Chongqing Girl’s Boyfriend Missing, Seeks Ghost Marriage

Girl holds sign seeking marriage with the dead.

From Mop:

Ghost marriage girl in Chongqing, her true love touching people and seeking help from society — quickly come and help her

The weather today in Chongqing was gloomy, and there was a light drizzle. Went to the Guanyin Bridge pedestrian street to check out some homes for rent. Just as my foot landed, I didn’t think I would see cupware – While walking, I suddenly discovered a group of people gathering not too far away, which definitely meant something was going on. I’m the kind of guy who loves to join the excitement, so naturally, I strode over to join the crowd.

Hoho, after a quick scan there was actually a pretty girl, my heart started to race~ While staring at this pretty girl, she was holding a sign asking for help. Surrounding her were quite a few people who were there for the excitement, so I carefully looked over her request, what I saw shocked me, marriage with the dead ["ghost marriage"]? Really want marriage with the dead? After looking at the contents of two-page letter that was stuck to the sign, I was very moved.

A pretty Chinese girl holding a sign in Chongqing.

A beautiful Chinese girl holding a sign in Chongqing, China.

A pretty girl in Chongqing holding a sign in public asking for help.

When the pretty girl saw me taking pictures of her with my phone, she became embarrassed and switched to a different location to continue standing while holding up her sign. I followed [her] because I wanted to help her, I used to do stuff related to magazines, this should count as media. I thought here she is, all alone, standing on this cold street asking for help, it really is pitiful, I might as well help her put this on the internet to get help from even more friends! This allows the vast numbers of society’s friends to come help, right?

A pretty girl in Chongqing holding a sign sharing her story.

After searching two years for her lost boyfriend, she now seeks a "marriage with the dead".

She posted her tragic story on her sign.

Also, while I was taking pictures, there was a passerby who saw the pretty girl shedding tears, standing in a place where the cold wind was blowing. Being unable to endure such a sight, decided to give the pretty girl 300 RMB and also said, “I’ll give you 300, I will buy you.” So depressing, she [the passerby] thought this was [an instance of] the old tradition of selling one’s body in order to bury one’s husband [i.e. in the case of a poor peasant girl].

Passerbys stopping to read the girl's sign.

Passerbys gather around the pretty girl holding a sign.

A passerby takes a photo.

A girl stands in Chongqing seeking help.

A young man looks at the young girl holding a sign sharing her tragic story and seeking society's help.

A group of passerbys surrounding a girl sharing her touching love story on a home-made sign.

I jotted down her QQ, since it started to rain heavily, it was really cold outside, and I came back directly to wait until the weather cleared up before going to look at [more] homes. I turned on the computer right after getting back, itching to write all this down. I think just my efforts are very tiny, but everyone’s efforts really will be very mighty. I haven’t been on Mop in a long time, but I wanted to make this post today, hope everyone will follow closely and be able to help this girl. Furthermore, invite kind-hearted wedding service companies to help this girl hold a ghost marriage ceremony!

All Moppers, let us use our sincerity to help this girl! Ding this post, and let even more people see this request for help! I thank all of you in advance!

Oh right, let me attach the contents of this pretty girl’s letter:

A Chinese girl's story of finding true love.

My name is Tang Tang, resident of Chongqing City, and three years ago, I met my current boyfriend through work. Perhaps it was destiny from heaven for us to meet, and we unwittingly discovered that we had fallen in love. Cruel reality was unable to squelch two hearts burning with mutual love, and while together, we shared joys and sorrows, endured trials and tribulations. We saw the sunset together, bought food and cooked together. We both decided early on that the other person was the one who we’d spend our whole lives with. Even though my boyfriend is from the northeast, having that northeastern directness and unrestrained roughness, he showed me tender affection in every possible way, cherished me to the utmost, and while living together, basically all the housework was done by him. He rarely shouted at me. At the time, we had just graduated from college and had not yet worked for very long, so we regarded getting married as premature, wanting to spend some time struggling together [establishing one's careers] before getting married. Therefore, we decided to get married on the third anniversary of when we first met (which is March 29, 2010) to evince our love. Since I knew this was not a fairy tale, from the beginning we were vigilant, this was one of those instances of true love and sincere emotion between two people.

