Shans at home . CHAPTER VI MARRIAGE Shan girls are seldom engaged to be married beforethe age of fourteen, and, if they do not fall in love,they often remain unmarried until they are eighteenor twenty. The average age, as far as can be guessedin a country where no one really knows the dateof birth, is about sixteen. Men marry at any ageafter sixteen, but more often wait until they areeighteen or twenty. It is considered proper that ahusband should be older than his wife; indeed, nowoman would marry any man whom she thoughtyounger than herself. Little children engage them-selves in fun, promisi
Shans at home . CHAPTER VI MARRIAGE Shan girls are seldom engaged to be married beforethe age of fourteen, and, if they do not fall in love,they often remain unmarried until they are eighteenor twenty. The average age, as far as can be guessedin a country where no one really knows the dateof birth, is about sixteen. Men marry at any ageafter sixteen, but more often wait until they areeighteen or twenty. It is considered proper that ahusband should be older than his wife; indeed, nowoman would marry any man whom she thoughtyounger than herself. Little children engage them-selves in fun, promising to marry each other when theyare grown up, and they often remain true to theirchildish vows. In such a case the wife continues tocall her husband by bis baby name, which he borewhen they first played together, which is forgotten byevery one else. There is no betrothal ceremony. Shan parentsrarely try to force their daughters to marry menwhom they dislike; but occasionally, if they refusetheir consent to a mar
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