Many people think that marriage requires a bride price, which is the living expenses for the man to raise the girl for the woman's parents. Some people think that marriage does not require a bride price. There is no such thing as a woman breaking up with her family when she marries a man. Bride prices have turned many marriages into deals.
First of all, the bride price was born in ancient times.
According to ancient records, the bride price was basically founded in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is also the origin of this custom. Etiquette in Zhou Dynasty is the epitome of traditional etiquette and the origin of etiquette country.
During this period, the bride price refers to an item given to the woman by the man's family to express happiness. After the woman accepts the gift, she will give a gift of considerable value, which is called a return gift, which is also the legendary match.
Many times when a woman gets married, her family will add a lot of property to the bride price and take it to her husband's house. This is called dowry, and it is also the money that her family gives her daughter.
Secondly, with the development of the times, the bride price has become the man's buyout of the woman's daughter.
There is an ancient saying that you should follow your father and marry your husband at home. Once a daughter marries another family, it belongs to the spilled water, and she has no contact with her family since then. In this traditional environment, the bride price has become the man's buyout of the woman's daughter, which means that the woman has since become a husband's family, with her husband's surname, husband and wife.
This custom was gradually stopped in the Republic of China, which pursued the opening of marriage and thought that the bad habit of bride price should not exist, but the folk custom has always been preserved.
In addition, in today's society, the bride price has become the financial support of both families for the couple.
In today's society, there are still a few areas where the custom of bride price exists. The bride price is no longer a buyout of money by one party to the other, but the help of both parents to the newly married family. I hope this money can help them reduce their economic pressure.
But there are still many closed areas, such as remote rural areas, which have sky-high bride price, which is the remnant of feudal society.