The history of Western, Chinese, and Korean weddings and the development of wedding dresses

Traditional Chinese wedding dresses are influenced by Qing Dynasty wedding dresses.

In the Qing Dynasty, under the influence of ethnic minorities, the Han bride's dress was a jacket and a skirt, the jacket was red or stone blue, and the skirt was a red color, which was called the "red wedding skirt", wearing a phoenix crown, and the groom's dress was a robe and horse coat. The wealthy, the materials are exquisite, there are embroidery and other decorations. When the daughter of an ordinary family gets married, she usually wears only a red jacket and skirt, with a red hijab and embroidered shoes.

The Manchu bride wears a headdress with red flower tassels hanging on both sides, covered with a red "hijab", a traditional cheongsam embroidered with red satin, and red flag shoes. Manchu men wear red official hats or melon skin hats, and red tuanhua robes and horse coats.

China's wedding dress industry started late. In the early 20th century, the traditional Chinese wedding dress was still a robe and horse hanging.

Since ancient times, China's wedding dress is mainly red, because the tradition believes that red is an auspicious and festive color, so the ancient bride is often wearing a red dress and wearing a phoenix crown. In traditional Chinese customs, the wedding dress is the most important costume in a girl's life, and most of them are made by the girls themselves from an early age and are not completed until they get married. Although today's girls no longer sew their own wedding dresses, the wedding dress must be tailor-made and hand-sewn in order to show its preciousness and uniqueness.

The Origins of Western-Style Weddings:

Although weddings have been a ritual that has existed since ancient times in countries around the world, the history of brides wearing wedding dresses at weddings is less than 200 years. In the West, the bride wore a floor-sweeping gown that was originally a Catholic dress.

Since some countries in ancient Europe were theocratic and theocracy, people had to go to the church to receive the prayers and blessings of the priest or pastor when they got married, so that it could be regarded as a formal legal marriage, so the bride wore ceremonial clothes to show her sincerity and purity to God. However, before the 19th century, there was no uniform color specification for the bridal gown worn by young girls when they got married.

It was not until 1840 that Queen Victoria of England showed off her wedding dress in a white and elegant white wedding dress, and after the royal family and high-class brides followed suit, white began to gradually become the preferred color of wedding dresses. Symbolizes the beauty and holiness of the bride.

Now, white wedding dresses are already the most important part of wedding culture, and in any country, in addition to keeping their own national wedding dresses, more and more couples choose white wedding dresses.

In addition, in the West, the bride will carefully preserve the wedding dress and pass it on to future generations, so that the holy wedding dress will become a beautiful treasure and a legacy of love.

On December 1, 1927, Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling held a wedding in Shanghai. This is the first Western-style wedding to be held in China.