A Chinese girl's story of finding true love and then losing him.

Yet the world always has those unfortunate events, and god saw that we were too happy and became envious. Due to his job, my boyfriend went to Sichuan on business in May 2008. What came next was something that shook China and the world, the May 12 earthquake. Afterward, there was no more contact from him. God really knows how to play joke. To search for him, I traversed mountains and waded waters [sic], and overcame many hardships. Those around me all said he had to have perished in the earthquake. But even up till now, I dare not accept that this is the reality. Because no news is good news, alive but unseen, dead but no remains [sic, i.e. no evidence that he’s dead or alive] . Dear, on that day, did you go on a journey by yourself? Were you in the car that day, or? No one has told me. Therefore, I’ve told myself all along that he’s still alive! Could he be like someone from a TV drama that lost his memory? I cannot lose him, and cannot be without him, we still have to spend the rest of our days together! I still have not forgotten our promise to each other.

A Chinese girl's story of finding true love and then losing him possibly to the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. Now she wants a ghost marriage.

Afterward, I abandoned my job, took out all my savings, and spent nearly two years time in search of him, grieved time after time, lost hope time after time, all the places I’ve been to have no information about my boyfriend. During this time, my boyfriend’s parents, relatives, friends all urged me to give up and find another person and start a new life, but I gave my entire self and all my heart to him, how could I casually forsake him and find someone else? Do you understand this kind of feeling? Can you experience it?  I’d rather not marry my entire life and not find anyone else.

Soon it will be our scheduled wedding day, but I still have not found my boyfriend, my heart is already dead. However, I want to fulfill our arranged promise, even if he has already died. I want him to see from heaven our marriage, this is our love’s testimony. I want to marry the dead with him.

However, having spent a large portion of my savings these past two years trying to find him, I only have 300 or so left on me. I don’t want my parents to worry about me more once more. I want to find a wedding services company to help me plan a wedding, to fulfill our cherished dream. I know 300 RMB is far from enough, but this is all I have, so would a kind-hearted person please help me! Help me!  I can’t thank you enough!

Tang Tang

QQ: 644401486

Comments from Mop:

地狱红莲:

This kind of girl…is truly good.

妖精的旋律001:

Cup!
Such a good girl!
Why do you want to be married to a dead ghost…

天涯二当家:

If this post doesn’t become popular, I will marry you! ~ Tang Tang

阳阳可爱不可爱:

I can find a wedding services company.

熊崽荣:

For a ghost marriage, why is a wedding services company necessary, you can also just do it by yourself.

釋迦摩尼:

Helping to ding, helping to ding, I used to think the world has no such thing as true love because brother’s [my own] love has already died,
Now I discover that the world still has true love after all.

我在马路边丢了1分钱:

Why do I feel like crying after reading this?

09谁谁:

All soldiers [single men] get ready, add her QQ, add her QQ till it explodes, call her until her phone explodes.

郭cool:

Still, [you] should start a new life.

﹫﹏〇苗尐痞:

Hype/publicity stunt?

嘉木长空耳:

This girl isn’t from Mars, is she?

llx091:

These kind of girls are as rare as pandas, ding.

砍了魔域:

Dare I ask lou zhu if that looks like a girl’s handwriting?

goodbye.goodluck.:

Buy a cucumber, go home and have a nice dream! From now on, live well! Sooner or later, you will go find him! Don’t need 300 kuai! 1 kuai is enough!

libian121:

I think using the Wenchuan earthquake for this kind of self-promotion/hype/publicity stunt is going a little too far? It is very obvious that this is a very low-brow self-promotion/publicity stunt.
Hurry up and take it away. Otherwise will meet the wrath from heaven

元月初二:

Real? Fake? These days, no one dares to believe anymore.

俺村我最能:

Seeing something that stirs up sympathy, you bunch of NB are just zhuang bi saying stuff about giving [her] blessings, wanting to marry her, help her. Really don’t know if your heads have been squashed flat, er bi [2B] trash. Go help her then, shouting here is what fucking use? TMD, you guys are there at the location but can only stand in a circle and watch for a while before leaving. People needing help on the streets are countless, fuck, just seeing you guys being so zhuang bi bugs me.

Till death do us part. chinaSMACK personals.

