Deeply promote the change of customs and customs, guide the masses to resist high bride prices, advocate civilized marriage customs, strengthen the cultivation of civilization, civilized practice, and the creation of civilization in a targeted manner, guide the masses to jointly resist stereotypes and bad habits, resolutely curb the trend of high bride prices, and cultivate civilized rural customs, good family customs, and simple folk customs.
Recently, Gejiaqiao Village, Hai'an Economic Development Zone, Jiangsu Province, actively carried out the publicity of "resisting high bride price and advocating civilized marriage customs", guiding villagers to establish a correct concept of family marriage customs, resisting high bride price, and promoting the change of customs and customs, laying a solid foundation for building a civilized and harmonious village style.
It mainly includes the following practices:
1. The staff of the new era of civilization practice vigorously publicize the spirit of the No. 1 Central Document in 2024 by going to the courtyard, practice points, households, fields, online + offline, advocating the concept of simple and moderate marriage customs, encouraging wedding etiquette and customs that reflect the new fashion of the new era, drawing a clear line between traditional customs and stereotypes, and educating and guiding the masses to break the distorted concepts such as blind comparison, showing off wealth, marrying a woman to solve difficulties, discussing the value of the bride price, and protecting the marriage with the bride price, and establish a new trend of not comparing the bride price with character and stressing civilization without pomp and circumstance.
2. Gejiaqiao Village Women's Federation, Guan Working Committee, Youth League Committee, Red Gang, and New Era Civilization Practice Station jointly carried out door-to-door propaganda and persuasion, guiding marriageables, young people and their parents to abandon high bride prices, large-scale operations, marriage troubles, gift comparisons, extravagance and waste.
3. The New Era Civilization Practice Station of Gejiaqiao Village, together with the judicial department, preached the relevant content of the Civil Code, interpreted the "Provisions on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Cases Involving Bride Price Disputes" issued by the Supreme People's Court, and publicized the clauses such as "prohibiting the use of marriage to solicit property" in combination with typical cases, so as to strengthen the public's legal awareness and the concept of the rule of law.
4. Gejiaqiao Village makes full use of the farmers' music for a day and thousands of thousands of families to benefit the people in the form of opera performances to publicize and popularize to the masses, calling on everyone to do new marriages and happy events, not blind comparison, not extravagance and waste. Guide the villagers to strive to be advocates, practitioners, and propagandists of the new style of civilized marriage, and remind the villagers to take practical actions to further carry forward the fine tradition of diligence, thrift, and hard work.
5. Gejiaqiao Village makes full use of the Party Member Activity Day on the 25th of each month to publicize the Party Member Day, give play to the demonstration and leading role of Party members and cadres, promote Party members to set an example, curb the trend of high bride price, and advocate that everyone do not take money as a measure of happiness, do not take the ceremony and marriage customs as a yardstick to measure marriage, and consciously resist high bride price.
6. Gejiaqiao Village improves the village rules and regulations through publicity, gives full play to the role of the Red and White Council and the Moral Council, makes specific and clear agreements on the scale and standards of the bride price, the accompanying ceremony, and the banquet, and encourages the advanced through the point system, forming a clear orientation and good atmosphere for resisting high bride price
In the next step, Gejiaqiao Village will continue to deepen the practice of civilization in the new era, carry out publicity activities on the practice of changing customs and civilization on a regular basis, further innovate the form of activities, enrich the content of activities, cultivate civilized rural customs, good family customs and simple folk customs, and guide the masses to strive to be practitioners, disseminators and supervisors of civilized marriage customs. (Gejiaqiao Village, Hai'an Economic and Technological Development Zone, Jiangsu)
Editor in charge: Wang Wei