Before the Ming Dynasty, brides at mainstream weddings did not use any red hijab, and traditionally used the "but fan ceremony", that is, the bride used a fan to cover her face, until the late Southern Song Dynasty, there was a custom of covering her head with a hijab.
What really made the red hijab rise was in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, during these hundreds of years, the traditional fan etiquette gradually disappeared, and the red hijab became a new marriage custom, and even many people felt that the red hijab was a marriage custom that has existed since ancient times.
In the original marriage custom, the bride did not need to cover her face, but in the Jin Dynasty, the custom gradually appeared.
For the emergence of the fan custom, the main statement is because of the shame and obstruction, as well as to ward off evil spirits, the instrument used to cover the face at that time was the fan, and the brides had to use the fan to block the face at the wedding, which was removed by the groom, called the fan.
But the fan custom has been prevalent, until the Tang and Song Dynasties are still the mainstream, and the Tang and Song Dynasties but also fan poetry, in order to let the bride take off the fan, usually it is the groom to do, very test the man's cultural connotation.
It can be said that there was no such thing as a red hijab in the early marriage customs, but in other parts of ancient Asia, there was.
To this day, places such as Persia, India and Turkey are still very popular for brides to marry with red hijabs, and in highly Westernized Turkey, many brides wear wedding dresses and still wear red hijabs.
The earliest record of the appearance of the hijab in the Central Plains is the "Dream Liang Record" of the Southern Song Dynasty, when the hijab was not red but purple, and the mainstream scholars and doctors believed that this kind of marriage custom was difficult to ascend to the elegant hall, but it was a blasphemy against tradition.
Not only that, but in the past, weddings were not wearing red, and wedding dresses of different dynasties had different colors, such as the popular green of the Song Dynasty.
Before the rise of the Central Plains, the hijab appeared mainly in other nomadic areas of Asia, and even if it was not married, women in the nomadic area often wore hijabs, which was used to show noble status and shield the wind and sand.
Shielding the wind and sand is easy to understand, and the identity is displayed because the marriages at that time were often from different origins, and the bride's face could not be seen by others casually, so there was such a thing as a hijab.
From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, under the influence of Hu culture, there were occasionally women in the Central Plains who wore similar costumes when riding horses.
During the Tang Dynasty, because of the further opening of the atmosphere, people did not like such things as hijabs, but in the Song Dynasty, with the rise of scholar-doctor culture, some costumes that could cover faces became popular again.
However, at weddings, people still follow the traditional fan instead of using the hijab, and even feel that the use of the hijab is very rude, until the late Southern Song Dynasty, it became popular and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The appearance of the hijab is not to hide shame, and the explanation for the appearance of the hijab first appeared in the meta-drama "Peach Blossom Girl".
The general meaning is that the red hijab is actually to avoid the bride from being seen by the fierce god of the too old, which is an ancient tradition, the age of the too old is a god that people need to avoid, after the Song Dynasty, the too old has become a fierce god.
Turks and other nomadic tribes also have a similar saying, that the wedding is fragile, with the red hijab can avoid evil, this statement to Middle-earth has also become a kind of evil, protective body, this is the real role and significance of the red hijab.