摘要
After centuries of rivalries,villages in southeastern China are ending blood feuds that banned intermarriage.But the reasons go beyond Romeo and Juliet-like tales of love andwar,The 200-year-old feud was finally over.A grand ceremony of reconciliationwasheldonOctober 1,2023 in the ancestral temple of the Yang clan in Chaqiao,a village in Jieyang,South China's Guangdong Province,marking the end of the blood feud between Chaqiao and its neighboring village,Gaomei.