Chiou Thau, Chinese Wedding of Yore

THE couple, Amy and Jepri, are not just Benteng Chinese, a term of reference for Indonesians of Chinese stock in Tangerang, Banten. They are present-day generation, inseparable from the increasingly “instant” wave of civilization. Like most fellow Indonesians, they also receive modern education. But on that particular day, they performed Chiou Thau, a bygone wedding ritual no longer carried out by Chinese descendants in Indonesia in general.

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