It is bad luck for any family member to wash their hair on the day of a wedding. Breaking this custom can bring bad luck or even death. After a wedding, the traditional Chinese meal includes chicken soup, birds' nest soup, or shark-fin soup. The birds' nests were actually imported to this country from an island off he Chinese coast, and the contents include regurgitated food eaten by the birds. Red is a sign of good fortune.
Most Chinese brides wear red for their wedding costumes.
The envelope should be red for good fortune. At a burial, a Chinese tiding in the horse-drawn hearse would throw out hundreds of small tissue papers with holes punched through them. The holes were to confuse the devil, who had to pass through each opening before approaching the soul. At a cemetery, each person attending the funeral received a piece of Chinese candy and a coin. Whites in John Day were often buried with their heads to the west, awaiting the Second Coming, but Chinese always lay with their heads to the east, looking homeward.