Several deputies to the National People's Congress have suggested curbing sky-high betrothal gifts and preventing poverty due to marriage.
The "high-priced bride price" has become an unbearable burden for people. In many places, "moving still" (cars and houses), "various purples and thousands of reds" (10,000 purple 5-yuan and 1,000 red 100-yuan banknotes) are popular in many places... The rising cost of marriage , so that many people "hope for marriage and sigh", and also lead to the phenomenon of poverty due to marriage and return to poverty due to marriage.
In 2022, the No. 1 document of the Central Committee proposed to carry out special treatment of prominent problems in key areas of changing customs, such as high-priced bride price gifts and large-scale activities.
To curb the "high-priced bride price" and the return to poverty due to marriage, it is necessary to prescribe the right medicine, take a multi-pronged approach, change customs and habits, and actively advocate new and frugal marriages. The standards of bride price and banquet can be agreed through village rules and regulations to reduce blind comparisons. .
The meaning of the bride price should be returned to "ceremony", and the "high-priced bride price" should not become a "stumbling block" on the road to a well-off society.
(Reporter Li Jinlei)