Marriage in South Africa is a topic with the characteristics of the times and regions.

According to South Africa's Overseas Chinese News, marriage is an ancient and complicated topic with characteristics of the times and regions. In the standard of traditional education in China,? Get married and start a career? Is a topic that can never be avoided. From the marriage history of people living in the south of China, we can see the development track of Chinese and the basic situation of Chinese integration into the local area. The bitterness and joy brought by foreign marriage are related to everyone's different development destiny. How to treat this problem? Different people have different opinions? From the development history of overseas Chinese in South Africa, we may have some different feelings about the problems brought by marriage. Liu Jian, 28, is a successful young businessman in South Africa. He said that getting married now is not only for carrying on the family line, but also for a spouse who can make a sound mentally and professionally. He said:? One of my requirements for a lifelong partner is to be able to communicate at least and share the same values and outlook on life. Living together will not be boring. ?

The marriage story of Chinese in South Africa can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty. They were the first China people to come to South Africa. At that time, most Chinese of Guangdong nationality crossed the ocean as laborers and set foot on the land of South Africa. Some of them died in a foreign land, some were later repatriated by the South African government, and a few stayed in South Africa, where they took root and sprouted, and their children became what they are now talking about? Old overseas Chinese? . It was this last small group of Chinese who stayed in South Africa at that time, mainly through intermarriage between Chinese workers? Get married? problem At that time, the biggest problem that marriage faced them was the so-called family background.

At that time, the local whites were mainly European immigrants. Due to various problems such as economic conditions, education level and social status, it was almost impossible for them to marry the local whites. At that time, there was racial discrimination and apartheid in this country, so China people didn't want to be classified as that. Slave? Black people have too much interweaving. Among the workers at that time, there were more men than women, and the proportion was extremely uncoordinated. Therefore, many Chinese workers who stayed at that time were lonely and died. Among the successful old overseas Chinese, some families with similar conditions choose to marry among the old overseas Chinese, and some old overseas Chinese with poor conditions marry blacks, but this situation is relatively rare.

In the forties and fifties of the 20th century, especially after World War II, China people's self-confidence increased. China people attach importance to the fine tradition of education, and they also see hope in the second and third generations of China people who are no longer at the bottom of society? Labor? Yes They are engaged in some promising careers, some are accountants, some are lawyers and some are doctors. Many of them have done business and have a certain economic foundation. At this time, young people in China began to intermarry with local people. Especially in 1970s and 1980s, more and more China people married local people. After several generations of education, they have fully integrated into the local society, and language is no longer a problem. China? It has become their foreign language. Therefore, their marriage is mainly between some well-connected old overseas Chinese or intermarried with local whites.

? In 1960s and 1970s, China people began to intermarry with local whites, but they were still a minority. China people mainly intermarry among old overseas Chinese. Until the late 1980s, especially after China's reform and opening up, although the phenomenon of intermarriage between Chinese and local people increased, it was not too much, mainly concentrated in the families of old overseas Chinese. ? Mr. Mo, 75, said: Marriage is also related to the development of one's country of origin. Why do you say that? The reason is that China has become rich and more people have come out. So many people marry young people in their native countries. ?