Sunday, June 28, 2015

The Traditional Chinese Marriage

As you know, in traditional Chinese culture, marriage decisions were
 made by parents. In the past, if young people is marriageable age, 
parents will entrust a matchmaker to find a appropriate spouse. 
The matchmaker in marriage play the role of a bridge in China. 
The matchmaker will play the role of a middleman since engagement 
to get married. Now the matchmaker in marriage is becoming more 
and more unimportant, modern people are more inclined to express 
affection. In Chinese traditional marriage, the characteristics of the 
spouse should be suitable, including social status, education, age even 
treasure. This one of things that people did in the past that they do not 
do now. There a proverb in China for marriage ,“Love is thing between
 two teenage, Marriage is thing between two family.” That mean if you
 marriage he or her, you have to deal with the relationship between the
 family with each other, if you can't handle, your marriage will be 
struggling. The tradition haven’t changed for many years.


3 comments:

  1. That's right, you're not just marrying the bride, you're marrying her family too! I imagine that would be even more difficult in an arranged marriage, when you have no chance to meet the bride's family first.

    Corrections:
    In the past, if young people were of a marriageable age, parents would entrust a matchmaker to find a appropriate spouse.

    The tradition hasn't changed for many years.

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  2. I completely agree,“Love is thing between
    two teenage, Marriage is thing between two family.”

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  3. Nice pictures! Actually the matchmaker are still working?

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