Modern day brides in China make use of red as well as white depending on the ethnicity of the Chinese group.
A hundred couples from all over China attended a mass wedding ceremony at Fenghuang ancient town, in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China’s Hunan Province.
Red is a common auspicious colour in ethnic Miao culture, used in embroidery, clothing, and festivals.
A sea of black and white in a mass wedding held in Jiangsu province.
Modern Chinese brides often wear white wedding dresses due to the influence of Western culture where white symbolizes purity and is widely accepted as the colour for a bride’s dress.
The tradition of Chinese brides wearing white wedding dresses has become more popular with the influx of Western cultural values in China.
Reversal of fortune: In traditional Chinese weddings, red is the predominant colour for the bride to symbolize happiness, luck, and prosperity. White, on the other hand, is the colour of the bridegroom jacket.
Many Chinese brides have adopted the white wedding dress as a symbol of purity and innocence.
The white dressed brides are particularly common among younger generations who are more exposed to Western culture while the grooms are in traditional black outfit.