A video of a woman being violently dragged from a home she shared with her prospective husband because he apparently could not afford a 500,000 yuan bride price went viral on the Chinese internet over the weekend.
In the video, Gao was pulled out of her house in Yinchuan, in Ningxia autonomous region in northwest China, and, at one moment, was dragged along the ground when she fell. Zhang tried to stop Gao’s family as they forced her into their car, only to get pushed to the ground. “They said they would only agree if I paid a 500,000 yuan bride price, even if we have to sell our home to do this,” he said.