There are often people online saying: "If you don't pay a bride price of 200,000, are you just giving away your daughter, who has been raised for decades, to someone else to have children?" I disagree; the bride price and dowry should be a support from both families for the new home, not a form of poverty alleviation.

Getting married and having children is a natural thing for a girl, but it should not be about marrying into the husband's family or having children for them; it is about building a new family for one's own happiness. If the marriage is not happy, being single is also fine; no one is forcing you.

Marriage requires mutual affection; it cannot be measured by the bride price. Marriages based on material conditions are prone to problems; only couples who truly love each other can live a good life. In some places, men who pay a bride price are ridiculed and seen as "failures" who "buy wives"; if the woman truly likes the man, how could she make things difficult for him?

Using the bride price as a bargaining chip in marriage is not advisable. Girls, do not be misled by "feel-good" rhetoric; in marriage, both men and women need to accommodate each other and grow together. Would you dare to marry an older man who knows how to flatter?