While we’re still in the marriage month, yg has a timely post about how marriage customs has changed from one generation to the next. He compares what went on in his wedding to what’s going on in his daughter’s.

yg writes:

some traditional practices related to a chinese marriage are still retained but others have been changed and modified over the years. i have just started reading a book titled ‘mao’s last dancer’ by li cunxin and the wedding ritual described in the first chapter of the book, which took place in 1946, was most archaic. no, i am not going to go so far back; what i am going to compare are the practices during my time and my daughter’s.

yg compares one generation with the next in customary practices have been modified. It’s important to note that these are traditions from a Hokkien wedding – the customs and practices in the other dialect groups such as the Cantonese, Hakka and Teochew are slightly different. Would anyone like to share the differences?