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      Crying marriage?   1   (surprise), isn't it?Actually, the custom of crying marriage existed a long time

ago in many areas of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, and  2   (remain) in fashion    3   the end of

the Qing Dynasty.Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by people in many

places, especially Tujia people, who view it as a   4   (necessary) to marriage procedure.

     It is very much    5   same in different places of the province.According to elderly people, every bride

had to cry at the wedding.  6  , the bride's neighbors would look down upon    7   as a poorly cultivated

girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village.In fact, there were cases   8    which the bride

was beaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.

     In a word, crying at wedding is a   9  by custom to set off the happiness of the wedding through falsely sorrowful words.However, in the  10  (arrange) marriages of the old days of China, there were indeed

quite a lot of brides who cried over their unsatisfactory marriage and even their miserable life.