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Learn Chinese Wedding Decorations
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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