Newly-wed couples attend traditional Chinese-style group wedding ceremony at Jinyang Lake Park on September 12, 2023 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province of China.
Newly-wed couples attend traditional Chinese-style group wedding ceremony at Jinyang Lake Park on September 12, 2023 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province of China.
  • As China struggles to keep marriage rates up, Chinese people are starting to take aim at superstition.
  • A letter urging the government to speak out against folk beliefs went viral on Wednesday.
  • It warned officials of the "Year of the Widow," a belief that getting wed this year brings bad luck.

China is debating whether the government should warn against against superstitions that say 2024 is a bad year to marry, as the country frets over its declining and aging population.