A recently emerged video has shown just how money could ruin a marriage in China.
The footage, widely shared on Chinese social media, shows that a bride changed her mind on the day of her wedding after she deemed the cash gift given by her future in-laws had not met her expectation.
The woman, in her wedding gown, yelled 'I won't marry' to her groom and his parents during a traditional tea-serving ceremony.
The video was posted to Miaopai, a video-sharing website in China, on January 3.
The Chinese bride is said to accuse her future father-in-law for tricking her into marrying his son.
The father had promised to offer the bride 10,001 yuan (£1,173) as a wedding gift, according to the video.
However, during the tea-serving ceremony which is usually held before the wedding banquet, the woman became furious after she found out she was given 1,001 yuan (£117) instead.
The footage adds to the long list of recent incidents which reflect the financial burden on China's bridegrooms and their families in order to pay expensive betrothal gifts.
The beginning of video shows the bride, identified as Xiaoli, kneeling in front of her father-in-law together with her fiancé.
The woman presented a cup of tea to her future father-in-law who sat on the sofa.
In the Chinese wedding customs, a couple would offer tea to their elders to show their respect and gratitude before they hold the wedding ceremony.
After Xiaoli served tea to her groom's father, the man handed a red envelope containing cash to Xiaoli as her wedding gift.
The amount of cash in the envelope carries specific meanings.
The amount of 10,001 yuan (£1,173) is usually given by the parents to the couple, according to People's Daily. It means that their child's other half is chosen out of the 10,000 people.
Xiaoli opened the envelope and was disappointed to see that she had only got 1,001 yuan (£1,173).
Feeling angry, the bride yelled towards her future in-laws: 'You said earlier you would give 10,001 yuan to me. Now it's only 1,001 yuan!'
She threw the banknotes on the table and shouted: 'I won't marry!'
The father looked distressed seeing the bride's reactions while the bridegroom was trying to calm her down.
The video is believed to be shot in a Chinese city. However, the video uploader didn't not state the location and time of the wedding ceremony.
The clip only features one of the many Chinese families who are troubled by the high wedding expenses.
As a cultural tradition in China, the groom's family would give a large sum of money to the bride's family for the marriage.
But in recent years, the betrothal gift has caused a great burden for many families, particularly in rural areas of China, reports People's Daily.
A groom-to-be from Henan province of central China said in the report that he had to spend half of his parents' savings on the upcoming wedding as the bride's family had asked for a 160,000-yuan-car (£18,762) as the wedding gift.
Some families in the region spend over 400,000 yuan (£46,889) on wedding ceremonies. Together with the gifts, the wedding could have depleted the families' assets.
To stop more families from getting into debts due to their childrens' weddings, Henan's Taiqian county has recently released a guideline on wedding gifts.
According to the guideline, which came into effect on January 1, the combined cost of wedding gifts given by one party shall not exceed 60,000 yuan (£7,036).
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