Too Expensive
to Marry
-- Say Chinese Men
A young man from Wenzhou,
in China’s east province Zhejiang,
recently put a post on the Internet
complaining about how expensive for guys
in Wenzhou to get married. And he
produced a balance sheet to prove his
point:
Suppose his parents have
saved 200,000 yuans for his wedding, and
he has an annual income at 50,000 yuans,
he would have to starve himself for over
ten years to afford a wedding. Not that
the wedding banquet is so expensive, but
the expenses associated with the
preparations that lead to the wedding
that is truly killing him. This includes
the cost of buying a flat, purchasing
furniture, obtaining a car and sending
gifts to the girl.
His post immediately gain
a wide response across the Internet,
mainly from the young men who harbour
similar bitterness and resentment over
the financial burdens that are very
unevenly distributed between men and
women.
A Wenzhou businessman
claimed he had to spend 1.7 million yuans
in his wedding last year. And another
young man described his failed attempt to
tie the knot. His girlfriend’s parents,
knowing he is just a humble wage earner,
kindly told him that he only needed to
contribute 100,000 yuans and they would
take care of the rest. "But heaven
above," he bemoaned, "from
where I can get 100,000 yuans?"
It is said that after
wedding, most Wenzhou men are in red and
have to work for years to pay off the
debts.
Probably Chinese
governments needn’t worry about the gender
imbalance. It seems a lot
of Chinese young men cannot afford to
marry anyway regardless of whether or not
there are enough women around.
Groom's
family on the way of sending wedding
gifts to bride
A Wedding
Banquet without the Bride
The groom is
waiting outside the restaurant in vain
Earlier this year in
Hunming city, Yunnan Province, a bride
deliberately made herself unavailable for
the wedding banquet - the centerpiece of
the wedding - leaving the groom waiting
and weeping.
The bride’s parents were
said to be unhappy with the wedding gifts
(彩礼)
that their daughter received from the
groom: A red bag containing 1600 yuans.
1600 yuans? Are you kidding? Our daughter
can’t be so cheap, can she?
The First
Train from Shanghai to Tibet
A first west-bound train
will leave Shanghai for Lhasa on October
1, announced the Chinese Railway
Department Monday. The train is said to
operate every other day.
The distance from Shanghai
to lhasa is over 4000 kilometres, and the
journey is expected to take about 50
hours to complete. As for the price,
currently a ticket for Beijing to Lhasa
train service is 400 yuans (about 50 usd)
for a hard seat and 1260 yuans (about 160
usd) for a soft-sleeper. And the cost
from Shanghai to Beijing is somewhere
between 10 usd to 60 usd for a single
trip.
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