Traditional Chinese marriage ran through six formal stages, a matchmaker and a birth-date compatibility check. What the Liu Li actually required, step by step.
At twenty a young man was capped; at fifteen a young woman was pinned. The Guanli and Jili rites gave adults a new name and a new set of duties. How they worked.
Capping for young men, hairpinning for young women: China's Confucian coming-of-age rites date to the Zhou dynasty and are being revived by the hanfu generation.