MOST wedding nights involve dancing, romance and cake — but not for this Chinese couple, who chose to spend theirs transcribing the Communist constitution.
Li Yunpeng and his new wife, Chen Xuanchi, spent their first night as a married couple writing out the 11 chapter, 17,000 word document in a show of support for the country’s communist regime.
The couple said they backed President Xi Jinping’s administration and his campaign to highlight the party’s political and social rules.
The happy couple — who work as civil servants for the Nanchang Railway Bureau — said they were creating “beautiful memories†by undertaking the mammoth transcription on their wedding night, The Guardian reports.
It was part of a campaign where Chinese nationals were urged to copy out the Communist party’s constitution for 100 days, China’s Global Times newspaper reported.
The campaign, launched in March, targeted those with “wavering confidence in communism and socialism with Chinese characteristics, as well as those who advocate western values, violate party rules, work inefficiently or behave unethically,†The Guardian said.