On the morning of November 28, the Jingzhou Office of the Spiritual Civilization Development Steering Commission, the Jingzhou Committee of Chinese Communist Youth League, the Women's Federation and the Civil Affairs Bureau jointly held the first Chinese-style collective wedding themed by "love for a hundred years" for the purpose of promoting the traditional excellent marriage culture and advocating the new custom of simple wedding.
In the Yangmatou in Shashi District surrounded by festive atmosphere, three newly married couples and three old couples for their golden wedding were experiencing the romance of Chinese-style wedding in the blessing of their relatives and friends. In the joyful music, the six brides, wearing Chinese-style bridal gowns, went through red pavilion house, and then followed the traditional marriage custom to stride over the fire pan and the saddle, and then put on the chaplets and official robes. The grooms greeted the brides and entered together to perform the traditional wedding ceremony. The staff of the Civil Affairs Bureau witnessed the marriage for the new couples and gave their sincere blessings.
"I'm amazed by our charming traditional marriage culture." "This is the best way to commemorate our golden wedding." One of the old couples, Li Jinyu and Xiong Yihua, said that, 40 years ago, their wedding was very simple; while this simple and decent wedding satisfied them with their relatives and friends.
The wedding scene attracted many people and photographers.
Wu Taijia, a member of the CPC Leadership Group and Deputy Director General of the Jingzhou Civil Affairs Bureau, said that the holding of a Chinese-style collective wedding is one of Jingzhou’s measures to change customs and promote simple wedding arrangements. At present, Jingzhou is carrying out trials of reforming marriage customs in Gong'an County and Honghu City. In the future, more marriage simplifying measures will be launched to attract the masses to actively participate and jointly let the new style of marriage civilization prevail.