China News Service, Guangzhou, August 14 (Cai Minjie and Ye Jinxin) Watching Bixiao on Chinese Valentine's Day tonight, the Morning Glory and Weaver Girl cross the river bridge.

August 14th is the Chinese traditional festival Qixi Festival, and Guangdong Province ushered in the "small peak" of marriage registration.

As of 17:00 that day, a total of 3,027 couples in Guangdong Province went through the formalities for marriage registration.

  On the premise of preventing and controlling the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Marriage Registry Office of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Liwan District, Guangzhou City created a warm atmosphere by arranging peonies, lovebirds and other auspicious and beautiful 3D images on the same day, and set up civilized wedding customs publicity points outdoors. New marriages, refuse extravagance and waste, and establish a good family tradition; The Marriage Registry of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City integrates the unique environmental advantages of the adjacent park, and adds an outdoor certification platform with an overseas style; the Marriage Registry Office of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Conghua District, Guangzhou City Garden and outdoor certification halls are set up with marriage culture exhibition hall, marriage culture publicity wall, Rainbow Tongxin Road, etc.

On the Chinese Valentine's Day, many couples went through the formalities of marriage registration at the Dongguan Civil Affairs Bureau.

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  Guangzhou citizen Chen Yuqian and her husband received the certificate on the same day.

She said that the wedding ceremony will keep everything simple and simply entertain the family members. "The most important thing is to live your life well."

  In April of this year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs confirmed Guangzhou as one of the experimental areas for the reform of marriage customs in the country.

In May of the same year, the Civil Affairs Department of Guangdong Province designated Dongguan City, Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai City, Chenghai District of Shantou City, and Yuncheng District of Yunfu City as experimental areas for the reform of marriage customs in the province.

The civil affairs departments of the above-mentioned regions focus on the theme of the pilot marriage customs reform, inherit and carry forward the Chinese excellent marriage and family culture, and promote the transformation of customs in the marriage field.

At present, initial results have been achieved in various pilot areas.

  The Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau is preparing to build the Institute of Marriage Culture, the Marriage Culture Center, and the Wedding Industrial Park to create a comprehensive service platform for the reform of marriage customs; integrate the resources of civil affairs, justice, industrial youth and women, and set up a "family station" in the marriage registry, online and offline Simultaneously carry out marriage and family counseling, family mediation and family style tutoring activities; the city’s marriage registries have set up self-service certificate issuance service areas, created various styles of certificate halls, established a special invitation certificate system, and used information technology to realize relatives and friends The group observes the ceremony remotely and promotes the formation of new wedding customs.

  According to the needs of the couple, the Dongguan Civil Affairs Bureau provides marriage certification services, adding new couples to exchange tokens, thanking parents, and taking photos with the whole family; organize "happy train" activities and charity weddings on traditional Chinese holidays and special good days each year, so that the couple can feel the wedding The solemnity and sacredness, feel the responsibility and responsibility of marriage.

  The Civil Affairs Bureau of Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City attaches great importance to the role of community education. It has incorporated the contents of the new happy event and the construction of family traditions and family education into the community residents' convention; established a marriage and family counseling room to provide psychological counseling and dispute mediation services.

The Marriage Registry of Yantian District, Shenzhen held an exhibition of "Hundred Years of Marriage".

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  The Civil Affairs Bureau of Chenghai District, Shantou City, the hometown of overseas Chinese, selected Zhanglin Ancient Port and Xipu Village in Lianhua Town as pilots for the construction of marriage custom culture, promoted the construction of marriage custom culture streets and cultural walls, and advocated simple and moderate marriage etiquette; innovatively combined Chaoshan characteristics and marriage culture to combine Marriage registration and certificate issuance ceremony and the introduction of traditional marriage customs in Chaoshan into the marriage process.

  The Marriage Registration Office of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Yuncheng District, Yunfu City, newly built the "Marriage Customs and Culture Exhibition Hall". The layout of the exhibition hall is based on the "auditorium" of the ancient chapel, which displays marriage certificates from different periods and nationalities from the Republic of China to the present.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Marriage Registration Office of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Yuncheng District, these marriage certificates are all made of stone carving and spray painting to show the characteristics of Yunfu's "Stone Capital Culture".

  Except for the experimental zone for the reform of marriage customs, various places in Guangdong have adopted methods with rich content and diversified forms to advocate simple and moderate wedding etiquette.

For example, the "Hundred Years Marriage Book" exhibition was held by the Marriage Registry of Yantian District, Shenzhen. Nearly a thousand copies of marriage books from the end of Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China to the founding of the Republic of China and the new era debuted at the Yantian District Cultural Center. "In", regaining the love and poetry of "slow in the past"; Shanwei City advocates moderate weddings, frugal living, and vigorously refrain from vulgar marriages, and strive to have simple wedding ceremonies and a warm atmosphere.

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