On February 3, the "Opinions of the Communist Party of China on Learning and Using the Experience of the "Thousand Village Demonstration and Ten Thousand Village Renovation" Project to Effectively and Effectively Promote the Comprehensive Revitalization of Villages (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") was issued.
The "Opinions" mainly put forward the policy of continuing to promote the change of customs in rural areas. Specifically, there are the following:
Adhere to the principle of combining dredging and blocking, treating both the symptoms and the root causes, and innovate the gripper carrier for changing customs and customs.
Give play to the role of villagers' self-governance, and strengthen the incentive and restraint functions of village rules and conventions.
Continue to promote the comprehensive management of outstanding problems such as high bride prices, large-scale operations, and scattered burials.
All localities are encouraged to make use of comprehensive rural service venues to provide inclusive social services for farmers' weddings, funerals, and weddings, so as to reduce the burden of human feelings in rural areas.
Improve restrictive norms and advocacy standards for new marriages, simple funerals, filial piety and love for relatives, and so on.
Promote party members and cadres to take the lead in fulfilling their promises and playing a leading role.
Strengthen positive guidance and incentives, strengthen the construction of family education and family style, and promote effective methods such as the list system and the point system.
Among them, we proceed with the third article**.
Why, young people dare not get married, the most important of which is the issue of bride price, the opinion is proposed, it is expected to help more people not be buried in love by money!
The opinion proposes that various localities have issued initiatives and organized activities to actively resist the bride price. Hold group weddings, preach on the theme of "no more than bride price, more happiness", distribute proposals to newlyweds, sign a commitment to change customs and customs, and train rural women cadres to be "new matchmakers" who advocate frugal marriage.
Wu Haiying, vice chairman of the All-China Women's Federation, said that the primary reason why the bride price is difficult to govern is the ideology, "Some people believe that 'the bride price is a sign of the daughter's worth, and the bride price will make people laugh if it is less'." This view is also confirmed by the relevant survey data,542% of people believe that "good face and following the crowd" is the main reason for asking for ** bride price.
Jin Xiaoyi, a professor at the School of Public Policy and Management of Xi'an Jiaotong University, believes that comprehensive measures should be taken to govern the bride price, which not only needs to stipulate the policy of the amount of wedding banquet and bride price, but also to promote family harmony, protect women's rights and interests, and establish a correct outlook on struggle and love. Wu Haiying suggested that we should carry out extensive publicity and education on changing customs and customs, cultivate typical families around the masses who consciously resist the bride price, and vigorously publicize the concept of marriage and love of "not wanting a bride price to be happy" and "working together after marriage", so as to form a strong atmosphere of resisting the bride price. She also suggested the development of specific binding standards and the encouragement of regulations where possible.
Ma Chunhua, an associate researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that "in economically underdeveloped areas, the bride price plays a role in guaranteeing the family economy. He proposed to pay attention to the economic logic behind the bride price, and suggested that the gap between urban and rural areas should be further narrowed, the balanced development of public services should be promoted, and the financial burden of families should be reduced.
Wu Haiying also suggested optimizing service measures and improving relevant incentive mechanisms. She proposed the establishment of a public welfare matchmaking platform to provide free matchmaking services for unmarried men and women; Improve the incentive mechanism for new wedding courtesy, and provide support services such as group weddings, free physical examinations, and guaranteed loans for entrepreneurship for those who choose "low bride price" or "zero bride price"; Support village committees to continue to use governance methods such as "red and black lists" and "integral supermarkets" to stimulate the endogenous motivation of villagers to participate in the construction of rural customs and civilization.
Peng Lin, a professor at the School of Humanities at Tsinghua University, believes that the governance of the bride price needs to return to the moral spirit of traditional weddings in China. He believes that with the comprehensive promotion of the rural revitalization strategy, people's awareness and understanding of China's excellent marriage and family culture will increase, and the bad customs of marriage such as bride price will eventually be fully and effectively curbed.
With the joint efforts of the whole society, we have reason to believe that the bad social habit of bride price will eventually be completely destroyed, so that more people can experience true happiness in marriage.