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How do the people of Li’s hometown celebrate the wedding?

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After the wedding is over, the bride and groom have three days of solid teasing and tricking. On the first night, everyone comes over to the bride and grooms house and they make caos. The second and third days, everyone is teasing and tricking them. On the fourth day Reiquing takes her husband to her family to see them and for Reiquing to relize that she now has a new family. The Li family.

The people of Li's hometown celebrate the wedding over four days. On the first three days the bride sits cross legged in the lotus position with her back straight for ever hour of the day. Majority of the relatives and friends visit in those days, On the first night folk come over to make 'chaos'. The newlyweds have to survive teasing and pranks. On the fourth day the bride (Reiqing/Niang), takes her new husband to visit her family. the family would be proud and happy for her daughter her mother says "count your blessing, "don't look back you now belong to the Li family" she seas

How do the people of Li’s hometown celebrate the wedding?

After the wedding it is tradition that the couple must sit in a lotus position for four days. On the first night people come to make chaos. They come and teas and trick the couple mostly the bride. After three day the wife takes the husband to visit her family the mother tells her to move on because she has a new family now.

For three Days the bride sit in a lotus position for everyhour that she is awake and on the first night the family comes to make what is called "chaos" and the newlyweds have to stand all the teasing and tricking especially the bride. On the Fourth day the bride takes her husband to her family and the family congradulates her.

How do the people of Li's hometown celebrate the wedding?

They created paper mache lantones to decorate the wedding area, there were 'trumpets, cymbals, gongs and bamboo flutes' they ate for them indulgent food that they might eat at Chinese new year, such as tea, sweets, roasted sunflower seeds, peanuts and bland rice. The bride didn't wear any jewellary because there family was too poor.

The people of Li's hometown celebrate the wedding by get two sedan chairs a simple blue one for the groom and a red and pink silk banners and flowers for the bride. After the have got the two chairs they are carried from the grooms village to the wife's village along with bamboo flutes, cymbals, trumpets and gongs. Before the wedding the people of the village have a feast that will set back the brides family a ton of money.

After reiquing marries li tingfan she sits for three days in lotus position but that first night her friends come over and make chaos and they can’t do anything about it. On the fourth night reiquing takes li tingfan to meet her family.

How do the people of Li’s hometown celebrate the wedding?

They celebrate over three days. Many relatives, friends and neighbors visit during those three days. On the first night people come over to cause chaos they also tease and trick them like bullying and they have to width stand all of that. But mostly the Bride. On the Forth day the wife takes the new Husband to meet her Family and when her parents Meet the new husband they say to her Count your blessings, Don't look back and now you belong to the Li Family.

before Reiquing is married off her family would have a big feast and at the end of it her mother would take her a bowl of rice and Reiquing would have two mouth fulls and spit one into her mothers pocket to signify that she will always have enough food and keep the other mouth full along the trip to signify that she will also never go hungry through her marriage.

when she reaches her husbands house she has to sit on a bamboo mat for three days with her back strait all day and night in a lotus position,
on the three days people come to make kayos.

when they first meet the groom gives her a pair of chopsticks with chestnuts and dates to signify the early arrival of sons.

On the first night of the wedding, relatives, friends and neighbours come to the wedding to make ‘chaos’. The newlywed have to survive teasing, pranking and tricking, especially the bride from the people. For the first three days she sits, legs crossed in a lotus position with a straight back. Many friends, relatives and neighbours visit during those three days. On the fourth day, the bride takes her new husband to visit her own family.

After the wedding, the bride sits for three days, legs crossed in a lotus position, back straight for every waking hour. Many relatives, friends and neighbours visit during those three days. For the first day people come to "make chaos". She has to withstand much teasing and tricking. On the fourth day, the bride takes her new husband to visit her own family to see his new family.

The bride will need to sit for three days in a lotus position and for the first night the family will come and create massive chaos, the newlymed need to survive the teasing, especially the bride. On the fourth day the bride will take her husband to her family and celebrate!_!

In Li's villiage, for the wedding, they have four men to carry the sedan chairs, they have feasts, music, flowers and banners. Friends and relatives help to pay for the festivities.

Before the wedding the bride has to walk all the way to the wedding ceremony in a vale, with rice in her mouth. It symbolizes that she would never starve along the journey of her life. At the ceremony a local man reads out the ancient poem while the bride and groom kneel down on two bamboo mats. After the wedding the bride sits in a type of crossed legged lotus position for three days. On the first night the brides family comes and creates *chaos* with lots of teasing mostly aimed at the bride. On the fourth day the broom introduces the bride to his family.

The people of Li’s hometown celebrate the wedding over four days, for three days the bride sits legs crossed in a lotus position with her back straight for every waking hour. On the first night people come to 'make chaos'. The newlyweds have to with stand much testing and tricking, especially the bride. On the fourth day the bride has to take her new husband to visit her family.

After the wedding, the bride begins her 'sitting through the time'. For three days she sits, legs crossed in a lotus position and back straight for every hour. Many relatives, friends and neighbors visit during those three days and on the first night, the newlywed, especially the bride has to deal with the teasing, pranking and tricking. on the fourth day, the bride has to take her new husband to her parents and introduce them.
'Count your blessings,' her mother tells her. 'Don't look back. Now you belong to the Li family'.