China's Most Mysterious Village: The Entire Village Refuses to Marry Out or In, Just to Preserve a Secret!
There is a village in China where the architecture is typical of a classic village and town, and the distinctive features can attract many tourists just by looking at the buildings. Relying solely on these buildings is enough to attract many tourists to visit. There is a custom around the village that makes visitors very strange: the people of the village do not marry out or marry in.
This village is located in Qianzhong Miao and Dong Autonomous County, Gaosheng Township, Jiang County, Guizhou Province. The small village is surrounded by mountains, and a picture of a tranquil and quiet mountain village is composed of terraces, village towns, cattle and sheep, and trees. When cattle and sheep walk in the paintings, people can wander in the paintings, the air is fresh, and the human sentiments are ancient and rustic. It is the most beautiful scroll in Qianzhong. The villagers in the village rarely go out, enjoying a peaceful and idle farming life. The village security is very good, and it is a well-known locked village. This village is called Zili Village, and everyone in the village has the surname Wu. It is said that their ancestors were Wu Zhan and Wu Li. The name of the village is derived from the 'Zhan' and 'Li' in their ancestors' names.
The villagers of Zili Village automatically follow the ancestral rules, and have maintained the 'men do not marry out, women do not marry in' rules for 700 years. They also automatically give up multi-birth, and a couple can only have two children. The population growth rate of Zili Village is almost zero, which shows that the ancestors of Zili Village were very farsighted and saw the truth of balance between population and nature as early as several hundred years ago. Today, Zili Village still circulates many proverbs: 'Plan birth to follow ancient teachings, one son and one daughter enjoy family harmony', 'Raise offspring, poverty, trees grow fruit, trees turn roots'. In Zili Village, the dates for engagements and weddings are clearly defined. Only two dates every year can be used for engagements and weddings. All other dates are not allowed to marry or get engaged. To marry without exception, you need to choose a collective wedding. This is the ancient teaching of the ancestors. Zili Village still strictly follows it today.
Chinese traditional culture was formed during a long ancient history, with feudal society civilization as its background. Western culture, strictly speaking, began to gradually form before the Renaissance, with capitalist civilization as its background. One is a civilization with a feudal color, and the other is a civilization with a capitalist color. This determines that Chinese traditional culture inevitably has backwardness in many aspects, but it cannot be rejected without reason. It is in being able to extract its essence.
