Marriage attire

Hui'an women usually get married when they are still very young in some cases before twenty. On her wedding day the bride wears black clothes or phoenix clothes and carries a black umbrella. Her relatives and friends then bring her to the bridegroom's home. On her wedding night, the bride stands by the bedside until morning, and returns home to her parents when the roosters begin to crow. 

The elaborate wedding hairstyle she wears, that takes the help of five or six women to create, also ensures that she doesn't sleep with her husband on her wedding night. If she is late or her hairstyle mussed, her friends and family will laugh and joke about it for the rest of her life! After the marriage, the bride can only spend three days at her husband's home during the spring festival, a day during tomb-weeping day and mid-autumn day and a little time during the harvest season until she is pregnant with her first child. This tradition, however, is disappearing.

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