Can you accept such a wedding without firecrackers, gifts and banquets, and high bride price? Recently, the news that 20 "zero bride price" couples held a collective wedding in Shanxian County, Shandong Province has attracted much attention from netizens. At the wedding scene, the main leaders of the county were also present to marry the couple. It is reported that among the 20 couples holding group weddings, 10 is a "zero bride price", and 10 is also below 30,000 yuan. After this unique collective wedding was posted on the hot search, topics such as "Should the bride price be paid" and "How much bride price should be paid" once again triggered heated discussion among netizens.

Since ancient times, China has been known as "the country of etiquette", and wedding and funeral etiquette is the most important of all etiquette. As an accepted gift, the "bride price" is actually a part of the wedding. In ancient times, the man wanted to marry the woman. After the matchmaker gave him a gift to propose marriage, he was ready to formally accept the "spouse-choosing gift" from the woman's family. Because ancient marriage paid more attention to the right match, neither side cared about the bride price. In fact, the significance of bride price in ancient times is exactly the same as that of young people buying diamond rings to propose marriage. There is absolutely no need to interpret the bride price too much.

However, the trend of "sky-high bride price" in recent years must be corrected. Before the couple get married, many parents will spend all their money to prepare a wedding car and a wedding room for the couple. In the already tense situation, coupled with hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of sky-high bride price, many families are overwhelmed and heavily in debt. Originally, it was a happy event for children to get married. After parents-in-law help their children form a new family, they can also enjoy the life of their children and grandchildren around their knees, but behind the sky-high bride price, many parents-in-law who should have reached retirement age have to work again to earn money and pay off their debts.

Whether it is "zero bride price" or "sky-high bride price", everything is too much. China's official attitude towards the bride price has always been "no prohibition, no promotion", and the personal view on the bride price has always been "do what you can". We can't deny that in today's free marriage, there are still new people arguing about the bride price, but this is a small probability event after all. Of course, if two people meet and fall in love for the purpose of marriage, is it difficult to know each other's bride price requirements in advance? I fell in love for many years and finally broke up because of the bride price. It's just that someone cheated