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Hokkien Marriage (Culture & Custom)

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Marriage Customs in Hokkien

Blind date Blind date in general is a date where people involved have not met each other previously. In Hokkien marriage , the parents will arrange the blind date for their son or daughter in order to find a suitable marriage partner in future. In the tradition of Hokkien, before 2000, the blind date was aimed to recognise deeply about the background of the man and woman. This was because the Hokkien community was very concerned about the desired husband or wife’s name, lineage, personality, character, and behavior. Name is related for the Feng Shui, lineage is related to the well connection of the people, personality, character and behavior were related to how the people deal with their partner in future. These characteristics are important for the parents to know whether he or she is subtable or not as a partner for their son or daughter. Usually the parents of the man started to find the family which has a girl of marriageable age, and arrange the blind...

Issues and Challenges

Since there are a lot of procedures to follow fully of the Hokkien custom in the process of marriage, and this will cause a higher cost in the payment in this several processes especially for the wedding dinner. Therefore, the people who have low income may find it hard to follow it, and they will decide to have a simple way __ “Naked Marriage "and do not follow the custom at all. “Na ked marriage” in China, sometimes called "bare marriage", is a form of marriage without the couple having first accumulated a solid financial foundation. Normally it does not include a wedding, a ring, a house, a car or a honeymoon In other ways, some Hokkien Chinese insist to follow the full process of wedding with the higher payment, due to their concern about their family’s reputation. In Hokkien society, traditional weddings involve a lot of costly ceremonies and relatives and friends. Therefore, the person who is able to conduct the full process luxuriously, people will think the pe...

Polygyny

What is polygyny? Polygyny is a system of marriage allowing a man to marry more than one woman. The legality of this polygyny system is apply by some countries, and mostly are only legal for specific religion which is Muslim that allow man to marry up to four women. Nowadays, monogamy is currently recognized in China. However, the polygyny use to genera in China before 1950. This polygyny practice in China from the oldest dynasty China which is dynasty Xia. During the ancient period, a man was allowed to marry with more than one woman, or we can say it does not matter how many women a man wants to marry. It only depends on the income and the willingness of the man. The richest man, emperors, the emperor in every dynasty had a huge harem. For example, in dynasty Tang, the palace system states that the imperial harem needs to have at least 120 women with different status. In this 21 century, most of Chinese are monogamist...