China News Service, February 22 (China News Finance Wu Jiaju) In recent years, the issue of high-priced betrothal gifts has received widespread attention.
In the recently announced 2023 Central Document No. 1, "high-priced betrothal gifts" were also named again.
Advocate changing customs, no or less bride price... In recent years, various localities have introduced policies one after another, and high-priced bride price has been effectively curbed.
The "height limit" of the betrothal gift is advocated in some places not to exceed 10,000 yuan
Zhongxin Finance has noticed that in recent years, many places have introduced policies to "limit the height" of betrothal gifts.
For example, many places in Henan Province have introduced policies to reform marriage customs.
Ningling County, Henan Province, as one of the first batch of national experiment areas for reforming wedding customs, has generally included wedding and funeral etiquette and customs into village regulations and civil agreements, advocating that the bride price should not exceed 30,000 yuan.
In addition, according to Henan Daily, Ningling County has also set a "red line" for public officials, including civilized and frugal arrangements for weddings into the management of party members and cadres and work in the village. Party members, cadres, teachers, and soldiers hold weddings. .
Bo'ai County in Henan Province has also formulated standards for civilized and thrifty marriages.
In Shandong, in May 2020, Yangzhuang Town, Yishui County, Shandong Province made it clear in the "Work Plan on Promoting the Reform of Marriage Customs and Advocating New Wedding Events" that in terms of the amount of betrothal gifts, it is recommended that no betrothal gifts or less betrothal gifts be required, generally no more than 10,000 Yuan.
In 2022, six departments including the Pingxiang Civil Affairs Bureau of Jiangxi Province issued the "Implementation Plan on Containing High-Priced Bride Gifts and Promoting Marriage to Change Customs", requiring the implementation of high-priced bride price rectification actions according to local conditions, and suggested that the bride price should not exceed 30,000 yuan.
In the same year, Dingxi City, Gansu Province issued a specific action plan, and the wedding gifts should not exceed 50,000 yuan.
In Sichuan, since the promulgation and implementation of the "Regulations on Changing Customs and Customs of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture" on May 1, 2022, Liangshan Prefecture of Sichuan Province has successively formulated and introduced a number of regulations, clearly stating that the maximum wedding gift should not exceed 100,000 yuan.
A few days ago, Jingyuan County in Ningxia promulgated the "Implementation Opinions on Further Promoting Changing Customs and Customs to Help Rural Revitalization (Trial)", which clearly stipulates that the maximum value of betrothal gifts should not exceed 60,000 yuan, and it will decrease year by year.
In addition, many places have also actively carried out activities to advocate the boycott of high-priced betrothal gifts.
For example, in January 2023, the Women's Federation of Fengcheng City, Jiangxi Province organized more than 30 voluntary matchmakers from surrounding streets to carry out a lecture on the theme of "resisting high-priced betrothal gifts and advocating a new style of civilization".
The proposal of "resisting high-priced betrothal gifts and advocating a new style of civilization" was read out at the event site.
In January 2023, in Huichang County, Jiangxi Province, the Marriage Registry Office conducted lectures on marriage and family chapters of the "Civil Code" for newcomers who came to register for marriage, issued proposals, and signed commitments to change customs and customs to popularize the new style of modern civilized marriage.
In addition, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province also plans to hold a group wedding of 100 couples of new couples on March 8, 2023.
High-priced betrothal gifts have been suppressed, and
wedding expenses in some areas have dropped significantly
With the introduction of measures such as "limiting the height" of betrothal gifts and advocating boycott of high-priced betrothal gifts, has the phenomenon of high-priced betrothal gifts changed?
In October 2022, Yang Zongtao, the second-level inspector of the Social Affairs Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, introduced at the press conference that the Ministry of Civil Affairs instructed local grassroots autonomous organizations to include boycott of high-priced betrothal gifts and grand operations into village regulations and resident conventions. Standards, wedding standards, accompanying ceremony standards, number of participants, etc.; play the role of rural red and white councils in organizing, guiding and supervising weddings; play the leading role of party members, cadres, and village sages in wedding arrangements, and standardize education Rural matchmaker groups are strictly prohibited from inflating the bride price standard.
"Through these measures, unhealthy trends such as high-priced betrothal gifts and large-scale operations have been effectively suppressed." He said.
At the same time, recently, many places have announced the effectiveness of the governance of high-priced betrothal gifts.
The relevant person in charge of the Social Affairs Department of the Civil Affairs Department of Henan Province said recently that overall, Henan Province has solidly promoted the reform of marriage customs, and the outdated habits such as high-priced betrothal gifts, high-value gifts, extravagant and extravagant waste have been effectively curbed, and the reform work has made great progress. staged progress.
Hejian City, Hebei Province is also the first batch of national marriage customs reform experimental areas. According to the information released by the Hejian Civil Affairs Bureau in January this year, from April 2021 to January this year, Hejian City has handled a total of 4,726 new marriage registrations. Among them, "zero betrothal gift" and "low betrothal gift" accounted for 88%, and the average cost of each marriage was 70,000 yuan to 150,000 yuan less than before.
According to news from the "Civilized Liangshan" public account on February 9, since the operation of the special class for changing habits and customs, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province has stopped 528 betrothal gifts of more than 100,000 yuan, involving an amount of 69.2 million yuan.
According to a recent report by "Dingxi Daily", according to incomplete statistics, since the launch of the "Treatment of high-priced betrothal gifts, promotion of changing customs and cultivating civilized rural customs" in June 2022, 70% of married couples' betrothal gifts in Dingxi City, Gansu Province have been controlled at 0 to 50,000 The average is 49,000 yuan, which is 10.9% lower than before the action.
Obviously, some areas have achieved certain results in controlling high-priced betrothal gifts.
In the future, look forward to more young people's marriage events, returning to the essence of "love".
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