The Suzhou Women's Federation recently designed a survey on the issue of "high-priced betrothal gifts"! How to fight against the trend of bride price?

Change people’s thinking, eliminate the influence of traditional marriage culture, increase publicity efforts, and issue corresponding rules. Only by working hard in many aspects can we fight against the trend of betrothal gifts.

Nowadays, sky-high betrothal gifts have become a trend in many places. The existence of this trend has affected the normal lives of many people and the happiness of many young people. To fight against this trend, bride price is a big problem that cannot be solved overnight, nor can it be changed by one department or one village. If you want to fight against the trend of betrothal gifts, you must change people's minds. Only by changing people's minds and realizing that asking for sky-high price betrothal gifts is wrong and will have adverse effects can we fight against this bad trend.

The country has a traditional marriage culture. Asking for a betrothal gift is an essential step in the traditional marriage culture, and it is also a sign of respect from the man to the woman. However, in the past, the amount of betrothal gifts was not so high. Most people It's still acceptable, but now in many places the betrothal gift has reached hundreds of thousands, and you also need a house, a car, and gold and silver jewelry. Many men's families with poor conditions will go bankrupt and be heavily in debt just because they marry a daughter-in-law.

If we want to fight against the custom of betrothal gifts, we must eliminate the influence of traditional marriage culture, change customs, and promote new views on marriage and love in rural areas. We can also use online platforms, WeChat, and Weibo and slogans to promote new marriage concepts, eliminate people’s old concepts and thoughts, and reduce the impact of traditional marriage culture on modern marriage. Only in this way can people make corresponding changes and slowly eliminate sky-high betrothal gifts. .

Relevant departments should issue corresponding rules and regulations, and each village and town should also establish a red and white committee to comprehensively promote the work of changing customs. Relevant departments should also organize collective weddings or special training to let people Understand the disadvantages and harms of sky-high price betrothal gifts. We must let parents know that they should not ask for sky-high betrothal gifts, and that the happiness of young people should be given priority. The amount of betrothal gifts can also be restricted through various methods such as village rules and covenants. Through the efforts of many parties, marriage customs can be changed to a certain extent, and the sky-high price of betrothal gifts that has formed a trend can also be resisted.