Crying marriage? Surprising, isn't it? Actually, the custom of crying marriage (exist) a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, and remained in fashion until the end of the Qing Dynasty. Though not so popular before, the custom is still observed by people in many places, especially Tujia people, view it as a necessity of the marriage procedure.
It is very much the same in different (place) of the province. According to elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding. Otherwise bride's neighbors would look down upon her as a (poor) educated girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village. In fact, there were cases in which the bride (beat) by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.
In a word, crying at the wedding is a way to set off the (happy) of the wadding through falsely sorrowful words. However, in the (arrange) marriages of the old days of China9 there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried over their (disappoint) marriage and even their unhappy life.
