Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, tying cotton threads soaked in holy water around the couples' wrists, and passing a candle around a circle of happily married and respected couples to bless the union.
It's flexible, with an enlarged wrist bone which allows it to grasp and manoeuvre the bamboo with a dexterity and precision that a monkey would be proud of.
A rustling was heard in the bushes, and a little boy stood before the King's Son, a boy in wooden shoes, and with so short a jacket that one could see what long wrists he had.