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Title: China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 Wright, G. N. (George Newenham), 1790?-1877, editor Fisher, Son, & Co., publisher
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Publisher: London, Newgate Street Paris, rue St. Honoré : Fisher, Son, & Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ens ofart borne in the marriage-procession. They consist of trinkets and toilet-furniture,silks and silver-ware, and the manner of their presentation is peculiarly ceremonious.One of the chief apartments of the house is allotted to the reception of such tokens ofrespect; there the female heralds are admitted, and acknowledged with some degree ofsolemnity, while around are seated in sorrow, either serious or assumed, the sisters andand near kindred of the bride. To the elder ladies of the family belongs the duty oflaying out the gifts judiciously in the inner chamber; the bride meanwhile, in herbroidered cap, occupying a conspicuous place, and expressing her thanks to the variousmessengers of kindness. The late professor Kidd observed a remarkable analogy between marriage ceremoniesamongst the higlier orders in several Oriental kingdoms, but especially the Malays and See more full descriptions of the city and harbour of Amoy, in Vol. II., p. G9. Vol. III., p. 56.t Vide Vol. Ill, p. 59.
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