When a woman gets married, the Chinese character is "嫁". The character is composed of two radicals, from the left "女", which means "female", and to the right "家", which means "home", combining together it means a girl leaves the home of her parents when getting married. ... As very important information in the process of marriage, a girl's birth date was confidential to the strangers, and pretty much so today. ...

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