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[quote=LAUGH,509874]If you marry a Chinese girl, you’d better prepare for enough money as bride prices. If you marry a girl in Yiwu, I think you will definitely go broke. How much money is sent as bride price in Yiwu? As high as six figures or seven figures. On November 12, 2013, a boy took 8.88 million yuan together with jewels, Chinese white liquor and daily necessities to his girl’s home as bride price. How much does the money weigh? 102 kilograms. No wonder 18 strong men were picked up to shoulder the money.

According to the local customs, the boy’s parents have to invite their closest relatives in person and then send the bride price together with them and the matchmaker on the Engagement Day. The bride price is put into boxes and burden with 18 shoulder poles. That’s why a large team is formed by the boy’s relatives. The team leader is the boy’s uncle (his mother’s brothers).

Another large team formed by the girl’s relatives waits and picks up the boy and his relatives a few hundred meters away from the girl’s home. The team on the girl’s side must have as many members as the team on the boy’s side does. Besides, the member’s status must be compatible with those members of the boy’s team. For example, if the boy’s team has invited his uncles (his mother’s brothers), the girl’s team should also invite her uncles (her mother’s brothers).

When the girl’s parents receive the bride price, they give their girl’s horoscope paper to the boy’s parents and then receive the boy’s horoscope paper. The horoscope paper has the girl or the boy’s birth time. After exchanging the horoscope paper, a grand feast is held to treat the relatives of the boy and the girl. After the feast, the girl’s parents must return some gifts to the boy. The gifts are put into the boy’s boxes and carried by the girl’s relatives for a few hundred meters. Then the boy’s relatives took the shoulder poles and went back home together with the boy and his parents.

Why do the parents exchange the horoscope papers? According to the old betrothal customs, the boy’s parents usually ask a matchmaker to propose a marriage to the girl’s family. The matchmaker proposes a marriage to girl’s parents and passes the boy’s horoscope paper to them. If the girl’s parents agree, they give their daughter’s horoscope paper to the matchmaker and ask her to give it to the boy’s parents. Then the boy’s parents find a soothsayer to tell whether the boy and the girl are compatible according to their horoscopes. If yes, the boy’s parents will keep the girl’s horoscope paper and choose an auspicious day to make a formal marriage betrothal to the girl’s parents together with their son. If the boy and the girl are not compatible, the boy’s parents will ask the matchmaker to return the girl’s horoscope to the girl’s parents.[/quote]

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