a red gown, veiled wi th a long red veil, and her face is doubly hidden by an extra red band and fringe. Thus attired she is taken from her room, bids her mother good-by. and is borne by two members of the bridegroom’s family to his house. None of her relatives accompany her. When she arrives at her new home she and the bridegroom sit opposite at a table, eat and study each other as attentively as possible. Then the unfortunate bride is led into an inner room, where she spends the entire day alone, gazing at its red hangings, at the red boxes containing her trousseau, and listening to the revelry of the men in the main room. At sundown all the bridegroom’s masculine relatives are led in and thrust a lighted candle before the face of the bride to see whai she is like. This concludes the marriage ceremony.