A man who claimed to be from a middle-class family in Shanghai, when he anonymously answered the question “How about Jiangxi women” on the mainland knowledge question-and-answer platform “Zhihu”, said that he was asked for 18.88 million yuan (RMB, the same below) by his girlfriend’s family from Pingxiang, Jiangxi. Gift money and other wedding expenses worth hundreds of millions of yuan, and the experience of the final breakup. Related articles set off heated discussions on the Internet, and the long-circulated “Jiangxi gift money is the highest in the country” has once again become a topic of discussion. The civil affairs and public security departments of the Pingxiang Municipal Government immediately stepped in to investigate the “sky-high price gift”. Millions are few.”
Relevant investigators also checked with the poster, saying, “The person who posted the post is not something we can find easily.” The other party is from Shanghai, and he posted anonymously on Zhihu. (identity) information, we have no way to contact him for a while.” The Pingxiang Civil Affairs Bureau released the “Implementation Plan for Curbing High-priced Gifts and Promoting Marriage Changes” in September last year, advocating that gift money should not exceed 30,000 yuan and wine placement should not exceed 15 yuan.
A number of media outlets in the mainland asked several Jiangxi residents about the amount of the local gift money. They all said that ordinary families would not be as exaggerated as the article involved. Most of them were around 200,000 yuan, and depending on the region, 70,000 to 800,000 yuan There are; gift money is generally kept and distributed by the woman’s parents, and may be reserved for her younger brother to marry a wife, or all or part of it may be brought to the woman’s new home.
Originally published on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/China/The 18.88 million sky-high gift money sparked heated discussions-Pingxiang Government-Preliminary judgment is fabricated/357025?utm_source=yahoorss&utm_medium=referral
