China: married during 2008

New pair Zhao Nan and his bride Dong Fang spend their wedding ceremony in a 4 stars hotel of Beijing during the Chinese Spring festival 2008. The number of couples tying the knot during the first few days of the chinese new year has greatly surpassed that of normal years in many Chinese cities, a stark aspiration for the endorsed year of 2008. With the advent of 2008, the whole nation is witnessing a marriage boom, Lovers choose to marry in this year because it coincides with the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, and the number eight is considered auspicious for success and prosperity in Chinese tradition.The pronunciation of \'eight\' sounds like \'wealth\' in Chinese. The year of 2008 is also the joyous Olympic year, which would bring luck to our marriage,said this couple. Long queues were seen in front of all major marriage registry offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou during the first days of the new year. The marriage boom also provided great spin-off effects to such businesses as catering and real estate, among others. The peak of marriage registrations and wedding banquets has yet to come. It was well known many couples had postponed their weddings to ensure their nuptials in 2008. Another factor of this year\'s boom was the country\'s first generation of the one-child policy had entered into marriage age. The number of couples got married as well as the wedding consumption have both kept soaring in China.

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YouTube | October 12, 2008

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