"People's Market" is a special corner of Jiaocun Town Market in Qingyang City, Gansu Province, which is located at the entrance of the town primary school. Every market day, matchmakers will gather here. They are holding the information of women waiting to be married in ten miles and eight villages, and they are the objects that single boys flock to. Locals call the bride price demanded by their married daughters "selling", while the bride price spent by men is called "buying", and the "market" bears the important function of communication and coordination. "Difficult to get married" is the biggest headache for local men. 18 Some people are still single on blind date.

Disappointed with the "human market": a 24-year-old boy is still single after seven years of blind date.

20 17 65438+ 10 On October 25th, the twelfth lunar month of the Year of the Monkey in Shen Bing, people came and went at the market in Jiaocun Town, Qingyang City, Gansu Province. It was the last market day before the Lunar New Year, and the villagers around the town flocked to block the only street. After this day, it is no longer easy to buy new year's goods. At the same time, the "human market" of the old year will also come to an end.

On this day, Lu Feifei came to town as usual. After buying vegetables, the matchmaker in the town called him over and told him that he had entrusted someone else for him, but there would be no blind date before the year. This means that Lu Feifei's "blind date season" failed again this year.

"I have been blind date seven or eight times and have seen more than a dozen girls. My blind date has been unsuccessful, and I am beginning to feel wronged, you know. " Lv Feifei, who turns 24 a month later, is full of frustration. He started dating on 20 1 1, and this year is his seventh year of dating. Years ago, he came back from the county seat one month in advance for a blind date, and saw a dozen girls, but he didn't meet a suitable one. The only woman who entered the "ceremony" stage asked for a bride price of180,000 yuan, which was far from the price of120,000 yuan in Lu Feifei's mind. The marriage broke up and the two young people lost contact.

Why is it called "human market"? Behind the word is a naked gift. As long as the gift money can be negotiated, both men and women will complete the whole process of blind date, engagement and marriage in a short month. Flash marriage is a normal phenomenon here, because after this month, young men and women will go out to work, and the village has become a "hollow village".

Around Jiaocun Town, the bride price is mostly between150,000-200,000. A matchmaker introduces hundreds of couples every year, but only a dozen couples can get married in the end-"Say a thousand words, and you will get a family of two" and "Don't say it nine times, you will get seven or eight times" is a common saying hanging in the media.

Year after year, single boys lined up outside the marriage gate with their family savings.