Why the Chinese are happy to mutilate each other at weddings
A viral video shows crowds of young people knocking out front doors in houses and restaurants, and this is a little-known Chinese folk tradition: mutilating at weddings. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Residents of the People's Republic of China sometimes do things on love holidays that even Russians who have seen everything can become uncomfortable.
Recently, thousands of views have been collected on Facebook from a selection of wedding ceremonies at which men selflessly break beautiful new doors. And they don't just try to open it, but literally destroy it.
The groom, with the help of friends, must knock down the doors to the house where the bride is located before marrying her. It looks like our "rite" of abduction, only much tougher and more traumatic.
Chinese grooms break down doors with fiction and a spark. They use sledgehammers, battering rams, their own body. In a few days, the video has gained almost 900 thousand views and 2.5 thousand comments.
Is it customary to swing the groom in the air? Not in China. Here it is customary to break the groom in the best traditions of wrestling. Only sometimes it turns out to break for real.
The person who is dropped on the bench in this video really got a spinal fracture.
So if you are going to marry a Chinese man or marry a Chinese woman, agree that you will walk in Russia. Here, the groom's friends can also put on women's underwear and even knock out some door, but everything will end in a banal fight at the very least.
Keywords: China | Customs | Wedding | Injuries | Traditions