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THE EMANCIPATION OF CHINESE

WOMEN.

REBELLING AGAINST THE MARRIAGE YOKE.

AN ANCIENT CUSTOM THAT DIES HARD.

BRIDES WHO DO NOT KNOW THEIR HUSBANDS.

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[By. HERBERT FIELD.]

Three recent reports in the columns of the Hong Kong Daily Press indicate, to the student of things Chinese, that the women of China are encountering enormous diiculties in the way of securing that emancipation and freedom en- joyed by their Western sisters,

It is a well-known fact that We read that a body of women insentiment is rarely a consideration Peping have formed an Ant where Chinese marriages are con- Marriage Society," binding all its cerned. Almost invariably, it is a members, under penalty of death sort of business amalgamation" for infringement,

between the parties concerned, who family laws to the bitter end and are often but children. It is even retain their apinsterbood.

the case, at times, that unborn

children are betrothed.

There are three covenants enact ed in connection with a Chinese. marriage-the Contract of Mar riage, the Receipt of Betrothal Money and the Deed of the De But, almost side by side with livery of the Bride. The six care this report, we

friends." read also of a monies are:-The Small Presents. 15-year old girl who was sharply the Inquiry for the Name of the reminded in the Paoshan Magis Bride, the Fayment of the Be trate's Yamen that she could not trothal Money, the Request to Fix "jilt her future husband not the Date, the Sending of a Goose, withstanding the fact that she and the Fetching of the Bride. pleaded that he was no "idler," Once the betrothal presents are given and accepted, the girl ia con- sidered to be irrevocably betrothed

rather than choose their free couple thea prostrate themselves dom" by the method suggested by before the ancestral tablets and their tenets. In any event, neither after other ancestral rites, the this society nor its contemporaries couple are conducted to the bridal really attempt the emancipation of hamber in which stands a small members upon sane and progres-orange-tree decorated with cash. sive lines.

Red papers bearing good wishes ornament the bed and the relatives and friends of the pair stand around, partake of tea and cake, and criticise the appearance and looss of the bride. Later, a ban quel is prepared by the bride, who

35mes the duties of table-maid.

Such a movement should indicate that Eve in China is at last com- ing into her awa, and is fast break: ing the chains which, for countless centuries, have held her in bond

age.

thief, and that she was a Roman Catholic and therefore could not marry a heathen" owing to her religious belief. The magia. trate considered the reasons given were insufficient."

แ

never have

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She has to be reverential toward her parecta-in-law and, saya an- other writer, "in some of the dis- tries around Canton it is not un- usual for the bride to be kept up during the greater part of the night answering riddles put to ber by the bridegroom's relatives and

with her husband's family.

The bride continues to reside

Other, customs, of course, prevail other districts but it is a sur prising fact that ne actual legal, civil, or religious, ceremony, in the ccepted Western eense, occurs in connection with a

riage.

Chinese mar.

"The Individual is/Nothing."

Equality Needed. onentity insofar as the arrange the development of education on

The Chinese bride is really a

As can easily be gathered, with monta for her wedding are concern Western lines in many of the Then we read of a young Chinesed, although it frequently happens Chinese colleges and schools, it is lady who has qualified as a phy that her future husband, who, in not to be wondered at that present sician at a London hospital but all probability may who is not permitted to follow her seen his prospective bride,

day girls and women in China begin to desire change, not only in profession in China or account of hardly be regarded as being much prevailing ceremonies and customs, her sex. Very wisely, she has de more fortunate. But the husband but to the whole system of life after cided to practice abroad.

bas one consolation denied to the marriage. Unfortunately, however, Business, Hot Sentiment. bride. If his wife does not suit while many Western ideas and The formation of the Feping his taste, he can pacify his feelings ideals are being adopted or adapted society would lead one to believe by taking unto him almost for Oriental acceptance, woman is that Chinese women generally are limited cancubines.

still on an unequal footing as com- beginning to realise their poten- tialities and, even at a great price, are determined to purchase this freedom were it not for the fact that one can recall the existence

