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WITHIN HER RED WEDDING CHAIR THE BRIDE GOES TO HER NEW LORD Marriage in China brings in its train a host of restrictions and penalties which the bride submissively suffers. On becoming engaged she retires into the strictest seclusion, and intercourse even with her own brothers is greatly curtailed. Her trousseau is conveyed before her marriage in grand procession to her future home. Later, the bride herself is borne in state to the house of her new lord and master whom she has probably never seen |