A group of triplet brothers in central China has trended on social media for holding a joint wedding event on the same day.
The collective nuptials were held in Shangqiu, Henan province, at the beginning of March, Jimu News reported.
The three men were born after the year 2000. Their exact age is not clear.
One of them, who is ranked second on account of the time of his birth, said he and his brothers have never spent time apart since childhood.
“We did everything together. We wore the same clothes. We slept on the same bed. We went to the same school. Now we work at the same company,” said the man, surnamed Wan.
Wan said his wife is a native of southwestern Guizhou province and they had been dating for four years.
His elder brother has been in a relationship with his wife, who hails from Yunnan province, also in southwestern China, for three years.
His younger brother’s wife shares the same hometown as the triplets. She has been in a romance with the younger brother for two years.
“All of us feel the time is ripe to get married,” Wan was quoted as saying.
He said it was his parents who suggested holding their weddings on the same day.
“We were born on the same day and wanted to hold our weddings on the same day. My parents thought that would be more bustling and lively,” said Wan.
The three brides and their families all agreed on the proposal.
“Accompanied by my brothers, I did not feel nervous at the nuptials. I felt relaxed,” Wan said.
The report did not say whether the triplets will continue to live under the same roof.
Cases of twins or triplets holding their weddings on the same day often captivate mainland social media.
In November, a pair of twin sisters in Henan married twin brothers on the same day.
In 2019, a group of triplet brothers in eastern Shandong province married their wives on the same day.
The brothers were admitted by the same university 10 years before after they achieved similar scores at the national university entrance examination, known as gaokao in China.
Being pregnant with triplets through natural conception happens at a rate as low as one in every 100,000, the Shenzhen Evening News reported.
A full-time mother in Shandong province, who uses the alias of jiayousanbaotai, which means “family with triplets” in Chinese, shares her family life on a leading social media platform after she had triplet children – one girl and two boys.
