High -priced gift: difficult to bear the weight of marriage cost

Cai Li, since ancient times, is a custom of marriage between men and women. The three media and six hires to show their attention to the woman. It has a relative trend with the dowry. The meaning is good. However, high -priced gifts have become the burdens of many families in the real society, especially in the countryside, which is more prominent in the countryside. ("Plain Evening News" on August 26th A06 Report)

Marriage is a happy event. However, because many people have difficulty to bear the high price of high -priced gifts, making life like a helpless burden. The news planned by this newspaper has chosen the marriage of 3 families in 3 counties, which is representative.

How high is the high -priced color gift? Obediently, don't see it, it's scared at a glance. Li Dajuo in the Huanghe Beach District of Yuanyang County said that his son's marriage cost is: During the settlement, the gift money gave the woman 88,000 yuan, the banquet money spent more than 10,000 yuan, the "three gold" more than 20,000 yuan, plus the addition The cost of miscellaneous and miscellaneous, spending more than 130,000 yuan for relatives. The woman said that the wedding gift money was 100,000 yuan, and there had to be a sedan not less than 80,000 yuan. In addition, Li Dajuo also built a two -and -a -half -floor wedding room for his son and spent more than 400,000 yuan.

Forget it, the marriage cost of Li Dabo's eldest son is more than 700,000 yuan.

Zhou Dazheng and his wife in Yanjin County have calculated the marriage of the eldest son. Yuan; 88,000 yuan in wedding gifts, 66,000 yuan in the bride on the car, 23,000 yuan for wedding banquets, 1,000 yuan for the brothers who sent relatives, the bride got off the car for 1,000 yuan, and the bride changed her mouth to seal 1,000 yuan. Zhou Dazheng said that the daughter -in -law married nearly 800,000 yuan. Zhang Meixiang in Fengqiu County said that the "wedding value" of the eldest daughter was: "Three Golds" and packed the "three gold" to pay for 110,000 yuan, called Wanli Pick one; Essence If you calculate the banquet money, especially the wedding room, it is estimated that it will have at least 700,000 yuan to add up to at least 700,000 yuan.

In fact, these three cases are just the "corner of the iceberg" of the cost of high -priced marriage costs. In other families, or because of the good economic conditions of the man, or because of the "asking price" of the woman, some men's expenditure money, wedding money, and wedding room money are more expensive than three cases.

Objectively speaking, in terms of the current economic conditions and salary levels of Xinxiang, it is indeed a huge sum. This is a high -priced gift, which is clearly a gift.

When it comes to economic pressure, many people say that there are "three economic mountains." Now, a child's marriage cost is as high as 700,000 to 800,000 yuan. Is such a marriage cost a "fourth economic mountain" of some families?

It can be said that high -priced color gifts have become a "stumbling block" that many young people are difficult to get married as soon as possible. If this problem cannot be resolved, it will not only affect personal affairs of individuals, but also affect family happiness, which will affect social harmony. Essence In view of this, in order to curb the problem of high -priced gifts, this requires joint efforts from all walks of life, especially women and their parents, don't have to be so high -priced gifts, please!

Ji Guoqing

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