This story is great in educating students about the many traditions of a Chinese Wedding and to illuminate children’s feelings when adding a new member to the family. Will I still be loved? Will I ever get to see them? Will the member like me? Some of the Chinese wedding traditions include a tea ceremony, exchanging good luck money called hungbau, and helping the bride change in and out of her many dresses. Food at a tea ceremony includes: fish, roast suckling pig, pigeon, chicken, and lobster and desert bun with lotus seeds stuffed inside. In modern Chinese wedding, the bride changes dresses at least 3 times at the wedding day. She would start with a western style white wedding gown for a church for civil ceremony. Then at the tea ceremony, she would change into a traditional Chinese bridal dress for the reception. Before the end of the banquet, she would change into a cocktail dress, and great the guests, and then see them off at the door, thus this dress is also called "Song Ke" (See Guests Off) dress. I think this is important to read in a classroom to educate students about another culture’s wedding ceremony.
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