What I know about the so-called "yin marriage"

When I was a child, I heard old people talk about "internal marriage", that is, family members find unmarried men who have died together to bury an unmarried woman who has died and let them marry in the underworld. Of course, the man's family also has to offer some dowry gifts. I thought it was all about the year of the monkey. Unexpectedly, this weird thing has suddenly happened in real life now.

A few years ago, an employee of a friend's company went to northern Shaanxi on a business trip. Unfortunately, a car accident happened. A 19-year-old young girl died instantly. I won't talk about all the pain, twists and turns, and the aftermath. In the end, a local family "hired" the girl's remains with tens of thousands of yuan in "beauties", and married his own son who died as a minor in a "yin marriage". I was shocked when I heard my friends say this at first. Is there anything else? My friend said this is normal in that place. Turned to feel sorry for this girl, she couldn't return home after she died, she was buried in such a remote and unfamiliar place, she became a "other woman" for no reason. Is her family a bit too unkind? My friend said that the girl’s home is deep in the mountains in Hanzhong, and her life is very difficult. By saying this, you can understand that a remains can be exchanged for tens of thousands of yuan, which is a lot of income for a poor family. Just imagine how many years will it take for them to accumulate this amount? Thinking about it this way, I understand the girl's parents.

It was reported that a man in northern Shaanxi sold his eighty-year-old sickbed mother to a family for a "yin marriage". The poor old man was lying in the cave dwelling of the buyer's house and waiting to die. This news even confirmed what my friend said, it seems that this kind of thing is really common in that place.

We all know that northern Shaanxi is rich and rich now. Unexpectedly, it was so rich that it became a custom to match the dead with "yin marriage". Think of the words of a scholar: rich does not mean advanced, it does not mean civilization. Yes, material and civilization are not directly proportional. Some people who suddenly became rich seem to be unprepared mentally, and their material abundance and spiritual improvement are not synchronized, which makes people feel full of emotion.