Friday, 14 March 2014

Traditional Chinese Wedding (Chinese Costume & Wedding Flowers)

3 Traditional Wedding Costume

Historically, the bride and groom’s very unique wedding outfits play the most significant part in the wedding.
Despite a wide variety of style and element choices in Chinese regions, typically, wedding clothes for the bride and groom include red as the base color with a dragon and phoenix design.
The bride’s dress is a Chinese-style long gown called a Cheongsam/ qípáo, which features an embroidered phoenix and embodies the beauty of a Chinese traditional costume, while the groom’s clothing often has two pieces, a coat over a long robe embroidered with a dragon.

4 Wedding Flowers
Peonies Orchids
Lotus Narcissus
Contrary to the idea of ​​Westerners is that white flower is a symbol of death, generally only used in the funeral, and therefore white flowers can not be used as a decorative marriage. Traditional Chinese Wedding likes to use peonies, orchids, lotus and narcissus as decoration. Because peonies on behalf of wealth, and narcissus represent the new life of spring, orchids on behalf of, the beautiful and fragrant, lotus represents love, also lotus is a symbol of holiness in Chinese Buddhism.

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