OK.Three days ago I have shown some pictures of a cousin's wedding in the article The bride's home wedding reception on Saturday. As the cousin's father is Chinese he insist that we also do the traditional Chinese tea ceremony for the newly-weds. Here's the story...
Sunday morning 19th September 2010 alias the 10th day of Raya, the family attended the traditional Chinese tea-ceremony.
My cousin's father hailed from Singapore and has relatives staying in Australia and America. This ceremony was meant to fete that side of the family aside from reminding the newly-weds that the groom is half-Chinese.
For the Malay side of the family, relatives of the cousin's mum (my side that is), it is an honour to watch this age old prestigious ceremony.
We've been reminded that the married among us would have to take the front seats as the newly-weds kow-towed to them while offering glasses of tea. Those at the front seats then have to return the gesture with gifts of angpow. I'm told, in the olden days each angpow contained an amount of gold but nowadays you can change this with money no less than hundreds of Ringgits!Anyway here's a video clip of the ceremony. I might have taken less than half of the actual proceeding but this should give enough idea of the going-ons... focus on the little children not withstanding... :]
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