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   ocr: WeddigChanr although the bride is likely to travel to the groom's home on a bicycle or in a rented automobile. Weddings, considered the major event of a lifetime, are an opportunity for families to exhibit their prosperity and social standing. The backdrop depicts a village in Shantung, in northeastern China, the province where Con- fucius was born and lived and a region with much ancient tradition. This early twentieth-century wedding chair, of wood, kingfisher feathers, copper wire, gilt, and glass, was probably made in southern China. 4