"Naked marriage" challenges traditions
“裸婚族”向传统婚姻观宣战
Without expensive preparation and rituals, Wang Shaowei and Zhang Xin tied the knot at a cost of nine yuan, which was ud to obtain the marriage certificate.
The couple, who just entered the work force and had learned to be lf-reliant, did away with nearly all the traditional "must-haves" for a Chine wedding: owning an apartment, a car, wedding rings as well as holding an expensive ceremony.
"We had a big dinner in our two-bedroom rented apartment to celebrate the start of our married life, and nothing el," said the 26-year-old Wang, who lives with his wife in Shijiazhuang, capital city of the northern Hebei Province.辅助色
In recent years, an increasing number of Chine young people have chon a "naked marriage." The term refers to a couple who get hitched without any major asts and who spend little on their wedding ceremony.
The "naked marriage" is in sharp contradiction with China`s established marriage customs,
which encourage parents to help lay the material foundation for their children`s marriage.
According to a poll conducted by the social investigation center of the China Youth Daily prior to this year`s Chine Valentine`s Day, Qixi Festival that fell on last Saturday, nearly 48 percent of 3,214 respondents said they supported the idea of "naked marriages," while about 23 percent oppod it.
The vote also showed that about 55 percent of the respondents viewed courage as esntial when engaging in a "naked marriage" and 43 percent of them agreed that married life of the couple who had a "naked marriage" would be much tougher than their peers with better financial status.
"Compared with my peers who had everything when being married, my marriage ems a bit of `shabby.` But we`ve been together for eight years, and I think the foundation of marriage is love, rather than money," said one of the approvers, Wang Haimin, a PhD candidate in Beijing.
Wang and her husband, an employee with a foreign company, are still living in a rented home two years after getting married.
"If a couple has had everything when they get married, what should they expect in the future? I think the most joyful part about marriage is that two people work hard to achieve every goal of life together," read a post on the BBS of the popular web portal of Sina.
Nevertheless, some objectors believe, as the Chine proverb goes, "Everything goes wrong for the poor couple."
"Frictions will be generated if the newlyweds have to struggle to make ends meet every day," posted Sina ur "Wolongcha."
"The ideal life for Chine is to live and work in peace and contentment. The marriage without a solid material foundation is unstable," said Wang Shuqin, a 50-year-old resident of Shijiazhuang.
爽口凉菜Although the traditional marital values are still deep-rooted in Chine people`s mind, experts said the increasing acceptance of "naked marriage" showed a more open-minded attitude of the youth.
Students pay for plastic surgery
The high school student gets off the train from Qingdao, Shandong province, and walks into a plastic surgery clinic in Beijing`s central business district of Guomao.文秘工作总结
The cond-grader, surnamed Wu, is accompanied by her parents, and is hoping to improve her appearance in the belief there are "better plastic surgeons" in the capital.
With short hair and glass, wearing a purple T-shirt, dark sport pants and gray sneakers, she says she is after medical advice about whether she should undergo surgical or non-surgical procedures.
Wu is one of the many high school students who get plastic surgery during the summer and winter vacations.
Around 3 million surgical and non-surgical operations to improve looks were conducted in China in 2009, and the figure is estimated to double every year, according to partial data from the Ministry of Health, relead in October 2010.
Up to 80 percent of plastic surgery patients in Beijing last summer were high school and college students, with the rate expected to hit 90 percent this year, according to a study on the Beijing market by China Medical Treatment Orthopedics and Beauty Association.
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A few days before Wu came to Beijing, another high school graduate surnamed Guo had a breast enlargement procedure at the same clinic.
Guo, who has been admitted to Beijing Film Academy, also had work done on her eyes and no during the last summer vacation. The three operations cost her wealthy mother nearly 100,000 yuan ($15,451).
The good-looking girl says she simply "wants to become prettier", while her mother admits a better appearance may help her daughter find more acting opportunities in the future.
"High school students usually aren`t so clear about what they want, compared to their parents, especially tho who want their children to have a career in entertainment," says Ding Xiaobang, a veteran surgeon at the clinic, adding he never es anyone "ugly" come to his clinic.
He says the most common operations are for double eyelids and no jobs. He does not recommend that students under the age of 16 ek a sharper no through surgery as their bones are still growing.
Hu Xiaogen, a doctor who works at the plastic surgery department of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, says it is safer for women above 20 and men above 25 to 关于运动undergo plastic surgery.
Besides being physically immature, Hu says high school students are less prepared mentally to make such decisions.
地震科普携手同行He says one 16-year-old student pulled out of an operation just as he was about to anesthetize her, as she was afraid the injection to her eyelids would be too painful.
Hu says students should ek operations at qualified hospitals, and it is better for them not to undergo surgery involving significant trauma, such as two or three small but simultaneous operations on the eyes.
"Parents should offer objective and reasonable suggestions to their children. Not all of them are suitable to become actors or actress, even after they take the risk of undergoing plastic surgery," Hu says.
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