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Yan, a 20-year-old bride from southwest China, reported in an online post that she was “not looking forward to married life after marrying a man she met through an arranged match.” South China Post.
But Yang felt he had to live up to his parents’ expectations, follow cultural norms, and eventually get married, the report added.
“My parents are old and I am old. My relatives push me away and my neighbors gossip about me. Getting married is to reassure them. I feel that there is nothing,” Yang said. .
Especially in China, it is a cultural norm to force young people to marry.
reported that south china morning postAccording to a 2016 official survey, Henan, Sichuan, and Shandong provinces had the highest number of cases in a year of parents forcing their children to marry.
