In the early years of the Republic of China, the folk marriage in Jianmenshan District still followed the marriage habit of "parent's order, matchmaking word". The wedding is divided into six procedures: "Nacai", "Wenming", "Naji", "Nahui", "Qingqi", "Qingying". After 25 years of the republic of China, we advocated freedom of marriage and civilized marriage, New-style wedding ceremony with a wedding hall, hosted by the emcee. Play "freedom of marriage" song, the bride and groom first ceremony, Then the person performing the marriage, marriage witness, introducer, and guest representative gave speeches respectively. After the ceremony, Set off firecrackers and scatter flowers, after the ceremony, the guests were welcomed. After that, relatives and friends of the bride and groom will make trouble in the bridal chamber. This new type of wedding is only held in a small number of urban institutions, and the old wedding customs are still followed in rural areas. 

The general process of folk marriage custom in Jianmen mountain area is: Carrying wine is also called "xu hua". In order to discuss the marriage, the man asks the matchmaker to talk to the woman about the marriage, if agreed, the issue of birth date, please fortune teller with eight characters. Phase and, the male family to the female family to carry a pot of wine, called "Ti Zhun Jiu". Kai geng, for engagement. After men and women decided to marry, with red paper made "geng invitation ", printed "xi" word. Write inside male and female birth day hour, by male preparation geng invitation, send to female's home, can invite period to greet a bride. The families of the rich gentry send double pigs and six cloths, gold and silver jewelry, noodles and rice, wedding wine and so on. Poor families also send some meat, wine, rice, noodles and so on, which are called "guo li". Welcome relatives, perform the formal wedding ceremony, for marriage. After "kai geng", by "hong yue"(the matchmaker）to inform the time of marriage, discuss the bride price, When welcoming the wedding, the man please "hong yue", "quqing niangzi", "yali xiansheng", together with the carriage. Blowing suona, etc. to form a welcoming team to to meet the bride. Women's family set up seats to "jielu" and set up "zhike" to reward the guests. The bride wears a new dress and covers her head with red cloth. The "songqin niangzi" takes her to the bridal sedan chair and brings her dowry with her to the man's house. After the wedding sedan arrived at the man's house, the groom greeted him in front of the door, setting off firecrackers and playing musical instruments. After the emcee distributed the red envelope money to the sedan chair bearer, he gathered the bride to the "baitang" in the hall, and then the bridegroom led the bride into the new house to drink the "cup of wine". In some places, the bridal chamber would be disturbed. The day after the wedding, the couple return home, called "hui men". After the two families thanked the matchmaker, the wedding was over. In the old marriage, in addition to the remnants of polygamy, there are also some marriage customs, Early marriage. During the Republic of China, early marriage was common. Child bride, poor families in rural areas are forced to make a living, send their underage daughters as Child bride, and marry at a certain age. The little husband and the big wife, some of the family's boys are only a few years old, in order to increase the labor force, they marry adult women for his wife. At that time, there was a folk saying: " eighteen daughters several years old male, every night to embrace husband to bed. It's not my parents in law who treat me well and kick you out of bed." Chongxi, some family son unmarried seriously ill, parents will be engaged to the girl took the door in advance, called "chongxi", In the hope that his son will recover.Shoujie, after the woman married, the husband died for some reason, can not remarry, to keep in the husband's home, called "shoujie". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the new marriage law was implemented to promote the freedom of marriage. When a man and a woman reach the legal age for marriage, they shall register their marriage with the relevant government departments, obtain a marriage certificate, and get married on a later date.

After the 1980s, after the newly married youth went through the legal marriage formalities, they went out for travel and honeymoon. In addition, in the marriage custom of Jianmen mountain area, some widows don't leave home when they remarry, but the man comes to the woman's house to live, and they are called "zhuifu". Some families only have one daughter and are unwilling to marry outside, so they recruit a man as their son-in-law, which is called "zhaozhui", the man is called "zhuixu" and the folk is called "Jiang Nu Bao Er". In general, the man should change his surname to that of the woman.