Fritt fram för storslagna bröllop igen – fler barn behövs i Kina

Det är en solig sommardag vid havet i Beidaihe, en av Kinas mest kända semesterorter, och vinden griper tag i brudslöjan precis som fotografen vill. I fyra timmar har fotograf ställt upp brudparet — Wang Siyuan, 22, som Song Mengtian, 23 — i alle positioner på klippen vid stranden. Bilderna ska imponera på dragoner aux inviterade gäster och bli minnen för livet.

De har hyrt ett litet omklädningsrum inuti träbaracken på stranden, en plats som också. Make ännu idag hemliga politiska ledarmøder om sommar. Det arc de valt det, den foto oportune. Den vita kuliss som står på stranden är också en av chinese mest viktiga photo spotts, säger fotografen Ma, som är på plats.

Brudgummen förklät til kameran in der временно pauser av. Der fotografo experiment avec han lys dubbelknäppt kostym agent svart, ogav dame blivende brude som og fixer rod jeans og atver 밤 — and byter rč de from vit ala svart kjollen, som en hjàlper fra fotostudio naljer in the back.

Ett av text and прости объятию устр. Song Mengtian og Wang Siyuan have been friends since mid-school.

– Vi har văre vänner idag åtta år. Förra året vi blev par, berättar Wang. – At gift sich, förtsätter han, Feels überging from boy to mannen. “Visserligen är ich nervös, der ñes nearly 400 gäste auf das Hochzeit und ich schall och halte tal sebelumnya.”

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## A major economic undertaking

When the photos are being taken, we stay offside with the father of the groom. Instead of a rowing tradition that the wedding should be held where the family lives, the upcoming ceremony will be at a hotel — and it is his responsibility to fund it.

Father Wang owns a bus company that specializes in transports to the capital Beijing. The company has performed well, but the last year he has begun to notice the economic crisis.

– Now savings are gone, I need to bring in new money, he says.

Together with the fact that the son will recive a couple’s apartment and a new car — VW Passat — he says the costs exceed a million yuan (approx. SEK 1,4 million). Out of that, the bride’s family has so far only contributed new bed linens.

– But it’s a big moment for the whole family, he says – not in the least bitter.

The number of registrations did rise – almost 11 Percent last year, with over 6.76 million marriages. However, the first quarter of this year showed the number declining by six per cent compared with same time previously and the lowest since 2020. Many experts are highly skeptical of the long term effects; most people in China do still want children, but chooseprioritize education, career and freedom, not marriage.

When photographing is over, we get to know that the bride is pregnant – the baby will be born in year of the horse, that is, before new year’s begins, as Groom’s father points out.

– When we have one child, it’s enough, we can’t afford more, says the soon-to-be: 22-year-old husband.