  • Choonage

    Not bad, someone go give her a visa!

  • http://imgur.com/gGpso.png PUSAN PLAYA

    “the old tradition of selling one’s body in order to bury one’s husband”

    LOL, only in China

    • Gaaa!!!

      Get your mind out of the gutter Puss-boy. It was actually a system of indentured servitude, where after a period of time when the debt is paid up in the form of labour he or she becomes a free person once more.

      It has nothing to do with prostitution, but rather admired and respected as a form of personal sacrifice and loyalty to ensure the proper passage of a loved one into the after-life. Consequently, such agreements were striictly enforced by the local elders or magistrates as per Confucian traditions and ethos.

      And had you known your Korean history well enough or paid better attention at school instead of searching for/playing with your micro-wiener, you would have known that Korea, being a Confucian society, also had such traditional arrangements in the past which were equally lauded in Korean literature.

      What an ignoramus douche bag.

      • Kim Lee

        I second that, Gaaa!!!. Pusan has become ChinaSmack’s resident douche bag.

      • http://imgur.com/gGpso.png PUSAN PLAYA

        Both you and whoever wrote this article need to bone up on their English lessons if they don’t know what “selling one’s body” means.

        Plus 300 RMB seemed a fair price for that girl so what was I supposed to presume?

        • Gaaad!!!

          Oi! Douche Bag! Where the fu*k did you learn YOUR English? What was the gender of the passerby who offered to “buy her” and what was that person’s state of mind? You read the words, but missed out on the friggin socio-cultural, nevermind the human context. In other words, you’ve missed the friggin forest for the trees, pussy-boy. No wonder you’re lost.

          Or were you too busy fondling your wiener in English classes too after finally finding it? You appear to suffer from some serious weaning/seperation anxiety issues, pussan-platypus. And btw do you know what people who presume and make assumptions are also known as?

          Ignoramus bigots with way too much attachment to their mama’s douche bag.

        • Gaaad!!!

          Btw you sure ARE familiar with the “going rate”. Spending waaay to much time at that Korean government-sponsored Comfort women whore-house near your friendly neighbourhood US Army base? And is that the syphilis doing the talking through your pussan-puss mouth, boy?

          Frankly, I’ve got more respect for those Korean comfort women who were recruited by YOUR government to service the US soldiers and were simply trying to feed their family than today’s Korean youths such as yourself. And if one of them actually WAS your mama, if you knew who your mama was, then you don’t deserve her.

          Friggin ignoramus Puss-an douche bag.

          • Jay

            Hahahhaa Gaaad!!! knows how to fucken spit words. Mad respect to you man. You’d be a natural at freestyling.

          • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_nanjing That Chinese Kid

            It’s nice to know that B-real is one of the many fangirls that support Pusan Playa. 賣身葬父. The literal meaning IS selling one’s body to bury one’s father. BUT, if you have at least read Chinese novels, or watched Chinese drama you would know it has NOTHING to do with your sick misinterpretation.

          • Gaaad!!!

            Against Koreans? Heck, I’ve got nothing against Koreans, merely against people like syphilis riddled, ass-with-no-gggg-umption, Puss-angst self-Playa there, who is just asking to be ripped a new one.

            In fact I had a few Korean girlfriends myself as well as being a sucker for home-made 1-3 years old kimchi. And a combination of the two sure is a thing to remember… esp. after a steaming clay-pot of braised woof-woofs and Chamisul in winter.

          • 你是猪

            you rock Gaaad!!!

        • 你是猪

          woooooo, wow, “selling one’s body” must be a tough English term, you have to “bone up one’s English” to know the “proper” meaning….. it must be from King Lear, it’s from King Lear isn’t it?? it has such a double, no, triple meaning, that “sell one’s body”, one can’t just take it’s literate interpretation…. let me go “bone up my English” (whatever the hell that means, must be from King Lear as well)

      • box

        Angst much? Seems like you are the one with your mind in the gutter. All Pusan Player did was copy out a line of the translated text and laugh.

        The phrase “selling one’s body” is funny. I laughed when I read it too. Besides, the whole thing could easily be a scam.

        • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_nanjing That Chinese Kid

          “Both you and whoever wrote this article need to bone up on their English lessons if they don’t know what “selling one’s body” means.

