When their love become mature,the young man will ask his parents to invite a machmaker to make a proposal in the girl’s home. If it is permitted by the girl’s parents,there would be a ceremony which is called holding the cover lid.In this party,the girl family offer several cover lids with a bowl of meat and a bowl of eggs with eggshell. as the ceremony begins, both the girl’s parents and the boy’s parents feed each other with the meats and eggs in the bowls,and then each couple of the parents will feed the matchmaker an egg by chopsticks.it is very jollily and funy.it is very difficult to catch an egg by chopsticks, and the matchmaker have to rind the eggshell though his teeth and lips, but without hands.the surrounders laugh a lot. When this ceremony completed, the girl and the boy are engaged.

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