Rural-style weddings gain popularity among young couples in China

A traditional wedding ceremony performance in Zhidan County of Yan'an City, northwest China's Shaanxi province. The traditional wedding customs in Zhidan County, a city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been preserved and passed on through various approaches. Except for archives recorded, traditional wedding ceremony performance is one of the most popular activities to get people close to the customs. - Xinhua

BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua): Xavier Garnier, 48, who hails from France, said he would never forget his traditional Chinese wedding at a historic village in China.

As fireworks illuminated the sky, Garnier exchanged wedding vows with his Chinese bride Zhao Lixin in a well-decorated farmhouse by the Mihe river in Zhao's hometown of Zhaosi Village, in east China's Shandong Province, on a summer day in 2015.