In circumstances such as these, itpared with man in China. is amall wonder that suicides among Fer instance, a girl is but once young women in China-disappoint legally married in China, but the ad brides compeiled to play "second į man can be married several times diddle" to favourite concubines and over, although only one wife in his of similar societies in the past concubipes drposed from their mas household in the legal" or prin whose efforts have pot met with ters' high regard in favour of aciple wife. The remainder are con any great degree of success. A new arrival-are alarmingly com- society was formed in Lung Kongmon.

over twenty years ago, and des In many instances, the hewailing pite such drastic methods as the and lamenting on the, part of the sudden demise" betrothed girl and her sisters and friends, hushands, its members have not because of her intended removal been entirely successful in their from the home of her father, is campaign, although they appear to quite genuine, have obtained one important con In Canton, Kwangtung, and „vari- cession, viz., that "the husband ous Southern provinces, her mar. must go to the wife's home to live ringe lines" consist of a letter from or else live without her company." the groom demanding her presence Nearer at hand, the Chin Lan at his house, to which she is car Ilui, or Gold and Orchid So ried in a red decorated sedan chair ciety of Kwangtung, is a secret at the rear of a long procession, society of girls who object to mar. Arrived at the "husband's" house, riage, mainly on account of fear of the man invites her to leave the motherhood and because they ne chair, or screened motor-cur, and gard gelibacy as the purest state | she is carried indoors by a female of existence. This society, again, servant over a charcoal fire. urgen suicide as "the way out," She then prostrates herself at the and it frequently happens that, put foot of the high chair on which her to the teat, its members finally sue hushand stands after which her

to their parents' wishes veil of red silk is removed.

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The

ouhines, although their children, as mentioned in a previous article, are on a basis of equality.

Its doubtful whether any real happiness or bliss exists in a Chi- nese marriage in these circum. stañcce. Peace, dutiful observance of ethics, and a constant loyalty between the parties there may be, but one has to remember that ages: old customs are not permitted to be overthrown by were personal feelings and prejudicer. Ances. try, Ancestry, Ancestry" is the constant cry and forms the begin all and end-all of Chinese exist- ence.

There are Christian Chinese families who adopt Christian methods in connection with mar ringe between their respective members, but such families are very few.

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To-day.

(June 4.)

Chinese Chamber of Comanares Meeting, 2.30 p.m.

F.A. Council Meeting, French Bank Building, 6.15 p.m. -Queen's Theatre: "White Shadows in the Bouth' Sear

World Theatre: House

Queen's Theatre: "White. Shadows. ia the South Seas"

World Theatre: "Ramshackle House"

Peak Tramway's Co. Annual Meeting, Hong Kong Hotel, 11 'a.m. Queen's Theatre: "Man, Womaḥ and Sia."

World Theatre: "Another Scan-

"Hangman's

Star Theatre: "Exchange of Wives."

dal. Ten Dances: KK. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel,

"Ramshackle 8.30 p..

Star Theatre: "Exchange of Wives"

Tea Dances: HK. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 pm

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Thursday. (Juno 6.) Whist Drive: St. John's Cathe dral Hall, 5.45 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Man, Woman and Bin."

World Theatre: "Another Scan-

Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

European Mails:-Inward: dal Európe vid Siberia (Tenyo Maru). Star Theatre: "Hangman's Outward: Európe vid Siberis | House." (General Metzinger), 1 Europe vid Canada. (Empress of France), 10 a.mn.

Wednesday.

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Tennis:-Mixed Doubles: Craigen- gover a Dolice Reg Uzvarsity 9. Recreio, Ladies R.C... Kowloon C.0.

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Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peuinania Hotel, 4.80 p.m.

Dinner Dance: Feninsula Hotel,' 9.30 p..

Europeon Mails:- Inward: Europe vid Sver (Kashgar).

Friday,

Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 am.

Star Theatre: House."

Tea Dances: HE Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel," 8.20 p.m.

Saturday. (June..8.)

Lane, Crawford Annual Meeting, Exchange Building, 'acon

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