我家大妞可以招婿
“My eldest daughter can bring in a husband!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“What gives you the right to occupy this house?”
我家 大妞可以招婿
“My eldest daughter can bring in a husband!”
《大胤律》说了
“The Legal Code of Great Yin states,”
“You have no right to steal our home just because we have no sons; my daughter will marry an in-marrying husband to keep the family line alive!”
In traditional patriarchal Chinese law, families without sons could avoid estate confiscation or clan expropriation by taking in an uxorilocal son-in-law who adopted the family's surname line.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to recruit a live-in son-in-law / matrilocal marriage
A specific legal and cultural practice where a man marries into the woman's family, often to maintain property and ancestral lineage when there are no sons.
eldest daughter / older girl
A rustic, highly colloquial traditional pet name or informal title for the firstborn daughter.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Their marriage must be fake.”
“Mr. Zhao and Mrs. Zhao are really nice people.”
“your family is prominent.”
“Then your son-in-law is really something.”
“Marrying someone or having another matrilocal husband?”
“is to find a matrilocal husband.”