The document summarizes traditional Vietnamese wedding rites and ceremonies. It discusses four key ceremonies: 1) The "Nap Thai" ceremony where the groom's family brings swallow birds to the bride's family to symbolize harmony. 2) The "Nap Cat" engagement ceremony where the groom's family presents areca nuts, wine, and other gifts to the bride's family. 3) The "Nap Trung" ceremony where the bride's family requests gifts from the groom. 4) The wedding day which involves selecting an auspicious date and the groom's family sending a representative to formally take the bride. The document provides details on customs, gifts, and symbolism in Vietnamese wedding traditions.
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1. THE “NAP THAI” CEREMONY
The first ceremony in the
wedding was according to the
old Vietnamese wedding custom.
With this initiation ceremony,
the groom's family often brings
a pair of swallow birds to the
ceremony to talk to the bride's
family, which means yin-yang
harmony, hoping the couple can
easily reconcile marriage
difficulties and the wife will
follow the husband's religion.
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2. THE “NAP CAT” CEREMONY
The “nap cat” ceremony is held when the groom's family
decides to be a destined couple, suitable age to beat the
girl's house to go to the engagement ceremony. The
prerequisite is to choose a good day, a good month
The groom's side will consult with details of how the girl's
family wants to decorate and offer gifts. In the case of a
girl's family asking for a big ceremony, they will expressly say
that the relatives on both sides are full of people, socializing
with friends, ... the groom's family understands the idea and
is fully prepared.
The “nap cat” in the old Vietnamese wedding custom is usually
a large areca chamber of 3-400 fruits, a few bottles of white
sticky rice wine and large gac raspberry. The groom's family
has more financial conditions, they can add a pig's hand or
roast suckling pig, tea cake, ... to enrich gifts, make a better
impression on the bride's family.
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3. THE “ Nap trung” ceremony
During the ceremony, the bride's family has the right to ask
the groom's family what gifts to her family.
However, the habit formed from the past up to now is that
the bride's family will often say that the bridegroom has a
very high requirement on the items of the ceremony: clothes,
earrings, paper money, rice and wine ... in the new capacity can
satisfy all.
There are many ancient cases such as the bride's family did
not want to marry their children, so the wedding challenge
was significantly higher than the economic conditions of the
groom's family, or the groom's family really could not afford
to complete the gifts. Everyone tells each other that maybe
that is why when the bride comes home, it is often difficult
for her mother-in-law.
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4. THE “ Nap trung” ceremony
The ceremony please set a good date and time
for the wedding ceremony. Usually, the groom's
family is the party to decide and then consult the
bride's family. The girl's family often also follows
the boy's family.
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4. THE weeding day
This is the last and most important ceremony, so it is
imperative to abstain from the following for Vietnamese
wedding customs:
- Neither the bride nor the groom is allowed to stay
during the mourning period.
- Choose a wedding day to avoid all hours of death,
bad day and not hold a wedding in the seventh lunar
month.
Before the wedding takes place a few hours, usually the
groom's family sends the representative to the bride's
house to bring the betel betel with 12 pieces of betel
and phoenix wings, and the report of the time of asking
for the bride to the bride . The meaning of this action is
to ensure the wedding goes smoothly and smoothly, to
avoid scandalous relatives or to prevent a wedding
without a bride.