          Plus 300 RMB seemed a fair price for that girl so what was I supposed to presume?”

          There is no angst. His mind was definitely in the gutter. Learn to read my ignorant box/

          • box

            Gaaad!!1 was on him before he even posted the 300rmb remark. All Playa did was laugh and Gaaad!11 was slamming him for thinking dirty thoughts. To me, it seems like Gaaad is carrying a chip on his shoulder.

            Thanks for calling me out on being ignorant though. Always nice to meet friendly people on the internet.

    • easy9918

      It was in the past!

    • 高丽棒子吃DB

      u gaolibangzi really piss me off ,have u ever been to china? u r a totally ignorant person. Regards to your family(自卑狭隘的民族) and country(神奇的国度).

  • http://laids-livres.fr LaLi

    We should not ponder whether her story is true or not.
    Such a talent for storytelling already deserve 300 yuans.

  • That Chinese Kid

    The story that moved mountains.

  • Shanhairen

    Interesting story. Once again, it could be fake and there’s no real way to know.

    Can we get a native speaker of English to look over these translations? Is this site not profitable enough to hire one? Let’s look at the following sentence:

    “I jotted down her QQ, since the rain started to get big, it was really cold outside so I came back directly to wait until the weather clears up…”

    The comma after “QQ” should be a period (full stop). Rain is “big” only in Chinglish. The comma after big should be replaced by the word “and”, and either the word “since” or “so” should be eliminated. “Back directly” sounds better as “directly back”. “Clears” should be “cleared” or “had cleared”. That’s 7 mistakes in what should be 2 sentences.

    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_nanjing That Chinese Kid

      Are you correcting the translation or the actual Chinese? I looked over that line in Chinese and grammatically he is incorrect, but he could be typing as he would speak.

      • Shanhairen

        Are you saying the placement of the 2 commas are wrong in Chinese as well? I read the Chinese and it doesn’t look that bad to me, but I’m not a native speaker of Chinese. The 2 commas are confusing and make the English translation bad. The other mistakes cannot be explained by bad Chinese grammar.

        • blaeh

          On a side note, this comma placement would be grammatically correct in German.

    • http://moominhouse.blogspot.com moom

      The English isn’t perfect but it is perfectly understandable. The fact that it isn’t perfect somehow makes it feel more “real”.

    • LOLZ

      Well to be fair, the Chinese writer himself conducted what you call run-on sentences in Chinese. Professional translators typically only translate foreign languages into their native language and not the other way around. Chinese grammar is much simpler than other languages’, so Chinese often make conjugation mistakes when writing sentences in other languages (I make such grammar mistakes all the time myself and I scored higher than 91% of people on the English section of the GMAT for that year). Realistically you should expect more machine like translations rather than eloquent paraphrasing when the translators are not native speakers.

      At the end of the day, as long as the message gets across that’s what matters right?

    • too yellow

      “Is this site not profitable enough to hire one?”
      that all depends how often you check the personals section

    • easy9918

      I have to say that the author is better at handling English than I.I could never write a story of this long in just one day.It is a touching story,I think.Fortune bless her.

  • hu jintao

    it looks like she dyed her hair recently. must have put her in a good mood for a while?

    • http://www.lovelovechina.com Crystal

      Dear chairman!
      You just see everything – wow!

  • http://moominhouse.blogspot.com moom

    But, yes, why does she need a “wedding services company” to “marry” a dead person.

  • jw

    something about a sad girl that gives me a real stiff one!

    • Gaaad!!!

      Pervy perv. On the register yet?

  • BKK

    Just another con to make money or the boy has left her ‘cos he had fucked her and fucked off…….Nice move.

  • of Canada

    The girl looks a lot like my wife and my wife would also be this loyal. Something unique to certain Chinese girls. Her story is a bit questionable though.. .if her boyfriend went to Sichuan on business he would be going to a major city like Chengdu. . not to one of those little mountain cities that got hit worst by the quake. Almost nobody goes on business trips to Wenchuan.

  • Sam

    300RMB for a chick! gimme 5 of em’

  • LOLZ

    Who knows if this is a prank or not. If I haven’t seen the pics I would of thought this was another yy story which is quite popular on mop.

    The last post is right on the mark. If people want to help her then go and help. Her QQ is posted. If not then STFU.

