宋代婚礼亲迎礼初探

On Fetching Bride Wedding Ceremony in Song Dynasty

亲迎礼是"六礼"的最后一项程序,也是最隆重的一项。宋代亲迎礼的程序主要包括:告于祖宗、醮子、醮女、奠雁、沃盥、交拜、同牢、合卺、结发八项。其在遵循古礼的同时,更加注重仪式的隆重与喜庆。在维护儒家礼制制度的基础上,逐渐吸纳民间风俗,开始向世俗化转变,对明清乃至现代的亲迎礼有着深远的影响。

Fetching bride is the last item of the ＂six ritual＂ of the traditional Chinese wedding, which is the most solemn one. Fetching bride in Song dynasty mostly includes： Ancestor worship, Bridegroom promising, Bride promising, Wild goose worship, Water washing, Bended knee, Eating together, Drinking cross-cupped wine, Tying a knot with the cutting hair of groom and bride etc. In the follow of the old ritual, the Song wedding ceremony tended to be more solemn and joyous. In the maintenance of the Confucian ritual system, Wedding party in Song gradually absorbed the folk customs and started to be secularization, which had a profound influence of its counterparts in Ming and Qing dynasties.