{"id":307,"date":"2023-10-24T03:58:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/family-wont-allow-daughter-to-marry-until-she-pays-for-brother\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T03:58:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:58:38","slug":"family-wont-allow-daughter-to-marry-until-she-pays-for-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/family-wont-allow-daughter-to-marry-until-she-pays-for-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Won\u2019t Allow Daughter To Marry Until She Pays For Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Parents of a single woman in China are now at the center of a controversy after the story of how they allegedly stopped their 32-year-old daughter from marrying in favor of their son emerged online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p>Parents of a single woman in China are now at the center of a controversy after the story of how they allegedly stopped their 32-year-old daughter from marrying in favor of their son emerged online. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"88af9b4ef7b7a7c4a35047507da58b5e-sz_37376.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FpRLWJaLmnBbdlIY_8__IO4abd44?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" style=\"\" height=\"165.2\" width=\"280\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/family-wont-allow-daughter-to-marry-until-she-pays-for-brother\/#Fan_Shengmei%E2%80%9D_a_popular_character_from_the_TV_show_%E2%80%9COde_to_Joy%E2%80%9D_Photo_Nextshark\" title=\"Fan Shengmei,\u201d a popular character from the TV show \u201cOde to Joy\u201d Photo:Nextshark\">Fan Shengmei,\u201d a popular character from the TV show \u201cOde to Joy\u201d Photo:Nextshark<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/family-wont-allow-daughter-to-marry-until-she-pays-for-brother\/#Photo_jingyanbus\" title=\"Photo:jingyanbus\">Photo:jingyanbus<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/family-wont-allow-daughter-to-marry-until-she-pays-for-brother\/#Photo_jlonline\" title=\"Photo: jlonline\">Photo: jlonline<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fan_Shengmei%E2%80%9D_a_popular_character_from_the_TV_show_%E2%80%9COde_to_Joy%E2%80%9D_Photo_Nextshark\"><\/span>Fan Shengmei,\u201d a popular character from the TV show \u201cOde to Joy\u201d Photo:Nextshark<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>Parents of a single woman in China are now at the center of a controversy after the story of how they allegedly stopped their 32-year-old daughter from marrying in favor of their son emerged online. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tang Lu was reportedly planning to get married two years ago but was told by her parents to wait until her brother, who\u2019s six years younger, gets married first, according to Chongqing Evening News (via Sixth Tone).<\/p>\n<p>Lu\u2019s story outraged netizens, with many pointing out that such exploitation of women is common in Chinese families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"53d865d375d5eee5eba3a5961f8e2885-sz_10856.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FvTYZsTD1A7qS_3U1X5Et_rfhNmt?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" style=\"\" height=\"238.63636363636363\" width=\"350\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_jingyanbus\"><\/span>Photo:jingyanbus<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>Even more, Lu, who comes from a poor family in Chongqing in the southern province of Hubei, was recently told by her father over the phone that she needs to give 100,000 yuan ($14,575) to her brother. The money will reportedly be used by her brother to purchase a new home as he is about to get married this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t owe anything to this family, why should I pay such a big amount of money?\u201d Lu was quoted as saying. She added that while her grandmother raised her, her parents paid little attention to her while she was growing up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s her brother by blood, she has to care [about him],\u201d Lu\u2019s father said. \u201cShe must give the money, and not a penny less. It\u2019s the responsibility of an older sister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bd59fcf47e1104f5598d3113b3907b1e-sz_209561.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FnxGGHA-uZqkFG_9uRlYIU6F3Tyr?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" style=\"\" height=\"217.48726655348048\" width=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_jlonline\"><\/span>Photo: jlonline<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>Netizens soon labeled Lu as \u201cthe real-life version of Fan Shengmei,\u201d a popular character from the TV show \u201cOde to Joy\u201d, a series similar to HBO\u2019s \u201cSex and the City\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The character of Fan Shengmei, like Lu, is frequently forced by her parents to pay her brother\u2019s loans, gambling debts, and housing rent payments. Similarly, Fan Shengmei is also from a poor family with parents who favor their elder son over her. The character has become quite popular in China as many Chinese women have related to her story.<\/p>\n<p>The lives of Chinese women have gone through significant changes throughout history and while recent efforts have found many to push for gender equality, challenges continue to stand in the way in favor of women in the historically male-dominated Chinese society.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"640-11.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlXXlKXBxtykYAuKbjvAxKMwIbVH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" style=\"\" height=\"271.6468590831918\" width=\"250\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parents of a single woman in China are now at the center of a controversy after the story of how they allegedly stopped their 32-year-old daughter from marrying in favor &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}