Database Entry: Ethnic Unity One Family: Tianshan Snowlotus Connected at the Roots; Minority-Han Mixed-Marriage as One Family
Destruction of the Family Promotion of interethnic marriage

Ethnic Unity One Family: Tianshan Snowlotus Connected at the Roots; Minority-Han Mixed-Marriage as One Family

August 20, 2020
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August 18 [2018], was a special day. Accompanied by festive music, the wedding caravan slowly entered the sight of people and held a “national unity” wedding of ethnic-Chinese intermarriage at the Gulizai Hayati restaurant located in the Hubin district.

In terms of the groom’s, Yang Xiaodong, and bride’s, Aytursun Memetyisan, story, Yang Xiaodong is a member of Aqto County’s Public Security Bureau’s Patrol Prevention and Control Brigade. He made acquaintances with a Uyghur fitness training named Aytursun Memetyisan at a fitness center. They worked out together, assisted each other, gradually became affectionate [towards each other], fell in love, and finally reaped the sweet fruit of their love and became husband and wife.

These days, Aqto County regularly holds trans-minzu, trans-regional minority-Han intermarriage weddings. One after another ethnic unity marriage evidences Aqto County’s ethnic unity as one family is becoming more amalgamated and society is becoming more and more happy and harmonious.

8月18日,是一个特殊的日子,伴随着喜庆的乐曲,婚车队缓缓进入人们视线,在位于湖滨小区古丽再哈亚提餐厅举办一场民汉通婚“民族团结”的婚礼,来自县委组织部、县委统战部、县公安局相关领导和同事们一起见证“天山雪莲根连根、民汉通婚一家亲”的婚礼…

说起新郎杨晓东和新娘阿依吐尔逊·麦麦提伊敏的结合还有一段故事,杨晓东是阿克陶县公安局巡逻防控大队一民队员,他在一家健身房结识了健身教练维吾尔族姑娘阿依吐尔逊·麦麦提伊敏,他们在一起健身、互帮互助,渐渐产生了好感,谈起了恋爱,最终收获爱的甜果结为夫妻…

如今,阿克陶县每隔一段时间,就会上演一场跨越民族、跨越地区的民汉通婚婚礼,一场又一场民族团结婚礼,见证阿克陶县民族团结一家亲越来越融合,社会越来越美满和谐。

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