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Dai Wedding in the Internet Age
The National Day holiday is one of the busiest seasons for weddings in China. Today our reporter Wu Jia will take us to a small village bordering Vietnam, and join a wedding ceremony of the Dai ethnic group and send our best wishes to the new couple.
It's the wedding day of Feng Ming and Wang Guifang, both residents of Jinshuihe, or the Golden River Village. Amid the sound of firecrackers and cheers, the groom, looking a little shy, picks up the bride in his arms and gets off the car. Instead of red or white gowns like the Han ethnicity or western brides, Wang Guifang is wearing a black dress adorned with unique ornaments which are all in the traditional Dai style. What the groom wears is not Dai style clothes but a dark blue suit, making the wedding a combination of Dai and western style.
The wedding reception is pure Dai food as most of the participants are relatives and friends from the same village. The party starts in the afternoon and the banquet is so large that the family has to borrow the village basketball court to hold more dinner tables in addition to their own courtyard.
The groom's uncle Feng Hongjiang is busy collecting cash gifts from guests. He clutches 50 or 100 yuan notes and looking very excited, proclaims this to be one of the biggest wedding ceremonies he has ever seen.
"We have received 20,000