Wedding dress years. Many wedding dresses in China, India (wedding sari), Pakistan (heavily embroidered shalwar qameez or lehngas) and Vietnam (in the traditional form of the Ao dai) are red, the traditional colour of good luck and auspiciousness. Nowadays, many women choose other colours besides red. In modern mainland Chinese weddings, the bride may opt for Western dresses of any colour, and later don a traditional costume for the official tea ceremony. In modern Taiwanese weddings, the bride generally picks red (following Chinese tradition) or white (more Western) silk for the wedding gown material, but most will wear the red traditional garment
Dai Gohonzon a tourist sightseeing event, but rather the ultimate fusion of a believer and his or her own Enlightenment. Every year on April 6 or 7 at the "O-Mushibarai" ceremony, the High Priest of Nichiren Shoshu takes on the formal task of cleaning the accumulated dust on the surface of the Dai-Gohonzon. Sometime in the 1970s, the "Ushitora Gongyo" was performed around 12:00PM midnight at the request of Soka Gakkai, which was then restored to its traditional 2:30AM time slot by High Priest Nikken Shonin in 1992. Customarily, believers optionally dress in black formal garments in honor of the Dai-Gohonzon's audience,