"We are all members of the Miao family, thank you for coming here, I don't have any heart, sing a song for you......" Outside the cultural and creative studio of Pingpo Village, Xima Town, Longli County, a brisk Miao folk song reflects the colorful and distinctive Pingpo peasant paintings on the wall, singing the gorgeous life and full enthusiasm of the Miao family, and also singing the praise of the masses for the construction of the rule of law.
The Miao compatriots in Pingpo Village sang mountain songs to express their gratitude
On April 23, 2024, the Longli County People's Court and the Longli County Women's Federation went to Pingpo Village, Xima Town, to carry out a special rule of law publicity activity of "Resisting High-priced Bride Prices and Advocating a New Trend of Civilized Marriage", going into villages and homes to explain the relevant legal provisions on bride price disputes to villagers, and advocating civilized marriage.
"Uncles and aunts, I am Xiao Zhang of the Longli Court Horse Washing Court, can you understand the dialect now?" asked the police officer of the Longli Court, sitting around with everyone.
"If you can understand it, you have to speak dialects, and we may not be able to understand Mandarin!" quipped.
The court officers and police explained the relevant legal provisions of "bride price".
"Okay, then I'll speak in tongues. I would like to ask you first, what do you think about the bride price when your children get married?"
Faced with the problem of court officers and police, uncles and aunts enthusiastically discussed: "What kind of bride price is not bride price, as long as the young people are good, it is more important than the bride price!" "As a traditional custom, the bride price symbolically still has to be collected, but it is impossible to collect hundreds of thousands, and the burden of the doll is heavy." "Xiao Zhang, this bride price is too high, if the two of them are not together, can they come back?"
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The masses participating in the activities carefully read the rule of law publicity materials and actively participated in exchanges and discussions
In the face of the answers and questions of the uncles and concubines, the court officers and police introduced the "Provisions of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Several Issues in the Trial of Cases Involving Bride Price Disputes" to the masses in detail, and at the same time, they also combined with relevant legal provisions and typical cases to explain the harm caused by high bride price and the legal consequences that need to be borne, and effectively guide everyone to establish a new style of marriage and marriage, form a concept of marriage and love in line with the core values of socialism, and jointly create a good civilized fashion.
"If you think about it, young people must get married because of love, and if the high bride price becomes an obstacle to starting a family, then both of them may not make it to the end. If everyone compares which bride price is higher and which one has face, then the marriage will be sour, right?" said the court officer.
"That's right! As long as the doll is happy, it is the most desirable thing for us to be elders! It is better than receiving any bride price!" everyone discussed.
Immediately afterwards, the court officers and police officers who participated in the event also gave a lecture on the relevant legal knowledge such as the anti-domestic violence and the regulations on the protection of minors on the Internet.
At the scene of the rule of law publicity, court officers and police talked about the construction of the rule of law with Miao compatriots
"Thank you for coming to us today for this event, we don't have anything to give you, so we will sing the first Miao song to you according to our customs!"
After that, the uncles beat the beat, and the cheerful singing voices of the wives began to sing like this: "...... Happiness and joy are smiling, and the family is happy forever!"
This rule of law publicity into the village is one of the series of activities of the Longli County People's Court to actively carry out the "advocating the new fashion of marriage". With the people's courtrooms as the lead, based on the jurisdiction of the court, and going into villages and villagers' homes to carry out rule of law publicity at zero distance, actively guiding the masses to abandon outdated and backward ideologies, correctly understand the significance of "bride price", and strive to be advocates, disseminators, and practitioners of the new style of civilized marriage.
(Source: Longli County People's Court)