Chinese woman dragged away by family in viral bride price dispute video asks the internet to calm down
- A video of a woman being dragged from her home over an apparent 500,000 yuan (US$78,600) bride price dispute went viral in China
- The woman in the video asked people to stop cyberbullying her family and said there was more nuance to the situation
A video of a woman being violently dragged from a home she shared with her prospective husband because he apparently could not afford a 500,000 yuan (US$78,600) bride price went viral on the Chinese internet over the weekend.
In the video, Gao was pulled out of her house in Yinchuan, in Ningxia autonomous region in northwest China, and, at one moment, was dragged along the ground when she fell. Zhang tried to stop Gao’s family as they forced her into their car, only to get pushed to the ground.
Zhang said in the post: “We have been together for six years and, with our joint efforts, we now own property. We are planning to start a family. Our property is under her name to ease concerns from her mother, but the marriage has still been met with strong opposition.”