Crying wedding has long been a custom in the rural areas of voguc untill the the carly years of this century. It’s very much the same in different places of the province. There is none of the bride who doesn ’t cry ...Crying wedding has long been a custom in the rural areas of voguc untill the the carly years of this century. It’s very much the same in different places of the province. There is none of the bride who doesn ’t cry at the wedding. If not, the bride must be looked down upon by the neighbors as a mprly cultivated girl and will become the laughingstock of the village. The bride may cry in different ways with diversified words, quite like song, sounding somewhat exaggerated to play up the wedding atmosphere. In a word, crying at wedding is a way by custom to set off the happiness of the wedding by falsely sorrowful words. However, in the arranged marriage in the old days of China, there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried for their discontented marriage and even their miserable展开更多
文摘Crying wedding has long been a custom in the rural areas of voguc untill the the carly years of this century. It’s very much the same in different places of the province. There is none of the bride who doesn ’t cry at the wedding. If not, the bride must be looked down upon by the neighbors as a mprly cultivated girl and will become the laughingstock of the village. The bride may cry in different ways with diversified words, quite like song, sounding somewhat exaggerated to play up the wedding atmosphere. In a word, crying at wedding is a way by custom to set off the happiness of the wedding by falsely sorrowful words. However, in the arranged marriage in the old days of China, there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried for their discontented marriage and even their miserable
