“Fallowing the custom, my great-grandfather was married young, at fourteen, to a woman six years his senior. It was considered one of the duties of a wife to help bring up her husband.” MarriageYoung Husband Love Book:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“My mother could see that as far as my father's relationship with the Party was concerned, she was an outsider. One day, when she ventured some critical comments about the situation and got no response from him, she said bitterly, "You are a good Communist, but a rotten husband!" My father nodded. He said he knew.” MarriageCommunism Book:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“Both my mother and father regarded a traditional ceremony as old-fashioned and redundant. Both she and my father wanted to get rid of rituals like that, which they felt had nothing to do with their feelings. Love was the only thing that mattered to these two revolutionaries.” CultureMarriageRevolutionTraditionTraditionsRituals Book:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
