WUHAN (REUTERS) - Peng Jing stifles a laugh as she looks into the eyes of her tuxedo-clad fiancee, Yao Bin, who is in turn trying not to step on the long train of her white wedding dress.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WUHAN - Peng Jing stifles a laugh as she looks into the eyes of her tuxedo-clad fiancee, Yao Bin, who is in turn trying not to step on the long train of her white wedding dress.Weddings, birthdays and celebrations have been cancelled around the world because of the coronavirus pandemic but in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus first appeared, they are finally resuming as authorities relax a strict lockdown that separated families, friends and lovers for over two months.
"We were supposed to register our marriage on Feb 20, 2020" she said, referring to what was supposed to be one of the country's most popular wedding dates thanks to the incidence of number"2" and its connotations with couplehood. "I sent her home and the next day the lockdown happened," Yao said, recalling how abrupt it was."I was very unhappy."
"He kept wanting to send me things to eat and drink because the lockdown meant that we couldn't go out to buy things, but I was scared, like what if he caught something while on the way? The situation was very serious at the time," she said."I was overwhelmed with emotions," he said of that meeting.
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