A 12-year-old girl married to 2-year-old brides in the feudal society.

【湘女萧萧 Married to A Child】In the early 20th century in China, there is a tradition in remote village that is to adopt a girl as a child bride who is elder than her fiance so that she can take care of him for when the girl grows up to the age of fourteen or fifteen, she was allowed to consummate the film is based on Shen Congwen’s original novel Xiao Xiao. It won the Golden Panda Award at the Montpellier International Film Festival in France in 1988 and the Don Quixote Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain in 1988.
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