1. Chinese Traditional and Contemporary Marital Customs
When a woman gets married, the Chinese character is "嫁". The character is composed of two radicals, from the left "女", which means "female", and to the right "家", which means "home", combining together it means a girl leaves the home of her parents when getting married. ... Similar to the wedding certificate today, in ancient times people used to make three written documents to guarantee a legal marriage, namely the "document of engagement", which would establish the marital agreement between the two families, the "Offering...
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