river's bride

Since my burial + dissolvable outfit came out, I was thinking about what I should do for the final collection. As my dissolvable skirt turned out like a wedding dress, I was thinking about what will happen if I link wedding to water burial.

Wedding + Water burial = River's bride



There is a very cruel Chinese custom thousands years ago about River's bride. It is a custom to pray for rainfall and avoid flood. People believed that there was a god living in the river, and he is the god that control the rainfall and flood. People also believed if any drought or flood happen is the reason of that the river god get angry. One of the way people please the river god is to give him a bride. Every year, they choose a unmarried girl to be the river's bride. The decision of who will be the river's bride depend on the local official who is always in the side of the riches. So river's bride always be chose from the poor family. Poor family's daughters have to sacrifice their life to be the river's bride as they will drown in the river with their only wedding dress.

River's bride is an unreasonable custom existed in China, this foolish religion belief has killed lots of poor girls. So I am having an idea to focus on the river's bride culture and the wedding culture in china.

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