Six Pairs Participate in 3,000-year-old Chinese Han-style Wedding Ceremony

Six pairs of brides and bridegrooms participated in a group wedding ceremony conducted in the ancient manner of the Han nationality on Friday in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

The ceremony was designed according to the style supposedly in currency among the Han people during the Western Zhou Dynasty (1100 BC – 771BC) in Chinese history.

The six pairs walked slowly and gracefully into the Temple of Confucius in Nanning City, the region's capital, and said not a single word during the whole ceremony but only exchanged love through their eyes.

The wedding deacons presented the newlyweds sachets filled with herbs and incenses in a symbol to drive away the evil spirits.

A tuft of hair was cut from both the bride and the bridegroom and tied together by a red string, meaning their union and a promise to face whatever may in the future together.

The newlyweds also kowtowed to their parents and then to each other in the ceremony lasting more than an hour.

"I feel very happy to participate in such a grand Han-style wedding and I am also very grateful to the blessings from our parents," said a newlywed He Shu.