Some people blame the difficulty of rural young people getting married on high housing prices, while others say it is because the bride price is too high for rural young people to get married.
So how to solve the problem of rural young people getting married? With the decline in house prices and the disappearance of bride price, is it easy for rural young people to get married? I don't think so, for the following reasons:
What are the reasons why it is difficult for young people in rural areas to get married?
At different ages, the cost of marriage for rural people is different, which can be seen from the changes in three major items.
In the1970s, the three major commodities were watches, bicycles and sewing machines. Color TV sets, refrigerators and washing machines in the 1980s; Air conditioning, computers, VCD90 in 1990s; From 2000 to today, it has become a motionless and colorful green.
Before 2000, it can be seen that the cost of early marriage in rural areas is mainly household appliances or furniture.
Although the countryside was not rich at that time, these things can basically meet the requirements of the three major items as long as they are frugal and borrowed from others.
After 2000, the marriage cost of rural people began to change.
Move, originally a motorcycle, later became a car.
Early refers to a set of rural self-built houses. Later, with the rise of urban housing prices, rural self-built houses became urban commercial houses.
Colored green refers to bride price money. Violence was the color of paper money in 5 yuan before, and it needed 10,000 yuan. Thousand red is 100 yuan paper money, and one green is 50 yuan paper money. Look at it.
There are as many as 6.5438+0.5 million yuan, and it takes thousands more for motorcycles to move. When not moving, according to the area of the first floor of rural self-built houses, it needs at least 6.5438+0.5 million, adding up to at least 250,000.
If it is calculated by urban commercial housing and cars, it will cost more money.
Judging from the three major changes in the history of rural marriage, it seems that it is the high cost of rural marriage that makes it difficult for rural young people to get married.
But we can calm down and think about why farmers are willing to accommodate these unreasonable demands beyond themselves.
0 1, house, car and bride price are the three major items of rural marriage, and the requirements in rural areas vary from place to place.
For example, in places with low bride price in rural areas, such as Guangxi and Guangdong, the bride price in local rural areas is still very low, generally below 30 thousand.
But the low bride price does not mean that it is easy for young people in local rural areas to get married. A car and a house must be the same, right?
It is standard for many young girls to choose their own independent house after marriage.
Before being born in 1980s, young girls in rural areas had little choice to get married. At that time, rural girls generally didn't read any books and didn't have the opportunity to work in cities to make money. In their generation, most people can only marry people from the same village or other rural areas.
However, since the 1980s, the situation has been different. Rural girls born after 1980s benefited from the popularization of nine-year compulsory education, and their education level was much higher than their mothers. And with the reform and opening up, many rural people went to cities to work to earn money.
Young people have seen more of the world and changed their minds. Some people just want to stay in the colorful world of the city and don't want to go back to the countryside.
If boys want to stay in the city, making money to buy a house is the main choice. A girl can become a city dweller as long as she marries in the city.
Theoretically, not all rural girls are materialistic. Marriage requires the man to have a house and a car, and some are willing to live a good life through the joint efforts of husband and wife.
Only the older generation of rural people, their old concept is to let the next generation pay the bill, which is patriarchal.
The preference for boys leads to the imbalance between boys and girls in rural areas, with more boys than girls.
In addition, the thinking of young girls in rural areas has changed, they pursue a more refined life, and more and more women are getting married. There are even fewer girls in rural areas where the ratio of men to women is unbalanced.
It is precisely because there are few rural girls that school-age rural girls are popular. In this case, rural parents have to bow to the high cost of rural marriage.