婚礼

Weddings-婚礼

　　Weddings vary from nation to nation, from area to area and from the past to the present. Nevertheless,all people consider weddings as important and happy events.

　　People of the Western World go to church for their weddings while some tribes in Africa hold their weddings in the open with a camp-fire and much dancing.

　　In China, weddings are different from those abroad. In the past people in our countryside used to carry the bride with a sedan chair from her parents' house to her new home. Now sedan chairs are seldom seen. In-stead,the bridegroom may take the bride to their own new house by bicycle or by tractor. In our cities the bride prefers a taxi decorated with flowers and a Chinese character that means“double-happiness” on the taxi's win-dow. However, both in the countryside and in cities a wedding feast is in-dispensable. Relatives and friends are invited to the feast to eat and drink to the happiness of the bride and bridegroom.