If you are learning  Chinese characters, you must be familiar with character喜. However, double 喜, written  as囍 must be strange to you. The latter is not  a formal character in Chinese learning,  but it is particularly used as wedding decorations in China.

Double joy 囍stickers  will be placed on all wedding items such as the betrothal gifts, dowry, the  couple's toiletries and cosmetics. The bridal room furniture, especially the  mirror and cupboards, will also be decorated with double joy or other wedding  paper cutouts such as pairs of mandarin ducks, dragon and phoenix, etc. Similar  red wedding paper cutouts will also be put up on the main door, bridal room  door and generally around the house.

Maybe your Chinese  teachers have told you that red is the most hilarious color in China. A red  banner 红彩帘 will be hung across the front doors of the  two household to announce the joyous event. Beddings such as pillows, bolsters,  comforter set, blankets, bed sheets, etc., all tied with red ribbons; New  clothes in a suitcase for the bride (in the past, wardrobes or wooden wedding  chests are used.)

Besides, a series  of other equipments will be prepared in the bridal chamber. Tea set for the  wedding tea ceremony, as well as baby bathtub, potty, face washbasin, tumblers,  toothpaste and toothbrushes, mirror, comb; two pairs of red wooden clogs  wedding slippers or bedroom slippers; sewing basket with even numbered rolls of  colorful thread, needles, pincushion, scissors, and sewing wax with auspicious  words on it.

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