  • blaeh

    I followed [her] because I wanted to help her

    No comment.

  • kimboslice

    “Help me” What exactly does she want? Money or actual help?

    • blaeh

      Replacement for what she had lost…

  • RMNY

    Like someone said earlier, why do you need a wedding planner to do this such a thing…can’t you do it yourself? And if she wants to marry the boy then she needs to at least talk to the boy’s family correct? This doesn’t make any sense to me.

  • http://the-orient-express.com Lao Zhong

    Haha! If that is an exact qupte from his parents to her it simply means they’ve married him off to someone more suited.

    She’s flogging a dead horse (excuse the pun). He’s alive and well and obviously moved on. Sichuan can do strange things to folk. 哈哈

  • Oo.

    If the story is real.. then the girl should have a picture of her boyfriend on the poster in hopes that someone will recognize him, and give any news to sitings.

    It is a bit suspicious sounding to me.

    • sue

      i know right?! at least a name. geez

  • Panda

    There is so much organized crime gangs in Chongqing. This has scam written all over it. A decent looking girl to bait the idiots in, and the sad sob story to get them to fork over some money like the dumbass who gave her 300rmb.

    • whichone

      There is an unfortunate shortage of people like this “dumbass” who gave her money and an overpopulation of clever guys, so maybe she got conned, maybe not, but one of these days she might help someone in really dire need, and make a difference.

    • bi gone

      it all makes sense now, THANK YOU

      i have a rule of thumb

      never give a woman ANYTHING, at least not until the ball and chain are firmly around your ankle..

  • White_Man

    FAKE! Just trying to become a net sensation and become rich in the process.

    I’ll buy her and $%^& her all night.

    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_nanjing That Chinese Kid

      High on testosterone, thinks you can buy anything with money, and willing to fuck anything with a hole, even his own mother(this particular white man). Thanks for fitting into the typical white stereotype.

  • Hei_Bai

    It annoys me how in every picture she is looking at the ground.

    • box

      She’s trying to either look sad (to draw in fools) or solemn (to pay respect to her boyfriend).

      Up to you to guess which one.

  • sam

    good girl,can you marry with me?

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  • bi gone

    this is retarded.

    if the story is true, he is dead, most likely.

    the perverts standing around her – notice there are no women? some are laughing.

    if the story is true, this behavior on their part is sickening.

    if the story is true, this is not helping her.

    why she is standing out in the street in mainland china holding a sign?

    what if the story is not true?

    then her behavior is sickening, and the hyenas are just sniffing her out, which would be, in a round about way, if the story is not true, exactly what she wants: lots and lots of attention!

    and this stupid blog does exactly that.

    less human interest/love and sex stories and more human rights stories, please. all these stories do is show me that you aren’t that serious a blogger.

    we are talking about the world’s largest dictatorship here, there is no society under the Behemoth, there cannot be – because society does not equal laughing at someone’s misery and pain, as in the photos above.

    AND … if you really want someone to edit your junk, I WILL DO IT FOR YOU – if it will just clear the air on the forum and maybe you’ll learn proper grammar.

    i’ll even start using capital letters..

  • shanghairocks

    I almost cried .. ding ..

    dong..

    ping..

    …pong ..

  • 永永

    So sweet and sad..

  • Vivian

    Feels quite fake thou~~ yes, I completely agree that she could have done it by herself in heart, if he’s dead, he’d have know it anyway…
    Everyone just wants to be known!

  • shanghai girl

    is this legal in China? they let people marry the presumed dead? doesn’t that violate his family’s name or rights if they don’t want her as a daughter-in-law, and his if he’s still alive?
    weird…

  • Z

    peculiar. well manicured nails. seems a bit well dressed for someone grieving. also agree, why need to spend money on a ghost wedding. it’s all in the heart anyway.

  • stefano

    Dear,
    Is any news about this girl?
    I did read this article just now, and can’t figure out what is now.
    Thanks and get in touch.
    Stefano

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  • HaWu (aka blaeh)

    The literal meaning IS selling one’s body to bury one’s father. BUT, if you have at least read Chinese novels, or watched Chinese drama you would know it has NOTHING to do with your sick misinterpretation.

    I interpreted it the same way in good faith.

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