When the data came out, there was an uproar, and netizens felt incredible. After all, everyone around me seems to be getting married for the first time, all of them are quite early, even if some of them may be late, they are about 30 years old. I'm thirty-five years old and I'm not married. It seems that everyone calls me an old bachelor. But the average age in Xiangyang has reached 35. What is the reason?
First, this is the "typical" result of China's involution of marriage. It is nothing new that China's marriage has fallen into involution. The imbalance between men and women caused by the feudal concept of son preference, the increasingly serious bride price in rural areas, and women's increased control over their own marriage life are all the reasons for China's involution of marriage. Especially in economically backward rural areas, the phenomenon of poverty caused by marriage has frequently appeared.
According to the data of the sixth national census, there are 3 1 10,000 fewer people born in 1990s than those born in 1980s. Under the extraordinary sex ratio, there are even fewer women after 90. After entering 20 10, the post-90s men also entered marriageable age, resulting in the scarcity of marriageable women. Under such circumstances, "unable to get married" has become a typical problem of rural youth, and the age of first marriage is naturally getting older and older.
Moreover, many people in this generation are only children. The demand for marriage and love is more diverse and complex, with a distinct imprint of the times. Coupled with the changes in the concept of marriage and love of contemporary men and women and the realistic pressure brought by the high cost of childbirth, the desire of contemporary marriageable men and women to have children is reduced, which in turn reduces the demand for marriage.
Second, the desire of men and women to get married has declined under the intensification of marriage contradictions. In recent years, with the enlargement of the Internet, the contradiction between men's and women's marriage and love market in China has intensified. Both men and women have been labeled by netizens and have been criticized.
For example, the man has a lot of words such as "loyal man", "phoenix man", "peacock man" and "mambo man", and the woman has words such as "crab woman", "pastoral woman" and "white lotus base woman", which intensifies the contradiction between men and women step by step in this seemingly harmless way, leading to many young people in modern times.
At the same time, the frequent occurrence of special news, such as women suffering from domestic violence, giving birth to children because their in-laws are unwilling to give birth by caesarean section, women being trafficked, and women who have been housewives for many years but almost divorced, has also aggravated women's fear of marriage to some extent. Bian Xiao is a typical example. As long as I think of these terrible news, I have no desire to get married anymore.
But when Bian Xiao said this, he did not advocate that everyone should not get married. Society is a whole, and marriage is the foundation to maintain this whole, unless one day an artificial uterus is really invented. Otherwise, marriage will still take a long time to last.