The ‘bride price’ in China keeps rising

By ocean-kat on Sun, 09/23/2018 - 2:20pm |

The new rule was taped onto doorways around town: Officials were limiting what a groom-to-be could pay for a bride.The going rate was about $38,000, or five times the average annual salary in this village about a four-hour drive north of Beijing. Now, families were told to keep it below $2,900. Ask Liang, a pear farmer in Da’anliu. He has one daughter. When it comes time for her to marry, “I will ask whatever amount I want,” he said. “It’s not fair otherwise.” “It’s the market,” he said. “I’m allowed to charge what the market will bear for my pears. Why not my daughter?”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-bride-price-in-china-keeps-rising-some-villages-want-to-put-a-cap-on-it/2018/09/22/000257b0-a9ad-11e8-8f4b-aee063e14538_story.html?utm_term=.e9e385414afb