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A Closed Season for Festival

Originally, the Chinese almanac was made to suit the cold winter of the North where the Tenth Moon saw the first falls of snow. During this time, there are very few festivals. The gap is filled by weddings for which these months are very popular. In Hong Kong, village weddings still followed the old customs until thirty years ago. A bride was carried from her parental home to her future father-in-law in a red sedan chair. Sometimes, the chair was even taken most of the way by lorry. Nowadays, brides go in a motor car. Wedding cars have red and yellow, but not white ribbons and a girl doll is fixed to the radiator in the front. And brides today wear white. Since white is the traditional mourning colour in China, no Hong Kong brides risk wearing anything so unlucky all the time. So that, at the wedding feast in the evening, she wears traditional red when bride and groom circulate among the guests.

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