Before The People's Republic of China was established, China is polygamy marriage.Also,young people do not allow themselves to choose a spouse, marriage must be determined by their parents；Their parents would ask a matchmaker to look for a right lover for their children，the matchmaker would according to conditions each other that they owned the right character , Age and educational background to select suitable spouse,even most of young people didn't met each other until the marriage day.A groom married a bride by a sedan chair,and marriage was held in the groom's house.Unlike Chinese old society, the new china is monogamy，polygamy was banned by the government.All the young people choose freely their lover by themselves,most of marriages are held in the hotel or in the church. However, there are some wedding details are still use to the present, for instance kneeling to kowtow to the parents.
I didn't know China used to have polygamy. I guess it was common in a lot of countries. I like the use of the color red...you don't see that much in weddings here!
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Before the People's Republic of China was established, China allowed polygamous marriage.
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