Selecting an Auspicious Wedding Date and Pick up the bride’s room
1 min readSelecting an Auspicious Wedding Date
Auspicious days are subject to interpretation by fortune tellers that perform the analysis based on one’s birth date（day and hour）after consulto-tion with the Chinese almanac.Almanacs containing predictions for the entire year are sold at the beginning of the Lunar New Year by street vendors and in book stores.These paperback books are approximately two inches thick with a wealth of information about Chinese beliefs.It is said to be the oldest continuous publication known.The 15 day period from the middle to the end of the seventh lunar month is considered inauspicious because thatis time of the Hungry Ghost Festival when the gates of Hell are opened and the lost spirits are allowed to wonder the earth.They should not be invited to your wedding！
The bride out of the boudoir
Retreating to the Cock Lot In preparation for her impending departure，the bride-to-be retreated from the ordinary routine and lived in seclusion in a separate part of the house with her closest friends.During this period，the young women sang laments，mourning the bride’s separation from her family and cursing the groom’s family and even the girt’s own parents.Since this extended’sleep over often took place in the cock loft，the bride’s emergence on her weding day was sometimes referred to as“coming out of the cock loft.”
