The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is a province with many ethnic groups. It is also one of the provinces with the largest number of ethnic minorities. Due to the large number of ethnic groups, the state has given a number of special autonomy policies. Because of these special policies, many ethnic minorities in the long process of life has produced a lot of ethnic characteristics of the traditional culture and customs, such as betrothal ah, singing songs ah, water festival ah, bullfighting competitions ah and so on. With these distinctive customs, also led to some people use such activities to carry out better and wider recreational activities. There are a lot of places is in the mountain song singing in the feelings, like each other and produce love and built a marriage. So many ethnic minorities do not reach the national division of male 24 years old, female 20 years old to get married and start a family standard, some places around the age of 18 years old can become a family has also become a local custom. Of course, only minorities have this situation, the Han people rarely have.
Guangxi remote area crowd, drop out of school early, working early.
If someone can manage their tuition, living expenses and do not need them to worry about life. At the same time to provide at least third-tier cities almost the same level of education. I think they are the ones who married early and at least want to go to college.
What I mean is that many real social phenomena are directly linked to the economy and culture. For some good cities, compared to them lose at the starting line.
Tradition + Ethnicity + Economy = Early Marriage
I am located in Dalian. According to Dalian statistics, in the 1980s, the average age of first marriage in Dalian was 29 for men and 27.4 for women. This standard was very high back then. In contrast, the southern provinces (almost all of them, not just Guangxi) probably married at a younger age.
When I was a junior in college, I met a man my age from Sichuan who worked at a bakery near the school and often ate noodles. He was born the same year as me, but already had three children. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm sure I'll be able to do it in a few weeks.
The following talk about Guangxi (Guangxi is just a microcosm, many provinces in the south of the Yangtze River are similar situation).
Guangxi Long history, in 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in the late Paleolithic period, there are "Liujiang people" and "Kirin Mountain people" in this labor and living. After the unification of Lingnan by Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the Spirit Nullah was excavated to connect the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, promoting the economic and cultural exchanges between Guangxi and the Central Plains. Han Dynasty, Cangwu, Bushan, Hepu has a trade fair, Hepu became an overseas trading port; Tang Dynasty, Gui Zhou, Liuzhou, Yongzhou, Rongzhou city and countryside appeared on a regular basis polder; Song Dynasty, appeared with the exchange of goods with the Jiao-toe merchants to start the fight for easy; Ming and Qing dynasties, Guangxi mining industry has developed a lot, mainly gold, silver, copper, aluminum, tin, iron and other mines. Long history, formed the Guangxi colorful, unique national culture.
Guangxi has three major features: the first feature is a long history. Guangxi human origin is very long. According to archaeological discoveries, as early as 200,000 years ago, there are primitive humans living here. Since ancient times, Guangxi for the bitterly cold place, even the criminal exile can not go to the place may die on the road. The second characteristic is that there are many ethnic groups. Guangxi is a Zhuang Autonomous Region with more than 40 ethnic groups, of which 11 are more populous: Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong, Mulao, Maonan, Hui, Jing and Shui. The third characteristic is unique culture. The long history of Guangxi's colorful culture.
And it is precisely this characteristic that determines the early marriage of Guangxi people.
First, a long history. The Rites of Passage, the age standard for marriage between men and women, men twenty years old, women fifteen years old can be married, but this standard is not uniform, some dynasties are not the same, such as the early years of the Tang Dynasty to rest and recuperate, or in accordance with the Rites of Passage, the standards set by the implementation of the middle of the Tang Dynasty, to lower the standard, more than fifteen men, more than thirteen women listen to the marriage. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, stipulated that men should marry at the age of sixteen and women at the age of fourteen, and this was also the case in the Qing Dynasty. As a frontier, all the dynasties will increase its construction efforts to encourage local people to marry early and have children, and to have more and more children.
Second, the economy is underdeveloped. Less developed areas do not need a lot of information, there is no need for further study, many people only mix a junior high school diploma to engage in the work, enter society early, as a person to "social professionals" to treat earlier, and do not need to spend a lot of time to study after work; the pressure of competition is small, so that it is very easy to find a stable job early, more energy to do other things; and the individual to the individual to find a stable job, and more energy to do other things; and the individual to the individual to the individual to the individual to the individual to the individual to the individual to the individual. Do other things; and with the individual's economic capacity activity space is relatively small, so life is also relatively easy to be uninteresting. So the question is, people don't like to be bored, what else can they do? And "food and sex", then most people will certainly turn their energy to find the other half of the process. In fact, greatly increased the probability of early marriage and early childbearing.
Third, personal concepts: in Guangxi region, the sense of well-being is easy to meet, the habit of hard work and developed areas because of the large space for activities brought about by the "choose the best" fussy vision is very different; and is a strong traditional thinking of the region, unmarried men and women tend to be very pure motives for interaction! --The first thing you need to do is to get married, so once you get involved, it's basically a matter of getting married - low standards, you can accommodate each other, and the circle of acquaintances in the community is small, so there are fewer options.
Fourth, the ethnic policy. The current ethnic policy is also considered to have been passed down from ancient times. Our policy towards ethnic minorities is to encourage early marriage and early childbearing and to require more births. Now the birth policy is completely liberalized, before the liberalization, the ethnic minorities enjoy more than the Han Chinese about the special aspects of marriage and childbearing.
Finally, late marriage is a modern phenomenon. People in the market economy need more information and learning to live a better life so that they can gain a foothold in the competition from time to time, and at the same time, the economic development and social progress have intensified the pursuit of freedom of one's own behavior.
I feel that we in Guangxi is not early marriage place, many are more than twenty, married early should be Yun Gui Chuan, I'm in Guangdong twenty years, know a lot of Yun Gui Chuan girls, twenty years old, the child is three or five years old, a lot of fifteen or sixteen years old which married and had a child
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You're saying the opposite!
Guangxi people married male 22 years old female 20 years old, you say early what is the meaning of