---July 6,2006    News from:Grand Epoch City

    CITIC Guoan Grand Epoch City is an all-in-one comprehensive park combing such various functions as tourist sightseeing, leisure and recreation, fitness and entertainment, dinning and shopping, movie production and convention & exhibition, etc. City wall & gate, Winter palace sites and prince palace relive the old Beijing city as what it was like in Ming and Qing dynasty. Lots of ancient costume cinematographic and television works such as The Reign of Emperor Yong Zheng, The Story of the Reign of Emperor Kang Xi and Sharp Tongue of Ji Xiaolan are shot here. All of these are very popular with audiences.
    The outlook of the imperial city in Grand Epoch City, such as Palace and Royal Garden of old Beijing city, is unique in Beijing even in the whole country, only the historical and cultural monuments such as Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven which only open for visitors can be comparable with it.
    Monuments are impossible to live and use, while Grand Epoch City meet exactly this daydream. If you can have the most precious memories of your life in the royal palace which symbolizes the peak of the traditional Chinese culture, you can imagine, undoubtedly, it’s an exacting and unforgettable experience for every Chinese descendant.
    “Every ten years you may have the opportunity to take the same boat, while every hundred years you may have the chance to be a couple”. In the boundless sea of people, meeting is predestination, acquainting is predestination. While from foremost meeting, acquainting to ultimate knowing and relying, such kind of predestinated relationship is worthy of cherishing for whole life. When the two finally come together, what do we use to witness the most sacred moment of one’s life?

Traditional custom wedding ceremony of Grand Epoch City-----A unique choice, the eternal happiness of memory

8:30----9:00
The bridegroom on the horse, the bride on the palanquin
9:00----9:45 meeting the bride
The ceremony of opening city includes escorting the bride to the wedding service with dedans, subversion dedans, wind and percussion music, firecrackers going off everywhere, the ranks of meeting the bride entering the city ( eight palanquins, six music, the word-flag, umbrella, Ma Tong, the master of ceremonies eunuchs), Man race dance, stilt of Hai Cheng. The new couple and relatives stand in the square of the front of city---Yong Ding Men---Qian Men Street---five gates pailou---Jiu Zhou Qing Yan to watch the celebration. The ranks of meeting the bride escort the bride to the front of Ming’an Palace to load sedans.
9:45---10:30 celebration? Bride and bridegroom bow to heaven and ground.
The bridegroom gets off the horse，the bride gets off the palanquin. The bridegroom takes red silk and holds the bride to walk into Ming’an Palace. Then the new couple walk on the red blanket, cross brazier and saddle, finally they walk to the parents to bow to them. The master of ceremonies presides the celebration. The bride and the bridegroom shoot off the firecrackers.
10:30---11:00 visiting the garden
The new couple walk out of Ming’an Palace, then walk across Golden Bridge, float in the garden, tour Yuan Ming Yuan sceneries, walk 1000-step corridor and red carpet. The bride and the bridegroom sit in the cart to the top of a ramp of Zheng’an Palace to get off, finally they have a meal in wedding field.
The charge that every new couple need:
Grand Epoch City can provide venue decoration, guards service, etiquette people and performances, including a horse rode by the bridegroom and a attendant, a palanquin rode by the bride and 8 attendants, 6 trumpeters,8 guards(word-flag-plate, umbrella, the master of ceremonies eunuchs), as well as the new couple can use classical wedding dress, wedding ceremony props, the festival firecrackers, the ceremony of opening city, Man race dance, stilt of Hai Cheng, a float of new couple visiting the garden, Miss wedding ceremony and 30 minutes performance with feasts and so on. The total cost that every new couple needed is 3980 yuan.
    The wedding meal or buffet dinner, setting the standard meal (500 yuan). The master of ceremonies is provided by the professional wedding service company. Grand Epoch City can provide the court dance performance or national program with a banquet.
    In addition, according to the new couple’s requirement, Grand Epoch City can provide accommodation of the day before the wedding by the most discounted prices. If Grand Epoch City provides cars to meet and to see off the new couple and the guests, or allow to shoot off fireworks on the night of wedding. The cost can be paid extra. Wedding ceremony and the master of ceremonies and photography are provided by professional wedding service company.
    Predestination engaging in this life, accompanying all life; Predestination uniting in Grand Epoch City, true love lasting forever.

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