This question is quite interesting. Marrying a daughter-in-law requires a bride price, but in some places the bride price is ridiculously high. Just married a daughter-in-law, and the whole family has become? Poor households? . Especially in rural areas, this situation is more serious. Then everyone knows why the bride price is too high, and why can't it come down? I think there are only a few reasons:

The first point: there are too many leftover men, and the bidding of leftover men directly pushes up the bride price. Since the founding of New China for decades, China has always had this concept of son preference. Because in the past, people's jobs were all manual labor, and the more men there were, the more prosperous they would be. Girls used to be like accessories. Is there an old saying? The water poured by the married daughter? This sentence proves this point. It is now that every family in the countryside has no son who will play jokes on others. So there is a sky-high bride price.

The second point: the marriage of women means the reduction of labor force. She worked hard to raise her daughter and went to other people's homes when she could help. In order to compensate for her losses, especially in the countryside, she will ask for a huge bride price to repay.

The third point: This is a very important point, a vicious circle of high bride price. There are few only children in rural areas, and most families have two or three children. Their son needs a high bride price to get married, so they will naturally ask for a high bride price to marry their daughter. Everyone should know the reason, right? Why can they offer a high bride price, but I can't? Moreover, they have been working hard for their children for most of their lives. Once they marry their daughters-in-law, their families will return to before liberation. The poor tinkled.

The fourth point: the development of rural areas in northwest China is particularly bad. They have been farming all their lives and have no savings. In the end, the daughter is the only way out of poverty. The family is surrounded by four walls. If you want to build a house at home and can't afford it, arrange for your daughter to go on a blind date. Although her daughter is not beautiful, she is also very handsome. Zhang Kou wants 20,000 to 30,000, saying that you can say anything when you get the money, but you will spend it immediately after you get the money.

These are the important reasons why I think the sky-high bride price remains high.