A Chinese man will be punished for a photo with two brides at the same time (6 photos)

In China, there is a shortage of women and a general crisis of marriage, as men find it difficult to provide housing and the large dowry that they must traditionally provide.





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And while the average Chinese man cannot afford even one wife, some take two at once, even when it is prohibited by law?! A wedding invitation was published on a Chinese social network, which included a photo of a man in a strict black suit surrounded by two women in white wedding dresses. According to the invitation, which listed the names of the groom and his two brides (!!!), the wedding was to take place at Century Jiayuan Banquet Centre, a high-end restaurant in the city, on the afternoon of April 19.

"This guy must be the envy of many men. How lucky!" one local social media user joked.



This is a very beautiful invitation, done with taste

A person claiming to know the man said that one of the brides is his ex-wife and the other is his current girlfriend. He added that the three-way wedding was approved by all three families. Since bigamy is illegal in the country, the police immediately took an interest in the case and conducted an investigation. Officers at the Bijie police station confirmed that one of the two women was indeed the man's ex-wife. The officers claimed that the wedding photo and invitation were part of a prank. And the police themselves FORCED the trio to cancel their already planned wedding ceremony.

As the officers put it: "We gave them a talk on education and persuasion." Whatever that means.

What consequences do jokers face?





The banquet hall confirmed that there was a reservation, but it was cancelled

In fact, in China they don’t joke about this. The Chinese authorities try to ban and prohibit everything that causes social unrest and a harsh sense of inequality and envy. So bloggers who demonstrated constant excessive luxury consumption were banned. I wrote about them, you know, you haven’t lost anything by not seeing them anymore.



These are the cloying faces of the life-burners!

They also banned the girl who told how to get men to give gifts. Because this is socially destructive information. It is logical that the joker was punished this time. And he has not learned anything from someone else's example! This is not the first case of a triple wedding. A similar incident was reported in the media in 2022, when a man from Jiangsu Province in eastern China shared online photos of himself with his wife and her close friend, fabricating a rumor that he would hold a wedding with both "wives".



But another Chinese man is smarter, he went to Malaysia, where this is possible under Muslim law

He was later punished by the police for disturbing public order, although the details of his punishment were not disclosed. The man later admitted that he organized the prank to attract online traffic. In general, this has happened before, and people have been punished for this before. The only mistake the Chinese authorities made was that they did not loudly announce what punishment follows for such jokes.



As you can imagine, no one understood him in his homeland and didn't pat him on the head. It is not disclosed whether he officially returned to China with his wives

But in fact, I think that a reprimand from the police and a hefty fine, without any work or imprisonment for a month. This is an interesting case of how Chinese censorship reacts to such seemingly innocent jokes. After all, everyone immediately admitted that it was a prank, but they still got a slap on the wrist. Do you think this policy of erasing everything that causes envy is correct? After all, we often publish false luxury on the Internet, and you sit and suffer that you are an ordinary person.