Today is a particularly festive day. On April 12, the quilt loading ceremony was held.
I am 54 years old, I have a son of 30 years old, and the wedding ceremony is scheduled for May 2nd.
In Zhengzhou, Henan Province, there has always been a custom of wedding quilts, I remember when I was a child, there were girls or boys in the village to get married, and they had to make several quilts.
My mother's four sisters, at that time my mother began to prepare early, as long as there are people who go to the village to sell satin quilts, my mother and grandmother will choose a few pieces to collect, each time they choose a few pieces, all kinds of colors of satin quilts are available, red, yellow, blue, green, red, orange and purple, the satin quilt surface gloss is particularly good, smooth to the touch, very beautiful.
The owner of the marriage girl will be accompanied by eight or ten pairs of bedding if the conditions are good, and there are six or four pairs of bedding if the few are six-paired, and the boy only needs to prepare two pairs of bedding when he gets married.
My family has four sisters, two girls, two boys, according to eight pairs, eight pairs of sixteen quilts, you need sixteen quilts, of course, the mattress does not need satin surfaces, only flower cotton cloth can be used.
My sister seemed to have ten pairs of covers at that time, my mother prepared eight pairs, my aunt prepared one pair, and her godmother also prepared a pair, ten pairs of twenty quilts, which can be used for a lifetime.
At that time, I only had eight pairs prepared by my mother, and I haven't used them up until now, so I really have to use them for a lifetime.
At that time, all the quilts were sewn out with stitches and threads, and on the day of the quilts, I had to find several people to do them, and they all had to find a few ingenious people to do them, so it took a whole day to finish the quilts.
Now when I get married, I don't make quilts, like when my nephew got married, he bought a finished quilt, and my niece also bought a finished silk quilt when she got married.
Even if it is much easier to make a quilt, what I prepared for my son is a cotton quilt, go to the place where I play flowers in the market, buy a few catties of cotton, choose a cloth wrapped in a quilt, directly play the flower machine to play it and wrap it, and then press a few patterns, the quilt core is ready, and then put on a quilt cover to use, no need to use needles and threads at all.
Today, the eldest sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law, the eldest sister, and the second sister came to my house to put on the quilt, just put on the quilt directly, and it would be good if it didn't need it for half an hour, but no matter how simple it is, this ceremony must also have.
On the day of the wedding, the red four-piece set on the bed, the mattress is covered with a green picture of a hundred children, and the green mattress and red quilt imply the early birth of a noble son.
This is the green mattress cover I prepared
The red one is the one on the wedding bed on the same day, the green mattress and the red quilt, the red cover is green, the noble son is born early, and there are five sons in the department. There is also a blue quilt cover and a pink quilt cover, both of which are festive and bright colors.
The new heralds a new beginning, and the son has a family, indicating that a new life is about to begin.
Today, the ceremony can be completed.