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Walking Marriage |
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“A xia” refers to Lovers. In walking marriage, the husband goes to the wife’s home and stays for the whole night. The next morning, he goes back his own home. It is their unique way to create affection between man and woman and multiplied. The two parties in walking marriage are getting together by love and they can choose to be together or get apart. It realizes the equality and independence in marriage for both man and woman. The child in the marriage takes the mother’s surname and is riased by the mother’s family. In this way, the unity of kinship has been assured.
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