What does the bride price mean? Why do you have to give it?

In fact, receiving bride price is a custom handed down from ancient times in China. In the ancient engagement ceremony, the man's family would take the initiative to give the bride price in the name of engagement, including some betrothal money and items. After receiving the bride price, the woman will indicate whether she agrees to get engaged. If you agree, accept the bride price and prepare a gift in return, mainly some handmade products made by the woman herself. If not, return the bride price to the man. This custom has been handed down from generation to generation. Therefore, the concept of receiving bride price when getting married is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Second, the test of son-in-law

Although traditional customs have a great influence on people, with the progress of society, many bad traditional customs are gradually being abandoned by people. In fact, as parents, no one does not care about their children. What they want most is that their daughter can marry well, have a good home and live happily in the future. Because both parents have experienced, have experienced the choice of bread and love. Knowing the initial vows of eternal love, I swear, in the end, I can't compare with these trivial things in life.

Therefore, asking the future son-in-law for a bride price is not really asking him to come up with such a sum of money. It is more important to see what the future son-in-law can do for his daughter. If he hears the amount of the bride price and immediately aborts it, how can he convince them to give their daughter to someone like you? This kind of thing happened to a friend around me. At first, the woman's family asked for a bride price of 6.5438+0.5 million yuan. Later, my friend only collected 50,000 yuan through his own efforts, but the woman's parents saw his determination. He didn't accept the bride price, but gave 6.5438+0 million yuan. Therefore, love is not just talk, but action to prove that you really want to give her happiness.

Third, increase family income.

For many families, asking for a bride price to increase their income is actually very helpless. In many places, because of the bad habit of sky-high bride price and the tradition of giving preference to sons, many families have to ask the other party to pay a high bride price when they marry their daughters in order to prepare for their sons' future marriage. There are also some families based on the concept of marrying women and splashing water. I thought I would never see my daughter again anyway, so I might as well lend her a fortune when she got married. Of course, based on the idea that the world is beautiful, I think this kind of parents should still be rare.